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23 February 2022
Predicting My MS
The filmmaker looks back on his life,...
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The filmmaker looks back on his life, trying to understand why he contracted a rare form of Multiple Sclerosis: Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis.
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25 May 2022
Ice Age Footprints
A look at what thousands of...
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A look at what thousands of prehistoric footprints in New Mexico's White Sands National Park might reveal about the peopling of the Americas.
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18 May 2022
Why Ships Crash
When the Ever Given blocked the Suez...
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When the Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal, it triggered a global crisis. Using eye-witnesses speaking for the first time, This investigation aims to find out what really happened.
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23 February 2022
Augmented
An inventor of bionic limbs, Hugh...
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An inventor of bionic limbs, Hugh Herr, works with an injured climber and a surgeon to test a new amputation technique that allows prosthetic limbs to move and feel like the real thing.
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11 May 2022
Dinosaur Apocalypse: The New Evidence
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02 February 2022
Arctic Sinkholes
Long-frozen permafrost is melting....
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Long-frozen permafrost is melting. How does the resulting release of methane affect us now and what will be the future effects?
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26 January 2022
Ancient Maya Metropolis
Why did the ancient Maya abandon...
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Why did the ancient Maya abandon their major cities?
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19 January 2022
Alaskan Dinosaurs
Paleontologists discover that...
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Paleontologists discover that dinosaurs thrived in unlikely places such as the cold and dark Arctic Circle.
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12 January 2022
Butterfly Blueprints
Scientists are discovering the...
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Scientists are discovering the secrets of butterflies and using that knowledge to improve technology.
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05 January 2022
High-Risk High-Rise
The science behind the risks of...
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The science behind the risks of sky-high buildings, from structural limits to threats presented by wind, fire and earthquakes.
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17 November 2021
Universe Revealed: Black Holes
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10 November 2021
Universe Revealed: Alien Worlds
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27 October 2021
Universe Revealed: Age of Stars
The Hubble Space Telescope and a...
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The Hubble Space Telescope and a heat-resistant solar probe reveal new clues about the sun's 5-billion-year history.
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06 October 2021
Particles Unknown
An international team studies the...
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An international team studies the neutrino, the most common yet least understood particle in the universe.
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15 September 2021
Bat Superpowers
Understanding bats, their long life...
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Understanding bats, their long life spans and why they are resistant to the very diseases they carry such as Ebola and MERS, as well as other diseases like cancer.
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02 June 2021
Ship That Changed the World
A newly discovered 500-year-old wreck...
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A newly discovered 500-year-old wreck offers vital clues to the evolution in ship design that made long-distance voyages practical.
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26 May 2021
Great Electric Airplane Race
The race to develop a practical and...
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The race to develop a practical and economically-viable electrically-powered airplane.
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19 May 2021
Hindenburg The New Evidence
On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg, the...
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On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg, the world's largest airship, ignited in a giant fireball as it prepared to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey-a disaster immortalized by searing newsreel footage and Herbert Morrison's unforgettable "Oh, the humanity!" commentary. The chain of events that ignited Hindenburg's hydrogen remains one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history. Theories range from deliberate sabotage to sparks generated by static electricity or stormy weather conditions. Now, more than 80 years later, new footage has surfaced: an amateur 8mm film that shows the airship's final seconds from a fresh angle and in unrivaled clarity. Taking clues from the footage and other sources, a leading CalTech chemical engineer walks NOVA viewers through a novel set of experiments designed to test the likeliest scenarios that led to the Hindenburg's ignition-some never tried before and others staged with a meticulous attention to authenticity. The result is a gripping, authoritative new investigation of one of history's most iconic disasters.
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21 April 2021
Reef Rescue
Marine biologists from the Bahamas to...
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Marine biologists from the Bahamas to Christmas Island to Australia fight against the clock to save the coral reefs from extinction.
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14 April 2021
Picture a Scientist
Women make up less than one-quarter...
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Women make up less than one-quarter of the amount of people employed in STEM, and the number is even smaller for women of color.
