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THE CHALLENGE: TO BUILD THE HUMAN BODY (T173/03V)
人造肢體技術
The very latest techniques in artificial limb technology have the potential - for the first time - to replicate the body’s natural biology and movement. Amputees Jay Schiller and Campbell Aird volunteer to try out technology from the frontiers of bio-engineering, and discover how we have moved from wooden legs to artificial hands where every finger is independently movable.
介紹最新的人造肢體技術如何複製人體自然活動。兩名截肢人士自願採用這種生物工程技術試驗人造大腿及人造手臂的活動能力。原版英文發音。
30 mins.
English version
DISCOVERING SCIENCE (S103)
科學探索
This highly topical learning series introduces important underlying concepts of science and develop the skills needed to study science successfully. It introduces the different disciplines of biology, chemistry, Earth science and physics and show the links between them.
本系列專題介紹一些重要的基本科學概念以及一些科研技巧，包括：生物、化學、物理、地球學各學科及其內在聯繫。每集通過科學實驗、演示和動畫證明科學進程的動態特徵。
1. THE BIRTH OF LIQUID CRYSTALS (S103/01V)
液晶的誕生
This programme provides a historical reconstruction of the discovery and nature of liquid crystals. It looks at how; nearly one hundred years after it was first discovered, British chemists have finally found a way to exploit this new state in the electronic display technology industry. The programme also examines how some forms of liquid crystals have existed since life began on Earth and how they are essential to the success of all life forms.
物質有三態：固態、液態和氣態。科學家正研究物質的第四態，這狀態是什麼? 為什麼逾一世紀沒被使用過? 本節目介紹液晶的發現和特徵，以及英國化學家如何將液晶應用於電子顯示技術，並考察液晶對所有生命形式的必要性。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
29 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
2. THE SCIENCE OF CLIMATE? (S103/02V)
氣候的科學
What is global warming? Is there evidence for change? Have humans anything to do with those changes? This programme addresses these questions and reveals that the recent changes in climate are negligible compared to changes over longer timescales before humans could have had an effect. The programme also looks at some of the natural causes in climate change.
人類真的能影響氣候系統？我們不僅要明白地球的大氣、海洋和冰團也要明白系統內各成份如何互相影響。本節目探討氣候變化的人為和自然因素及氣候變化對人類生活的影響。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
29 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
3. A FORMIDABLE FOE (S103/03V)
頑劣之敵：瘧疾
Malaria is a disease that kills approximately two million children a year, particularly in Africa. This programme looks at the history and symptoms of malaria and visits Prampram Health Centre in Ghana to look at the work of a research team fighting this disease.
每年約有二億至四億宗瘧疾病。瘧疾是我們環境最肆虐的疾病，它令二十億人遭傳染，每年導致約二百萬人死亡。本節目探討瘧疾侵害人類的歷史及其病症，採訪迦納一衛生中心在瘧疾方面的研究工作。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
29 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
4. SICKLE CELL DISEASE - A LETHAL ADVANTAGE (S103/04V)
鐮狀細胞貧血病：致命優點
Sickle cell disease, first described nearly a century ago, presented a puzzle to scientists. This programme investigates how another disease, malaria, offered a clue as to why a potentially lethal inherited condition became so common largely amongst people of African origin. It reveals how carriers of sickle cell disease are resistant to malaria in childhood giving them an advantage over people without the gene.
估計每年全球約有25萬兒童出生時已患上鐮狀細胞貧血病。本節目解開瘧疾研究對鐮狀細胞貧血病者在非洲血統的人中極為普遍的現象之迷。並解釋為何鐮狀細胞貧血病攜帶者對瘧疾有比一般人更強的免疫能力。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
29 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
5. LOST WORLDS (S103/05V)
迷失世界：研究絕種原因
Only since the middle of the last century has the idea of a prehistoric world and species extinction become widely accepted. This programme tells the story of how our views have been changed dramatically by the emerging disciplines of Palaeontology and Geology. It examines famous extinctions from the past and shows how studying extinction casts new and troubling light on the survival of the human race itself.
我們得接受絕種是所有物種無法避免的命運，因為這是地球生命史的歷程。本節目探討化石學和地質學帶給人類對史前和物種滅絕的認識上的革命。探究歷史上著名的物種滅絕及對人類自身生存的啟示。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
30 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
6. A THREAD OF QUICKSILVER (S103/06V)
一線水銀
Set in Almaden, Spain, the world's largest producer of mercury, this programme traces the history of mercury form its use as a cosmetic and a paint, through to magnetic levitation railway trains.
西班牙的艾瑪頓鎮底蘊藏一種稱為辰砂的紅色礦物，數百年來參與很多偉大科學發現。本節目介紹這西班牙最大的水銀生產地追溯水銀用於化妝品、塗料到空中列車的歷史。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
29 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
7. UNCERTAIN PRINCIPLES (S103/07V)
易變原理：量子力學
This programme explores one of the main ideas of quantum physics - wave-particle duality. It follows the story of the electron: how its particle-like nature was discovered in 1897 and how its wave-like nature was demonstrated some thirty years later. The programme also focuses on the Solvay conference of 1927, at which many of the important scientists of the day met to discuss the new ideas of quantum physics.
