Horizon
Season 10 Episode 31 - Digging Up the Future
Can we ever hope to wipe out diseases like influenza and small-pox? Will our weather get better - or worse? Is it possible to grow anything useful on large areas of moorland in this country? Diseases, climate and soil structure alter so slowly that patterns in them can only be found by studying how they've changed over hundreds and thousands of years. Dating methods, which slot all the changes into place, are the most important scientific tools for analyzing the past. And the news they give can advise - and warn - us about the future.
Episodes in Season 10
Epidemic
60 min
Worlds in Collision
60 min
The Military Necessity
60 min
The Curtain of Silence
60 min
Crime Lab
60 min
When the Breeding Has to Stop
60 min
Science Is Dead, Long Live Science
60 min
...And Where Will the Children Play?
60 min
Acupuncture: A Chinese Puzzle
60 min
What Time Is Your Body?
60 min
Survival of the Weakest
60 min
Red Sea Coral and the Crown of Thorns
60 min
Lumbered... with Back-Ache!
60 min
Airport
60 min
Do You Remember the Memory Man?
60 min
What a Waste!
60 min
The Laws of the Land
60 min
Do We Really Need the Railways?
60 min
The Telly of Tomorrow?
60 min
How Does It Hurt?
60 min
A Scientist Looks at Religion
60 min
In Search of Konrad Lorenz
60 min
Stretch Up Tall
60 min
Gilding the Lily
60 min
The Black Holes of Gravity
60 min
What's so Big About Us?
60 min
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
60 min
Carry on Smoking
60 min
Air Crash Detective
60 min
An Element of Mystery
60 min
Digging Up the Future
60 min
Kula, a Reason for Giving
60 min
