Discovery Science +1 Tuesday

Alcatraz is one of the most famous prisons in the world. Experts investigate its remarkable engineering secrets and why it was so hard to escape from.

Buying goods from home

Buying goods from home

More everyday items go under the microscope, revealing their production. How are objects including shuffleboard tables made?

More everyday items go under the microscope, revealing their production. How are objects including air hockey tables made?

The astronomical documentary continues, exploring the most violent and dangerous places in the universe, including exploding stars, colliding galaxies and nebula shockwaves

The documentary explains why new research may have found the answer to why supermassive black holes are able to grow to star-devouring, galaxy-shaping proportions

Once there was life on Mars - but scientists believe a series of devastating mass extinctions transformed a watery planet into a desert

The work of the Frankfurt International Airport's night staff, from the snow-plough teams who operate in punishing blizzards to the on-site fire service

An insight into the working lives of Frankfurt International Airport, focusing on how cargo is distributed and passengers are managed

Rob Nelson searches for a mass grave that could harbour a dark secret. Plus, a giant lake seems to be disappearing, and Rob set off to find out why

Rob Nelson examines bizarre markings that suggest a violent clash between prehistoric beasts, and in California, he investigates whether a strange lake might be home to alien life

Astronauts and mission-control staff share details of an incident in which a deadly collision punctured the hull of the Mir space station, causing vital oxygen to leak into space

A toxic ammonia leak endangers an entire crew, while a cosmonaut narrowly survives re-entry, only to be stranded in the wilderness

Astronauts detail the events of a classified mission, during which the crew of space shuttle Atlantis discovered fatal damage to heat shields on the underbelly of their ship

The manufacture of table tennis tables, plastic model kits and light microscopes

A look at how gummy vitamins, boat trailers and hand-forged hammers are made

A look at how everyday items are made, revealing the methods and materials of items including guitar pickups and heated furniture

More everyday items go under the microscope, revealing their production. How are objects such as detectable warning panels and model Stirling engines made

More everyday items go under the microscope, revealing their production. How are objects such as micro drill bits and skiffs made?

More everyday items go under the microscope, revealing their production. How are objects such as ocean drone transformers and 3D puzzles made

Creative designer Adam Savage takes on a series of inventive builds and engineering challenges. This time, he makes his own Iron Man armour suit made from titanium

Adam Savage joins forces with a NASA engineer to rebuild a rocket-propelled super weapon, originally built to breach barbed wire in the Second World War

A countdown of the top 20 internet legends. From lighting matches with bullets to kayaking in the snow, this features only the smartest and bravest human-kind has to offer!

Focuses on creative garage innovators taking inventions to the next level, from using fire to charge phones to creating the world's fastest electric dragster

NASA and SpaceX launch the first crewed mission from US soil in almost ten years, and this programme offers behind the scenes coverage of the SpaceX Dragon Capsule water landing

Astronauts and mission control staff share tales of disaster in space, beginning with accounts of a life-threatening fire on board the Russia's Mir space station

Cutting-edge forensic technology reveals the secrets behind the 'Iceman', the world's oldest and most perfectly preserved mummy

Experts use cutting-edge technology to reveal the secrets of the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt, regarded as one of the original seven wonders of the world