量子力學革新我們對世界的理解，本節目介紹深入原子神秘中心的歷程，但科學家在關於物質本質的辯論選擇立場到今日仍爭持激烈。本節目探討量子力學最重要的概念之一「波粒子二重性」。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
29 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
8. LIFELINES (S103/08V)
生命線
This programme considers some of the key contributors to the development of our understanding of inheritance. It focuses on the work of Darwin and his theory of natural selection, Mendel's breeding experiments and Miesher who discovered DNA, which is the key to inheritance.
本節目介紹三位對遺傳學發展作出傑出貢獻的科學家：達爾文的天擇論；孟德爾的遺傳模式研究和密沙用顯微鏡發現DNA的經過。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
29 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
9. HIDDEN VISIONS (S103/09V)
隱藏視象：微觀世界
One of the basic science skills is observation. However the observations of early scientists were limited to what they could see with their unaided eyes. This programme maps out some of the important stages in the historical development of instruments that allow scientists to look at small objects in detail. It explores the development of the optical microscope and looks at X-ray diffraction, the transmission electron microscope and the latest scanning tunnelling microscope.
深入探查物質中心的方法在過去數百年進步驚人，新技術已能讓科學家探究引人注目的新世界。本節目介紹顯微儀器的發展史，涉及光學顯微鏡、X光繞射（衍射）、傳播/發送電子顯微鏡，以及最新研製的隧道掃描顯微鏡。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
26 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
10. MAKING CONTACT (S103/10V)
接觸外星人：探索智慧生命
This programme explores the scientific search for alien intelligence in the Universe. It considers astronomical, biological and social sciences aspects of this quest, and draws parallels between real life and science fiction to answer the age-old question, are we alone? For the scientists involved it is a deeply personal and philosophical quest, which sits on the very boundaries of science itself.
世人普遍對科學和外星人感興趣，威爾斯的作品「星際戰爭」便把兩者連在一起。本節目探究科學家對宇宙中外星人的探尋及其科學依據。聯繫現實生活和科幻小說中關於外星人的描述和探討宇宙中是否只有我們人類這個古老的話題。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
30 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
EUROFIGHTER - WEAPON OF MASS CONSTRUCTION (XA009/01V)
新世代戰機：歐洲戰鬥機
This is the story of Europe’s biggest ever and most expensive defence programme. Surrounded by controversy, billions of pounds over budget and ten years late, the multi-role Eurofighters are finally being delivered. It is a project that has survived the blows of conflicting national interests, political intrigue and a changing world order.
Its troubled genesis has seen out the Cold War, the fall of the Wall, the Gulf, Bosnia and 9/11. Each change of strategy and political environment has left its legacy of compromise, price increase and revised specification.
This programme sheds light on the story of this cutting edge combat aircraft. Through exclusive interviews with key players, the film analyses the problems encountered on the way. Eurofighter gets close to the intricacies of large scale international collaboration and project management. The programme culminates in the events of the last few months. In the space of just 6 months the in-service date was delayed, and the programme saw its first casualty with DA-6 the Spanish prototype crashing near Madrid. After 20 eventful years it can be said that the Eurofighter has already fought in a battle.
因應國際政治環境而製的「歐洲戰鬥機」，在一片爭議聲，超資萬億英鎊延遲十年歐洲最大最昂貴的防禦計劃終於面世。「歐洲戰鬥機」具備超級巡航、優異航電，是非常優秀的空優戰機。原版英文發音。
50 mins.
English version
EVER WONDERED FOOD
知 飲 知 食
In this six-part series, Michelin-starred chef Paul Merrett takes a closer look at the science and history behind everyday ingredients, creating some mouth-watering recipes as he goes.
食物與生命是一個永續的循環，究竟我們有沒有認真細心思索如何可以吃得更健康？本系列介紹六種基本的食材，溶合烹飪專門技術以科學和社會歷史角度去發掘每種食物最具價值的食譜。備有中文字幕。
1. EVER WONDERED ABOUT CHEESE?
乳酪
From its accidental discovery over 5,000 years ago by a nomad travelling across the desert with a saddle pack filled with milk, cheese is the oldest manufactured food in the world with almost as many varieties. Ever Wondered brings you a slice of the history of cheese revealing that Samuel Pepys made time to bury and save it from the Great Fire of London, and that the expression 'big cheese' came from medieval times when a large round of cheese signified higher social standing. We see how processed cheese revolutionised the lunchbox and ask just how uncouth is it to chop the nose off a piece of stilton. In the kitchen, Paul Merrett shows us an Italian twist on the cheese fondue, the science behind making a great sauce to give an ultimate macaroni cheese and a delicious ricotta and lemon cheesecake. He also reveals his private passion for having strawberry jam in his cheese sandwiches. 30 mins.
五千年前一些歐洲人為了保存多餘的牛奶方便作旅行食品，偶爾間製成了乳酪。乳酪已經成為日常生活上不可缺少的食物。名廚馬列特示範如何發揮不同種類的乳酪的特有味道製作不同款式的佳餚美食。備有中文字幕。
2. EVER WONDERED ABOUT CHICKEN?
雞
In Britain we eat around 16 million chickens per week. From the classic British roast to the traditional French coq au vin, chicken is a staple food the world over. Ever Wondered explains the importance of Queen Victoria and Colonel Harland Saunders in increasing the popularity of the chicken and asks where Chicken Kiev originated if it wasn't in the Ukraine? In the kitchen Paul explains how to buy a good bird, shows us how to cook the perfect roast chicken, how to create a spicy marinade for chicken kebabs, and how a good Coq Au Vin depends on the quality of the red wine. 30 mins.
