NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - The Riddle of Black Holes
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/16/2010
They are the most powerful objects in the universe. Nothing, not even light, can escape the gravitational pull of a black hole. Astronomers now believe there are billions of them out in the cosmos, swallowing up planets, even entire stars in violent feeding frenzies. New theoretical research into the twisted reality of black holes suggests that three-dimensional space could be an illusion. That reality actually takes place on a two-dimensional hologram at the edge of the universe.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Are We Alone?
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/14/2010
Aliens almost certainly do exist. So why haven't we yet met E.T.? It turns out we're only just developing instruments powerful enough to scan for them, and science sophisticated enough to know where to look. As a result, race is on to find the first intelligent aliens. But what would they look like, and how would they interact with us if we met? The answers may come to us sooner than we imagine, for one leading astronomer believes she may already have heard a hint of their first efforts to communicate.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - What Are We Really Made Of?
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/21/2010
Our understanding of the universe and the nature of reality itself has drastically changed over the last 100 years, and it's on the verge of another seismic shift. In a 17-mile-long tunnel buried 570 feet beneath the Franco-Swiss border, the world's largest and most powerful atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, is powering up. Its goal is nothing less than recreating the first instants of creation, when the universe was unimaginably hot and long-extinct forms of matter sizzled and cooled into stars, planets, and ultimately, us. These incredibly small and exotic particles hold the keys to the greatest mysteries of the universe. What we find could validate our long-held theories about how the world works and what we are made of. Or, all of our notions about the essence of what is real will fall apart.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - Beyond the Darkness
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/28/2010
What is the universe made of? If you answered stars, planets, gas and dust, you'd be dead wrong. Thirty years ago, scientists first realized that some unknown dark substance was affecting the way galaxies moved. Today, they think there must be five times as much dark matter as regular matter out there. But they have no idea what it is — only that it's not made of atoms, or any other matter we are familiar with. And Dark Matter is not the only strange substance in the Universe — a newly discovered force, called Dark Energy, seems to be pushing the very fabric of the cosmos apart.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - Can We Live Forever?
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 7/27/2011
Medical advances have doubled human life expectancy in past centuries. But can humans ever beat death altogether? Can we control and fix the errors that build up in our DNA over the years? Can we find a way to replace the chemistry of life with something more durable? This episode wonders into the mystifying definition of 'eternity' as it relates to human lifespan.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - What Is Nothing?
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 6/27/2012
Is empty space really empty? Scientists regard understanding the true nature of empty space may explain where the universe came from, whether it is fated to expand into oblivion or whether it will undergo another dramatic transformation that could destroy everything we know.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - Can We Resurrect the Dead?
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 7/11/2012
With cloning and genetic engineering, we can bring back extinct animals. But could we also bring back dead humans? Is it possible to keep our brains alive after our bodies have died? Could we rise from the dead in some strange new form? Can we - should we - resurrect the dead?
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - Can We Eliminate Evil?
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 7/18/2012
What drives some to torture and kill without remorse? Why do seemingly normal people commit acts of cruelty and violence. Researchers are exploring our inner demons, looking for ways to isolate and neutralize the source of evil in the brain. Is it really possible to change human nature?
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - Mysteries of the Subconscious
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 7/25/2012
Does your subconscious know more than you ever will, and is your conscious mind holding you back? Do thoughts control actions, or vice versa? Research shows that opening the subconscious may make people healthier and more creative. There are also dangers lurking in the dark recesses of the mind.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - Will Eternity End?
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 8/1/2012
Many religious traditions have predicted that our world will come to an apocalyptic end. Scientists agree that Earth can't last forever, but disagree on whether the universe and time itself can ever disappear. Some may hope for eternity, but the possibility of never-ending time has mind-bending implications for the present.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - Did We Invent God?
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 8/8/2012
Our belief in a God above explains all we can't understand. Where do religious beliefs come from? Some experts believe God may exist only in our brain, that we are wired to worship the supernatural and that faith in a higher power gives us an evolutionary advantage. Is it possible that God is really just a neurological accident? And does that make Him any less real? Did God invent humanity, or did humanity invent God?
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - Is There a God Particle?
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 3/20/2013
Scientists explore the effects of the Higgs Boson discovery, which validates the Standard Model in particle physics and solidifies the understanding of subatomic particles; highlights include an in-depth discussion of the Higgs field and mass.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - When Does Life Begin?
