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Horizon 2012-2013 Episodes

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  1. The Truth About Personality

    17/18 Michael Mosley explores the latest theories on how our personalities are created.

  2. What Makes us Human?

    16/18 Professor Alice Roberts investigates what separates humans from the animal kingdom.

  3. Swallowed by a Black Hole

    15/18 How it was hoped we would be able to observe a feeding supermassive black hole in action.

  4. Fracking: The New Energy Rush

    14/18 Investigating the controversial process of mining natural gas via hydraulic fracturing.

  5. Little Cat Diaries

    13/18 Looks at the cats who stood out in the experiment conducted in The Secret Life of the Cat.

  6. The Secret Life of the Cat

    12/18 Horizon discovers what your cat really gets up to when it leaves the cat flap.

  7. The Age of Big Data

    11/18 Revealing the remarkable experiments taking place at the heart of the data revolution.

  8. The Truth about Taste

    10/18 Horizon explores the latest scientific insights into the most indulgent of all senses.

  9. How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery

    9/18 What can surgeons learn from other professions about making life or death decisions?

  10. The Creative Brain: How Insight Works

    8/18 A look at how scientists are trying to work out how moments of creativity come about.

  11. The Truth About Meteors: A Horizon Special

    7/18 Iain Stewart explains what meteorites and asteroids are, and the danger they pose.

  12. Defeating the Superbugs

    6/18 Exploring the emergence of dangerous strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics.

  13. How Small Is the Universe?

    5/18 Horizon goes in search of the smallest thing in the universe.

  14. How Big Is the Universe?

    4/18 Following the cosmologists who are attempting to create a map of everything in existence.

  15. Eat, Fast and Live Longer

    3/18 Michael Mosley examines the powerful science behind the ancient idea of fasting.

  16. Mission to Mars

    2/18 Behind the scenes at Nasa as they prepare to the land the Mars rover on the planet.

  17. The Truth About Looking Young

    1/18 Dr Rozina Ali finds out if it is possible to make skin look younger without surgery.