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 | A Memorable Snail | PBS
In this short video, UCLA's David Glanzman shows what a spineless sea snail can teach us about our brains. 04:02
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NOVA scienceNOW | Martian Salt | PBS (#405)
If cellulose survived 250 million years on Earth, could it survive in salt deposits on Mars? 03:06
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NOVA scienceNOW | Blocking Bitter Taste | PBS (#404)
Meet a genetically modified mouse that can't sense bitter. 03:08
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NOVA scienceNOW | Going Lunar or Less | PBS
See how a mission to search for water on the moon is exploring a big question on a small budget. 03:10
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NOVA scienceNOW | Aiding Aging Muscles | PBS
See how "exercise in a pill" could one day help the elderly and the bedridden. 03:55
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NOVA scienceNOW | Hunt for Alien Earths, Art Authentication, Maydianne Andrade, Autism Genes | PBS (#402)
Full Program: Season 4: Episode 2 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 source; ... 52:02
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NOVA scienceNOW | Detecting Life | PBS
Once we find a planet that has Earth-like potential, how can we tell if there is life on it? Harvard astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger explains how scientists might sniff out life by looking at the planet's ... 04:07
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NOVA scienceNOW | Dark Matter, Of Mice and Memory, Hany Farid, Wisdom of the Crowds | PBS (#301)
Full Program: The third season of NOVA's fast-paced and provocative science magazine 51:49
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NOVA scienceNOW | Leeches, The Search for ET, Stem Cell Breakthroughs, Edith Widder | PBS (#305)
Full Program: The third season of NOVA's fast-paced and provocative science magazine 51:58
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NOVA scienceNOW | Saving Hubble, First Primates, Alfredo Quinones Hinojosa, Killer Microbe | PBS (#303)
Full Program: The third season of NOVA's fast-paced and provocative science magazine 51:45
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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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