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Ice Recession in the Alps (1/28)

The most amazing achievements and insights of modern science are the subject of the cutting-edge documentary series "The Quest for Knowledge". From global warming in the Arctic to the latest breakthroughs in wind power and technological benchmarks like the world's biggest hydroelectric dam: "The Quest for Knowledge" offers insight into the greatest mysteries and most fascinating phenomena of mod..

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], French [DUB]

Surviving in the Mountains - Altitude Sickness (2/28)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The World's biggest Dam - Help for the Mediterranean? (3/28)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [SUB TITLE]

Israel's Water Shortage - The Dead Sea is Dying (4/28)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Does Water live? (5/28)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Climate Change and the Arctic (6/28)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [SUB TITLE]

Is Wind Energy still viable? (7/28)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The Hunt for our Thoughts (8/28)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [SUB TITLE]

Making Artificial Blood - The Race is on (9/28)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The Earth - Are we alone in Space? (10/28)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Venice - Sinking City (11/28)

The unique beauty of Venice, city on the lagoon, attracts tens of thousands of tourists every year. But what makes the city on the Adriatic so attractive also hold the seeds of its doom.Venice is built on the water, and is gradually sinking back into the water. Stores and squares flood ever more frequently. In the past, Venice's location protected it against attack, but today it has become its sin..

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Expedition to the bleeding Lake (12/28)

The Alat lake in Bavaria looks at first glance like a normal mountain lake. But beneath the surface a strange reddish cloud is concealed in the water. Treasure-seekers think that hoards of gold from the Nazi regime may be hidden in the lake. A scientific expedition from the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Stuttgart is trying to air the secrets of the Alat Lake. &nbs..

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], French [DUB], English [DUB]

The End of the Line for the Fishing Industry? (13/28)

Tuna, salmon, plaice: fish is not only delicious, it is also healthy. Alarmed by the rotten meat scandals, more and more Germans are choosing to eat fish. With fatal consequences for the fish and the environment.   Since 1980 the demand for fish has doubled throughout the world. Meanwhile half of the fish supplies are said to have been fished to their limits, a quarter even overfished. If t..

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [SUB TITLE]

The History of the Climate (14/28)

Weather data give researchers information about the latest climate developments. But if they want to know something about the weather in centuries past, they have to resort to other methods: poring over dusty chronicles, examining old city walls or drilling down kilometres into the depths of the earth. The weather 500 years ago - this is a subject of great interest to Robert Krauß - not..

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The World of Senses: Feeling - Touching is Life (15/28)

It is only through the senses that we experience our environment and are able to react to it. The four-part interdisciplinary series "The World of the Senses" runs the gamut from the latest findings in brain research to art, history and education, from the first development of the senses in a baby to their deterioration in old age.   Our skin covers an area of two square metres, making it our..

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Year Of Production	2005
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The World of Senses: Seeing - Decoding the Chaos (16/28)

It is only through the senses that we experience our environment and are able to react to it. The four-part interdisciplinary series "The World of the Senses" runs the gamut from the latest findings in brain research to art, history and education, from the first development of the senses in a baby to their deterioration in old age.   Part 2 of this series is devoted to the most important of o..

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Year Of Production	2005
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The World of Senses: Hearing - Sounds in the Ear (17/28)

It is only through the senses that we experience our environment and are able to react to it. The four-part interdisciplinary series "The World of the Senses" runs the gamut from the latest findings in brain research to art, history and education, from the first development of the senses in a baby to their deterioration in old age.   We can't close our ears, our sense of sound is active and r..

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Year Of Production	2005
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The World of Senses: Smelling and Tasting - The Senses of the Soul (18/28)

It is only through the senses that we experience our environment and are able to react to it. The four-part interdisciplinary series "The World of the Senses" runs the gamut from the latest findings in brain research to art, history and education, from the first development of the senses in a baby to their deterioration in old age.   Another person's smell determines whether we like them or n..

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Year Of Production	2005
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Fragrance and Thorns - The Rose (19/28)

The queen of flowers, the symbol of love and one of the oldest cultivated plants in the world - the rose. Yet behind the most romantic of all flowers is a vast market subjected to rigid laws. The author Angelika Lizius observes and interviews people who devote their lives in one way or another to the rose: breeders and growers who have to comply with the ever-growing demands in the cultivation of..

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Year Of Production	2006
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

Tottering Giants - The Trees' Struggle for Survival (20/28)

They have held their ground for hundreds of millions of years, again and again they have survived environmental catastrophes, blights and extreme weather conditions - trees are among the most successful living creatures on the planet. Recently, however, botanists have noticed dramatic changes: in Europe the trees are dying en masse. The problem is not comparable to the "dying forest syndrome" of t..

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Year Of Production	2006
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], French [DUB], English [DUB]

Water - The Emergent Energy Source (21/28)

The discussion about the German nuclear plants' operation time also comprises the call for renewable energy which becomes increasingly louder. However, one source which has been supplying us with renewable energy already during the past decades is hardly ever mentioned in those discussions: hydro power. The potential of the generation of hydro energy is actually considered as almost fully utili..

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Darwin's Evolution or God's Creation? (22/28)

Why do fish have fins and birds wings? "Because of evolution" is the answer of the vast majority of scientists who refer to the renowned interaction of mutation and selection which Charles Darwin postulated about 170 years ago. Others, the so-called Creationists, claim that this should be utterly wrong. Fish have fins and birds have wings because an intelligent Creator designed them this way. Th..

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV]

The Placebo Effect (23/28)

The phenomenon of the placebo effect has been known for a long time. This term is referred to when speaking of, for example, a medicine which does not contain any active agent at all but nevertheless helps the patient. Scientists just now unravel the causes that lie behind that though. The Quest for Knowledge shows how scientists try to disclose the placebo secret. Nowadays they can prove that a..

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Robots With Scalpels - The Operating Theater of the Future? (24/28)

A patient is taken into the operation room. But there are no nurses and neither a surgeon or an anesthetist - there is only a robot which will operate on the patient, entirely by itself and fully automated. Today this is still an unrealistic vision of the future although robot systems which support surgeons in the operating room are standard already now - a controversial development. When a robot..

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Medieval Medicine - Secrets from the Monastery (25/28)

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Bionics - Is Nature the Better Architect? (26/28)

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The Synthetic Materials of Tomorrow (27/28)

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Manned Space Travel - A Waste of Time and Money (28/28)

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

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