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The Science Channel is a cable and satellite television channel
Television channel

A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier wave frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and 59.75 MHz for analog audio , or 55.31 MHz for digi...
 produced by Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications

Discovery Communications, Inc. is an United States global media and entertainment company that was launched in 1985 and began as a single channel, Discovery Channel....
. Science Channel features science
Science

In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
-related television programs covering all aspects of science, e.g. space
Space

Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which Physical body and events occur and have relative position and direction. Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physics usually consider it, with time, to be part of the boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime....
, technology
Technology

Technology is a broad concept that deals with an animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects an animal species' ability to control and adapt to its Natural environment....
, prehistory
Prehistory

Prehistory is a term often used to describe the period before Recorded history. Paul Tournal originally coined the term Pr?-historique in describing the finds he had made in the caves of southern France....
 and animals.

History
Launched in 1999 and originally named Discovery Science, its name changed to The Science Channel in 2002. A complete "makeover
Makeover

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" took place in April 2003, airing newer and more up-to-date television programming.

In December 2007, Science Channel debuted a brand new on-air look and changed its logo to an element box that is colored orange and white.






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The Science Channel is a cable and satellite television channel
Television channel

A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier wave frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and 59.75 MHz for analog audio , or 55.31 MHz for digi...
 produced by Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications

Discovery Communications, Inc. is an United States global media and entertainment company that was launched in 1985 and began as a single channel, Discovery Channel....
. Science Channel features science
Science

In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
-related television programs covering all aspects of science, e.g. space
Space

Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which Physical body and events occur and have relative position and direction. Physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physics usually consider it, with time, to be part of the boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime....
, technology
Technology

Technology is a broad concept that deals with an animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects an animal species' ability to control and adapt to its Natural environment....
, prehistory
Prehistory

Prehistory is a term often used to describe the period before Recorded history. Paul Tournal originally coined the term Pr?-historique in describing the finds he had made in the caves of southern France....
 and animals.

History


Launched in 1999 and originally named Discovery Science, its name changed to The Science Channel in 2002. A complete "makeover
Makeover

A makeover is a term applied to changing one's human physical appearance, sometimes through cosmetics. Makeovers can range from something as simple as a new haircut, to the use of cosmetic surgery, to the extreme of the implantation of veneer , eye-color-changing contact lenses, and the use of appearance-altering gastric bypass surgeries, pro...
" took place in April 2003, airing newer and more up-to-date television programming.

In December 2007, Science Channel debuted a brand new on-air look and changed its logo to an element box that is colored orange and white. The design of the logo is similar to the Periodic Table
Periodic table

The periodic table of the chemical elements is a table method of displaying the chemical elements. Although precursors to this table exist, its invention is generally credited to Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869....
, and the element being used is Sc (scandium) (the two letters are also considered as the initials of the network). International versions of Science Channel are transmitted in South East Asia, Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, and Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 as Discovery Science. Science On Demand has a play symbol (right-pointing triangle) in the upper-right corner.

Science Channel HD


Science Channel also has a high definition
High-definition television

High-definition television is a digital television broadcasting system with higher than traditional television systems . HDTV is digitally broadcast; the earliest implementations used analog broadcasting, but today digital television signals are used, requiring less Bandwidth due to digital video compression....
 simulcast, Science Channel HD, that launched September 1, 2007. The HD version of the channel has the letters HD in the upper-right corner.

Programming

Science Channel broadcasts a number of science-related television series
Television program

A television program , television programme , or television show is something that people watch on television. It may be a one-off broadcast or, more usually, part of a periodically recurring television series....
 and films originally produced by or aired on The Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel

The Discovery Channel is an United States satellite and cable TV channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications....
, e.g. Beyond Tomorrow, among some others. There have also been a few television programs produced for The Science Channel, such as MegaScience
MegaScience

MegaScience is a 2000s Science Channel Documentary film television series about scientific topics....
 and What The Ancients Knew. Programs from other Discovery Networks, PBS and the BBC are either regularly or occasionally aired. Television series produced in the 1990s, e.g. Discover Magazine, and Understanding, can be viewed on weekdays.

