Watch Modern Marvels Season 13 Full Episodes

Can fast food get any faster? Fast food joints in the US pull in $150 billion dollars in annual sales. Their mantra is "fast, consistent, and...

They're the meat in our sandwiches and slices of American pop culture. Take a look behind the deli counter to reveal the secret ingredients in...

It strikes without warning and kills in an instant. We fear its might even as we use it to save a life. Explore the electric shock in its numerous...

From the Stone Age to the Space Age, our world has been built from rocks.

It's said that the pig is as smart as a 3 year-old human. The pancreas, heart valve and intestines of the pig have been transplanted into human...

Why is corn the largest agricultural crop in the world? Corn has fed the masses from ancient times to this day. Corn is not only a vegetable and a...

Take a look at the innovations designed to hold off a global warming meltdown.

A steam pipe explosion rocks New Yorkers one summer day in midtown Manhattan. Boston's Big Dig highway project receives a major setback when sections...

It's time to slice and dice! Take a cutting-edge look at the most amazing blades in the world.

It is the most widely produced chemical in the world and possibly the most dangerous. Take a look at the many uses of acid.

Take a look at the technology of cold.

Take a supersonic flight through a world of flying machines that are redefining our skies.

They keep going and going and going, from the smallest to the biggest, see how they're made, what they power and where they're headed.

Take a look at the technology shown throughout the six Star Wars films and examine their viability through the eyes of cold hard science.

Traps are a device designed to capture and kill, but they don't always harm their prey.

Vacuums aren't just for cleaning floors

We spend 1/3 of our lives in the bedroom, explore the technologies that help to ensure we wake up on the right side of the bed.

Take a tour through the entire chocolate making process and learn how chocolate has been thought of as an energizer, an aphrodisiac and a cure-all.

Take a look at the stickiest of the sticky, and see the impact these much needed items have on our daily routines.

This useful metal was once considered more valuable than gold. Watch as aluminum is stretched, pounded, melted and turned into foam.

Sink your teeth into the razor sharp world of saws. Cut across the centuries to discover how the Egyptians arduously sawed stone as compared to...

Travel through history from the Roman Empire's diversity of cheeses to the 19th Century birth of industrial cheese.

Fertilizer--without it two thirds of the world would starve. It makes our lawns grow greener and our crops grow taller. Take a tour of the places...

Catering to more than twenty million truckers, truck stops are bigger and better than ever. These mega-pit stops are essential to the trucks and...

The 1970s were a decade of excess. Dust off your mirror ball, put on your leisure suit, and rediscover the gadgets of the era.

To err is human... But when the error results in the loss of life, it's a disaster. Learn about one of the most mysterious maritime disasters of the...

What does it take to rate as "the world's strongest"? Watch as life-saving boron carbide body armor is put to the test. Visit the world of monster...

Discover how essential space travel technologies have journeyed back to Earth with surprising and indispensable commercial applications

Take a ride back to the 1960s and recall the technological happenings that helped shape the decade.

It was a science first conjured amid the fiery ovens of ancient blacksmiths; today more than 50% of all U.S. products require some form of welding....

Driven by the need for deep sea rescue and salvage capabilities, the US Navy Diving and Salvage Programs have gathered together a highly skilled team...

Soldiers, machines, and supplies are only effective if they arrive at the battlefield in time. Explore the history and the technology behind the...

In the 21st century, turf grass is the number one crop grown in the U.S. When suburbia exploded after World War II, turf became the defining...

They block the force of a river, produce enough electricity to power cities, move water over hundreds of miles and irrigate fertile valleys. Dams...

Barbarians and technology, maybe they're not such a contradiction after all. It's the bow that nearly brought down Rome, and the suspension system...

From the unimaginable power of nuclear bombs to microscopic anthrax spores, we reveal who possesses these nightmare weapons and explore the danger...

For forty years Star Trek has engulfed our imagination and sent us on voyages across the galaxy. Take a look at the technology behind the gadgets...

In the bloody battle of the Pacific, one class of fighting ship took on the full ferocity of the Japanese and won. After destruction of the Pacific...

The solid form of life's precious elixir has played a key role in fashioning our history and is making its mark as an unusual tool of technology....

Since 200 BC, when the Greek Philosopher Archimedes created a device for lifting water, the pump has been synonymous with transporting Earth's most...

It's the unsung essential of modern life. Canning is the method of a preserving and packaging food, without which civilization would never have...

From the prairies of Saskatchewan to a Manhattan skyscraper we'll see the 21st Century's cutting-edge "green" technologies in action. New...

From professional sports to the playground, balls have been a way of life for generations. Explore the research, development, technology and...

This is a documentary, dealing with the likeliness of The web-slinger's gadgets existing in real life. It is admitted that several of the rather......