Mosquitoes have killed more people than all the wars in history. The war against mosquitoes is fought on many fronts. Experiments with people whose natural body odors repel mosquitoes have helped scientists at Rothamsted Research to make advances in the search for a cheap safe mosquito repellent. This film was created as part of the "Science on Film" initiative by The Wellcome Trust and the Documentary Filmmakers group.

Dr. W - His name is Woody Bonepecker and he is a professional mystery solver, deepness investigator and truth digger.

The production of renewable energy from the wind has already been demonstrated. Research centres supported by the European Commission work together to test new materials with the aim to improve the performance and reliability of wind turbines.

Out of competition film from the Pariscience film festival : Where do we come from? What do apes and humans have in common, where are the differences? The chimpanzee Sina and the paleontologist Oliver are trying to answer these questions in an extraordinary experiment. By comparing Oliver’s and Sina’s anatomy and behaviour in the TV-studio, we see how closely the two species are related and where evolution caused differences. Via the 'time-tunnel' we travel back into the past to some of our forebears and attempt to answer questions about our roots. The film highlights major landmarks in human evolution and provides insights into the methods of paleontology. A passionate researcher, elaborate 3D-animations and a unique studio-experiment let science come to life.

In a world first scientific study, straight from the horse's mouth, we explore the benefits of horse riding for children with cerebral palsy.

Naming Pluto explores the story of Venetia Burney, the English 11 year old who named the planet Pluto in 1930. In 2007 on her 89th birthday Venetia sees Pluto for the very first time through a telescope, 77 years after its discovery.

Nanocheese explains one of the many fascinating properties of nanomaterials: the large surface area through a simple example with a piece of cheese.

HOLOKINETISM: synthesis of art, science & High-Tech. Ruben Nunez is the founder of Kinetism and the Holokinetism. In 1974, he created the first Holokinetic artwork of light, a poetic hologram that has, unlike stained glass, a source of inner light.

World-famous physicist Dr. Leonard Susskind, one of the originators of String Theory, muses on philosophy. Poetic essay meets traditional science documentary in an interesting reveal of visual metaphors through the eyes of this brilliant man.

New interpretations of the Antikythera Mechanism reveal that it was used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of ancient Olympiads. The 2,000-year-old mechanism demonstrates the extraordinary engineering prowess of the Hellenic world.

Richard Doll was a luminary of clinical research whose case control study, published in the BMJ in 1950, first identified smoking as an important cause of cancer and other diseases. The paper's findings were received with apathy, anger and disbelief.

The resurrection of dead dogs in Russia in the 1930s. An unstoppable heart in the US half a century later. And now in London a hand-made heart attack. How a strange, paradoxical discovery is helping to save lives...

Nobel Prize winner Bill Phillips is eager to hear about new theories from young scientists like Hannah Venzl. An exciting dialogue develops between them on a boat trip near Lindau as they dream up collaborative experiments in the quantum world.

Free and easy reflections by six philosophers from St. Petersburg and Moscow. The film narrates the dramatic relationship between a person and technology.

Skills in laparoscopic surgery can be improved by using proficiency based virtual reality training using a simulator. The performance level of novices was increased to that of intermediately experienced laparoscopists and operation time was halved in this randomised controlled trial from Denmark.