雞是食物中基本一種主要的材料。單以英國為例，每星期約吃掉一千六百萬隻雞。維多利亞女皇與肯德基的創辦人哈蘭斯桑德斯把吃雞的文化普及化。馬列特示範不同的烹調方法，實行挑動味蕾的豐富觸感。備有中文字幕。
3. EVER WONDERED ABOUT EGGS?
蛋
Eggs are a truly universal food and the world tucks into nearly 2 billion of them every day. We love them scrambled, boiled, poached, baked, fried, beaten, whipped and even raw. An average hen will lay between 300 and 325 per year and the older she gets the larger her eggs will be. Ever Wondered places the humble egg on a spoon and takes us on a race through the 5000 year story of nature's perfect meal. On the way we'll discover how to make powdered eggs palatable, how the Lion brand saved the egg by indicating that it has been produced according to a set of industry standards, and the truth behind the salmonella food scares. In the kitchen Paul Merrett shows us how to make an authentic Spanish omelette, what you need to do to cook a perfect poached egg to use in eggs Benedict and how to create superb souffles. 30 mins.
全球每日吃掉接近兩億隻雞蛋，炒蛋，沸煮，隔水燉，烘，煎，攪拌等各種各樣。本節目帶觀眾重返五千年的吃蛋歷史文化，如何烹調蛋美食及揭示沙門氏菌的真相。備有中文字幕。
4. EVER WONDERED ABOUT MUSHROOMS?
蘑菇
From the classic Italian risotto to the exotic Mushroom Bhaji, Ever Wondered unearths the true magic of mushrooms. Asian civilizations have been cultivating mushrooms for over 2000 years. In medieval Ireland, mushrooms were thought to be umbrellas for leprechauns and the English believed they should only be gathered under a full moon to be edible. In the 16th century, one author boldly claimed that snails crept out of their shells and turned into toads, and, with nothing to sit on, created 'toadstools'. In the kitchen Paul demonstrates how to stop mushrooms going soggy, how to use them in Asian cuisine, what is the secret behind cooking the ultimate mushroom risotto and how to create the best ever mushrooms on toast. 30 mins.
亞洲人以蘑菇作食材已有超過兩千年的歷史。中世紀的愛爾蘭人認為蘑菇是小妖精的雨傘，必須在月圓之夜才可採摘烹煮。十六世紀更有作家指毒菌是給蝸牛作帳蓬之用。打破種種傳言，蘑菇菌類是非常受歡迎的食物。備有中文字幕。
5.EVER WONDERED ABOUT POTATOES?
馬鈴薯
From chips to gnocchi to saag aloo, potatoes have been around for 6000 years and are the most popular vegetable on Earth. Globally we grow 293 million tons a year in thousands of varieties. After discovering potatoes at the foot of the Andes, pre Inca Indians were the first to cultivate them and they were brought to Europe from Peru by 16th century Spanish explorers. We now eat 38,000 tonnes of chips in the UK each year but they really took off with fish and chips which are thought to have been a marriage between the eating of fried potatoes in the street in London and the eating of fried fish in Lancashire. With the invention of the crisp in 1853 by a disgruntled chef reacting to a diner complaining that his potato chips weren't thin enough, we now eat more than 12 billion crisps a year. In the kitchen, Paul Merrett makes twice-fried chips with garlic mayo, potato pancakes and potato wedges and explains why you need science - and a potato ricer - to create the perfect mash. 30 mins.
無論是薯片或是薯餅，馬鈴薯是地球上最大眾化的蔬菜。安地斯山脈的印加人首先發現馬鈴薯，十六世紀西班牙探險家從秘魯帶返歐洲。現今的英國每年吃掉三萬八千噸的馬鈴薯。備有中文字幕。
6. EVER WONDERED ABOUT SEAFOOD?
海鮮
In seafood, Ever Wondered dives to the bottom of the ocean to bring to you the story of shellfish. Are oysters really an aphrodisiac and what is the best way to eat an oyster? How do you spot a good mussel from a bad one? Why should you only eat shellfish when there's an 'r' in the month? And is the cholesterol they contain really bad for you? In the kitchen, Paul Merrett reveals why prawns change from grey to red when cooked, how to cook calamari and the perfect recipe for the seafood classic Moules Marinere. 30 mins.
潛入海底找尋有殼類海鮮作為本節目的主題。有沒有想過生蠔是否真的是激發性慾的催情藥？最佳的品嚐方法是什麼？如何分辨珠蚌的好與壞？有殼海鮮是否包高膽固醇？為什麼烹調蝦時，顏色會變為紅色？備有中文字幕。
IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES (T833)
汽車製造業：新技術新衝擊
Of particular interest to anyone introducing or managing the application of new technologies in manufacturing or the service industries, this multi-disciplinary series draws on production engineering, accounting, industrial relations, technology policy and organizational behavior. Using case studies, you will analyse and assess the implementation process and look at the effects new technologies may have on established organizations. You will examine the four phases of change - initiation, planning, application and consolidation ?and explore models for implementing and appraising change and integrating technology, finance and people.
