Video: NOVA scienceNOW
This science magazine series features four stories in each themed episode, tackling an array of thought-provoking topics.
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NOVA scienceNOW | What Will the Future Be Like? | PBS (#606)
Full Program: Meet the people building tomorrow’s robots, mind-reading machines, and more. 52:43
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NOVA scienceNOW | What Are Animals Thinking? | PBS (#605)
Full Program: Probe animal morality, the "swarm intelligence" of a beehive, and more. 53:37
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NOVA scienceNOW | Can I Eat That? | PBS (#604)
Full Program: Learn about the neuroscience of taste, what makes a Thanksgiving turkey savory, and more. 53:37
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NOVA scienceNOW | How Smart Can We Get? | PBS (#603)
Full Program: See inside Einstein’s brain, boost your memory, meet post-injury savants, and more. 53:37
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NOVA scienceNOW | Can Science Stop Crime? | PBS (#602)
Full Program: Explore the genetics behind criminal minds, the latest in lie detection, and more. 53:10
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NOVA scienceNOW | What Makes Us Human? | PBS (#601)
Full Program: Find out if you’re part Neanderthal, what language may owe to tool-making, and more. 53:37
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NOVA scienceNOW | Where Did We Come From? | PBS (#505)
Full Program: Explore the origin of our solar system and the start of life itself. 51:30
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NOVA scienceNOW | What's The Next Big Thing? | PBS (#506)
Full Program: Greet the future: social robots, a "smart" electric grid & microbes that make diesel fuel. 52:39
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NOVA scienceNOW | How Smart Are Animals? | PBS (#504)
Full Program: Dogs, dolphins, parrots and even octopuses (mere mollusks!) may be smarter than you think. 53:06
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NOVA scienceNOW | How Does the Brain Work? | PBS (#503)
Full Program: Explore the psychology of magic tricks, magnetic wands, artificial intelligence, and more. 53:06
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NOVA scienceNOW | Can We Make It to Mars? | PBS (#501)
Full Program: See new space suits, foods, plasma rockets, and meet a Mars rover driver. 53:06
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NOVA scienceNOW | Saving Hubble Update, Gangster Birds, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, How Memory Works | PBS (#407)
Full Program: The repair mission for the Hubble space telescope, as astronauts try to fix crucial equipment that was not designed to be repaired in orbit; common backyard birds with a dark secret, and a clue that... 52:47
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NOVA scienceNOW | Bird Brains, Space Storms, Profile: Yoky Matsuoka, Smart Bridges | PBS (#304)
Full Program: “Finch Brains”--What can the songs of zebra finches tells us about the human evolution of language? A lot more than we once thought. The way a finch learns to sing is similar to the way babies... 51:53
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NOVA scienceNOW | Moon Smasher, Secrets in the Salt, Bird Brains, Lonnie Thompson (#405)
Full Program: Moon Smasher, Secrets in the Salt, Bird Brains, Lonnie Thompson 52:28
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NOVA scienceNOW | The Science of Picky Eaters, Smart Sea Lions and Talking Walruses, Sangeeta Bhatia, Capturing Carbon | PBS (#404)
Full Program: The Science of Picky Eaters, Smart Sea Lions and Talking Walruses, Sangeeta Bhatia, Capturing Carbon 52:23
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NOVA scienceNOW | Marathon Mouse, Dinosaur Plague, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Space Storms | PBS (#403)
Full Program: Two drugs that may help kids with muscular dystrophy or the frail elderly, who don’t have the option of hopping on a treadmill to build strength and endurance; renowned paleontologist George... 52:32
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NOVA scienceNOW | Public Genomes, Algae Fuel, Mystery of the Gakkel Ridge, Yoky Matsuoka | PBS (#406)
Full Program: The implications of the personal genetic profile, which will predict a person’s chances of contracting one of several serious diseases; a visit to a Texas algae farm, where researchers are creating... 52:48
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NOVA scienceNOW | Hunt for Alien Earths, Art Authentication, Maydianne Andrade, Autism Genes | PBS (#402)
Full Program: Astronomers on the brink of finding “another Earth” in our galaxy, using a new planet-hunting machine: the Kepler telescope; Rudy Tanzi, a pioneer in discovering genes for Alzheimer’s disease, and... 52:19
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NOVA scienceNOW | Diamond Factory, Anthrax Investigation, Auto-Tune, Luis von Ahn | PBS (#401)
Full Program: Breakthroughs in the engineering of artificial diamonds; the science that went into solving the deadly post-9/11 anthrax attacks and the ingenious technique researchers developed to pinpoint the... 52:02
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NOVA scienceNOW | Dark Matter, Of Mice and Memory, Hany Farid, Wisdom of the Crowds | PBS (#301)
Full Program: “Dark Matter”--Host Neil deGrasse Tyson reports from a half-mile underground in an abandoned mine, where scientists are using special detectors to look for evidence of a ghostly substance that they... 51:49
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