Mission Unstoppable - Season 4
Season 4
Episodes
Bivalves, Bits and Biofuel
A biogeochemist shows how oysters help clean oceans; a video game producer explains the math behind games; a NASA electrical engineer assembles a battery out of lemons; a chemistry teacher cooks up biodiesel in her lab.
Pikas, Phones, Promethium
An ecologist studies adorable pikas; the hidden data on cellphones; a nuclear engineer refines rare isotopes that power NASA's Perseverance Mars rover; the incredible story of the first computer programmer.
Makeup, Minerals and Mammals
A cosmetic chemist shares the science of lipstick; a wildlife biologist studies the animals of Alaska's wetlands; a geologist reveals the properties of common minerals; an aerospace engineer demonstrates how turbines harness the power of wind.
Pink Salts, Printers and Project Engineers
An astrobiologist looks for clues about Martian life at Utah's Great Salt Lake; how different experts work together to build skyscrapers; large-scale industrial 3D printing; a fun experiment one can try at home.
Episode 5
Cosmetics, Corals and Contaminants
An ecologist's virtual reality technology helps study and save coral reefs; a cosmetic chemist creates moisturizer in her lab; an environmental scientist uses cutting-edge technology to fight smog; Dr. Brain explains the feeling of deja vu.
Singers, Short Circuits and Stones
How explosions help mine limestone; how doctors keep professional singing voices healthy; why water is so bad for electronics; some incredible shark facts.
Tilling, Testing and Treadmills
A physical therapy doctor demonstrates the technology she uses to help top athletes; a farmer shows how composting grows healthy fruits and vegetables while helping the environment; two citizen scientists work to keep river water safe.
Couture, Colors and Connections
A fashion designer shows how they create vegan leather; why one can't imagine a new color; the power of a Tesla coil; a virtual world that can be felt with one's fingertips.
Scents, Sadness and Spaceflight
A perfume chemist explains the science behind one's favourite scents; how the brain controls tears; a team in Texas is restoring a prairie -- and creating space for birds; an electrical engineer is the first Mexican woman in space.
Ballet, Baking and Blue Penguins
A physicist who's also a ballerina builds robots that dance; physicist Marie Curie; a chef shows the science behind baking substitutions; an aquarist cares for little blue penguins.
Singing, Sports and Smog
A physical therapy doctor helps top athletes; a vocal coach shows how doctors keep professional singing voices healthy; an environmental scientist fights smog; an electrical engineer uses magnets to create a tiny, functioning train.
Ecology, Eating and Engines
Saving trees in Hawaii from an invasive beetle species; how humans actually taste things; restoring the pronghorn population in West Texas; the science that makes race cars so fast.
Teaching Code, Tastebuds and Training Dogs
Supertasters; making edible worms from algae; a teacher codes self-driving cars; the science that helps train medical service dogs.
Meat, Mining and Marie Curie
How explosions help mine limestone; a meat alternative made from fungi; physicist Marie Curie; why people are drawn to phones.
Space, Soil and Senses
An electrical engineer is the first Mexican woman in space; a farmer shows how composting grows healthy fruits and vegetables while helping the environment; mind-blowing discoveries of NASA's latest space telescope.
Satellites, Sea Dragons and STEM in Landscaping
A geographer uses satellites to track wildfires and drought conditions; a look at what brain freeze does to the brain; a conservationist working hard to save sea dragons; a landscaper learns about new technologies that can help her business.
Teachers, Tiny Fish Teeth and Trash in Space
A teacher helps students create a robotic garden; what's really on sandy beaches; chef Claire shows how to make a "quickle" with kitchen chemistry; a chemical engineer shows how NASA deals with trash in space.
Cephalopods, Cuticles and the Comforts of ASMR
A researcher studies the senses of cephalopods; an entrepreneur creates hair care with chemistry; Dr. Brain reveals why one's brain might be tickled by ASMR.
Bytes, Brains and Birds
A CEO who believes in expanding representation through computer coding; why an elephant never forgets; the science behind tie-dye; a wildlife rehabilitator cares for birds in Hawaii.
Penguins, Picturing Colors and Protecting Forests
A day in the life of an aquarist who cares for little blue penguins; discussing how one can't imagine a new colour; an entomologist on a mission to save trees in Hawaii from an invasive beetle species; a teacher codes self-driving cars.
Tastebuds, T-Shirts and Texas Pronghorn
Supertasters; the science behind tie-dye; robots that dance; researchers and conservationists in West Texas use helicopters to restore the pronghorn population.
Maple Trees, Mentors, Munchies in Space
Citizen scientists help protect timber from poachers by sampling tree DNA; an animator uses tech to make movies; a young coder meets a software engineer and learns about patents; a scientist helps astronauts grow vegetables in space.
Cultivating Grass, Chemiluminescence and Conservation
A grassland ecologist shows what grass is doing underground; lighting up a lab with a little chemiluminescence; an app to push consumers toward products with sustainable palm oil.
Voyagers, Volatile Weather and Volcanos
A CEO supports a team of explorers and innovators at National Geographic; what happens in one's brain when one feels shame; a storm chaser sends up a weather balloon to show how storms form; a volcanologist in Hawaii.
Whiffs of Science, Wings and Worms
A perfume chemist shows the science behind scents; sharks; caring for birds in Hawaii; making edible worms from algae.
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth Meyers, who is Saturday Night Live's longest serving anchor on the show's wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as host of NBC's Late Night — home to A-list celebrity guests, memorable comedy and the best in musical talent.
As the Emmy Award-winning head writer for "SNL," Meyers has established a reputation for sharp wit and perfectly timed comedy, and has gained fame for his spot-on jokes and satire. Meyers takes his departure from "SNL" to his new post at "Late Night," as Jimmy Fallon moves to The Tonight Show.
Hazbin Hotel
The series focuses on Charlie, the princess of Hell, and her quest to open a hotel for rehabilitating demons. Hell suffers from overpopulation and Heaven solves the problem by routinely exterminating demons yearly. Charlie, who has grown up in Hell, wants to find an alternate solution to the mass slaughter. She opens the Happy Hotel which aims at teaching demons and sinners to become better people. There is substantial resistance, though, and Charlie and her friends must work together to keep the hotel running.
South Park
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians
12-year-old modern demigod Percy Jackson has just come to terms with his newfound supernatural powers when the sky god Zeus accuses him of stealing his master lightning bolt. Now Percy must trek across America to find it and restore order to Olympus.
This City is Ours
This City is Ours is the story of Michael, a man who for all of his adult life has been involved in organised crime... but for the first time in his life, Michael is in love. For the first time in his life, he sees beyond the day-to-day, he sees a future: something to win and something to lose - Diana.
This City is Ours tells the story of Michael and Diana's love affair, set against the disintegration of Michael's crime gang. For years, together with his friend Ronnie, Michael has successfully been bringing cocaine into the City and beyond, directly from Columbia; but when a shipment goes missing, then he knows their Kingdom is under attack.