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What would we be without mucus? Can we live on water? How much does life weigh? Finding out the answers is the aim of ARTE's new science show. In a nod to Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", where the figure 42 is the ultimate answer to all questions, 42 tries to provide the answers.

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Seasons & Episodes

Next episode
S1 E212 · Can We Stop Mass Extinction?
Airs Saturday, September 12, 2026
E1
Can we dig our way through the Earth?
Sep 4, 2021 8.0
E2
Could We Live on the Moon?
Sep 11, 2021 7.0
E3
Should we use lotteries instead of elections?
Sep 18, 2021
E4
How Much Does Life Weigh?
Sep 25, 2021
E5
Will we move onto the water?
Sep 29, 2021
E6
Can Algorithms Make Us Healthy?
Sep 30, 2021
E7
What if there were no mucus?
Oct 1, 2021 8.0
E8
How do we solve the nuclear waste puzzle?
Oct 23, 2021
E9
What if Fear Didn't Exist?
Oct 30, 2021
E10
What if the ice disappeared?
Nov 6, 2021
E11
Do We All hear the Same Thing?
Nov 14, 2021 7.0
E12
Are we too pessimistic?
Nov 20, 2021
E13
Does the Perfect Song Exist?
Nov 27, 2021 8.0
E14
Are we alone in space?
Dec 5, 2021 8.0
E15
Why Do We Eat What We Eat?
Dec 11, 2021
E16
What is the secret of light?
Dec 12, 2021
E17
Can we save the trees?
Jan 8, 2022
E18
What if dust didn't exist?
Jan 15, 2022
E19
Geoengineering: Earth's Last Resort
Jan 22, 2022 8.0
E20
Could Algae Save the Planet?
Jan 29, 2022 8.0
E21
Will Messenger RNA Save Us From Cancer?
Feb 5, 2022 8.0
E22
Will We Stop Flying?
Feb 12, 2022
E23
Will We Like Robots?
Feb 19, 2022
E24
The Purpose of Parasites
Feb 26, 2022 10.0
E25
Could We Sleep Less?
Mar 5, 2022
E26
Are Cryptocurrencies the Future?
Mar 12, 2022
E27
Do We Live in a Black Hole?
Mar 19, 2022
E28
The Power of Dreams
Mar 26, 2022 8.0
E29
Where do people migrate to?
Apr 30, 2022
E30
What Do Animals Talk About?
May 7, 2022
E31
Are we getting dumber?
May 14, 2022
E32
Do Computers Have Biases?
May 21, 2022
E33
How can everyone be fed?
May 28, 2022
E34
Are We Doing More Drugs?
Jun 4, 2022 8.0
E35
Are We Ready for Mars?
Jun 11, 2022
E36
Can we glimpse the afterlife?
Jun 18, 2022
E37
Could we become immortal?
Jun 25, 2022
E38
Could We Live Without Agriculture?
Jul 2, 2022
E39
How dangerous is space weather?
Jul 9, 2022
E40
Will we travel to Mars?
Jul 16, 2022
E41
Can We Create Money from Nothing?
Jul 23, 2022 10.0
E42
How do we end wars?
Jul 30, 2022
E43
Is Space Being Stolen From Us?
Aug 5, 2022
E44
What Power Do Thoughts Have?
Aug 12, 2022
E45
Can We Trust Ourselves?
Aug 19, 2022
E46
Are we more intelligent in swarms?
Aug 26, 2022
E47
The Search for a Universal Theory
Sep 2, 2022
E48
Can we turn crap into gold?
Sep 9, 2022
E49
Are You Psychopathic?
Sep 16, 2022
E50
How does a wave become rogue?
Sep 23, 2022
E51
Do We Need Economic Growth?
Oct 30, 2022
E52
Are we gambling away our lives?
Nov 6, 2022
E53
Why do we have limits?
Nov 13, 2022
E54
Where to Find Perfect Energy?
Nov 20, 2022
E55
What if sharks disappeared?
Nov 27, 2022
E56
Are Animals Self-Aware?
Dec 4, 2022
E57
Why do We Fall in Love?
Dec 9, 2022
E58
What if nature had a price?
Dec 10, 2022
E59
Can we copy our blood?
Dec 23, 2022
E60
Why do we hate?
Jan 8, 2023
E61
Could We Bring Back the Wooly Mammoth?
Jan 15, 2023
E62
Can seals go to court?
Jan 29, 2023
E63
Do colors manipulate us?
Feb 5, 2023
E64
Will there be a new 'human species'?
Feb 13, 2023
E65
Is There a Male Fertility Crisis?
Feb 19, 2023
E66
Can Cities Save the World?
Feb 26, 2023
E67
When the Heavens Rain Down
Mar 19, 2023
E68
Do Fungi Rule Us?
Mar 24, 2023
E69
The A***hole Effect
Mar 19, 2023
E70
How It All Ends
Mar 26, 2023
E71
When Will the World End?
Mar 31, 2023
E72
How to Travel Through Time?
