Smartest Machine on Earth: Preview
Jeopardy! challenges even the best human minds. Can a computer win the game?
Making Stuff: Cleaner Preview
Can innovative materials help solve the energy crisis and lead to a sustainable future? David Pogue investigates.
Making Stuff: Smaller Preview
Future technologies will depend on tiny stuff -- from new kinds of silicon chips to micro-robots that probe the human body. 8/21/2013
Making Stuff: Stronger Preview
David Pogue tests his mettle against the world's strongest stuff, from steel and Kevlar to bioengineered silk. 8/21/2013
Making Stuff Preview
Technology reporter David Pogue hosts a 4-part special series exploring the materials that will shape our future. Wednesdays starting January 19, 2011
Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold Preview
"Absolute Zero" presents the epic story of humanity's struggle to master extreme cold. This NOVA special re-creates groundbreaking discoveries across four centuries that expanded our knowledge of low temperatures and led ultimately to today's cutting edge "cold technologies."
Emergency Mine Rescue Preview
This film chronicles the fate of the 33 miners trapped in a collapsed Chilean gold and copper mine in August 2010 and investigates the many challenges faced by both the miners and those working around the clock to bring them safely to the surface. NOVA was on-site at the San José mine in Chile by early September.
Building the Great Cathedrals Preview
Learn how medieval builders raised Gothic cathedrals to such spectacular heights.
Hunting the Edge of Space, Part 2 - Pre
Investigate the universe’s distant past, and dark matter and dark energy — the unsolved mysteries of the cosmos. 12/5/2012
Hunting the Edge of Space: Mystery of the Milky Way Preview
Get up close with today’s most powerful telescopes. 11/28/2012
Extreme Cave Diving | Preview
A team of intrepid scientists journey into one of Earth's most dangerous and beautiful underwater frontiers.
What Are Dreams - Preview
Find out what scientists know about dreams: what they are and why we have them. 8/22/2012
Becoming Human Full Series Preview
Where did we come from? What makes us human? An explosion of recent discoveries sheds light on these questions, and NOVA's comprehensive, three-part special, "Becoming Human," examines what the latest scientific research reveals about our hominid relatives.
Becoming Human Part 3 Preview
NOVA examines the fate of the Neanderthals, our European cousins who died out as modern humans spread from Africa into Europe during the Ice Age. Did modern humans interbreed with Neanderthals or exterminate them? The program explores crucial evidence from the recent decoding of the Neanderthal genome.
Becoming Human Part 2 Preview
NOVA investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us–"Turkana Boy"–an astonishingly complete specimen of Homo erectus found by the famous Leakey team in Kenya. These early humans are thought to have developed key innovations that helped them thrive, including hunting large prey, the use of fire, and extensive social bonds.
Becoming Human Part 1 Preview
First Steps: 6 million years ago, what set our ancestors on the path from ape to human? The first part of NOVA's comprehensive, three-part special "Becoming Human" examines the factors that caused us to split from the other great apes. The television program premiers on PBS on Tuesday, November 3rd.
Put A Lid on It
Bill Nye, TV's "Science Guy," conducts a pasta-making experiment that can save energy.
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