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42: The Answer to Almost Everything

42: The Answer to Almost Everything

📺 SERIES | 2021 | 1 Seasons | Returning Series

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What would we be without mucus? Can we live on water? How much does life weigh? Finding out the answers is the aim of ARTE’s new science show. In a nod to Douglas Adams’s “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, where the figure 42 is the ultimate answer to all questions, 42 tries to provide the answers.

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📋 Episodes

S1E1

S1 E1

Can we dig our way through the Earth?

2021-09-04

S1E2

S1 E2

Could We Live on the Moon?

2021-09-11

S1E3

S1 E3

Should we use lotteries instead of elections?

2021-09-18

S1E4

S1 E4

How Much Does Life Weigh?

2021-09-25

S1E5

S1 E5

Will we move onto the water?

2021-09-29

S1E6

S1 E6

Can Algorithms Make Us Healthy?

2021-09-30

S1E7

S1 E7

What if there were no mucus?

2021-10-01

S1E8

S1 E8

How do we solve the nuclear waste puzzle?

2021-10-23

S1E9

S1 E9

What if Fear Didn't Exist?

2021-10-30

S1E10

S1 E10

What if the ice disappeared?

2021-11-06

S1E11

S1 E11

Do We All hear the Same Thing?

2021-11-14

S1E12

S1 E12

Are we too pessimistic?

2021-11-20

S1E13

S1 E13

Does the Perfect Song Exist?

2021-11-27

S1E14

S1 E14

Are we alone in space?

2021-12-05

S1E15

S1 E15

Why Do We Eat What We Eat?

2021-12-11

S1E16

S1 E16

What is the secret of light?

2021-12-12

S1E17

S1 E17

Can we save the trees?

2022-01-08

S1E18

S1 E18

What if dust didn't exist?

2022-01-15

S1E19

S1 E19

Geoengineering: Earth's Last Resort

2022-01-22

S1E20

S1 E20

Could Algae Save the Planet?

2022-01-29

S1E21

S1 E21

Will Messenger RNA Save Us From Cancer?

2022-02-05

S1E22

S1 E22

Will We Stop Flying?

2022-02-12

S1E23

S1 E23

Will We Like Robots?

2022-02-19

S1E24

S1 E24

The Purpose of Parasites

2022-02-26

S1E25

S1 E25

Could We Sleep Less?

2022-03-05

S1E26

S1 E26

Are Cryptocurrencies the Future?

2022-03-12

S1E27

S1 E27

Do We Live in a Black Hole?

2022-03-19

S1E28

S1 E28

The Power of Dreams

2022-03-26

S1E29

S1 E29

Where do people migrate to?

2022-04-30

S1E30

S1 E30

What Do Animals Talk About?

2022-05-07

S1E31

S1 E31

Are we getting dumber?

2022-05-14

S1E32

S1 E32

Do Computers Have Biases?

2022-05-21

S1E33

S1 E33

How can everyone be fed?

2022-05-28

S1E34

S1 E34

Are We Doing More Drugs?

2022-06-04

S1E35

S1 E35

Are We Ready for Mars?

2022-06-11

S1E36

S1 E36

Can we glimpse the afterlife?

2022-06-18

S1E37

S1 E37

Could we become immortal?

2022-06-25

S1E38

S1 E38

Could We Live Without Agriculture?

2022-07-02

S1E39

S1 E39

How dangerous is space weather?

2022-07-09

S1E40

S1 E40

Will we travel to Mars?

2022-07-16

S1E41

S1 E41

Can We Create Money from Nothing?

2022-07-23

S1E42

S1 E42

How do we end wars?

2022-07-30

S1E43

S1 E43

Is Space Being Stolen From Us?

2022-08-05

S1E44

S1 E44

What Power Do Thoughts Have?

2022-08-12

S1E45

S1 E45

Can We Trust Ourselves?

2022-08-19

S1E46

S1 E46

Are we more intelligent in swarms?

2022-08-26

S1E47

S1 E47

The Search for a Universal Theory

2022-09-02

S1E48

S1 E48

Can we turn crap into gold?

2022-09-09

S1E49

S1 E49

Are You Psychopathic?

