Host Lisa Ling explores some of the scientific related cool trends, gadgets and skills. Lisa becomes the first guinea pig for a new system called ‘Neuromarketing’. And she looks at the ‘cool factor’ among video gamers.
The beautiful Mireya Mayor accompanies filmmaker Bob Cranston to the Guadalupe Island, Mexico. And Bob experiments with a unique sound-wave device to attract great white sharks.
Guest correspondent, Adam Ravetch, one of only a handful of filmmakers who dives under the Artic sea ice, chronicles his efforts to track down the elusive bowhead whales. He faces his greatest challenge on the ice rather than under it.
Lisa Ling examines China’s controversial one-child policy, that has left the country’s population in crisis. Due to Chinese cultural and social traditions, boys are more desirable than girls which leads to thousands of female babies aborted, abandoned or put up for adoption.
The documentary follows the story of the efforts by the Norwegian resistance to impede the German Nazis from developing an atomic bomb during World War II.
Accompany Derek Joubert on an expedition in the Savuti region of Botswana. Joubert spends three years documenting the lives of three male lions, from their domination of new territory, the birth of cubs, to their struggles in the harsh African wild.
Titanic discoverer, Dr. Robert Ballard and a team of experts, with the help from four WWII veterans, set out in search for at least one of the five sunken aircraft carriers, including the U.S.S Yorktown.
Crocodile expert Brady Barr is enlisted by the African government to aid the village of Lubango, Uganda in finding a solution to reduce attacks by Nile crocodiles living in Lake Victoria.