Video: NOVA scienceNOW
NOVA presents a new episode of "NOVA scienceNOW," the innovative news magazine designed to help viewers keep up with advances in science and technology. Hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the program draws on a range of stories from repairing the Hubble telescope, to the mystery of the Northern Lights to a profile of famed glaciologist Lonnie Thompson.
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NOVA scienceNOW | Kingdom of the Leeches | PBS (#305)
Meet the terrifying, bloodsucking, decorated leech! Neil deGrasse Tyson embarks on a quest with leech expert Mark Siddall in the swamps of Connecticut to seek out the infamous decorated leech. 04:14
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NOVA scienceNOW | Hello, this is Earth | PBS (#305)
If Earth received a message from outer space what, if anything, would we say back? Jill Tartar, director of the SETI Institute, has thought long and hard about what we could, should, and would say to ... 04:58
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NOVA scienceNOW | Free the Fossils! | PBS (#303)
How do paleontologists get fossils out of the rocks they find them in? Watch as scientists free a fossil from the rock in which it is embedded. 01:16
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NOVA scienceNOW | Life of an Astronaut | PBS (#303)
Hubble veteran, Mike Massimino, tells it like it is—the good and bad of being an astronaut. 04:40
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NOVA scienceNOW | Personal Genome Project | PBS (#302)
The Personal Genome Project, spearheaded by George Church, the Director of Harvard’s Center for Computational Genetics, aims to recruit 100,000 people to offer up their DNA and personal life histories, ... 03:20
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NOVA scienceNOW | A Forgery Is Made | PBS (#302)
Watch step by step as an artist creates a replica of a famous van Gogh painting. Can you tell the genuine article from the forgery? 01:06
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NOVA scienceNOW | The Dark Matter Mystery | PBS (#301)
We can’t see dark matter, and some skeptics doubt its existence, but many scientists think it makes up 20-some percent of our universe. 04:38
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NOVA scienceNOW | Wisdom of the Crowds | PBS (#301)
Ask enough people to estimate something, and the average of all their guesses will get you surprisingly close to the right answer. 04:50
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NOVA scienceNOW | A Day At The (Mouse) Beach | PBS (#301)
Can this soggy mouse swim to dry land?Find out how mice learn their way to shore, and how they can regain that knowledge after memory loss. 00:37
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NOVA scienceNOW | Amazing Atoms | PBS
Throw away your textbooks. Here is the latest, atomically correct, version of our old friend, the atom. 01:37
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NOVA scienceNOW | Journey Through the Center of the Earth
Ever wonder what would happen if you dug a whole from one side of the Earth, through the center, out the other side, and then jumped in? 02:00
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NOVA scienceNOW | Twin Prime Conjecture | PBS
New insight into a 2,300-year-old mystery surrounding prime numbers inspires a song. 02:16
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NOVAscienceNOW | Dark Matter Mystery | PBS (#301)
We can't see dark matter, and some skeptics doubt its existence, but many scientists think it makes up 20-some percent of our universe. Astronomer Doug Clowe explains how the Bullet Cluster, a group ... 04:39
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NOVA scienceNOW | Code Breakers Unite! | PBS
For all you amateur code breakers out there NOVA scienceNOW has a puzzler for you to figure out. Bring out your inner Sherlock Holmes and give it your best shot! 00:42
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NOVA scienceNOW | Did You Know? | PBS
NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson introduces the summer season and asks and answers interesting science related questions. "Did you know that more stars in the universe then there are grains ... 01:13
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NOVA scienceNOW | Sleepless Surgeons | PBS
Jeff Ellenbogen at Harvard Medical School is hard at work on a study to find out how sleep affects the learning and performance of surgical skills. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the host of NOVA scienceNOW, visits ... 03:10
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NOVA scienceNOW | Snail Slime | PBS
What do get when you cross the world's most famous slowpoke with some of MIT's latest high-tech robotics? Anna Lee Strachan, an associate producer for NOVA scienceNOW, finds out. Video podcast written ... 03:56
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NOVA scienceNOW | An Elevator To Space? | PBS
Join NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson as he visits the LiftPort Group in Bremerton, Washington. The entrepreneurs and engineers at LiftPort think space elevators aren't just a wild idea; they've ... 02:52
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NOVA scienceNOW | Friendly Robots Slide Show | PBS
Cynthia Breazeal, Director of the Robotic Life Group at the MIT Media Lab, builds some of the world's most sociable robots. In this slide show, she introduces a few of her favorite non-human companions. ... 04:15
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NOVA scienceNOW | Surreal Set Tour | PBS
NOVA scienceNOW producer Vin Liota leads you on a virtual tour of the show's unusual set. NOVA scienceNOW airs five Tuesdays a year on PBS and is available for viewing 365 days a year online. This video ... 01:59
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