In Sweat Is the Body's Built-In Cooling System, evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod presents the important role sweat plays in keeping our body cool. Sweat helps regulate our body temperature and works to cool us down through a process called evaporation. Learn how sweat glands work, the effect of metabolism on sweating, and why we can even sweat in colder weather, to understand why sweating is essential for keeping our bodies safe and healthy. This video is excerpted from Secrets of Skin, a documentary series exploring the natural history of the body’s largest organ.
In Losing Land Space for Lemurs in Madagascar, host Simon Reeve travels to the Berenty Reserve, home to the lemur, and a shockingly small area of land where human development continues to encroach upon the lemur’s habitat. This video is excerpted from BBC's Incredible Journeys With Simon Reeve, a series that highlights one journalist’s travels across the globe and the diverse cultures and peoples he meets along the way.
In Cooking the Perfect Pot of Rice, presenter Cherry Healey visits a rice factory and learns that rice is a type of grass. She sees that white rice and brown rice are the same, they are just processed differently. And, she learns the trick to cooking the perfect pot of rice! This video is excerpted from BBC’s Inside the Factory, a series that takes viewers behind the scenes in factories that make our favorite products.
In Cooking Sausages and the Maillard Reaction, presenter Cherry Healey visits the University of Chester to solve the mystery of the best way to cook a sausage. Learn about three different methods, and how the Maillard reaction, a chemical reaction that happens during cooking, impacts each. Which cooking method will come out on top? This video is excerpted from BBC’s Inside the Factory, a series that takes viewers behind the scenes in the factories that make our favorite products.
Feeling the heat lately? It might be because of El Niño, a climate pattern characterized by unusually warm sea-surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. It can affect the trade winds. These are the permanent, normally easterly winds that flow around the Earth's equator.
When we track the water temperature using tools like satellites, buoys, and ocean floats to measure temperatures below the ocean's surface, they show a large body of unusually hot water. Way bigger than the pot of water you’re boiling for your mac and cheese. Yes, even if you’re making extra mac and cheese. This is serious business! It can cause the sea-surface temperatures in parts of the tropical Pacific to rise by more than 2°C (about 3.6°F) above average, suggesting this year's El Niño is unusually strong, and could make 2027 one of the hottest years on record.
Depending on where you are in the world, El Niño is associated with both droughts and floods. These affect the lives of people living in those places, as well as their agriculture and food production, so the whole world feels the El Niño effects.
In The Strange World of Troglobites, narrator Sir David Attenborough explores the fascinating world of troglobites, creatures that have adapted to living entirely in caves. These animals, including the Texas blind salamander and the Belizean white crab, are unique to their environments and have evolved specialized features to survive in total darkness. Lacking pigment and eyesight, they rely on other heightened senses to detect food. The cave angelfish uses microscopic hooks to cling to slippery surfaces, and the blind salamander can detect water movement to locate prey. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Planet Earth, a breathtaking documentary series that highlights the natural wonders of our planet.
In The Amazing Waterfall Toad, narrator Sir David Attenborough introduces the amazing waterfall toad, a tiny creature that lives in the jungles where Brazil and Venezuela meet. About the size of a postage stamp, this toad has super gripping hands that help it cling to trees and wet leaves in the treetops. While other frogs might hop away from danger, the waterfall toad has a unique strategy that protects it from hungry snakes below. This video is excerpted from BBC's Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
In Fighting Climate Change With Redwoods, host Simon Reeve meets David Milarch who has a bold plan to fight climate change: grow the world’s largest trees! David revives ancient redwoods — some still clinging to life after being chopped down — because they store incredible amounts of carbon, making them nature's climate superheroes. But he faces a major challenge: convincing governments to prioritize planting trees over profits from cutting them down. This video is excerpted from BBC’s The Americas With Simon Reeve, in which Simon Reeve explores the landscapes, cultures, and wildlife of North and South America.
Motocross is a sport where riders race motorcycles around dirt tracks packed with jumps, sharp turns, and bumpy ground. For a long time, most of the racers have been men. Lauren Collingwood wants to change that.
Lauren has been racing motocross for more than 20 years and has won the British women's championship five times. Now she's helping the next generation of girls get into the sport through Girls That Moto, which she describes as the first all-girls motocross training academy in the United Kingdom.
At the academy, girls and women learn the skills Lauren picked up during her career. They practice things like keeping their speed through corners, and they learn to handle the physical demands of racing. They also learn to deal with the extra pressure girls can face in a sport where they're often outnumbered. That's one reason having a female coach matters. As one student put it, Lauren has helped show that motocross isn't "just men."
There's still a big gap at the top of the sport. Only three or four British women race at the professional level, and none of them are paid to ride. Lauren and her students hope to change that, and one of them could become the first.
