Jan M. Schäfer

The EU is investing billions to establish African states as its new border guards. It also supports dictatorships that close their borders in return.

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.