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24 February 2021
Looking for Life on Mars
Follow along as NASA launches the...
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Follow along as NASA launches the Mars 2020 mission, perhaps the most ambitious hunt yet for signs of ancient life on Mars.
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17 February 2021
Beyond the Elements: Life
The molecules that allowed life on...
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The molecules that allowed life on Earth to begin and thrive; how scientists use evolution in chemistry.
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11 February 2021
Beyond the Elements: Indestructible
The potential environmental impact of...
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The potential environmental impact of virtually indestructible versions of glass, rubber and plastic.
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03 February 2021
Beyond the Elements: Reactions
The chemical reactions that transform...
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The chemical reactions that transform the world, from explosions to photosynthesis; lock-and-key molecules that put the heat in peppers and make venoms useful to medicine.
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13 January 2021
Secrets in Our DNA
What can DNA testing companies reveal...
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What can DNA testing companies reveal about our ancestry and health, and at what risk?
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25 November 2020
Saving Notre Dame
Engineers race to rebuild the roof of...
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Engineers race to rebuild the roof of the Notre Dame cathedral and secure the medieval structure within five years.
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28 October 2020
Can We Cool the Planet?
As global temperatures rise,...
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As global temperatures rise, scientists look to geoengineering solutions, from planting trees to sucking carbon out of the air, as a means to cool the planet.
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21 October 2020
Touching the Asteroid
Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx attempts to...
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Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx attempts to grab a piece of an asteroid to bring back to Earth so scientists can study it to learn about the planet's origins.
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14 October 2020
Nature's Fear Factor
Scientists reintroduce wild dogs to...
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Scientists reintroduce wild dogs to Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park to see if it helps restore balance to the entire ecosystem.
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30 September 2020
A to Z: How Writing Changed the World
How the development of writing played...
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How the development of writing played a vital role in shaping world history, from the invention of paper to the printed book.
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23 September 2020
A to Z: The First Alphabet
Researchers uncover the evolution of...
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Researchers uncover the evolution of writing and the story of the alphabet, dating back to millennia, old carvings in an Egyptian turquoise mine.
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16 September 2020
The Secret Mind of Slime
New research on extremely primitive...
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New research on extremely primitive life forms called slime molds, which navigate through life without a brain, could reveal the fundamental rules underlying all decision making.
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09 September 2020
Human Nature
Scientists study the implications of...
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Scientists study the implications of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Inter-spaced Short Palindromic Repeats: a family of DNA sequences found in the genomes of organisms such as bacteria) and how they may change the human race's relationship with nature and what it means for human evolution.
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20 May 2020
Eagle Power
Up-close footage provides a look at...
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Up-close footage provides a look at the strength, eyesight and flying skills of an eagle, and reveals the danger and drama of chicks as they struggle to survive.
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13 May 2020
Decoding COVID-19
Doctors strategize to stop the spread...
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Doctors strategize to stop the spread of COVID-19; researchers work toward finding treatments and vaccines; how the disease emerged, what it does to the human body, and how it became a pandemic.
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08 April 2020
The Truth About Fat
The mysteries of fat and its role in...
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The mysteries of fat and its role in hormone production, hunger and pregnancy.
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01 April 2020
Cuba's Cancer Hope
When the trade embargo left Cuba...
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When the trade embargo left Cuba isolated from medical resources, Cuba was forced to get creative. Now they've developed lung cancer vaccines that show promise, some Americans are defying the embargo and traveling to Cuba for treatment.
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26 February 2020
Mysteries of Sleep
Scientists study why animals and...
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Scientists study why animals and humans need to sleep, what happens to the brain during sleep, and the role sleep plays in memory, trauma, and emotion regulation.
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19 February 2020
Cat Tales
The perplexing behaviors of cats have...
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The perplexing behaviors of cats have often raised the question of whether humans ever really domesticated felines.
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12 February 2020
Dog Tales
A look at dog domestication, how...
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A look at dog domestication, how scientists test wolf intelligence and decode canine DNA, and what science says about a dog's love for humans.
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05 February 2020
Polar Extremes
Paleontologist Kirk Johnson explores...