本系列以汽車製造業為個案研究，分析與評估機構的企業流程與設置新技術所帶來的影響。原版英文發音。
1. DELIVERY CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT (T833/VC01)
推行持續改善計劃
This progarmme can be used to teach and enhance the understanding of continual improvement techniques in the automotive industry. The automotive industry is one of the most competitive in the world and companies have long realised that they must remain competitive to remain in business.
This programme concentrates on a recent initiative that has been instigated by the SMMT Industry Forum who are running a program to introduce tools and techniques to companies which will encourage them to think about continuous improvement in a structured way. Once the lead company has been indoctrinated into the program they are encouraged to spread these ideas down through their supply chains. The programme describes the tools and techniques used and how these have been applied within their various companies and delivered considerable improvements in each.
汽車製造業是世界上激爭最激烈的行業之一。英國汽車業組織 SMMT 推行一個持續改善計劃予轄下會員，介紹一些有用的技巧及方法，鼓勵業界作出持續性的改善，提升效率增加競爭優勢。原版英文發音。
60 mins.
English version
2. PEOPLE AT THE CENTRE OF CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT AND TRAINING (T833/VC02)
持續改善計劃：英國NSK經驗之談
This programme has two parts. The first looks at team organization and the role of the workforce in the continuous improvement process at NSK in Peterlee in North East England. NSK are suppliers of steering systems to the automotive industry worldwide. The organization and operation of their production process is derived from that of their parent company in Japan and from those of their major customers who run suppliers’ associations. The second part surveys the development of e-learning as a new medium for the delivery of training in Germany. It illustrates policy development, content provision and practice in industrial and craft vocational training and in medical education. It demonstrates powerfully, the continuation of the underlying philosophy and commitment to skills development in Germany.
介紹英國著名的汽車轉向裝置系統製造商 NSK 如何推行的持續改善計劃。德國的分公司發展數位學習進行員工培訓課程。原版英文發音。
60 mins.
English version
3. TRENT STORY (T833/VC04)
勞斯萊斯：現代企業
This video is about the story of the Rolls-Royce Trent Engine, looking at changes in a manufacturing industry and examining how a modern ‘lean’ business works with its customers, its suppliers and itself. It is divided into seven bands: Band 1: Introduction, Band 2: Internal - Design & Development: Band 3: Internal - The Turbine Blade Facility, Band 4: Suppliers - The Customer Value Process, Band 5: Suppliers - Risk & Revenue Sharing ITP Bilbao, Band 6: Customers - 1, Band 7: Customers - Joint Ventures HAESL Hong Kong.
說起最豪華的房車，大家必然想起勞斯萊斯。本節目介紹勞斯萊斯汽車公司，如何由製造商轉為現代企業。內容包括：簡介，設計與發展，引擎設備，客戶價值流程，風險及認同理念，客戶及香港航空發動機維修服務有限公司合營計劃。原版英文發音。
90 mins.
English version
ROUGH SCIENCE 2 (XS003)
原始科學
Take five scientists, ferry them to a remote Caribbean island, leave them with only the most basic of equipment and ask them to use their scientific knowledge to meet a number of challenges. How useful is science outside the laboratory?
五位科學家衝出實驗室，走進加勒比海的小島嶼，以原始裝備應付連串考驗。本系列節目能啟發你的創意思維、讓你運用邏輯思考、增進對科學的認識、提高科學興趣。不再是紙上談兵的知識，齊來擴闊視野接觸科學，動動腦筋參予這群科學家的考驗吧！
1. MAPPING IT OUT (XA003/AIP2/01)
手繒地圖與錄音機
Not for these scientists the simple expedient of sending a postcard to show where they have been. They have to develop the means to make a permanent record of the island - from the highest peak to the loudest sound. Sound recording involves producing a mechanical design similar to Edison’s original recording device and making a loud noise to record. To make the map, the scientists have first to make instruments including a metre stick, protractor and even a telescope before ‘measuring’ the island and checking on local rock formations and the environment. They must make paper and ink from local, natural ingredients - which include fashioning a quill pen from a bird's feather. Their efforts are compared with the‘real’map.
五位科學家分成兩組，利用島上的天然資源和簡陋的工具，用科學化的方法按比例精確量度一幅北面海岸線的地圖，圖上還要有最高點的準確高度。科學家連方向也不清楚怎樣畫地圖？沒有尺子、量角器甚至紙、筆和墨水又怎樣記錄大量資料呢？另一組科學家要製造一部錄音機，把悅耳的雀鳥聲錄下來。看看他們如何化解這些問題。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
30 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
2. BUGS AND BAROMETERS (XA003/AIP2/02)
天氣預測與細菌實驗
To cope with life on the island - from mosquitoes to storms - is the challenge. A bacteria-busting cream from the island’s plants is needed - and the scientists must prove it works with no animal testing. Growing bacteria from one of the scientist’s spit, extracting oils from plants and building a microscope to check on progress, are all part of the test. They also build a weather station to detect storms.
