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Focal Point (2021) is a documentary web series in English. On New MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Focal Point online in HD.

Focal Point — Storyline

Humankind's understanding of the universe is advancing at an unprecedented rate. This docu-series examines new breakthroughs, new technology and new ways of looking at the world.

Cast & Crew

Focal Point — Series Details

Focal Point — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Singapore Gardens (2021-09-13) — By 2050, two-thirds of the population will be living in cities, so architects are taking inspiration from nature to build more sustainable skylines.
• E2: Neutrino Hunter (2021-09-13) — There is an international hunt for something called the ghost particle. This mega-science experiment wants to solve one of the biggest mysteries in science today: what happened aft
• E3: Open Bionics (2021-09-13) — This customizable bionic arm turns disabilities into superpowers. A robotics company created the world's first medically certifiable and customizable 3D-printed arm.
• E4: Quantum Computing (2021-09-13) — Quantum computers are just on the horizon as both tech giants and startups are working to kick-start the next computing revolution.
• E5: Insight Lander (2021-09-13) — NASA just sent a robotic probe on a mission to Mars! It'll explore what the interior of the planet is like and how it was formed.
• E6: Noise Week (2021-09-13) — Earth can be a really loud place for those searching for an extraterrestrial signal. So how does SETI sift through all the cosmic noise to hunt for alien signals?
• E7: Insight Garden (2021-09-13) — The Insight Garden Program explores if meditation and gardening can break the cycle of prison recidivism.
• E8: ISS CASIS (2021-09-13) — SpaceX just sent algae to the ISS that could power missions to Mars. The company has taken over refueling missions to the ISS, and they're bringing some exciting new experiments al
• E9: Eyeball Lab (2021-03-14) — This special lab houses an impressive collection of over 60,000 different animal eyes, where disease and morphology are studied in great detail.
• E10: Antarctic Films (2021-03-14) — Never-before-seen footage uncovers Antarctica's first scientific missions. During the Cold War, Antarctica was primed for conquest, but became an international science laboratory.

Season 2

• E1: How Smog Almost Killed NYC (2021-11-14) — Pollution levels around the world today seem astronomical, but in New York City, they used to be deadly. How did this happen and when did it change?
• E2: Chernobyl's Radiation Shield (2021-11-14) — The damaged Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant still holds 200 tons of nuclear fuel, and if it were to leak into the atmosphere, the consequences would be catastrophic. So the world cam
• E3: Engineering the Perfect Apple (2021-11-14) — It took over 30 years to create the perfect apple. Find out how scientists designed the Honeycrisp to be the best.
• E4: Closer to Colonizing Space (2021-11-14) — After years of trial and error, NASA figured out how to successfully grow salad in space. So, what does this breakthrough mean? Are we one step closer to colonizing other planets?
• E5: Revolutionizing Heart Surgery (2021-11-14) — Virtual reality technology is now being applied to medical training. Doctors can teleport inside the human heart and practice surgery over and over again, and this training could r
• E6: Declassified Nuclear Films (2021-11-14) — The US detonated over 200 nuclear weapons to gather scientific data about their potential. That data was gospel for years, until a weapons physicist decades later found out the fig
• E7: Hyperloop Pod (2021-11-14) — College students built a hyperloop pod that could revolutionize the way we travel. And while some people think the concept is mostly just hype, others think it's genius.
• E8: US Nuclear Missiles (2021-11-14) — Forget the big red button, this is how we would actually conduct nuclear war. Missiles are still controlled by floppy disks.
• E9: Einstein's Brain Was Stolen (2021-11-14) — Over 60 years ago, Albert Einstein's brain was stolen, dissected and sent in pieces all around the world. Who was behind this theft for science?
• E10: NASA Mission & Cold War Planes (2021-11-14) — Greenland loses close to 100 million Olympic-size swimming pools of water per year. We know that statistic thanks to this critical NASA mission.
• E11: Scientists, Waves & Surfers (2021-11-14) — Can you catch a wave and collect data at the same time? Find out how these scientists are transforming ocean research and surfers are using Smartfins to help scientists gather data
• E12: Live on One of These Moons (2021-11-14) — Looking for a new home beyond Earth? Icy moons could be a hot contender.
• E13: AI Is Monitoring You Right Now (2021-11-14) — There's wisdom in crowds, and scientists are applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to better predict global crises and outbreaks.
• E14: How NASA Visualizes Galaxies (2021-11-14) — We go inside NASA's art department, where galaxies, star systems and black holes are visualized.
• E15: NASA Engineers Use Origami (2021-11-14) — NASA is using origami to build a giant star blocker, in hopes of imaging distant worlds.