2022-09-16

S1E50

S1 E50

How does a wave become rogue?

2022-09-23

S1E51

S1 E51

Do We Need Economic Growth?

2022-10-30

S1E52

S1 E52

Are we gambling away our lives?

2022-11-06

S1E53

S1 E53

Why do we have limits?

2022-11-13

S1E54

S1 E54

Where to Find Perfect Energy?

2022-11-20

S1E55

S1 E55

What if sharks disappeared?

2022-11-27

S1E56

S1 E56

Are Animals Self-Aware?

2022-12-04

S1E57

S1 E57

Why do We Fall in Love?

2022-12-09

S1E58

S1 E58

What if nature had a price?

2022-12-10

S1E59

S1 E59

Can we copy our blood?

2022-12-23

S1E60

S1 E60

Why do we hate?

2023-01-08

S1E61

S1 E61

Could We Bring Back the Wooly Mammoth?

2023-01-15

S1E62

S1 E62

Can seals go to court?

2023-01-29

S1E63

S1 E63

Do colors manipulate us?

2023-02-05

S1E64

S1 E64

Will there be a new 'human species'?

2023-02-13

S1E65

S1 E65

Is There a Male Fertility Crisis?

2023-02-19

S1E66

S1 E66

Can Cities Save the World?

2023-02-26

S1E67

S1 E67

When the Heavens Rain Down

2023-03-19

S1E68

S1 E68

Do Fungi Rule Us?

2023-03-24

S1E69

S1 E69

The A***hole Effect

2023-03-19

S1E70

S1 E70

How It All Ends

2023-03-26

S1E71

S1 E71

When Will the World End?

2023-03-31

S1E72

S1 E72

How to Travel Through Time?

2023-04-07

S1E73

S1 E73

Mind Reading: A Reality?

2023-04-14

S1E74

S1 E74

Surviving Our Polluted Planet

2023-05-21

S1E75

S1 E75

The Chaos of Chance

2023-05-28

S1E76

S1 E76

Who Owns the Sea?

2023-06-04

S1E77

S1 E77

Do Animals Appreciate Beauty?

2023-06-05

S1E78

S1 E78

Will a new wind soon blow?

2023-06-18

S1E79

S1 E79

Are we going to disappear beneath the waves?

2023-06-25

S1E80

S1 E80

Are We All Bisexual?

2023-07-02

S1E81

S1 E81

The Advent of Turbo-Evolution

2023-07-09

S1E82

S1 E82

Why do we lose our memory?

2023-07-16

S1E83

S1 E83

Humanity's True Nature

2023-07-23

S1E84

S1 E84

Can We Live Without Electricity?

2023-07-30

S1E85

S1 E85

What Happens When the Glaciers Disappear?

2023-09-03

S1E86

S1 E86

Could We Reach the Stars?

2023-09-10

S1E87

S1 E87

Is Lying Good For Us?

2023-09-17

S1E88

S1 E88

Will we one day be cryogenically frozen?

2023-09-24

S1E89

S1 E89

Will we run out of sand?

2023-10-01

S1E90

S1 E90

What's So Funny?

2023-10-08

S1E91

S1 E91

The Origin of Life

2023-10-15

S1E92

S1 E92

Does Punishment Work?

2023-10-22

S1E93

S1 E93

What Are Our Imaginations For?

2023-10-29

S1E94

S1 E94

Can We Trick Our Genes?

2023-11-05

S1E95

S1 E95

Amasia: The Supercontinent of the Future

2023-11-12

S1E96

S1 E96

Do Dogs Really Love Us?

2023-11-19

S1E97

S1 E97

Do We Need Corruption?

2023-11-26

S1E98

S1 E98

Are Animals Cleverer than Us?

2023-12-03

S1E99

S1 E99

Are Billionaires a Problem?

2023-12-10

S1E100

S1 E100

How strongly does our mother tongue shape us?

2023-12-17

S1E101

S1 E101

Do We Live in a Multiverse?

2024-01-07

S1E102

S1 E102

Does History Repeat Itself?

2024-01-14

S1E103

S1 E103

Are there too many of us on Earth?