兩位科學家要變成天氣先生預測天氣，他們怎樣自製原始的氣壓計、濕度計、風速計、雨量計等氣象工具。另外的科學家，要製造抗菌藥膏以治療被蟲咬的傷口，他們還要造一台顯微鏡以證實藥膏能有效地殺死細菌。三天時限可以做到嗎？英文發音，配上中文字幕。
30 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
3. TIME AND TRANSMITTERS (XA003/AIP2/03)
計時器與無線電通訊器
How to keep in touch and when to do it is the challenge. First the team must make a transmitter and receiver able to communicate over half a mile. Their ingenuity with a car battery, spark transmitter, wire and a razor blade is to their credit. They build a clock which chimes on the hour as well as two portable timepieces synchronised to the main clock. The third challenge is to make a kite from plant leaves to carry an aerial.
小島上沒有流動電話和手錶這些必需品，科學家能夠解決通訊的問題嗎？他們用什麼方法互相保持聯絡呢？科學家今回要製造原始的無線電發報機和接收器、一隻作為大型的視覺信號的椰子外殼纖維風箏、果實大笨鐘、手提式計時器。他們能順利通過節目主持的測試嗎？英文發音，配上中文字幕。
30 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
4. FEEL THE HEAT (XA003/AIP2/04)
造冰與防曬實驗
The theme is heat and how to use a variety of scientific methods to measure it, adapt to it, and even to change it. Our scientists struggle with their new environment as they strive to stay cool. We see the team sweat and toil to make a miracle - produce an ice cube for a cool drink in the mid-day sun. By brain power and sheer hard work the main challenge is to transform a tiny region of a desert island into a winter wonderland. To check on the quest for ice, the team also have to make a thermometer. And if they can’t keep out of the sun they’ll have to keep the sun off their skin by producing some sunscreen.
身處熱帶島嶼如何解決酷熱問題? 假如有凍飲在手想必是一大快事，但連冰箱也沒有該怎麼辦？本集科學家們會造冰，造溫度計測試溫度，造防曬乳保護膚色。讓我們看看他們的腦袋如何抵抗熱力。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
30 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
5. SUN AND SEA (XA003/AIP2/05)
水底發光器
Harnessing the energy of the environment and using it to explore the ocean by night is the challenge. To help them the scientists are given an old car battery but it’s not as straightforward as it may seem - the battery needs distilled water and recharging before it can be used to power the torch, which they also have to construct. The torch, too, presents a challenge - not least for the need to make waterproof glue to hold it all together.
本集科學家將會研製水底發光器，揭示藏於礁脈最黑暗的角落。科學家能造出水底電筒和原始發電機嗎？可不可以製成太陽能蒸餾器，造出循環再用的能量替電池充電？骨頭、海螺殼、線圈、金屬絲形形色色的法寶，科學家會否成功呢？英文發音，配上中文字幕。
30 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
6. THE SCIENCE OF CELEBRATION (XA003/AIP2/06)
科學音樂隊與煙花匯演
Finally the scientists need to celebrate their success and how better than with a firework concert. All they need to do is make the fireworks and the musical instruments with which to accompany the firework display. The successful conclusion is spectacular, even if the musicians could use a little more band practice!
一夜舉行一個熱鬧的狂歡派對，和諧悅耳的音樂襯托煙花大匯演。對樂器一竅不通的科學家來說，製造調音工具和樂器實非易事。煙花的主要材料硝酸鉀、炭、還有點火裝置從何而來？不如齊齊來參予這個科學狂歡派對吧！英文發音，配上中文字幕。
30 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
ROUGH SCIENCE IV (XS012)
原始科學﹝四﹞
The series begins with our team of five Rough Scientists making a dramatic helicopter arrival at their new base - an abandoned silver mine on the edge of Death Valley in the United States. Kate introduces the theme of the series; it’s going to be all about space exploration! In each programme, they will pit their improvisational science skills against a different set of space related challenges. The ultimate aim? To see if our scientists have the right stuff to take on the might of NASA in their own backyard! As usual the scientists have electricity and basic tools at their disposal, plus whatever they can find lying around the mine. In each programme, they also get a trunk full of extra bits and pieces that may - or may not - help them with their challenges.
五位科學家衝出實驗室乘搭直升機前往美國的死谷，以原始裝備建立他們的太空基地。本系列節目能啟發創意思維，讓你運用邏輯思考增進科學的認識。
1. ROVER (XS012/AIP/01)
探測車與水源探測法
The first challenges in this series are heavily focused on the “exploration” theme. Jonathan’s challenge is to make a rover; a remote-controlled vehicle that could explore strange new worlds. For Jonathan’s ultimate test, we subject his rover to a NASA style experiment in the desert.
Iain and Ellen then have to use their geological and botanical skills to search for water in the desert. Once this is done, Kathy and Mike are going to have to find a way of purifying it to make it safe for drinking - an essential component for any mission into deep space. Watch the team in action pitting their improvisational science skills against these space related challenges.
科學家的第一個 「太空」 任務是製作一部搖控探測車，進行地面探索工作。如何在酷熱乾燥的沙漠上尋找水源? 科學家們運用他們的地質學和植物學上的知識幫助他們解決問題，如何能確保是能飲用的食水呢? 原版英文發音。
30 mins.
English version
2. COMMUNICATION (XS012/AIP/02)
太空通訊器與無重筆
No space mission can succeed without communication, so our second set of Rough Science space challenges are all based around making contact.
Jonathan and Kathy have to come up with a way of communicating that doesn’t use sound waves - because in the vacuum of space, there’s nothing for them to move through. They come up with a truly extraordinary way to carry a voice on a sunbeam.
