Video: Topics: Technology: Space
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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 | 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 | 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 | Going Lunar for Less | PBS (#405)
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 | Detecting Life | PBS (#402)
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... 04:07
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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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NOVA scienceNOW | Leeches, The Search for ET, Stem Cell Breakthroughs, Edith Widder | PBS (#305)
Full Program: “Leeches”--Leeches, those innocent bloodsuckers, have been bad-mouthed to the point that they’ve become synonymous with obnoxious freeloaders. Even host Neil deGrasse Tyson is creeped out while... 51:58
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NOVA scienceNOW | Saving Hubble, First Primates, Alfredo Quinones Hinojosa, Killer Microbe | PBS (#303)
Full Program: “Hubble Repair”--NOVA scienceNOW covers the upcoming repair mission for the Hubble space telescope — one of the most famous orbiting telescopes — which has advanced our knowledge of the... 51:45
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NOVA | Monster of the Milky Way | PBS (#3314)
Full Program: Does a supermassive black hole lurk at the center of our galaxy? 51:53
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NOVA | Sputnik Declassified | PBS (#3415)
Full Program: Top-secret documents rewrite the history of the famous satellite and the space race. 52:37
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NOVA | Space Shuttle Disaster | PBS (#3512)
Full Program: An investigation uncovers the failures and design flaws behind the 2003 Columbia tragedy. 52:18
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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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Phoenix Mars Mission: Ashes to Ice | PBS
Full Program: This film chronicles the meticulous preparation through blastoff of the The Phoenix Mars Mission. 56:05
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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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