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Paleontologist Kirk Johnson explores the polar extremes of the planet, including miles-high ice sheets and warm polar forests brimming with life.
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27 November 2019
Animal Espionage
Camera traps and drones offer an...
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Camera traps and drones offer an up-close look at animals without disturbing them, providing insight into the secret world of animals such as whales, tigers, and giant armadillos.
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20 November 2019
The Violence Paradox
A journey through history and the...
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A journey through history and the human mind to explore violence, and how a more peaceful world can be achieved.
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30 October 2019
Rise of the Mammals
A new trove of fossils reveals how...
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A new trove of fossils reveals how mammals took over after an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
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14 August 2019
The Planets: Ice Worlds
Uranus and Neptune's unexpected...
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Uranus and Neptune's unexpected rings, supersonic winds and dozens of moons; an up-close view of Pluto before exploring the Kuiper belt
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07 August 2019
The Planets: Saturn
NASA's Cassini probe explores...
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NASA's Cassini probe explores Saturn's icy rings and moons, capturing ring-moon interactions and revealing ingredients for life on the moon Enceladus.
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31 July 2019
The Planets: Jupiter
Jupiter's gravitational force...
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Jupiter's gravitational force made it a wrecking ball as it barreled through the early solar system, but it also helped shape life on Earth as it brought comets laden with water and possibly the asteroid that put an end to the dinosaurs.
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24 July 2019
Inner Worlds
The rocky planets have similar...
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The rocky planets have similar origins, but only one supports life. Was it always this way?
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10 July 2019
Back to the Moon
Fifty years after humans first...
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Fifty years after humans first stepped foot on the moon, engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs engage in new discoveries to make life on the moon a reality.
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06 February 2019
Decoding the Great Pyramid
Archaeological research by Mark...
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Archaeological research by Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass shed light on some of the mysteries of the Egyptian pyramids.
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23 January 2019
Kilauea: Hawai'i on Fire
An investigation into the increased...
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An investigation into the increased activity at the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, and look at why these geologically distinctive volcanoes formed in the middle of the Pacific.
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26 December 2018
Apollo's Daring Mission
Astronauts and engineers of Apollo 8...
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Astronauts and engineers of Apollo 8 explain the inside story of the first mission to circumnavigate the moon.
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21 November 2018
World's Fastest Animal
The peregrine falcon reaches high...
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The peregrine falcon reaches high speeds to become the world's fastest animal; bird trainer Lloyd Buck attempts to get his peregrine, Moses, to go faster.
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14 November 2018
Thai Cave Rescue
Rescue workers race against the clock...
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Rescue workers race against the clock to save twelve boys and their soccer coach trapped in a cave system in Thailand.
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07 November 2018
The Last B-24
Underwater archaeologists and...
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Underwater archaeologists and technical divers excavate the wreckage of the B-24 Liberator bomber Tulsamerican in hopes of finding out what happened to the three airmen who went missing when the plane crashed off the coast of Croatia in 1944.
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24 October 2018
Flying Supersonic
Archival and 3-D imagery of the...
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Archival and 3-D imagery of the supersonic aircraft and its structure reveal how the dream of building the airliner became reality.
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17 October 2018
Addiction
Discover how opioid addiction affects...
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Discover how opioid addiction affects the brain and how evidence-based treatments are saving lives.
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10 October 2018
Volcano on the Brink
Explore Nyamuragira, one of the...
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Explore Nyamuragira, one of the world's most active and mysterious volcanoes in Africa. Decades of civil strife have prevented scientists from investigating the volcano, but a brief pause allows an international team of experts to fly by helicopter to the summit to investigate.
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10 October 2018
Volcano on Fire
Climb with volcano experts to the...
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Climb with volcano experts to the summit of Nyiragongo, a highly active volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Twice in recent memory it has erupted, devastating Goma, a neighboring city of 1 million people. To investigate when it might erupt next, scientists climb into its crater toward a bubbling lava lake to deploy sensors and monitor the volcano's activity.
