In the first half of the 20th century pioneering geneticist Nikolai Vavilov traveled 5 continents assembling a treasury of the worlds seeds. He dreamed that science could be the means to end hunger. His refusal to tell a scientific lie cost him his life. The heroism of his colleagues and its direct impact on your life is one of the most stirring stories in the history of science.

Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey Season 2 Episodes...

• s02e01 - Ladder to the Stars
• s02e02 - The Fleeting Grace of the Habitable Zone
• s02e03 - Lost City of Life
• s02e04 - Vavilov
• s02e05 - The Cosmic Connectome
• s02e06 - The Man of a Trillion Worlds
• s02e07 - The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth
• s02e08 - The Sacrifice of Cassini
• s02e09 - Magic Without Lies
• s02e10 - A Tale of Two Atoms
• s02e11 - Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
• s02e12 - Coming of Age In The Anthropocene
• s02e13 - Seven Wonders of The New World

Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey Show Summary

Hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, COSMOS will explore how we discovered the laws of nature and found our coordinates in space and time. It will bring to life never-before-told stories of the heroic quest for knowledge and transport viewers to new worlds and across the universe for a vision of the cosmos on the grandest scale.

COSMOS will invent new modes of scientific storytelling to reveal the grandeur of the universe and re-invent celebrated elements of the legendary original series, including the Cosmic Calendar and the Ship of the Imagination. The most profound scientific concepts will be presented with stunning clarity, uniting skepticism and wonder, and weaving rigorous science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience.