8 episodes 96%4KCC

Lightning, hurricanes, house fires, and gravity become thrilling tests of real science.

Nigel Latta turns big scientific questions into bold, funny experiments, from simulating lightning and hurricane winds to testing fire, weather, rockets, and gravity. Each episode reveals how the world works through high-stakes demonstrations, expert insight, and surprising results. Sign up to watch a series that makes complex ideas vivid, memorable, and genuinely fun to explore.

Episode guide

8 episodes

1Lightning

Nigel tests conductivity by putting electricity through a small child, we see what kind of destruction a whole lot of amps can do, and what small electric shocks do to a human - as well as big electric shocks - when Nigel tries to survive a lightning bolt.

24 min

2Explosions

What's the difference between movie explosions and real explosions? Maybe Nigel can walk away from a movie explosion in slow motion like an action hero, but can he walk away from a real explosion? Nigel blows stuff up to find out.

24 min

3Weather

In this episode, Nigel looks at the Science of Extreme Weather. Does a hat really make a difference in the freezing cold? Should you walk or run in the rain if you want to stay dry? And what happens when Nigel gets hit with hurricane speed winds?

24 min

4Collisions

In this episode, Nigel crashes a small, modern car into a large, heavy, old car to find out which one you and your family would be better off in. Are you better to trust all the science behind a five-star safety rating or all the metal in a really big, old car?

24 min

5Fire

In this episode, Nigel shows us the science of exactly what it takes to start a fire and experiences firsthand what it's like to be inside a burning house...by burning down a house.

23 min

6Space

Nigel's mission: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations to boldly go where no television presenter, has gone before. With the help of actual Rocket Scientists, Nigel attempts to be the first New Zealander in space.

24 min

7Sound

Sound is one of those weird everyday things we all know about, but most of us don't really understand how it works. In this episode, Nigel tries to break the sound barrier and ends up breaking all kinds of other stuff along the way.

22 min

8Gravity

In this episode, Nigel takes on Galileo and tests the Law of Gravity by jumping out of a perfectly good plane with an orange to see which will hit the ground first.

24 min

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