In Sweat Is the Body's Built-In Cooling System, evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod presents the important role sweat plays in keeping our body cool. Sweat helps regulate our body temperature and works to cool us down through a process called evaporation. Learn how sweat glands work, the effect of metabolism on sweating, and why we can even sweat in colder weather, to understand why sweating is essential for keeping our bodies safe and healthy. This video is excerpted from Secrets of Skin, a documentary series exploring the natural history of the body’s largest organ.
In Losing Land Space for Lemurs in Madagascar, host Simon Reeve travels to the Berenty Reserve, home to the lemur, and a shockingly small area of land where human development continues to encroach upon the lemur’s habitat. This video is excerpted from BBC's Incredible Journeys With Simon Reeve, a series that highlights one journalist’s travels across the globe and the diverse cultures and peoples he meets along the way.
In Cooking the Perfect Pot of Rice, presenter Cherry Healey visits a rice factory and learns that rice is a type of grass. She sees that white rice and brown rice are the same, they are just processed differently. And, she learns the trick to cooking the perfect pot of rice! This video is excerpted from BBC’s Inside the Factory, a series that takes viewers behind the scenes in factories that make our favorite products.
In Cooking Sausages and the Maillard Reaction, presenter Cherry Healey visits the University of Chester to solve the mystery of the best way to cook a sausage. Learn about three different methods, and how the Maillard reaction, a chemical reaction that happens during cooking, impacts each. Which cooking method will come out on top? This video is excerpted from BBC’s Inside the Factory, a series that takes viewers behind the scenes in the factories that make our favorite products.
Feeling the heat lately? It might be because of El Niño, a climate pattern characterized by unusually warm sea-surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. It can affect the trade winds. These are the permanent, normally easterly winds that flow around the Earth's equator.
When we track the water temperature using tools like satellites, buoys, and ocean floats to measure temperatures below the ocean's surface, they show a large body of unusually hot water. Way bigger than the pot of water you’re boiling for your mac and cheese. Yes, even if you’re making extra mac and cheese. This is serious business! It can cause the sea-surface temperatures in parts of the tropical Pacific to rise by more than 2°C (about 3.6°F) above average, suggesting this year's El Niño is unusually strong, and could make 2027 one of the hottest years on record.
Depending on where you are in the world, El Niño is associated with both droughts and floods. These affect the lives of people living in those places, as well as their agriculture and food production, so the whole world feels the El Niño effects.
In The Strange World of Troglobites, narrator Sir David Attenborough explores the fascinating world of troglobites, creatures that have adapted to living entirely in caves. These animals, including the Texas blind salamander and the Belizean white crab, are unique to their environments and have evolved specialized features to survive in total darkness. Lacking pigment and eyesight, they rely on other heightened senses to detect food. The cave angelfish uses microscopic hooks to cling to slippery surfaces, and the blind salamander can detect water movement to locate prey. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Planet Earth, a breathtaking documentary series that highlights the natural wonders of our planet.
In The Amazing Waterfall Toad, narrator Sir David Attenborough introduces the amazing waterfall toad, a tiny creature that lives in the jungles where Brazil and Venezuela meet. About the size of a postage stamp, this toad has super gripping hands that help it cling to trees and wet leaves in the treetops. While other frogs might hop away from danger, the waterfall toad has a unique strategy that protects it from hungry snakes below. This video is excerpted from BBC's Life, a show that explores the remarkable strategies animals and plants use to ensure their survival.
In Fighting Climate Change With Redwoods, host Simon Reeve meets David Milarch who has a bold plan to fight climate change: grow the world’s largest trees! David revives ancient redwoods — some still clinging to life after being chopped down — because they store incredible amounts of carbon, making them nature's climate superheroes. But he faces a major challenge: convincing governments to prioritize planting trees over profits from cutting them down. This video is excerpted from BBC’s The Americas With Simon Reeve, in which Simon Reeve explores the landscapes, cultures, and wildlife of North and South America.
Motocross is a sport where riders race motorcycles around dirt tracks packed with jumps, sharp turns, and bumpy ground. For a long time, most of the racers have been men. Lauren Collingwood wants to change that.
Lauren has been racing motocross for more than 20 years and has won the British women's championship five times. Now she's helping the next generation of girls get into the sport through Girls That Moto, which she describes as the first all-girls motocross training academy in the United Kingdom.
At the academy, girls and women learn the skills Lauren picked up during her career. They practice things like keeping their speed through corners, and they learn to handle the physical demands of racing. They also learn to deal with the extra pressure girls can face in a sport where they're often outnumbered. That's one reason having a female coach matters. As one student put it, Lauren has helped show that motocross isn't "just men."
There's still a big gap at the top of the sport. Only three or four British women race at the professional level, and none of them are paid to ride. Lauren and her students hope to change that, and one of them could become the first.