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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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NATURE | Kilauea: Mountain of Fire | Song of Pele | PBS (#2609)
Pele, the Hawaiian volcano goddess, sings a continuous chorus beneath the surface of the Earth. Geophysicist Milton Garces uses infrasonic technology to listen in on what's happening in Kilauea's lava ... 06:17
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Wonders Are Many | Film Clip 4 (#1008)
An atomic bomb set piece moves through the streets of San Francisco, arriving at the Opera House. 01:37
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Wonders Are Many | Film Clip 3 (#1008)
Evoking the excitement of impending disaster, Director Peter Sellars coaxes the chorus to sing as if their lives depended on it. 00:54
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INDEPENDENT LENS | Wonders Are Many | Film Clip 2 (#1008)
Testing of the first-ever nuclear explosion, as planned by J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, is translated into song. 01:18
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INDEPENDENT LENS | The Atom Smashers | Film Clip 3 | PBS (#1006)
When the Tevitron breaks down, it's described by the head of accelerator operations as a "10-alarm fire." 04:03
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INDEPENDENT LENS | The Atom | Film Clip 2 | PBS (#1006)
The staff at Fermilab absorbs the news that funding has been cut for the Tevitron particle accelerator. 03:23
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INDEPENDENT LENS | The Atom Smashers | Trailer | PBS (#1006)
THE ATOM SMASHERS chronicles three years in a decades-long international race to find one of the most elusive sub-atomic particles ever theorized: the Higgs boson. 02:58
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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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WIRED SCIENCE | Perfect Water | PBS
Hollywood film studios have been using computers to create special effects for years. But to make computer-generated water look real on the big screen, you have to understand some pretty complicated physics. ... 00:43
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WIRED SCIENCE | Experiment Cave | PBS
We head to two underground labs that are hunting down neutrinos, the most elusive particles in the universe, in hopes of answering some of humankind's most fundamental questions. We'll find out why ... 02:09
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