Smart China Big Science

In A World Expected To Soon Hit 9 Billion Inhabitants And Faced With A Changing Climate And Dwindling Resources Dr Nguyen Visits A Cuttingedge Solar Farm That Looks Like A Space City Using Salt To Generate Power Even When Theres No Sun In 20 Degrees In Chinas Vast Frozen Northeast He Takes In An Amazing Project Using Artificial Intelligence To Instantaneously Feed Researchers The Location Of Every Siberian Tiger In Xian He Observes A Potentially Revolutionary Nanotech Project Changing The Way We Harness The Suns Power Finally He Meets The Worlds Leading Authority In Crispr

British Physicist Steven Hawking Claimed We Will Have To One Day Leave Earth To Survive And Dr Jordan Nguyen Meets The Chinese Scientists Pushing Us Toward That Goal He Visits The Worlds Largest Telescope Helping Researchers Find New Planets With Atmospheres Like Our Own And Takes In The Science That Might Help Navigate Through Space Using Huge Dead Stars Called Pulsars He Visits A Brand New Artificial Star That Is Pushing Us Closer To Generating Rocket Fuel Through Nuclear Fusion And An Extraordinary Collection Of Students Who Pushed Themselves To The Limit To Test Life In Space

Dr Jordan Nguyen Spends Time With Scientists Using Multi Messenger Astronomy To Supercharge What We Can Learn About The Biggest And Most Violent Events In The Universe He Visits The Engineer Behind A Unique Telescope Capable Of Recording 25000 Stars In A Single Night And Travels Deep Underground To Meet The Team That Measured How Often Strange Ghostly Particles Called Neutrinos Shapeshift Between Two Forms On Top Of The World In Sichuan We Hear From The Scientist Determined To Work Out What Caused Cosmic Rays Ten Trillion Times The Energy Of A Hospital Xray