For astrobiologist Luke McKay, the question of whether life exists on other planets begins at the microbial communities thriving in America’s hot springs. It’s at hostile environments like these where extremophiles, to the bewilderment of scientists, are able to survive on our planet where all other life can’t.

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In episode five of The Most Unknown, Smith travels to Hawaii’s W.M. Keck Observatory with astrobiologist Luke McKay to explore the Milky Way using Keck’s powerful twin telescopes perched atop the Big Island’s dormant Mauna Kea volcano.

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In episode six of The Most Unknown, astrophysicist Rachel Smith and geobiologist Victoria Orphan dive to the bottom of the Pacific at depths of 3,000 feet to probe the unseen microbial communities that feed off methane and invisibly alter our planet’s chemical environment.

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In episode seven of The Most Unknown, geobiologist Victoria Orphan travels to JILA—a physics institute jointly operated by the University of Colorado Boulder and NIST—to untangle questions of space and time with Ye and his otherworldly atomic clock.

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In episode eight of The Most Unknown, physicist Jun Ye, builder of the world’s most powerful atomic clock, travels to England to undergo consciousness experiments with neuroscientist Anil Seth.

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In episode nine of The Most Unknown, neuroscientist Anil Seth and cognitive psychologist Laurie R. Santos travel to Puerto Rico’s Cayo Santiago, a small island home to over a thousand monkeys, where scientists study primate cognition.

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Mega Manufacturing: The Porsche Manufacturer | 4K Engineering Documentary

The Porsche Macan: Mass car production with a level of customization that comes close to manufacturing.

The Porsche Macan: the most successful horse in the stable of this legendary sports car manufacturer. A compact SUV, combining off-road qualities and everyday versatility with the DNA of a sports car. In its Leipzig factory Porsche produces with 4,300 employees over 90,000 Macan vehicles per year. Every single vehicle: absolutely individual and bespoke manufactured to order.

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Mega Manufacturing: Custom-made Volvo Trucks in Belgium | 4K Engineering Documentary

An enormous output and yet, every-truck custom-made: this is Volvo Trucks in Belgium.

Trucks: Kings of the road with enormous power. Their manufacture demands a good eye, absolute precision and above all: perfect logistics. One of the world’s largest truck factories is located in Belgium, close to the romantic town of Ghent. It’s the ideal location, close to thousands of customers across Western Europe. This is where Volvo produces its bestseller: the all-time all-rounder “FH” – one of the most popular trucks in Europe with the most powerful engines in the industry! Approximately two hundred trucks each day! Each one unique: every truck leaving this factory is different: Mega Manufacturing individually tailored to customer requirements in a feat of logistical perfection. Timed to the minute. Around one thousand five hundred individual parts are installed by the workers in two hundred and ten operations over eight hours from the simple unadorned chassis – to a state of the art truck.

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Mega Manufacturing: Pirelli – The most renowned tyre manufacturer in the world | 4K Engineering Documentary

How do you create the perfect tire for the road and for the race track? Pirelli: the most famous tire manufacturer in the world.

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Mega Manufacturing: Sany Excavator Factory | 4K Engineering Documentary

One of the largest and most modern excavator factories in the world. Every ten minutes, a new high-tech monster rolls off the assembly line in China.

Lingang, China. Home to one of the largest and most modern excavator factory in the world! 1000 square meters of production area, equipped with high-tech machines of the latest generation. By this means China’s market leader Sany wants to become the number one in the world!

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