2024-01-21

S1E104

S1 E104

Is stress good for us?

2024-01-28

S1E105

S1 E105

Do Disasters Make Us Better?

2024-02-04

S1E106

S1 E106

Is the Metaverse Real?

2024-02-11

S1E107

S1 E107

Do We All Have a Doppelganger?

2024-02-18

S1E108

S1 E108

Could We Programme Evoluton?

2024-02-25

S1E109

S1 E109

Is There an Upside to Climate Change?

2024-03-03

S1E110

S1 E110

Do We Need More Utopias?

2024-03-10

S1E111

S1 E111

Can we control clouds?

2024-03-17

S1E112

S1 E112

Does Sugar Make Us Stupid?

2024-03-24

S1E113

S1 E113

What if the poles reversed again?

2024-04-28

S1E114

S1 E114

What power do smells have?

2024-05-05

S1E115

S1 E115

Can We Shrink the Economy?

2024-05-12

S1E116

S1 E116

How Do Plants Live?

2024-05-19

S1E117

S1 E117

How to Become Popular

2024-05-26

S1E118

S1 E118

Do We Need to Have Power?

2024-06-02

S1E119

S1 E119

Should Humans Be Smaller?

2024-06-09

S1E120

S1 E120

Is AI Out of Control?

2024-06-16

S1E121

S1 E121

Are Invasive Species Always a Problem?

2024-06-23

S1E122

S1 E122

Would We Be Happier Without Happiness?

2024-06-30

S1E123

S1 E123

Why Do We Cry?

2024-07-07

S1E124

S1 E124

Could Sea Currents Change?

2024-07-14

S1E125

S1 E125

Could Matriarchy Be the Solution?

2024-07-21

S1E126

S1 E126

Are Aliens Like Us?

2024-07-28

S1E127

S1 E127

Is Pain Necessary?

2024-09-01

S1E128

S1 E128

Do Animals Have Better Societies?

2024-09-08

S1E129

S1 E129

How Powerful are Maps?

2024-09-15

S1E130

S1 E130

Does Quantum Physics Change Our Reality?

2024-09-22

S1E131

S1 E131

Why Do We Have Less Sex?

2024-09-29

S1E132

S1 E132

Has Slavery Made Us Racist?

2024-10-12

S1E133

S1 E133

Why Is Housing So Expensive?

2024-10-13

S1E134

S1 E134

Can We Make Friends with Our Enemies?

2024-10-20

S1E135

S1 E135

Can We Replace Pollination?

2024-10-26

S1E136

S1 E136

Are We Taking Enough Risks?

2024-11-03

S1E137

S1 E137

Who Really Were Our Ancestors?

2024-11-10

S1E138

S1 E138

Is a World Without Violence Possible?

2024-11-16

S1E139

S1 E139

Can We Remember Precisely?

2024-11-24

S1E140

S1 E140

What Holds the Universe Together?

2024-12-01

S1E141

S1 E141

Do We Need God?

2024-12-08

S1E142

S1 E142

What Protests Work?

2025-01-05

S1E143

S1 E143

How do Children Function?

2025-01-12

S1E144

S1 E144

Will We Grieve Differently in Future?

2025-01-19

S1E145

S1 E145

Do We Need Weapons for Peace?

2025-01-26

S1E146

S1 E146

What Should We Actually Eat?

2025-01-27

S1E147

S1 E147

Are We Ready for Aliens?

2025-02-02

S1E148

S1 E148

How Important is Our Microbiome?

2025-02-16

S1E149

S1 E149

Why Is Wealth So Unfairly Distributed?

2025-02-23

S1E150

S1 E150

What Makes Us Depressed?

2025-03-02

S1E151

S1 E151

Does the Perfect Code Exist?

2025-03-09

S1E152

S1 E152

Are We Ready for World Government?

2025-03-16

S1E153

S1 E153

Are We Wasting Period Blood?

2025-03-23

S1E154

S1 E154

Can We Feel Time?

2025-03-30

S1E155

S1 E155

How Does Water Create Life?

2025-05-04

S1E156

S1 E156

Are Cyborgs the Future?