Apr 7, 2023
E73
Mind Reading: A Reality?
Apr 14, 2023
E74
Surviving Our Polluted Planet
May 21, 2023
E75
The Chaos of Chance
May 28, 2023
E76
Who Owns the Sea?
Jun 4, 2023
E77
Do Animals Appreciate Beauty?
Jun 5, 2023
E78
Will a new wind soon blow?
Jun 18, 2023
E79
Are we going to disappear beneath the waves?
Jun 25, 2023
E80
Are We All Bisexual?
Jul 2, 2023
E81
The Advent of Turbo-Evolution
Jul 9, 2023
E82
Why do we lose our memory?
Jul 16, 2023
E83
Humanity's True Nature
Jul 23, 2023
E84
Can We Live Without Electricity?
Jul 30, 2023 7.0
E85
What Happens When the Glaciers Disappear?
Sep 3, 2023
E86
Could We Reach the Stars?
Sep 10, 2023
E87
Is Lying Good For Us?
Sep 17, 2023
E88
Will we one day be cryogenically frozen?
Sep 24, 2023
E89
Will we run out of sand?
Oct 1, 2023
E90
What's So Funny?
Oct 8, 2023
E91
The Origin of Life
Oct 15, 2023
E92
Does Punishment Work?
Oct 22, 2023
E93
What Are Our Imaginations For?
Oct 29, 2023
E94
Can We Trick Our Genes?
Nov 5, 2023
E95
Amasia: The Supercontinent of the Future
Nov 12, 2023
E96
Do Dogs Really Love Us?
Nov 19, 2023
E97
Do We Need Corruption?
Nov 26, 2023
E98
Are Animals Cleverer than Us?
Dec 3, 2023
E99
Are Billionaires a Problem?
Dec 10, 2023
E100
How strongly does our mother tongue shape us?
Dec 17, 2023
E101
Do We Live in a Multiverse?
Jan 7, 2024
E102
Does History Repeat Itself?
Jan 14, 2024
E103
Are there too many of us on Earth?
Jan 21, 2024
E104
Is stress good for us?
Jan 28, 2024
E105
Do Disasters Make Us Better?
Feb 4, 2024
E106
Is the Metaverse Real?
Feb 11, 2024
E107
Do We All Have a Doppelganger?
Feb 18, 2024
E108
Could We Programme Evoluton?
Feb 25, 2024
E109
Is There an Upside to Climate Change?
Mar 3, 2024
E110
Do We Need More Utopias?
Mar 10, 2024
E111
Can we control clouds?
Mar 17, 2024
E112
Does Sugar Make Us Stupid?
Mar 24, 2024
E113
What if the poles reversed again?
Apr 28, 2024
E114
What power do smells have?
May 5, 2024
E115
Can We Shrink the Economy?
May 12, 2024
E116
How Do Plants Live?
May 19, 2024
E117
How to Become Popular
May 26, 2024
E118
Do We Need to Have Power?
Jun 2, 2024
E119
Should Humans Be Smaller?
Jun 9, 2024
E120
Is AI Out of Control?
Jun 16, 2024
E121
Are Invasive Species Always a Problem?
Jun 23, 2024
E122
Would We Be Happier Without Happiness?
Jun 30, 2024
E123
Why Do We Cry?
Jul 7, 2024
E124
Could Sea Currents Change?
Jul 14, 2024
E125
Could Matriarchy Be the Solution?
Jul 21, 2024
E126
Are Aliens Like Us?
Jul 28, 2024
E127
Is Pain Necessary?
Sep 1, 2024
E128
Do Animals Have Better Societies?
Sep 8, 2024
E129
How Powerful are Maps?
Sep 15, 2024
E130
Does Quantum Physics Change Our Reality?
Sep 22, 2024
E131
Why Do We Have Less Sex?
Sep 29, 2024
E132
Has Slavery Made Us Racist?
Oct 12, 2024
E133
Why Is Housing So Expensive?
Oct 13, 2024
E134
Can We Make Friends with Our Enemies?
Oct 20, 2024
E135
Can We Replace Pollination?
Oct 26, 2024
E136
Are We Taking Enough Risks?
Nov 3, 2024
E137
Who Really Were Our Ancestors?
Nov 10, 2024
E138
Is a World Without Violence Possible?
Nov 16, 2024
E139
Can We Remember Precisely?
Nov 24, 2024
E140
What Holds the Universe Together?
Dec 1, 2024
E141
Do We Need God?
Dec 8, 2024
E142
What Protests Work?
Jan 5, 2025
E143
How do Children Function?
Jan 12, 2025
E144
Will We Grieve Differently in Future?
Jan 19, 2025
E145
Do We Need Weapons for Peace?
Jan 26, 2025
E146
What Should We Actually Eat?
Jan 27, 2025
E147
Are We Ready for Aliens?
Feb 2, 2025
E148
How Important is Our Microbiome?
Feb 16, 2025
E149
Why Is Wealth So Unfairly Distributed?
Feb 23, 2025
E150
What Makes Us Depressed?
Mar 2, 2025
E151
Does the Perfect Code Exist?
Mar 9, 2025
E152
Are We Ready for World Government?
Mar 16, 2025
E153
Are We Wasting Period Blood?
Mar 23, 2025
E154
Can We Feel Time?
Mar 30, 2025
