Explore the science and people behind some of the greatest scientific achievements of our time.

Find out which machine is meaner, the Ferrari or the Corvette; two of the latest models are tested at the famous Willow Springs Race Track in Californias Mojave Desert; testing acceleration, brakes, lateral drift and handling.

Host Barry Kennedy helps fly aerial support missions for the Yukon Quest Dog Sled Race and learns how to operate a bush plane out in the cold.

On the morning of September 8, 1900, cotton was king and Galveston, Texas was the Queen City of the Gulf. That night a hurricane hit and brought unimaginable horror. By the next morning, between 6,000 and 8,000 people had died in a hurricane that remains the deadliest natural disaster in United States history.

With the quest for oil pushing men and machines to ever-greater extremes, the remote regions of The North Slope of Alaska have become the target for a daring new, exploratory drilling mission.