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03 October 2018
Operation Bridge Rescue
Follow the race to rebuild the Old...
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Follow the race to rebuild the Old Blenheim Bridge in New York State, an icon of 19th century American engineering, destroyed by Hurricane Irene in 2011. Watch a team of elite craftsmen faithfully reproduce the massive, intricate wooden structure under grueling time pressure as flooding threatens their worksite. In China, witness craftsmen restoring thousand-year-old covered bridges based on ingenious frameworks of woven timber beams. Discover how Chinese artisans are keeping traditional skills alive to ensure the survival of these stunning ancient structures.
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27 June 2018
Rise of the Superstorms
In summer 2017, three monster...
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In summer 2017, three monster hurricanes swept in from the Atlantic one after another, shattering storm records and killing hundreds of people. Dive into the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. How can scientists better predict these storms, and what does the 2017 season tell us about the likelihood of similar storms in the future?
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18 April 2018
Decoding the Weather Machine
Scientists around the world strive...
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Scientists around the world strive for a better understanding of the workings of the weather and climate machine known as Earth.
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28 February 2018
Prediction by the Numbers
A look at why some predictions fail...
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A look at why some predictions fail while others succeed at forecasting the future.
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14 February 2018
Great Escape at Dunkirk
Archaeologists and divers recover...
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Archaeologists and divers recover remains of ships and planes that were lost in Dunkirk, France during World War II.
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07 February 2018
First Face of America
One unlucky day 13,000 years ago, a...
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One unlucky day 13,000 years ago, a slight, malnourished teenager missed her footing and tumbled to the bottom of a 100-foot pit deep inside a cave in Mexico's Yucatán. Rising seas flooded the cave and cut it off from the outside world-until a team of divers chanced upon her nearly complete skeleton in 2007. Intricate detective work reveals that the young woman's bones are among the earliest known human remains in the Americas. What drove her to venture nearly a mile underground inside a vast cave? Where did her people come from, and why does she look so distinct from today's Native Americans? From a stunning Mexico cave to the wilderness of the Yukon, from the genetics lab to the forefront of forensics, NOVA pursues tantalizing new clues that are rewriting the story of the forgotten first people who ventured into our continent.
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31 January 2018
The Impossible Flight
Two pilots fly a solar-powered...
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Two pilots fly a solar-powered airplane around the world.
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10 January 2018
Black Hole Apocalypse
A Two part documentary sharing...
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A Two part documentary sharing detailed information on Black holes.
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08 November 2017
Killer Floods
Geologists examine extreme terrain on...
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Geologists examine extreme terrain on Iceland, the Scablands in Washington State, and submerged in the English channel to see if they were created by the same process, a sudden titanic flood. |
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25 October 2017
Killer Volcanoes
Volcanologists search for an elusive...
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Volcanologists search for an elusive volcanic mega-eruption that plunged the medieval earth into a deep freeze. Investigate the geologic evidence from Greenland all the way to Antarctica to identify the 750-year-old culprit. |
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04 October 2017
Secrets of the Shining Knight
Discover what it was like to be a...
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Discover what it was like to be a knight in shining armor and follow the historic manufacturing process. Master armorers re-engineer the Greenwich armor - considered some of the greatest armor ever made - and then put it to the test. |
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31 May 2017
Poisoned Water
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In this special report, NOVA investigates the water disaster in Flint and unravels a disturbing truth...
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08 February 2017
Ultimate Cruise Ship
Weighing 54,000 gross tons and...
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Weighing 54,000 gross tons and stretching over two football fields, the Seven Seas Explorer is no ordinary boat...
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01 February 2017
Search for the Super Battery
We live in an age when technological...
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We live in an age when technological innovation seems to be limitlessly soaring. But for all the satisfying speed with which our gadgets have improved...
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11 January 2017
The Nuclear Option
Five years after the earthquake and...
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Five years after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the unprecedented trio of meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant...
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04 January 2017
Secrets of the Sky Tombs
The towering Himalayas were among the...
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The towering Himalayas were among the last places on Earth that humanity settled. Scaling sheer cliff sides...
