Horizon Season 27

January. 08,1990      TV-PG
Rating:
8.6
Trailer Synopsis

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

Episode 20 : AIDS: A Quest for a Cure
June. 25,1990
Horizon investigates new breakthroughs in the scientific study, analysis, and reproduction of cells and their compounds, which may lead to the development of a cure for the AIDS virus.
Episode 19 : Signs of Life
June. 11,1990
Horizon examines the possibility of scientists, either intentionally or unintentionally, creating living forms which could enjoy an independent existence, initially confined to computers and telephone networks, and in the form of computer viruses.
Episode 18 : The Child Mothers
June. 04,1990
Horizon investigates how teenage pregnancy is now posing massive health and social problems in many societies.
Episode 17 : Do Cows Make You Mad?
May. 21,1990
This episode of Horizon is about BSE transmitted in cattle feed and causing the fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome in humans.
Episode 16 : Legacy of a Volcano
May. 14,1990
Horizon looks at the area around Mt. St. Helens 10 years after the volcanic eruption that devastated more 500 square kilometres of forest land in just minutes.
Episode 15 : The Intelligent Island
April. 30,1990
This Horizon documentary looks at the radical transformations in the Singapore society as its technology extends into monitoring, logging, and linking up all businesses, information, and aspects of life on computer systems. The country's ultimate plan is to link the entire population electronically through the world's most advanced videotext system called Teleview. The report raises the question of what type of society this may create and also the political implications of such a system.
Episode 14 : The Company of Ants and Bees
April. 23,1990
What can we learn from insects? Professor James Gould explains on Horizon that the human society may be able to predict their own future based on the society structure of ants and bees.
Episode 13 : The Sharpest Shot of the Universe
April. 09,1990
In this episode, Horizon looks at the Hubble space telescope, hailed as the greatest advance in astronomy since Galileo.
Episode 12 : The Quake of '89 - The Final Warning?
April. 02,1990
Horizon presents the real story of seismic neglect and the failure of the San Francisco city government to protect its citizens.
Episode 11 : Cold Fusion
March. 26,1990
This story by Horizon investigates cold fusion
Episode 10 : The Britannic Greenhouse
March. 19,1990
Horizon investigates how British scientists have begun to experiment to predict the effects of a changing climate from Greenhouse gases.
Episode 9 : Hurricane!
March. 12,1990
Horizon explores the inside of Hurricane Gilbert as it neared Jamaica on a direct course for the United States.
Episode 8 : The 10,000 Year Test
March. 05,1990
Horizon reports on how America has chosen to bury all of its most lethal radioactive waste under Yucca mountain in the state of Nevada.
Episode 7 : The First 14 Days
February. 19,1990
Horizon brings you a documentary on embryology - the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms from the moment of conception.
Episode 6 : Guess What's Coming to Dinner?
February. 12,1990
Horizon looks at the potential implications of genetically engineering plants.
Episode 5 : Encounter With Neptune
February. 05,1990
This report by Horizon presents the Voyager space probe close up encounter with the planet Neptune.
Episode 4 : From Earth to Miranda
January. 29,1990
In this Horizon documentary, we look at how NASA launched the Voyager space probes to explore the planets of the outer solar system.
Episode 3 : Food Irradiation: Would You Buy It?
January. 22,1990
Horizon examines the history of research into irradiated food.
Episode 2 : Medicine 2000
January. 15,1990
Horizon reports on medical developments in Britain which could mean by the year 2000, health care will be very different.
Episode 1 : Oil Spill
January. 08,1990
After the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, Horizon looks at tanker design and the technology used for dealing with major oil slicks.

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