April 3, 2005 • 1h
Bill Nye explores the concept of life on other planets by taking us everywhere from Earth's oceans and deserts to Mars and beyond.
April 10, 2005 • 1h
Bill shows that astrologers and tarot card readers are doing nothing other than making vague guesses, and that walking on fire wit...Read more
April 17, 2005 • 1h
Bill argues that addiction is a disease by using scientific instruments to show that the part of the brain responsible for weighin...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 1h
The possibilities of cloning reach far beyond creating genetically exact duplicates of animals or human beings. The same technique...Read more
April 24, 2005 • 1h
With evidence of global warming mounting, Americans are revisiting the idea of nuclear energy. It's a clean energy source that can...Read more
May 1, 2005 • 1h
Bill explores the physics of a variety of sports, from the 100-meter sprint of Olympic champion Maurice Green to the cat-like reac...Read more
May 8, 2005 • 1h
Bill explains what birth and death rates mean and looks at population issues around the world, from demographics to social and cul...Read more
May 15, 2005 • 1h
Bill explores why people of different skin colors look so different on the outside when the DNA on the inside is so similar, then ...Read more
May 29, 2005 • 1h
The battle between microbes and humans is far from over. In fact, deaths from infectious diseases have increased since the 1980s. ...Read more
June 5, 2005 • 1h
Through genetic engineering, scientists can pull off such outrageous-sounding feats as crossing a tomato with a flounder. In fact,...Read more
June 12, 2005 • 1h
Bill examines the problem of pollution from transportation—which has outstripped manufacturing to become America's largest source ...Read more
June 19, 2005 • 1h
The world is getting warmer. Is it our fault? Is the rise in temperature a product of the Industrial Revolution, the burning of fo...Read more
June 26, 2005 • 1h
Why sex? For one thing, with sex we're trying to stay ahead of the germs that are always attacking us. With one act of mixing our ...Read more