The Power of Microbes

In this episode of Psyche, we explore burn-out: when exhaustion becomes an everyday reality.

 Twist meets the singular people who dive into dange,r be they artists, scientists, climbers or photojournalists.

Cancer patients are campaigning to draw attention to the impact of political decisions on cancer rates.

Influencers and coaches sell dangerous anabolic steroids to build muscle on social media.

Vertical farming, algorithms and LED lighting to stimulate growth: The Netherlands wants to feed the world with high-tech agriculture.

The medical field, whose benchmark remains the male body, seems to neglect the physiological particularities of women.

Plastic waste at sea is being colonised by bacteria. How will this affect marine ecosystems?

Pain therapist Dr Alessio Faliva and psychotherapist Verena Pförtner explain why chronic pain is a disease in its own right.

In the middle of the subprime mortgage crisis, Satoshi Nakamoto was the first to publish the code for Bitcoin

How can we have more fulfilling sex? Ronja von Rönne meets couples and singles who have reinvented their sexuality.

An odyssey through Iran in search of a lost father for one Tehrani teenager and her friends.

Was everything better in the past? Twist meets nostalgia enthusiasts to find out.

With growing incursions since the start of the war in Ukraine, the EU hopes to implement an anti-drone shield.

With one of his paintings, Gerhard Richter made an intervention into a long-running an passionate debate: Which way round should you put the toilet roll?

The city of stars on the steppe is the largest space launch facility in the world and crucial to the Soviet space programme.

It seems that scientist have proven that the enigmatic gaze of the Mona Lisa does not follow you as you move around the room. So why did we think that in the first place?

As the world heats up, cities around the world are responding to the challenges of climate change with fresh ideas.

Loulou is the hilarious story of the unbreakable friendship between Loulou and her three best friends Alice, Marie and Max. Season 1 follows the four friends as they deal with her unplanned pregnancy. And when her child appears in season 2 it's just the beginning of Loulou’s travails.

An old man swims in the sea. As he moves through the water, memories resurface...