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 6/5/2013
It is a debate that has raged for centuries’. Groundbreaking evidence reveals that inside all of us are traces of cells from our relatives, blurring the lines between one life and another. Technology is now giving birth to new life forms made of surprising components – from droplets of oil in a Petri dish, to conscious robots and to a new global internet-connected life form comprised of all humanity.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - Can We Survive the Death of the Sun?
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 6/12/2013
We are all at the mercy of the Sun. Its glowing disc sustains nearly all life on Earth. But the Sun also holds a dark secret: someday, our aging, expanding star will bathe the Earth in a fiery holocaust. Everything we know will turn to hot, bubbling, plasma.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - How Do Aliens Think?
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 6/19/2013
If the stuff of life is spread throughout the cosmos, then the universe could be teeming with aliens.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - Will Sex Become Extinct?
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 7/3/2013
Every single person who has ever lived was created from the genes of one man and one woman. But human sexual reproduction, unchanged for millions of years, is about to undergo radical change.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - Can Our Minds Be Hacked?
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 6/26/2013
Our minds store our entire lives, our memories and our deepest desires. Tell no one, and our thoughts remain our own. But our brains are biological computers. Computer hackers can tamper with our email.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - Are Robots the Future of Human Evolution?
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 7/10/2013
We are in the midst of a revolution so insidious we can't even see it. From our telephones to our vacuum cleaners to our cars, we have robots that live and work beside us. And now we're designing them to think for themselves, giving them the power to learn to move on their own.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - Is Reality Real?
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 7/17/2013
We are in the midst of a revolution so insidious we can't even see it. From our telephones to our vacuum cleaners to our cars, we have robots that live and work beside us. And now we're designing them to think for themselves, giving them the power to learn to move on their own.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - Do We Have Free Will?
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 7/24/2013
What if everything that has or will happen in the universe has already been determined and we are unable to change our inevitable destinies? Until the discovery of quantum uncertainty, physicists were convinced free will does not exist. Now neuroscientists and geneticists have stepped into the fray, arguing that free will is an illusion thanks to the genes we are born with, the automatic processes working in our brains, and the conforming pressures of society.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#21 - Did God Create Evolution?
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 7/31/2013
What or who created all of the billions of species that have lived on Earth? Is all life the product of evolution as Charles Darwin proposed or was it the guiding hand of a higher power?
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - Is Luck Real?
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 3/12/2014
Do you make your own luck or does luck make you? We find luck, good and bad, in casinos, basketball courts, genetics labs and the subatomic world. It’s a journey that will radically revise your understanding of the laws of nature and the human brain.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#23 - Is Poverty Genetic?
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 6/4/2014
Are the wealthy just born in the right place at the right time? Are the poor victims of a system designed to keep them down? Or do physics and biology determine who is rich and who is poor? Throughout history, distribution of wealth is governed by hidden forces: DNA, environmental stress, patterns of human migration and even the laws of thermodynamics! Nature seems to demand winners and losers in life. But does this mean greed is king, and the rich can take what they want? Or is cooperation – between microorganisms, monkeys, and humans – more essential to survival of a species?
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - How to Collapse a Superpower
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 6/11/2014
With a little imagination, could a few terrorists sabotage a mighty nation? Perhaps even tear down modern civilization? The stability of the US, Europe, China, or any global power depends on high-speed digital communication. Our increasing dependence on digital devices and global interactivity may be placing us in grave danger. Scientists around the world are dealing with new threats such as body hacking, Trojan horse viruses, and brain-damaging Internet addiction. But what if the ultimate threat isn’t an attack on technology, but the technology? Could the final superpower be the disembodied mind of the Internet itself?
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#25 - Does the Ocean Think?
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 6/18/2014
There could be an undiscovered species on Earth unlike anything we’ve ever known. Not in the ocean, but the ocean itself! Its body spans thousands of miles; its heart beats with a one-thousand-year pulse. It could even have an immune system capable of annihilating all other life on earth. Just as our bodies function through the interaction of water with individual cells, including bacteria and other microorganisms, the ocean’s residents might collectively form a super-organism. A recent discovery suggests the ocean is a living being capable of thought. If so, what is the ocean thinking about us?
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The Worst Episodes of Through the Wormhole
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Hosted by Morgan Freeman, Through the Wormhole explores the deepest mysteries of existence - the questions that have puzzled mankind for eternity. What are we...
Genre:Documentary
Network:Science
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Riddle of Black Holes" is the worst rated episode of "Through the Wormhole". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/16/2010. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Are We Alone?".