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How to Find an Exoplanet
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Want to find another world beyond our solar system? Here are the 5 ways you can do it.
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Video description: Cold is the new hot in this brave new world. For centuries we've fought it, shunned it, and huddled against it. Cold has always been the enemy of life, but now it may hold the key to a new generation of science and technology that will improve our lives. In "Making Stuff: Colder," David Pogue explores the frontiers of cold science from saving the lives of severe trauma patients to ultracold physic
Want to find another world beyond our solar system? Here are the 5 ways you can do it.
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Follow the emergency in Flint from the switch in water supply to today’s health crisis.
Actor Joe Morton, narrator of “Poisoned Water,” discusses the Flint water crisis.
The WannaCry cyberattack cost the economy billions of dollars. Here's why that's scary.
LeeAnne Walters, of Flint, Michigan, helps save the city from a lead water crisis.
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In this special report, NOVA investigates what happened in Flint, Michigan when local officials changed the city’s water source to save money, but overlooked a critical treatment process. As the water pipes corroded, lead leached into the system, exposing the community—including thousands of children—to dangerous levels of poison. NOVA uncovers the science behind this manmade disaster.
Gross Science explores hand hygiene, with some help from the show Clean My Space.
For almost 13 years, the spacecraft Cassini has been in the Saturn system, documenting the planet and its moons. Cassini’s days are numbered—on 15 September, it will be sent hurtling towards Saturn. But just because it’s running out of fuel doesn’t mean it’s running out of fire. Cassini has a lot more science to do in its final chapter.
During WWII, Nazis forced Samuel Bak and his family out of their home in Vilna, Lithuania.
In a forest in Lithuania, a team of scientists searches for traces of a vanished people.
At ground zero for the final solution, scientists uncover a story of hope and bravery.
Hana Amir describes her father escaping the Holocaust through a tunnel he helped to dig.
Jewish scholars in Lithuania risked death in WWII to save their literature from the Nazis.
Esia Friedman tells the story of how her family made it through the Holocaust alive.
Zalman Matzkin narrowly escaped the Holocaust in Lithuania, managing to build a new life.
In Lithuania during WWII, Abe Gol’s father led Jewish prisoners in a tunnel escape.