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PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA programs demystify science and technology and highlight the people involved in scientific pursuits.
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NOVA | The Big Energy Gamble | PBS (#3519)
Full Program: Can California's ambitious plan to cut greenhouse gases actually succeed? 52:27
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NOVA | Is There Life on Mars? | PBS (#3518)
Full Program: The search for life on the Red Planet heats up with the discovery of frozen water. 51:57
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NOVA | Ocean Animal Emergency | PBS (#3517)
Full Program: Wildlife veterinarians struggle to save injured seals and sea lions. 52:41
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NOVA | Doctors' Diaries | PBS (#3608)
Full Program: Seven doctors, 21 years... Saving lives is only part of the story. 01:42:11
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NOVA | Last Extinction | PBS (#3607)
Full Program: Scientists propose a radical idea of what killed off mammoths and other Ice Age animals. 52:10
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NOVA | Extreme Ice | PBS (#3604)
Full Program: An acclaimed photographer joins scientists to document the runaway melting of glaciers. 52:51
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NOVA | Rat Attack | PBS (#3603)
Full Program: Why do huge swarms of rats overrun a bamboo forest in India once every half-century? 52:46
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NOVA | The Bible's Buried Secrets | PBS (#3516)
Full Program: An archeological detective story traces the origins of the Hebrew Bible. 01:51:29
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NOVA | Secrets of the Lost Empire | Easter Island | PBS (#1607)
Full Program: Travel to Easter Island to discover the secrets of this vanished civilization through the "moai," the massive headstones that these ancient islanders created to achieve peace and harmony, yet resulted ... 54:38
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NOVA | Lost King of the Maya | PBS (#2804)
Full Program: In an ancient Mayan arena, enemies of notorious King Yax kõuk Mo square off in a ball game that appears much like modern soccer. But in this fateful contest, winners live and losers lose their heads. 54:17
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NOVA | MARS Dead or Alive | PBS (#3101)
Full Program: Go inside NASA's risky field trip to the red planet in this tense and dramatic behind-the-scenes chronicle of the $820 million Mars Exploration Rover (MER) project. 54:24
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NOVA | The Great Robot Race | PBS (#3308)
Full Program: Twenty-three bizarre looking vehicles line up at the gate of the DARPA Grand Challenge with one thing in common: there's nobody behind the wheel. 52:51
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NOVA | Battle of the X-Planes | PBS (#3004)
Full Program: NOVA goes behind the doors of Boeing's Phantom Works and Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works to record classified meetings, flies the most revolutionary planes, and examines the high-stakes battle to build ... 01:53:44
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NOVA | Extreme Ice | PBS
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/extremei... Remarkable time-lapse footage by James Balog, one of the world’s foremost nature photographers, reveals massive glaciers and ice sheets splitting apart, collapsing, ... 01:29
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NOVA | Lord of the Ants | PBS (#3510)
Full Program: Every so often a giant emerges on the stage of science, someone who transcends the narrow boundaries of a particular line of research and alters our perspective on the world. EO Wilson is such a man. 52:53
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NOVA | Astrospies | PBS (#3501)
Full Program: Millions remember the countdowns, launchings, splashdowns and parades as the US raced the USSR to the Moon in the 1960s, but few know that both superpowers also ran parallel covert space programs to launch ... 53:13
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NOVA | Car of the Future | PBS (#3509)
Full Program: Tom Magliozzi has a problem. The wacky co-host of NPR's Car Talk needs to replace his beloved 1952 MG roadster. But where do you turn to in today's car market? Is new technology about to transform the ... 53:23
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NOVA | The Four-Winged Dinosaur | PBS (#3502)
Full Program: Long ago in the age of dinosaurs, a volcano in eastern China erupted and buried a host of strange creatures in ash, creating exquisite fossils that preserved a big surprise--many dinosaurs were covered ... 53:19
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NOVA | Cracking the Maya Code | PBS (#3508)
Full Program: The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind a riddle: an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script carved on stone monuments and painted on pottery and bark books. Because the invading ... 52:49
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NOVA | Absolute Zero | PBS (#3504)
Full Program: What is cold? How do you achieve it, and how cold can it get? 01:43:24
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