Ellen and Mike have no money and just three days to come up with their own version of a zero gravity pen. Iain has to find a way to communicate with aliens and has to come up with a plaque that would communicate information about the Rough Science team to them.
任何太空任務如果沒有通訊設備根本無法實現。科學家的第二個任務就是模仿太空的真空狀態建立通訊設施。另一組科學家要在三天內製造無重筆，另外要尋找與外星人通訊的金屬匾。原版英文發音。
30 mins.
English version
3. SPACESUIT (XS012/AIP/03)
太空服
Although everyone thinks of space as very cold, in fact, if you stood on the sunny side of the moon, the temperature would be hot enough to boil the blood in your body. Spacesuits are designed to protect astronauts from these extreme temperatures.
The challenge is for the Rough Scientists to collectively design a cooling system for their very own space suit.
許多人想像太空是一處非常寒冷的地方，但如站在面向太陽的月球表面，高溫足以令血液沸騰，所以太空人必須穿著保護身體的太空衣。原始科學隊的科學家要合力製成附有冷卻系統的太空衣。原版英文發音。
30 mins.
English version
4. IMPACT (XS012/AIP/04)
隕石撞擊實驗
This programme is all about meteorites and asteroids. Not too far from the Rough Science base on the edge of Death Valley is Meteor Crater. Iain, Kathy and Mike have to work out how big the meteor that caused this huge crater must have been.
Jonathan and Ellen have to pick a crater on the moon and measure how big it is. Because they will be doing their measurements at night, Ellen will have to come up with some lights.
這是有關隕石及小行星的實驗。離死谷不遠就是隕石坑，科學家要計算撞擊隕石坑的隕石的大小。另一組科學家模擬在月球表面挖取隕石並進行量度，由於實驗在夜間進行，他們需要製作發光器。原版英文發音。
30 mins.
English version
5. AERIAL SURVEYOR (XS012/AIP/05)
大氣探測器，二氧化碳過濾器與模擬地震
In this programme, Kathy and Jonathan have to go one better than the Mars Rover in programme one and design an aerial surveyor that can explore much greater areas by floating above land. They have been given a tiny camera, which will record whatever the aerial surveyor sees. They make a solar balloon, heated by the power of the sun.
Mike has a very different challenge. In 1970 the crew of Apollo XIII faced certain death when an accident damaged their oxygen tanks. To survive they had to build a carbon dioxide filter and Mike has to do the same. Ellen and Iain have to work out the magnitude and where the epicentre of the 1872 Californian earthquake was.
科學家要製造一部更勝火星探測車，配備小型攝影機的大氣探測器，他們亦會製造太陽能發熱的太陽能氣球。為不想重蹈一九七○年阿波羅八號太空人缺氧意外事故，科學家要製造二氧化碳過濾器。另一組科學家要模擬一八七二年加利福尼亞州的強力地震。原版英文發音。
30 mins.
English versiom
6. ROCKET (XS012/AIP/06)
水力火箭，化學火箭與蒸汽火箭
The final set of Rough Science space challenges are all about rockets. Mike, Jonathan and Kathy have to make three different rockets, using water as fuel. They also have to design their rockets to carry a raw egg as a “passenger” Mike takes a chemical approach, using electrolysis to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gases then recombining them to form an explosive mixture. Jonathan, with his physics background builds a steam-powered rocket and Kathy; also a physicist decides to use pressurised water. The scientists compete to see who can get to the launch pad first, and whose rocket will be the most effective.
Meanwhile Ellen and Iain have to find a way of putting an egg into each rocket and returning them safely back to earth.
科學家分成三組製造三支火箭運送「雞蛋乘客」升空。第一支是利用水作燃料，另外一支先以水電解成氫及氧氣，然後再給合成爆炸性混合劑作燃料，最後一支以蒸汽作燃料。齊齊看看「乘客」 如何安全著陸地球吧！原版英文發音。
30 mins.
English version
SCIENCE SHACK (XS006)
科學小屋
Science Shack is science with a difference. Adam Hart-Davis takes viewers’ questions and offers his own unique brand of scientific demonstration to present the solutions. You will see science investigated and explained with authority and wit, but with a twist.
我們的生活離不開科學，而你對科學有多理解?「科學小屋」的隊員帶領我們觀察、調查和研究物理和工程學，解答一些科學問題。從不同有趣的實驗中，激發大家對科學研習的興趣強化印象，培養求真求實態度，幫助建立完整的科學根基。
1. WALKING ON THE CEILING (XS006/01V/02)
倒吊在天花板行走
Flies do it, spiders do it, even geckos do it so why can’t humans walk on ceilings? Adam Hart-Davis and a team of Australians construct a walking device similar to the famous techno trousers in Wallace and Grommit’s The Wrong Trousers. Adam also reveals the first-ever film of flies landing on the ceiling, and performs experiments suggested by viewers.
