The REAL Technology Giving Humans Superpowers

From Japanese goggles that trick the brain into seeing larger portions to a controversial device that drains part of a meal directly from the stomach, this documentary investigates radical technologies designed to tackle obesity. The journey also heads inside McLaren, where Formula 1 sensor technology is being adapted to monitor the human body and encourage healthier choices.

Could replacement body parts soon be printed on demand? Justin Bratton explores the future of regenerative medicine, from mind-controlled prosthetic hands to laboratory-grown organs and a 3D-printed airway implant that saves a child’s life. These breakthroughs could make customized body parts cheaper, safer and more widely available.

Can technology replace painkillers? Justin Bratton travels across the United States to investigate the future of pain relief, from infrared light therapy and virtual reality treatment to medical cannabis. Discover the groundbreaking innovations helping patients recover faster, reduce chronic pain and rethink modern medicine.

From a retinal implant that allows a blind man to perceive his wife's face after 33 years to a jacket that recreates the sensation of a hug and devices that electrically stimulate the tongue to simulate taste, this documentary explores extraordinary inventions attempting to recreate some of our most fundamental human senses

Hey guys! We’re now live on Spotify 🎧 Picture a circle of light so perfect it looks painted onto the sky. It is hanging in deep space right now, completely real. You are looking at gravity itself, bending light into a shape it should never make. The James Webb Space Telescope caught this ring while scanning distant galaxy clusters. Its light traveled 21 billion light years to reach us, the most distant object of its kind ever recorded. A shape this exact needs near impossible alignment. Two galaxies and Earth, lined up across millions of light years. Today we visit that ring, and a few more like it. One was found by an amateur, sorting through public Webb data at home. Another hides a galaxy far denser than it should be. One more comes from a survey of 182 galaxy clusters, watched across 8 billion years. Before we step into deep space, if stories like this help you drift off, here is how to keep listening without breaks. Scan the QR code on your screen, or tap the link in

Go inside the cutting-edge technology transforming modern warfare, from fighter-pilot helmets that can effectively see through aircraft and revolutionary flight controls to battlefield 3D printing and the advanced F-35B stealth fighter. The episode also explores groundbreaking prosthetic technology helping injured servicemen and women compete at the Invictus Games