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16 November 2016
Treasures of the Earth: Power
Drill down to discover the treasures...
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Drill down to discover the treasures beneath our feet that power our world. Fossil fuels-coal, oil,...
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09 November 2016
Treasures of the Earth: Metals
Metals are crucial to the...
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Metals are crucial to the technologies that are the foundations of our civilization. These are the stories of the metals and alloys that most transformed our live styles: gold, copper, bronze, iron, steel and aluminum with a bit of speculation about the materials that may transform the future.
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12 October 2016
Super Tunnel
Follow an army of engineers and...
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Follow an army of engineers and designers as they tackle the complex challenge of building Crossrail, a massive new subterranean railway deep beneath the streets of London. |
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05 October 2016
Great Human Odyssey
Numbering no more than a few...
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Numbering no more than a few thousand, tiny groups of intrepid humans began to move out of Africa-eventually dominating the planet...
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11 May 2016
Bombing Hitler's Supergun
Historians and engineers investigate...
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Historians and engineers investigate how Allied forces conspired to destroy Hitler's "supergun". |
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04 May 2016
Operation Lighthouse Rescue
Engineers work to save historic Gay...
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Engineers work to save historic Gay Head Lighthouse on Martha's Vineyard, which is falling victim to the ocean's erosion of the island's cliffs. |
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20 April 2016
Wild Ways
From Yellowstone to the Yukon, to...
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From Yellowstone to the Yukon, to Southern Africa's elephant highways stretching across five nations...
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04 April 2016
Vikings Unearthed
They were pioneering warriors, expert...
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They were pioneering warriors, expert seafarers, and colonists of the North Atlantic realm. The Vikings...
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17 February 2016
Iceman Reborn
Murdered more than 5,000 years ago,...
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Murdered more than 5,000 years ago, Otzi the Iceman is the oldest human mummy on Earth. Now, newly discovered evidence sheds light not only on this mysterious ancient man, but on the dawn of civilization in Europe. |
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03 February 2016
Creatures of Light
Examination of oceanic creatures that...
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Examination of oceanic creatures that light up, whether to scare predators, lure prey or attract mates. And efforts to harness nature's light to track cancer cells, detect pollution, illuminate cities and map the inner workings of the brain are also examined.
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13 January 2016
Life's Rocky Start
Four and a half billion years ago,...
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Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place-a seething chaos of meteorite impacts...
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25 November 2015
Inside Einstein's Mind
Retrace the thought experiments that...
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Retrace the thought experiments that inspired his theory on the nature of reality.
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18 November 2015
Making North America: Human
The influence of geology on the human...
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The influence of geology on the human occupation of North America is described. |
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04 November 2015
Making North America: Origins
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The shaping of North America, including palm trees that once thrived in Alaska and an eruption that nearly tore the Midwest in two. |
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28 October 2015
Animal Mummies
Animal mummies from the Egyptian...
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Animal mummies from the Egyptian catacombs are examined. Also discussed, the role of animals in Egyptian beliefs. |
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14 October 2015
Cyberwar Threat
Cyber weapons have the ability to...
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Cyber weapons have the ability to inflict physical damage on factories, power plants and pipelines. |
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16 September 2015
Dawn of Humanity
NOVA and National Geographic present...
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NOVA and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil human ancestors...
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22 April 2015
Invisible Universe Revealed
Twenty-five years ago, NASA launched...
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Twenty-five years ago, NASA launched one of the most ambitious experiments in the history of astronomy: the Hubble Space Telescope...
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25 February 2015
Hagia Sophia: Istanbul's Mystery
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28 January 2015
Sinkholes-Buried Alive
In Tampa, Florida, in February 2013,...
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In Tampa, Florida, in February 2013, a giant hole opened up under the bedroom floor of Jeffrey Bush...
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21 January 2015
Sunken Ship Rescue
NOVA follows the epic operation to...
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NOVA follows the epic operation to secure, raise and salvage the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which...
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14 January 2015
Big Bang Machine
On July 4, 2012, scientists at the...