為何蒼蠅能倒吊在天花但人類不能? 從觀察蒼蠅的舉動可以找到一些蛛絲馬跡嗎？科學小屋的隊員會精心設計機械，魔術貼鞋子、吸力靴、磁力靴，嘗試以前所未有的方法在天花板上行走。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
30 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
2. WHEN THE OIL RUNS DRY (XS006/02V/02)
石油耗盡了
What will we do when the oil runs out? North Sea oil will probably run out around 2040 - what will happen then? With no oil derived plastics and constant source of energy how will Adam maintain his luxurious lifestyle to which he has become accustomed? The team transforms the Shack into a haven of alternative energy and resources. By the end of the programme Adam intends to be relaxing in a hot bath, enjoying hot food and chilled champagne in preparation for his post-oil future retirement. Adam sets out to use both conventional and more obscure energy sources to achieve his goal, including the wasted effort sweated out in gyms across UK.
石油已成為新世紀先進現代人生活上不可或缺的一部份，但萬一石油耗盡，我們該怎麼辦？科學小屋隊如何不用一滴石油或其他化石燃料，重建現代人舒適的生活必需品？主持人可以繼續享受他的凍香檳、熱水浴、熱食物、電視和音樂嗎？英文發音，配上中文字幕。
30 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
3. HUMAN POWER (XS006/03V/02)
挑戰極速
How fast can your legs carry you? The current world speed record for a human-powered vehicle is 80.55 mph. Adam Hart-Davis tries out viewers’ suggestions for high-speed vehicles, powered only by him. What top speed will his bicycle pump water rocket super bike achieve?
本節目會挑戰極速，研究如何利用技術把能量轉化為速度，靠個人的精力可把自己推進得有多快？科學小屋會舉行一場別出心裁的噴水器比賽，利用汽水樽作噴水器在跑道上飛馳，看看這些小小參賽者如何挑戰極速。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
30 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
4. LIGHTNING (XS006/04V/02)
雷擊閃電
How can you survive a lightening strike? Lightning strikes 1,000 people a year and kills thirty per cent of them. And since men are four times more likely to be hit than women, Adam Hart-Davis puts himself on the firing line in the name of science to find out how we can protect ourselves. Experiments and suggestions sent in by viewers are also considered.
中世紀時期人類不懂得閃電的物理現象，圓頂教堂鐘樓時常遭到雷擊，很多人遭雷電擊斃。科學小屋帶我們到英國國家電網高壓電研究所，以數百萬伏特電擊小屋。隊員設計保護裝置，小屋和主持人能否幸免於難？這是一個嚴峻的挑戰。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
30 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
5. PAPER PLANES (XS006/05V/02)
大飛船
What is the biggest thing that can fly? There is a limit to how big you can build an aircraft, once it gets to a certain size its mass prevents it staying airborne whatever shape you make it. Adam Hart-Davies investigates the science of making big things fly by building an airship to lift his own weight.
科學小屋隊帶我們到英國百福郡卡汀頓，一個曾建造英國最大飛船R101的飛機庫，用紙建造一架能載一人的飛船。齊來看看科學小屋隊這次最有野心的嘗試能否成功升空吧。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
30 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
6. MILLENNIUM BRIDGE (XS006/06V/02)
倫敦千禧橋
On the 10th June 2000 a new footbridge spanning the River Thames opened. The bridge attracted 100,000 visitors on its opening day, but five days later it was closed down. Unfortunately human traffic set up vibrations in the bridge that forced its closure. The question is can it be fixed and what exactly is the cause of the problem? The Science Shack team investigate what exactly did go wrong.
千禧橋由鋁與鋼構成，設計與工程都很出色，啟用當日有數千人排隊過橋，可是發生了不尋常的搖晃。科學小屋隊建造了一座千禧模型橋，研究其物理結構與搖晃原因以及人們在橋上的感覺。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
30 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
SENSE OF HEARING: COCHLEAR IMPLANTS (SD329/VC1311)
聽覺：人工電子耳蝸
New developments in cochlear implants have been made possible by recent advances in our understanding of how a normal healthy ear decodes the information contained in a sound signal. This programme follows the progress of research to improve these implants and in so doing takes a fascinating journey into the neurophysiological processes of hearing.
人工電子耳蝸的發明有助了解人類正常的耳朵如何接收語言信號。本節目介紹植入人工電子耳蝸最新的研究發展。原版英文發音。
60 mins.
English version
SENSE OF VISION: SEEING COLOURS, SENSE OF PROPRIOCEPTION: THE MAN WHO LOST HIS BODY, SENSE OF SMELL: ODOUR AND BEHAVIOUR (SD329/VC1312)
視覺，本體覺與嗅覺
This programme associated with SD329 Signals and Perception: the science of the senses cover the senses of vision, proprioception, and smell. Using graphics and a series of interviews with well-known researchers, the programmes explain how the signals are processed and explore some current issues relating to these senses.
Band 1 Sense of vision: seeing colours
Band 2 Sense of proprioception: the man who lost his bod
Band 3 Sense of smell: odour and behaviour
本節目分三部份以人類的視覺，本體覺與嗅覺為主題，訪問著名的研究員，配合圖表詳細解釋人類感觀系統如何接收信號。原版英文發音。
120 mins.
English version
TRUTH WILL OUT (XS007)
破解科學奧秘：真相浮現
Is global warming caused by human activity? Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? Will mapping of the human genome transform medicine? Is the natural limit of our lives “three score years and ten”? Is CJD caused by BSE? Has human evolution stopped? Discover the truth behind these hotly debated issues. Field experts provide in depth analysis of these topics, but are you persuaded by their arguments?
