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This film begins with phenomena linked to climate change and then examines how Earth’s temperature is controlled, how we know it is changing, and how the current changes compare to those over the last 800,000 years.

This film explores how life recovered after an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs and how those events shaped the diversity of plants and mammals on Earth today.

This multipart animation series explores the process of photosynthesis and the structures that carry it out.

This short video explores how a baby’s microbiome is established during birth.

This short video explores how the symbiotic relationship between certain plants and fungi allows these organisms to survive in very hot temperatures.

This short video explores the symbiotic relationship between the Hawaiian bobtail squid and light-producing bacteria.

This video describes the case of a patient with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a progressive disease that leads to blindness, and how physician-scientist Dr. Ed Stone approached the search for the causal mutation.

This short video explores the secrets behind termites’ power to digest an abundant source of food: wood.

This short video explores the symbiotic relationship between giant tube worms and species of chemosynthetic bacteria.

This short video explores the mechanism by which a beewolf wasp passes antibiotic-producing bacteria to its offspring.

This film describes the scientific principles and the research efforts involved in the development of a gene therapy for a congenital form of blindness, and how a young patient benefited from this medical breakthrough.

This video describes how scientists silence different genes in regenerating planaria to study the process of regeneration at the molecular level.