2025-05-11

S1E157

S1 E157

Can We Save Truth?

2025-05-18

S1E158

S1 E158

Can We Cure Addictions?

2025-05-25

S1E159

S1 E159

Are We Too Curious?

2025-06-01

S1E160

S1 E160

What Did Dinosaurs Really Look Like?

2025-06-08

S1E161

S1 E161

Can We Outwit Viruses?

2025-06-15

S1E162

S1 E162

Where Does Madness Begin?

2025-06-22

S1E163

S1 E163

Should We Be Bored More Often?

2025-06-29

S1E164

S1 E164

How Powerful is Disinformation?

2025-07-06

S1E165

S1 E165

Why Do Civilisations Fall?

2025-07-13

S1E166

S1 E166

Should We Argue More?

2025-07-20

S1E167

S1 E167

How Mathematic is the Universe?

2025-07-27

S1E168

S1 E168

Is The World Better Than We Think?

2025-08-31

S1E169

S1 E169

How Smart Are the Animals We Eat

2025-09-07

S1E170

S1 E170

Does Failure Help Us Succeed?

2025-09-14

S1E171

S1 E171

Was Stone-Age Man Dumber Than Us?

2025-09-21

S1E172

S1 E172

The Age of Fire

2025-09-28

S1E173

S1 E173

Why Does Music Move Us?

2025-10-05

S1E174

S1 E174

Optimisation: Is It Making Us Mad?

2025-10-12

S1E175

S1 E175

Is a Superbug Pandemic Coming?

2025-10-19

S1E176

S1 E176

Can Humans Hibernate?

2025-10-26

S1E177

S1 E177

Does Society Need Alcohol?

2025-11-02

S1E178

S1 E178

...We Make Free Decisions?

2025-11-09

S1E179

S1 E179

What was there before the Big Bang?

2025-11-16

S1E180

S1 E180

How Powerful Are Images?

2025-11-23

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S1 E181

How Does the Female Orgasm Work?

2025-11-30

S1E182

S1 E182

Is Space Debris Dangerous for Earth?

2025-12-07

S1E183

S1 E183

Can Our Brains Still Concentrate?

2025-12-14

S1E184

S1 E184

Why Do We Love Horror?

2026-01-05

S1E185

S1 E185

Does Planet Nine Really Exist?

2026-01-11

S1E186

S1 E186

Are We An Evolutionary Superspecies?

2026-01-18

S1E187

S1 E187

Are Wasps Game Changers of Evolution?

2026-01-25

S1E188

S1 E188

Why do we sing?

2026-02-01

S1E189

S1 E189

How monogamous are humans?

2026-02-08

S1E190

S1 E190

Why Do We Love Gold?

2026-02-15

S1E191

S1 E191

Do Emotions Control the Markets?

2026-02-22

S1E192

S1 E192

What if life were mirrored?

2026-03-01

S1E193

S1 E193

Do we need the alpha male?

2026-03-08

S1E194

S1 E194

Black Holes: A Future Energy Source?

2026-03-15

S1E195

S1 E195

Is Brain Washing Possible?

2026-04-19

S1E196

S1 E196

Why Are We So Competitive?

2026-04-26

S1E197

S1 E197

Do We Need Siblings?

2026-05-03

S1E198

S1 E198

Has Globalisation Failed?

2026-05-10

S1E199

S1 E199

How does trash change the world?

2026-05-17

S1E200

S1 E200

Is vacation really relaxing?

2026-05-24

S1E201

S1 E201

Can we change?

2026-05-31

S1E202

S1 E202

Is there another Earth in the universe?

2026-06-07

S1E203

S1 E203

Can AI Feel Us?

2026-06-14

S1E204

S1 E204

Does a Trauma Lie Dormant in Everyone?

2026-06-21

S1E205

S1 E205

What Lies Behind UFOs?

2026-06-28

S1E206

S1 E206

Can states go into debt indefinitely?

2026-07-05

S1E207

S1 E207

Does scrolling make teens stupid?

2026-07-12

S1E208

S1 E208

Can We Live Without Work?

2026-07-19

S1E209

S1 E209

Is there a female fertility crisis?

2026-07-26

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