Season 26 · Episode 3

Superquark: Tokyo Olympics, Turin's Egyptian Museum, and the police's technological arsenal

The third episode of Superquark, the BBC nature documentary about lions, opens with a focus on two females who, at a certain point, find themselves alone and must protect what remains of their pride: eight cubs. With the Tokyo Olympics a year away, how are Italian athletes training? Today, competition is so intense that Olympic preparation requires complex technologies to study athletic performance in minute detail. In the studio with Piero Angela, Professor Enrico Giovannini, an Italian economist, statistician, and academic, will discuss one of the most important debates of our time: the environment. At the Egyptian Museum in Turin, discovering invisible archaeology. Thieves and criminals today have an additional, very powerful enemy: electronics. And in particular, artificial intelligence.