Series

A selected list of some series aired on Science Channel:
  • Beyond Tomorrow
    Beyond Tomorrow (TV series)

    Beyond Tomorrow is an Australian television series produced by Beyond Television Productions. It began life as Towards 2000, then later as Beyond 2000, which was screened on three networks between 1981 to 1999....
  • Brink
    Brink (television series)

    Brink is an United States television series produced by Science Channel it is hosted by Australian Josh Zepps and presents articles about up and coming technology in a magazine style....
  • Building the Ultimate
  • Cosmos
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television program written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, with Sagan as global presenter....
  • Deconstructed
  • Discover Magazine (TV series)
    Discover Magazine (TV series)

    Discover Magazine is a 1996-2000 documentary television series that airs on The Science Channel. The series is named after the magazine of the same name, Discover Magazine and was television host by Peter DeMeo from 1996-1998....
  • Ecotech
  • Extreme Engineering
    Extreme Engineering

    Extreme Engineering is a Documentary film television series aired on the Discovery Channel and The Science Channel which features future and ongoing engineering projects....
  • Extreme Machines
    Extreme Machines

    Extreme Engineering is a television series aired on Discovery Channel....
  • How It's Made
    How It's Made

    How It's Made is a Canadian documentary film television series that premiered in 2001 on the Discovery Channel. The program is produced in Quebec, Canada by Productions MAJ, Inc....
  • How Do They Do It?
    How Do They Do It?

    How Do They Do It? is a programme co-produced by Wag TV and Rocket Surgery Productions. It is broadcast in English language on Discovery Channel networks in Canada , the United Kingdom, the United States, The Netherlands, Australia, Asia; in French language in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Quebec, and in Spanish language in Latin Ame...
  • Invention Nation
  • It's All Geek to Me
    It's All Geek to Me

    It's All Geek to Me is a television program created and hosted by David Pogue that is broadcast on HD Theater and Science Channel. It first aired on May 18, 2007....
  • Junkyard Wars
  • Patent Bending
  • Paleoworld
    Paleoworld

    DescriptionPaleoworld is a documentary series that was made for the Learning Channel. It first aired in 1994 and has had a total of 48 episodes....
  • Raging Planet
    Raging Planet

    Raging Planet is a 1998 Discovery Channel documentary series which focuses on natural disasters. The show first aired on The Discovery Channel in 1998....
  • Survivorman
    Survivorman

    Survivorman is a Canadian-produced television program, broadcast in Canada on the OLN , and in the United States and internationally on Discovery Channel and Science Channel....
  • Understanding
    Understand

    Understand is a commercial static code analysis software tool produced by SciTools. It is primarily used to reverse engineer, automatically document, and calculate code metrics for projects with large code-bases....
  • Universe
    Universe

    The universe is defined as everything that physically exists: the entirety of space and time, all forms of matter, energy and momentum, and the physical laws and physical constants that govern them....
     (with John Hurt Narrating)


Films and Miniseries

  • Base Camp: Moon: Returning to the moon
    Moon

    The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
    , harvesting moon dust for oxygen/water, robotics (Robonaut
    Robonaut

    Robonaut is a joint Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency–NASA project designed to create a humanoid robot which can function as an equivalent to humans during extra-vehicular activity ....
    ).
  • Hawking: About the early work of British
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
     theoretical physicist
    Theoretical physics

    Theoretical physics employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics in an attempt to explain experimental data taken of the natural world....
     Stephen Hawking
    Stephen Hawking

    Stephen William Hawking Companion of Honour, Commander of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy is a British Theoretical physics....
    .
  • Tank On The Moon: Concentrates on Russian attempts to launch an unmanned rover to the Moon
    Moon

    The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
     before the successful American Apollo program.
  • Prophets Of Science Fiction: About the greatest sci-fi authors of all times.
  • Science Of Star Wars:Explains that the cutting edge technology of Star Wars
    Star Wars

    Star Wars is an epic film space opera Media franchise initially conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels....
     might useful and possible to invent in real life.
  • Futurecar: See the latest technology of today that's about to be used to create cars and sometimes funny cars
    Funny Car

    Funny Car is a drag racing car class. In the USA, other "professional" classes are Top Fuel, Pro Stock, and Pro Stock Bike. Funny cars have forward-mounted engines and carbon fiber automotive bodies over the chassis, giving them an appearance vaguely approximating manufacturers' showroom models....
     in the future.
  • Perfect Disaster
    Perfect Disaster

    Perfect Disaster was a 2006 Discovery Channel mini-series depicting the worst-case scenario major cities could expect in the near future if hit by extreme disaster....
    : Predicting violent natural disasters that could happen in the near future.
  • What The Ancients Knew:Truly innovative inventions of the ancient world.


See also

  • List of documentary channels
  • Discovery Science (UK)
    Discovery Science (UK)

    Discovery Science is a factual television channel produced by Discovery Networks Europe. It is available 24 hours a day on Sky Digital and Virgin Media....


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