Season 11

From the sources to the Black Sea Delta: Michelangelo Pepe travels along the Danube, discovering the river that has accompanied European history. Traveling along it means traveling through time, among castles, fortresses, Roman camps, but also ports and modern factories. The crocodile, which survived the prehistoric era, has always inspired fear. We will see how these fearsome reptiles hunt their prey on the banks of African rivers. In the documentary by Sylvie Bergerot and Eric Robert. A small American city, Framingham, is an open-air laboratory: here for 56 years studies on cardiovascular diseases have been carried out. Lorenzo Pinna visited this unusual place of research and experimentation, meeting the inhabitants of the city who have undergone medical tests. It is the most important document of Norman civilization: known as the Bayeux Tapestry, it is an embroidery, made with colored wool threads, on a 70-meter long linen canvas.

Wild horses in Iceland: in a beautiful and desolate nature, the race of these magnificent animals that live free. The majestic rides in the Icelandic highlands in the documentary “Running with the herd” by Thorfin Gudnason. Mice that eat few calories live longer and without diseases. And humans? For the moment in America they are conducting studies on monkeys, animals that live quite long, but a NASA engineer is even carrying out the experiment on himself: a life with few calories, in the report by Lorenzo Pinna. Alberto Angela went to visit the shipyards in Toulouse where the giants of the air are built: airplanes. The maxi hangar where the A380 model is built is the largest industrial warehouse in Europe for civil aviation. The behind the scenes of the flying machines that help us travel every day, in the report by Michelangelo Pepe. Today 60% of Italian families own a comfortable home.

Among the ferocious lions of the Samburu National Park in Kenya, there is a lioness who has adopted a baby antelope, an extraordinary case in the world of felines. The dramatic story of this lioness who goes outside the norms of nature, in the documentary "Cuore di Leonessa". Our body, even if old and worn out, is capable of renewing itself, both by giving birth to children and by regenerating its own tissues. The tissues of the heart are renewed, for example, thanks to stem cells, the new frontier of the youth of the human body. In the report by Marco Rosi and Marco Visalberghi. A great treasure of the Romans is found in Switzerland: precious pieces of silver and ornaments of great value, found by chance in the 1960s. Three officers of the Roman fort of Augusta Raurica, pursued by the Barbarians, are said to have buried their precious trunk right here. Alberto Angela and Michelangelo Pepe tell the stages of this incredible story.

The last episode of the 2005 edition of Superquark will be entirely dedicated to Albert Einstein. In fact, 2005 represents a double anniversary: ​​100 years ago Einstein published the theory of relativity and 50 years ago he died, in the United States. For this reason, the international scientific community has declared 2005 the year of physics and dedicated it to the scientist who, more than any other, has contributed to changing our way of understanding the world. Superquark will tell the story of Einstein the man, with the help of the drama produced by RAI in co-production with Antenne 2 and Telecip, directed by Lazare Iglesis and starring the English actor Ronald Pickup. We will follow Albert Einstein since he was a child, when he was even diagnosed with a “delay” in development, and as a boy, when he had problems at school, except in mathematics.