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On July 4, 2012, scientists at the giant atom smashing facility at CERN announced the discovery of a...
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03 December 2014
First Man on the Moon
A look inside the life of Neill...
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A look inside the life of Neill Armstrong, the first man on the moon.
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19 November 2014
Killer Landslides
Just before 11 a.m. on March 22,...
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Just before 11 a.m. on March 22, 2014, an ominous rumble startled the residents of the community of Oso...
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24 September 2014
Rise of the Hackers
From PBS and NOVA - Our lives are...
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From PBS and NOVA - Our lives are going digital. We shop, bank and even date online. Computers hold our treasured photographs, private emails, and all of our personal information. This data is precious -- and cybercriminals want it. Now, NOVA goes behind the scenes of the fast-paced world of cryptography to meet the scientists battling to keep our data safe. They are experts in extreme physics, math and a new field called "ultra-paranoid computing," all working to forge unbreakable codes and build ultra-fast computers. From the two men who uncovered the world's most advanced cyber weapon to the computer expert who worked out how to hack into cash machines and scientists who believe they can store a password in your unconscious brain, NOVA investigates how a new global geek squad is harnessing cutting-edge science -- all to stay one step ahead of the hackers.
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10 September 2014
Vaccines - Calling the Shots
From PBS and NOVA - Diseases that...
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From PBS and NOVA - Diseases that were largely eradicated in the United States a generation ago--including whooping cough, measles, mumps--are returning, in part because nervous parents are skipping their children's shots. Vaccines - Calling the Shots, a new NOVA special, takes viewers around the world to track epidemics, explore the science behind vaccinations, and shed light on the risks of opting out. The vast majority of Americans vaccinate their children, and most do it on the recommended schedule. Yet many people have questions about the safety of vaccines, and in some communities, vaccination rates have fallen below the level needed to maintain "herd immunity" --allowing outbreaks to take hold and spread. This film draws on the latest, best available evidence to help parents find the answers. Highlighting real cases and placing them in historical context, Vaccines--Calling the Shots traces outbreaks of communicable diseases and demonstrates just how fast they can spread--and ...
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14 May 2014
Escape from Nazi Alcatraz
From PBS - Colditz Castle, a...
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From PBS - Colditz Castle, a notorious prisoner of war camp in Nazi Germany, was supposed to be escape-proof. But in the dark days at the end of World War II, a group of British officers dreamt up the ultimate escape plan: in a secret attic workshop, they constructed a two-man glider out of bed sheets and floorboards. Their plan was to fly to freedom from the roof of the castle, but the war ended before they could put it to the test. Now a crack team of aero engineers and carpenters rebuild the glider in the same attic using the same materials, and they'll do something the prisoners never got a chance to try: use a bathtub full of concrete to catapult the glider off the roof of the castle. As the hair-raising launch ninety feet up draws near, the program explores the Colditz legend and exposes the secrets of other ingenious and audacious escapes. Then, after a 70-year wait, the team finally finds out if the legendary glider plan would have succeeded.
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23 April 2014
Inside Animal Minds: Who's the Smartest?
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16 April 2014
Inside Animal Minds: Dogs & Super Senses
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12 February 2014
Great Cathedral Mystery
From PBS - The dome that crowns...
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From PBS - The dome that crowns Florence's great cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore -- the Duomo -- is a masterpiece of Renaissance ingenuity and an enduring source of mystery. Still the largest masonry dome on earth, it is taller than the Statue of Liberty and weighs as much as an average cruise ship. Historians and engineers have long debated how its architect, Filippo Brunelleschi, kept the dome perfectly aligned and symmetrical as the sides rose and converged toward the center. More than four million bricks could collapse at any moment -- and we still don't understand how Brunelleschi prevented it. To test the latest theories, a team of U.S. bricklayers will help build an experimental "mini-Duomo" using period tools and techniques.
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05 February 2014
Roman Catacomb Mystery
From PBS - Beneath the streets of...