面對自然的奧秘，科學家努力尋找人類未知的真相。經過漫長的探索之路，他們最終可否解開科學未知之謎? 未來的發展，未來的科學又會怎樣? 原版英文發音。
1. GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY HUMAN ACTIVITY (XS007/01V)
人類：全球溫化元兇
In 1998 NASA scientists said that they were 99% certain that human activity was changing our climate; global warming was born. Britons have just squelched through one of the wettest winters on record with floods, torrents and very few hours of sunshine. The finger of blame was pointed at global warming as the cause of these extreme weather events - and then moved swiftly on to us - drivers of cars, belchers of smoke and polluters of planets. It seems obvious that the two things must be linked, but are they?
一九九八年科學家指出人類就是導致氣候轉變，全球溫化的主要元兇。全球暖化導致城市水患，農作物損失等問題。汽車的廢氣，不同的污染摧毀這個地球，人類難辭其咎。原版英文發音。
14 mins.
English version
2. THERE'S INTELLIGENT LIFE ELSEWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE (XS007/02V)
宇宙的生命探索
The human race is curios about the universe, we want to know whether we are special - are we the only intelligent life in the universe? SETI (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) was set-up in the 1960s but so far has failed to make contact or identify any other intelligent life forms in this or any other galaxy. So is the silent galaxy telling us something, or do we have to be more patient?
在浩瀚的宇宙裡，人類是否唯一的智慧生物? 在無數的恒星上，當中有否孕育其他高智慧生命。自六十年代開展的尋找外太空文明計劃至今仍渺無音訊，這是否意味地球以外沒有生命的跡像? 原版英文發音。
14 mins.
English version
3. MAPPING THE HUMAN GENOME WILL TRANSFORM MEDICINE (XS007/03V)
人類基因圖譜：研製新藥物
Using specially shot interviews with scientists and archive footage, the programme investigates the likely impact of the mapping of the human genome on future medicine and disease treatment.
人類基因圖譜定序完成，標誌著科學踏足上另一個新里程。本節目探討人類基因圖譜對研製新藥物及疾病治療的貢獻。原版英文發音。
14 mins.
English version
4. THE NATURAL LIMIT OF OUR LIVES (XS007/04V)
生命的時限
In Britain the average life span is 75 years, however this figure is rising. In the future can we all expect to reach 100 and receive a telegram from the Queen? Since the 1950s our average life span has been stretching by about 2 years every decade. That’s mainly due to better diets, increased exercise, better sanitation and the fact that we are fighting the big killers, such as heart disease, on several fronts.
英國人平均有七十五歲壽命，而數字亦有上升的趨勢，在未來或許人均壽命可達一百歲。科學家發現自一九五○年起人類的壽命每個世紀增加兩歲，主要原因是現今的人類較注重健康的生活。但其實人類正對抗健康的大敵人，例如：心臟病。原版英文發音。
14 mins.
English version
5. CJD is Caused by BSE (XS007/05)
非典型克雅二氏症
The only way to prove that variant CJD is caused by BSE is to inject infected material from a cow into a human and sit back and wait to see whether, in ten, twenty or even forty years time, that person develops vCJD. Curiously, there is a conspicuous shortage of volunteers for this crucial experiment! But without it, there is still no direct proof that vCJD is caused by BSE.
But what causes BSE? Metals, organophosphate, tiny viruses called virions have all at one time been implicated - the current front runner is rogue prions. But are these elaborately folded proteins found in all species of animals the real cause?
瘋牛症如何跨逾物種傳染人類? 科學家尚未有結論，但一般相信，最大可能是人類吃了患牛海綿體腦病 BSE 的病牛，感染了非典型克雅二氏症 vCJD。但牛隻如何感染BSE呢? 原版英文發音。
14 mins.
English versiom
6. HUMAN EVOLUTION HAS STOPPED (XS007/06V)
人類終止進化
What chapter have we reached in our evolutionary story? In the 500,000 or so years we’ve been strolling the Earth, Homo Sapiens have been continually feeling the force of natural selection. We were nearly snuffed out by an ice age and whole civilisations disappeared beneath floodwaters, volcanic ash or were wiped out by horrific diseases. Only those of us with good genes and good fortune survived to reproductive age and passed those genes on.
Now almost everyone in the developed world lives past reproductive age and improving health care and infrastructure in the developing world will surely mean that poorer countries will enjoy the same luxury. As people aren’t dying until after they reproduce, bad genes and harmful mutations are passed on to the next generation. This surely flies in the face of natural selection - the survival of the fittest - meaning human evolution has come grinding to a halt?
今天，究竟人類站在哪一段進化的旅程上? 從五十萬或更早年份以前，早期智人演進到現代人，人類經歷大自然的洗禮和篩選至今仍屹立於地球上。科技不斷的發展，也許不久之將來人類可自行剔除不良基因或有害突變體製造下一代，人類的進化已告一段落? 原版英文發音。
14 mins.
English version
WASTE MANAGEMENT- A COUNCIL DECIDES (TXR174/VC04/02)
廢物管理
Filmed in a news report format, this video takes a detailed look into four waste management schemes, outlining the pros and cons of landfill, incineration with energy recovery; materials recycling; organic waste composting.
詳細探討英國四項廢物管理計劃，包括：堆填，焚化，物料循環再用及有機廢物堆肥。原版英文發音。
10 mins.
English version
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