Can the sound of a suspect’s voice reveal his lie? Can the crucial moment of crime, buried deep in damaged video, be revealed? Can computers isolate a guilty face in a crowd? No longer science fiction, these are the high-tech tools of the forensics trade.
Grade levels: Adult
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The Cover-Up
“Fire, water, earth – killers call on all the elements in their attempt to cover up their crimes. But even a body burned to ashes, sunk deep into the sea or reduced to fragments will still tell its forensic tale.”
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Lasting Impressions
From the tips of their ears to the soles of their feet – criminals are betrayed by the clues their own bodies leave behind. A killer’s ear against a wall, his hand on a door, the path that he walks – even the slightest impressions left at the scene help crime fighters find their man. Forensic Expert: Brian Dalrymple Finger Print Expert.
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Weapons
Weapons are the hallmark of violent crime, tools designed to harm – or kill. Forensic science has developed a world of techniques for tracking and identifying these devices. Blood spatter, explosive residue, ballistics and trauma wounds tell crime scene investigators their deadly story.
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Beauty Queen
Karyn Slover is a pretty small town dreamer who’s finally got her big break: she’s been offered work as a model by an agency in Los Angeles. Now she can move away with her three-year old son, Kolten, leaving her ex-husband, friends, and current boyfriend behind. She leaves her desk at the local newspaper at 5 PM, and is never heard from again.
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Sports
Daily Planet in the Classroom – the popular series highlighting some of our best and most interesting segments – swims, kayaks, and surfs as we look at the world of sports.
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Stardust Mission: Catching the Comet
NASA walks on the Wild side – literally. This mission to the comet named Wild 2 is a seven year saga designed to scoop up a canister full of comet dust and return it safely to earth. This one-hour special follows the preparations to collect the dust, retrieve the canister and test its contents. The show also investigates the technology used to scoop up comet dust in space. Not just any dust, theses specks are presumed to hold some of the secrets to life here on earth.
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Panic in the Ring of Fire
Panic In the Ring of Fire, a one-hour “in the moment” special that captures the panic, confusion, overwhelming force and destruction in Indonesia as it was rocked by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in the early morning of Saturday May 27, 2006. Captured in vivid High Definition, this special features immediate, exclusive first-person accounts from Discovery Channel producer Elliott Shiff and other survivors, plus interviews from seismologists and volcanologists to explain and offer context on this earthquake that has claimed more than 5,000 lives to date.
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Hunt For A Super Comet
This Discovery Channel Canada Special Presentation chronicles the journey of Comet ISON, an incredible relic from the outer solar system that has just ended its perilous journey towards the sun, where it met a deadly fate, leaving behind decades worth of unprecedented science.
Hunt for a Super Comet will take viewers on a dramatic journey from Comet ISON’s beginnings to its eventual demise.
We track this super comet with the world’s leading experts as they race against time, using the latest in technology and space science to launch balloon missions, sounding rockets; airborne observatories and assets on other planets to hunt for this super comet. It is hosted by Daily Planet’s Dan Riskin, on location at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.
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Landing on a Comet: The Rosetta Mission
This program is the pinnacle of a multi-decade quest. It is the journey of two tethered beings in the deepest reaches of space. It is the story of Rosetta and Philae – a spacecraft and her lander, both on a daring and historic journey to visit and land on a comet, sending back to Earth, clues to life’s beginnings.