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From PBS - Beneath the streets of Rome lies an ancient city of the dead known as the catacombs, a labyrinth of tunnels, hundreds of miles long, a cemetery for the citizens of ancient Rome. In 2002, maintenance workers stumbled through an opening in one of the tunnel walls and discovered a previously unknown complex of six small rooms, each stacked floor to ceiling with skeletons. It was a mass grave, locked away for nearly 2,000 years. Who were these people? Why were so many interred in one place, piled atop each other? And most important, what killed them? NOVA's forensic investigation opens up new insights into the daily life and health of Roman citizens during the heyday of the mighty Roman Empire
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29 January 2014
Ghosts of Murdered Kings
From PBS - A corpse found in a bog in...
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From PBS - A corpse found in a bog in the hills of Ireland's County Tipperary dates to the Bronze Age, more than 3,000 years ago. A CAT scan reveals a violent demise: the body covered in axe marks, the spine snapped and the arm broken in two places. NOVA follows archaeologists and forensic experts in their hunt for clues to the identity and the circumstances of this and other violent deaths of victims unearthed in bogs. A new theory suggests that they were ritually murdered kings, slain to assure the fertility of land and people.
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22 January 2014
Killer Typhoon
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From PBS - It was the strongest cyclone to hit land in recorded history. On November 8, 2013, Typhoon Haiyan -- what some are calling "the perfect storm" -- slammed into the Philippines, whipping the low-lying and densely-populated islands with 200 mile-per-hour winds and sending a two-story-high storm surge flooding into homes, schools, and hospitals. It wiped villages off the map and devastated cities, including the hard-hit provincial capital Tacloban. Estimates count more than 5,000 dead and millions homeless. What made Haiyan so destructive? In-depth interviews with the meteorologists charged with tracking and forecasting Pacific storms take us inside the anatomy of the typhoon, tracking its progress from its start as a low-pressure area over Micronesia to its deadly landfall and revealing why the Pacific is such fertile ground for cyclones. But that's just part of the story of why this storm was so deadly.
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15 January 2014
Zeppelin Terror Attack
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From PBS - In the early days of World War I, Germany, determined to bring its British enemies to their knees, launched a new kind of terror campaign: bombing civilians from the sky. But the aircraft delivering the lethal payloads weren't planes. They were Zeppelins, enormous airships, some the length of two football fields. With a team of engineers, explosives experts, and historians, NOVA investigates the secrets behind these deadly war machines. Zeppelin Terror Attack explores the technological arms race that unfolded as Britain desperately scrambled to develop defenses that could neutralize the threat, while Germany responded with ever bigger and more powerful Zeppelins. Why were these German monsters of the sky, filled with highly flammable hydrogen gas, so difficult to shoot down? How were their massive gas bags pieced together from the intestines of millions of cows? Experts reconstruct and detonate deadly WWI incendiary bombs and test fire antique flaming bullets, all to discover how the British came up with the unique artillery that would finally take down the biggest flying machines ever made.
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08 January 2014
Alien Planets Revealed
From PBS - It's a golden age for...
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From PBS - It's a golden age for planet hunters: recently, they've discovered more than 750 planets orbiting stars beyond our sun. Some of them, like a planet called Kepler-22b, might even be able to harbor life. What would that life look like? Combining startling animation with input from expert astrobiologists, Alien Planets Revealed takes viewers on a journey of the imagination as we "build" aliens from the ground up.
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20 November 2013
Asteroid: Doomsday of Payday?
The asteroid that exploded over...
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The asteroid that exploded over Siberia--injuring more than 1,000 and damaging buildings in six cities--was a shocking reminder that Earth is a target in a cosmic shooting range. From the width of a football field to the size of a small city, these space rocks have the potential to be killers. In a collision with Earth, they could set off deadly blast waves, raging fires and colossal tidal waves.
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20 November 2013
At the Edge of Space
Between the blue sky above and the...
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Between the blue sky above and the infinite blackness beyond lies a frontier that scientists have only just begun to investigate. In "At the Edge of Space," NOVA takes viewers on a spectacular exploration of the Earth-space boundary that's home to some of nature's most puzzling and alluring phenomena: the shimmering aurora, streaking meteors, and fleeting flashes that shoot upwards from thunderclouds, known as sprites.
