TV Guide Science Thursday

Residents along the Pacific Coast Highway are cut off from the world after a storm causes a bridge to buckle; experts reveal it was vulnerable to erosion.

Experts use the latest technology to investigate and reveal bridge scouring with unsupported concrete columns exposed for failure in Huron, Calif.

In Puerto Rico, an iconic observatory nestled into a giant crater must close after cables holding up a critical platform come crashing down.

A crane collapse leaves seven dead on a holiday weekend in Manhattan; an investigation reveals how a shortcut was taken while raising the crane.

A sturdy ship is constructed to weather tsunami-sized waves and travels dissimilar to any other in North America; machines fight a flood in the Arctic Circle.

A machine with 588 sharp teeth known as the Yeti helps service the coldest airport in America; tugboats plow through ice chunks in a hectic Alaskan port.

Astronauts evacuate when a strange object is seen moving towards the International Space Station; a secret agent goes undercover to recover missing moon rocks.

A scientist believes a mysterious material is impairing the Apollo missions; the Rosetta spacecraft encounters a comet appears to sing.

Neil Armstrong is an unexplained spin and investigates the cause or face death; an Apollo 17 photograph suggests a United States military outpost on the moon.

New astronomical research reveals an invisible scaffold of dark matter known as the Cosmic Web, an intergalactic network that transformed the universe.

Cosmic rays capable of destroying human DNA like bullets; physicists are attempting to determine where these deadly particles originate in the universe.

Experts examine discoveries and clues in the Amazon jungle that have been found through the combination of cutting-edge technology and innovative archaeology.

Archaeologists find hard proof of the prehistoric civilization that once thrived in the Amazon and learn how they built an advanced society in a hostile jungle.

New discoveries reveal the mystery of what happened to the ancient superpower that once thrived in the Amazon jungles and what caused it to fall.

A team of experts investigates Harry Houdini's illusions in an attempt to reveal the secret behind his mysterious water torture trick.

A team of experts re-create Houdini's famed bullet catch trick, which is one of the deadliest tricks in magic history, in attempt to discover how he did it.

One of Houdini's greatest escapes may have been a cover up to spy for the American government, so experts recreate his break from a Siberian prison transport.

Experts recreate Houdini's buried alive escape mysterious to reveal how this deadly feat was performed and if the magician's sudden death was an accident.

A rundown nature park is full of strange secrets and connections, futuristic machines are the forgotten result of a plan to modernize American transit.

An old mining town in Wyoming provides sanctuary for Amelia Earhart; a hotel in the Deep South becomes a historical crossroads.

Experts explore an infamous Georgia plantation, whose legacy of cruelty helped turned the tide of public opinion against slavery thanks to a wife's journal.

Experts journey to the so-called company town of Pullman, Chicago, the site of a massive railroad employee strike and military intervention.

A lab creates devastating technology; a safe place for African Americans alters the country; the battle site between a Nazi submarine and a forgotten citadel.

A dangerous cult seizes control of a worldwide communications facility; the world's most dangerous weapons; a common inn with a fascinating past.

Experts journey to the so-called company town of Pullman, Chicago, the site of a massive railroad employee strike and military intervention.

A lab creates devastating technology; a safe place for African Americans alters the country; the battle site between a Nazi submarine and a forgotten citadel.

A dangerous cult seizes control of a worldwide communications facility; the world's most dangerous weapons; a common inn with a fascinating past.

Experts explore an infamous Georgia plantation, whose legacy of cruelty helped turned the tide of public opinion against slavery thanks to a wife's journal.

One of Houdini's greatest escapes may have been a cover up to spy for the American government, so experts recreate his break from a Siberian prison transport.

Experts recreate Houdini's buried alive escape mysterious to reveal how this deadly feat was performed and if the magician's sudden death was an accident.