Razor: Science for a Better Future

Name: Razor: Science for a Better Future
Released: 2024-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary

A deep dive into the science and technology that's helping to find solutions to some of the planet's greatest challenges.

2024 · 26m

EPISODE 1

Carbon Sinking

Massive sargassum blooms are choking beaches, but a Scottish company plans to sink the seaweed to trap carbon and tackle climate change.
EPISODE 2

Carlo Rovelli A Conversation

Neil Cairns visits physicist Carlo Rovelli in Verona to explore time, black holes, and the mysteries of quantum physics.
EPISODE 3

Cooling Cities

Reya El-Salahi meets Alexander Valentino, who plans to use Naples' ancient canals and aqueducts to cool the city in summer.
EPISODE 4

DNA Archaeology

Neil Cairns visits archaeologists and geneticists who traced a 20,000-year-old deer tooth pendant to a Stone Age woman.
EPISODE 5

Saving the Iberian Lynx

Reya El-Salahi visits Spain's Sierra Morena to see how conservation brought the Iberian lynx back from under 100 to thriving again.
EPISODE 6

Imaging the Aurora

Reya El-Salahi explores how the northern lights can disrupt technology and visits EISCAT 3D, a new radar studying solar particle impacts.

Season 1