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13 November 2013
Cold Case JFK
From PBS and NOVA: Cold Case JFK. For...
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From PBS and NOVA: Cold Case JFK. For decades, the assassination of John F. Kennedy has fueled dark rumors of conspiracies and mishandled evidence. Now, fifty years later, NOVA asks: Could modern investigators do better? We'll see how state-of-the art forensic tools would be applied to the investigation were it to happen today. At the same time, NOVA takes a critical look at contemporary cases, like the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, to reveal how charges of evidence mishandling and human error can mar even scientifically sophisticated detective work. Will forensics ever be truly foolproof, or does modern technology just give a scientific sheen to a practice that will always be more art than science?
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06 November 2013
Making Stuff Safer
From PBS and NOVA: Is it possible to...
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From PBS and NOVA: Is it possible to engineer an absolutely safe world for ourselves? Host David Pogue explores the extent to which science and technology can protect us from monumental forces of nature such as earthquakes and epidemics. He challenges researchers to save us from dangers of our own making, such as traffic accidents and contact sports. Our increasing reliance on the internet makes us vulnerable to new risks: Pogue delves into cyber security, where computer experts work to shield us from attacks from hackers and terrorists. Risk is all around us -- but we can be smart about it.
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23 October 2013
Making Stuff Wilder
From PBS and NOVA: What happens when...
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From PBS and NOVA: What happens when engineers open up nature's toolbox? David Pogue explores bold innovations inspired by the Earth's greatest inventor, life itself. From underwater wi-fi based on dolphin communication, to robotic "mules" and "cheetahs" for the military, to swarms of robotic bees, Pogue travels the world seeing the "wildest" ideas put into action in new inventions and technologies. It is a journey that sees today's bacteria turned into tomorrow's metallurgists, viruses building batteries, and even DNA, the Code of Life, put to work in "living" computers. Will the stuff of the future take on a life of its own?
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01 May 2013
Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Strange Creatures
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24 April 2013
Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Monsters
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17 April 2013
Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Life Explodes
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03 April 2013
Ancient Computer
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The arms and faces of ancient statuary litter the seabed at the site of a shipwreck off the coast of Greece. But that's not the most interesting find. Encrusted with over 2,000 years of mineral deposits are highly engineered gears clearly visible as part of a mysterious device dating back to about 50 BCE. Using X-ray technology and working off of the realization that the gears' teeth are prime numbers relating to astronomy, the device is revealed to be the earliest known computer used for predicting eclipses and demonstrating planetary motion. Written by
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06 February 2013
Building Pharaoh's Chariot
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07 November 2012
Mystery of Easter Island
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04 May 2010
Mt. St. Helens Back from the Dead
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21 October 2008
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
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17 October 2008
Arctic Dinosaurs
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Dinosaurs are generally considered tropical animals. So what are their fossils doing north of the arctic circle? Paleontologists battle the fierce climate to find out if the arctic was warmer then than it is now, or the arctic was farther from the North Pole, or the dinosaurs were migratory animals, or if they warm blooded.
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13 November 2007
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
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When the school board in Dover, Pennsylvania votes to require science teachers to read a statement touting Intelligent Design as a scientific alternative to Darwin's Theory of Evolution parents sue the district, leading to a trial in which the judge must decide if Intelligent Design is merely a new name for creationism, already banned in public schools as being religious in nature.
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14 February 2006
Jewel of the Earth
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15 November 2005
Newton's Dark Secrets
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America's Stone Age Explorers
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04 November 2003
The Elegant Universe: Welcome to the 11th Dimension (3)
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28 October 2003
The Elegant Universe: String's the Thing (2)
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29 October 2002
Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
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12 February 1997
Secrets of Lost Empires: Colosseum (4)
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12 February 1997
Secrets of Lost Empires: Obelisk (3)
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11 February 1997
Secrets of Lost Empires: Inca (2)
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11 February 1997
Secrets of Lost Empires: Stonehenge (1)
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