E155
How Does Water Create Life?
May 4, 2025
E156
Are Cyborgs the Future?
May 11, 2025
E157
Can We Save Truth?
May 18, 2025
E158
Can We Cure Addictions?
May 25, 2025
E159
Are We Too Curious?
Jun 1, 2025
E160
What Did Dinosaurs Really Look Like?
Jun 8, 2025
E161
Can We Outwit Viruses?
Jun 15, 2025
E162
Where Does Madness Begin?
Jun 22, 2025 8.0
E163
Should We Be Bored More Often?
Jun 29, 2025
E164
How Powerful is Disinformation?
Jul 6, 2025
E165
Why Do Civilisations Fall?
Jul 13, 2025
E166
Should We Argue More?
Jul 20, 2025
E167
How Mathematic is the Universe?
Jul 27, 2025
E168
Is The World Better Than We Think?
Aug 31, 2025
E169
How Smart Are the Animals We Eat
Sep 7, 2025
E170
Does Failure Help Us Succeed?
Sep 14, 2025
E171
Was Stone-Age Man Dumber Than Us?
Sep 21, 2025
E172
The Age of Fire
Sep 28, 2025
E173
Why Does Music Move Us?
Oct 5, 2025
E174
Optimisation: Is It Making Us Mad?
Oct 12, 2025
E175
Is a Superbug Pandemic Coming?
Oct 19, 2025
E176
Can Humans Hibernate?
Oct 26, 2025
E177
Does Society Need Alcohol?
Nov 2, 2025
E178
...We Make Free Decisions?
Nov 9, 2025
E179
What was there before the Big Bang?
Nov 16, 2025
E180
How Powerful Are Images?
Nov 23, 2025
E181
How Does the Female Orgasm Work?
Nov 30, 2025
E182
Is Space Debris Dangerous for Earth?
Dec 7, 2025
E183
Can Our Brains Still Concentrate?
Dec 14, 2025
E184
Why Do We Love Horror?
Jan 5, 2026
E185
Does Planet Nine Really Exist?
Jan 11, 2026
E186
Are We An Evolutionary Superspecies?
Jan 18, 2026
E187
Are Wasps Game Changers of Evolution?
Jan 25, 2026
E188
Why do we sing?
Feb 1, 2026
E189
How monogamous are humans?
Feb 8, 2026
E190
Why Do We Love Gold?
Feb 15, 2026
E191
Do Emotions Control the Markets?
Feb 22, 2026
E192
What if life were mirrored?
Mar 1, 2026
E193
Do we need the alpha male?
Mar 8, 2026
E194
Black Holes: A Future Energy Source?
Mar 15, 2026
E195
Is Brain Washing Possible?
Apr 19, 2026
E196
Why Are We So Competitive?
Apr 26, 2026
E197
Do We Need Siblings?
May 3, 2026
E198
Has Globalisation Failed?
May 10, 2026
E199
How does trash change the world?
May 17, 2026
E200
Is vacation really relaxing?
May 24, 2026
E201
Can we change?
May 31, 2026
E202
Is there another Earth in the universe?
Jun 7, 2026
E203
Can AI Feel Us?
Jun 14, 2026
E204
Does a Trauma Lie Dormant in Everyone?
Jun 21, 2026
E205
What Lies Behind UFOs?
Jun 28, 2026
E206
Can states go into debt indefinitely?
Jul 5, 2026
E207
Does scrolling make teens stupid?
Jul 12, 2026
E208
Can We Live Without Work?
Jul 19, 2026
E209
Is there a female fertility crisis?
Jul 26, 2026
E210
Is Loneliness Contagious?
Aug 29, 2026
E211
How Do You Become a Genius?
Sep 5, 2026
E212
Can We Stop Mass Extinction?
Sep 12, 2026
E213
Can We Control Our Hormones?
Sep 19, 2026
E214
Episode 214
Sep 26, 2026
E215
Episode 215
Oct 3, 2026
E216
Episode 216
Oct 10, 2026

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42: The Answer to Almost Everything has 1 season so far. Season 1 is currently airing.

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The next episode of 42: The Answer to Almost Everything — "Can We Stop Mass Extinction?" (Season 1, Episode 212) — airs on Saturday, September 12, 2026.

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Not yet — Season 1 of 42: The Answer to Almost Everything is still airing. The next episode (E212) releases on Saturday, September 12, 2026.

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Not yet — 211 of 216 episodes of Season 1 have been released so far. New episodes air weekly; episode 212 arrives Saturday, September 12, 2026, and the season finale is set for Saturday, October 10, 2026. If you're waiting to binge, the full season won't be complete until then.

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