Season 3

• E1: Curing Blindness in 5 Minutes (2021-11-14) — A dedicated team of eye doctors are on a mission to rid the world of preventable blindness, one incision at a time.
• E2: Interstellar Message Design (2021-11-14) — Astrobiologists study the protocol for first contact as they try to determine how they go about speaking with alien races.
• E3: World's Most-Advanced Clock (2021-11-14) — Time may be a human construct, but that hasn't stopped these physicists from perfecting it.
• E4: Photography and Motion (2021-11-14) — Using photography, one man opens up a hidden world of motion in everything from every day objects to the unique physics happening inside a nuclear bomb.
• E5: Capturing a Black Hole (2021-11-14) — The MIT Haystack Observatory reveals where the Event Horizon Telescope is at with the world's first photo of a black hole.
• E6: Thawing the Nuclear City (2021-11-14) — Scientists and engineers investigate tons of nuclear waste from a secret military operation hiding underneath Greenland's ice sheet.
• E7: Race to the Universe's Edge (2021-11-14) — In the middle of a billion-dollar telescope-building boom, new ground-based observatories are racing to see first light in the 2020s.
• E8: Mars Thruster (2021-11-14) — The X3, a new type of propulsion engine that's smashing records, is made possible thanks to a collaboration among NASA, Aerojet Rocketdyne, the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory an
• E9: Your Invisible Exposome Cloud (2021-11-14) — Microscopic bits can hitch a ride on your clothes, find their way into your body and impact your personal health. They're part of your exposome, and everyone has one.
• E10: Secret to Fighting Emissions (2021-11-14) — Seaweed is on the menu! This superfood plucked from the ocean is being fed to lucky cows in California to curb their methane production, and the resulting research could save the p
• E11: Locking Away Weed in a Vault (2021-11-14) — Marijuana is causing a buzz over its therapeutic potential, but scientists are still struggling to study it.
• E12: NASA's New Nuclear Engine (2021-11-14) — From returning to the Moon to establishing outposts on Mars, NASA has the need for more power than ever before. Nuclear fission could just be the solution they've been searching fo
• E13: Solar Storm War Mystery (2021-11-14) — Declassified Vietnam War files show researchers the unpredictable nature of the Sun and help them work towards predicting the next big solar storm.
• E14: The Science Quest and Einstein (2021-11-14) — Two intrepid astronomers embark on a scientific quest to photograph a solar eclipse and turned Albert Einstein into an international celebrity.
• E15: The World's Glacier Librarians (2021-11-14) — An international team of scientists embark on a continent-hopping expedition to build a future climate ice vault before the world's glaciers vanish forever.

Season 4

• E1: 3D Printing Mars Habitats (2021-11-14) — NASA invited engineers and architects from around the world to design future habitats for Mars. Here's what they came up with.
• E2: Inside a Synthetic DNA Factory (2021-11-14) — In this DNA factory, organism engineers are using robots and automation to build completely new forms of life.
• E3: Designer Pathogens (2021-11-14) — Engineered bioweapons are the new security threat.
• E4: Radioactive Carbon (2021-11-14) — The amount of carbon-14 doubled in our atmosphere between 1955 and 1963, a time when nuclear bomb tests were popping off in the desert. Bomb carbon is still everywhere: in our tiss
• E5: The Hunt for Dark Energy Is On (2021-11-14) — The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will measure dark energy's effect on the expansion of the universe. We dive into the mysteries of dark energy, the engineering behin
• E6: Self-Aware Robots (2021-11-14) — At Columbia's Creative Machines Laboratory, Hod Lipson and his students are building consciousness from the ground up. Starting with the most basic definition of what it means to b
• E7: Our Solar System's Edge (2021-11-14) — Since launching in 1977, the Voyager space probes have traveled farther from Earth than any other man-made object. They've observed planets, swept past the Sun, and have left our s
• E8: Silicon Chips' Next Frontier (2021-11-14) — Moore's Law is the golden rule in computing: the number of transistors on a microchip doubles every two years, while the cost halves. We've hit a physical limit on how small these
• E9: The Superheavy Atom Factory (2021-11-14) — We've been slowly filling out the periodic table since the late 1800s. But as we push the periodic table farther and farther into the unknown, its familiar columns and rows are thr
• E10: What Cells Actually Look Like (2021-11-14) — There's a revolution happening in the field of biology thanks to a wave of new imaging techniques. One of the newly invented microscopes can capture 3D images and videos of cells i
• E11: Exotic Matter in Space (2021-11-14) — Atomic physicists have built a cold-atom laboratory that can probe the strange and curious quantum world up close.
• E12: Deepfakes Aren't Going Away (2021-11-14) — Since 2017, deepfakes have taken the internet by storm, rising to a point where politicians are worried that these altered videos could sway elections and even pose a national secu
• E13: Rocket-Powered Car (2021-11-14) — Since 1997, the record for the world's fastest car has been held by Thrust SSC, which‚ travelling at 763 mph‚ became the very first car to break the sound barrier. Now, 22 years la
• E14: Moon Water to Rocket Fuel (2021-11-14) — Long the stuff of science fiction, mining for resources on the Moon is starting to come into focus. We meet a team of engineers who are figuring out how to turn the Moon's billion-
• E15: The New Dark Matter Particle (2021-11-14) — When it comes to dark matter, it might be time to leave WIMPS behind, as there's a new candidate that's been pulling ahead of its competitors in recent months: axions. Welcome to t

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Focal Point have? 4 season(s) with 55 episodes.

Where can I watch Focal Point? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.