Curiosity is an American documentary television series that premiered on August 7, 2011, on the Discovery Channel.

[1][2] Each episode focuses on one question in science, technology, and society (e.g., why the RMS Titanic sank) and, for the first season, features a different celebrity host.

Stephen Hawking hosted the premiere episode titled "Did God Create the Universe?

[3] It was to answer questions and mysteries in fields like space, biology, geology, medicine, physics, technology, nature, archaeology, history, and the human mind.

It was considered as a groundbreaking series for Discovery like the BBC's Planet Earth and Life.

John Hendricks, founder of the Discovery Channel and creator of the original Curiosity brand,[7] launched CuriosityStream on March 18, 2015.

An ad-free subscription video on demand platform for science and history documentaries, CuriosityStream is a continuation of Hendricks' vision for the original Curiosity TV series.

The service exclusively features documentaries and series in the areas of Science, Technology, Civilization and the Human Spirit as well as offers mobile viewing applications on iOS and Android devices.

The narrator [Benedict Cumberbatch] states that multiple gods controlled different phenomena for the Vikings.

A few months before his death in 1277, Pope John XXI declared the laws of nature a heresy.

The Powder River Basin (in Wyoming) of the Rocky Mountains contains coal that can power electricity.

After years of planning, a Boeing 727 airplane is intentionally crashed in the Mexican desert in April 2012.

The Bermuda Triangle has a history of underwater landslides which trigger a violent release of methane.

The experiments done for this television episode fail to sink a boat with massive release of air bubbles underwater!

A lung cancer patient named Alan Billis in Britain gives consent to be mummified for this television episode.

Alfred Kinsey and his research team interviewed thousands of Americans in the late 1940s to inquire about their sexual behavior.

The Ambrym lava lake is a very dangerous volcano in the country of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean.

The Pacific Ring of Fire is known for its volcanic eruptions; it includes the Newberry Volcano in Oregon.