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Once imagined as science fiction, lasers are now essential tools in modern life. From communication to medicine, discover how this focused beam of light has transformed technology and continues to reshape how we interact with the world.
Once imagined as science fiction, lasers are now essential tools in modern life. From communication to medicine, discover how this focused beam of light has transformed technology and continues to reshape how we interact with the world.
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S2, EP4 "Cortés at the Heart of the Aztec Empire"The encounter between Spanish conquistador and opportunist Hernan Cortés and the indigenous peoples of Central America is one of history's tragic tales of greed, conflict, imperial weakness and superior weaponry.
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S2, EP5 "Cuba: Nuclear Standoff"The Cuban Missile Crisis becomes one of the defining moments of the mid-20th century and of the presidency of John F. Kennedy, bringing the USSR and USA to the brink of nuclear war.
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S2, EP7 "Istanbul: From One Empire to the Other"The story of fabled city Constantinople and its history of power and conflict through the ages.
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S2, EP8 "Aral: A Sea for Cotton"The former Soviet Union's 1950s development of cotton-growing around the Aral Sea has proven to be an ecological nightmare.
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S5, EP13 "Conventional and Unconventional Hydrocarbons: Nature's Double-Edge Gift to Mankind"Oil and natural gas helped power the modern world, but finding them is becoming harder than ever. Explore the science behind conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons and the technologies used to extract them.
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S5, EP12 "Lasers: A Beam for All Purposes"Once imagined as science fiction, lasers are now essential tools in modern life. From communication to medicine, discover how this focused beam of light has transformed technology and continues to reshape how we interact with the world.
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S5, EP11 "The Galaxy of Parasites"Parasites may be some of the most influential and misunderstood organisms on Earth. Explore the hidden relationships between host and invader and discover how these often-overlooked organisms shape evolution, disease and the balance of life on Earth.
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S5, EP10 "The Photoelectric Effect, What a Crazy Effect!"Big movements of change that have often started with tiny events or personal decisions, and ended up affecting history.
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