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 | Absolute Zero
The story of the harnessing of cold and the race to reach the lowest temperature possible |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Arlie Petters
A boy from a rural village in Belize grows up to become a world-class mathematician and cosmologist. |
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 | Avalanche!
Scientists take you inside a snow slide to unlock its deadly secrets. |
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 | Balloon Race Around the World
Delve into the history and science of ballooning, and follow some of the attempts in the '90s to be the first to circumnavigate the globe. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: CERN
Beneath the Alps, the mother of all particle accelerators nears completion. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Dark Matter
Turns out most of the universe is held together by a mysterious, invisible substance. |
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 | Death Star
Astronomers investigate gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful celestial explosions since the big bang. |
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 | Decoding Nazi Secrets
Allied technologies developed at Britain's Station X helped halt the onslaught of the Third Reich and set the stage for today's computers. |
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 | Dirty Bomb
Radiation experts play out a frightening terrorist scenario—exploding a bomb laden with radioactive materials. |
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 | Einstein's Big Idea
The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2 |
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 | Einstein Revealed
Meet the young patent clerk whose ideas about light, space, and time have transformed our view of the universe. |
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 | Elegant Universe, The
Eleven dimensions, parallel universes, and a world made out of strings. It's not science fiction, it's string theory. |
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 | Fall of the Leaning Tower
An international committee of engineers and architects race to prevent the toppling of Pisa's famous monument. |
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 | Faster than Sound
Top test pilots describe the dangers, mysteries, and thrill of being the first to fly at supersonic speed. |
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 | Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
Galileo struggles to persuade church authorities of the truth behind his astonishing discoveries about the cosmos. |
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 | Ghost Particle, The
A 40-year hunt for solar neutrinos leads to a new understanding of matter itself. |
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 | Hunting the Hidden Dimension
Mysteriously beautiful fractals are shaking up the world of mathematics and deepening our understanding of nature. |
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 | Infinite Secrets
A battered manuscript turns up after 1,000 years, revealing the mind of the Greek genius Archimedes. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Island of Stability
Follow the decades-long quest to create the elusive element 114. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Kryptos
A coded sculpture at CIA headquarters has yet to be fully broken. |
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 | Magnetic Storm
Is the magnetic field protecting Earth from deadly radiation about to reverse direction or even disappear? |
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 | Newton's Dark Secrets
Sir Isaac Newton, the eccentric genius who helped define modern science, was also an obsessive alchemist. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: James McLurkin
James McLurkin of MIT is one of the world's leading designers of robot "swarms"—groups of robots that work together for a greater purpose. |
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 | Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
Join Mark Everett on his quixotic quest to understand his father Hugh, creator of a radical theory of quantum physics. |
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 | Proof, The
Princeton math sleuth Andrew Wiles goes undercover for eight years to solve history's most famous math problem: Fermat's Last Theorem. |
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 | Runaway Universe
Astronomers grapple with some very big questions: what is the size and shape of the universe, and how will it end? |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: The Search for ET
Astronomers have their radio telescopes tuned to receive signals from alien worlds. But is anybody out there? |
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 | Secrets, Lies & Atomic Spies
NOVA looks back to the 1940s, when American spies passed their country's deepest scientific secrets to the Soviets. |
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 | Secrets of Easter Island
A team attempts to recreate the original islanders' success at moving and erecting giant moai statues. |
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 | Secrets of Lost Empires II: China Bridge
Two teams working from opposite sides of a turbulent river attempt to build a 12th-century Chinese bridge. |
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| Secrets of Lost Empires II: Easter Island
How did the ancient Easter Islanders move and erect giant stone statues? Our team tests one theory. |
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 | Secrets of Lost Empires II: Medieval Siege
Two teams set out to build precise replicas of a fearsome medieval weapon—the trebuchet. |
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 | Secrets of Lost Empires II: Pharaoh's Obelisk
Experts take on the challenge of raising a 40-ton obelisk without using modern technology. |
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 | Secrets of Lost Empires II: Roman Bath
NOVA sets out to create a working Roman bath, complete with hot tubs and underfloor heating. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Space Storms
Behind the dazzling display of the aurora borealis are space storms that could turn the lights off here on Earth. |
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 | Super Bridge
Engineers solve a unique set of problems in safety, aesthetics, and cost as they build a bridge over the Mississippi River. |
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 | Time Travel
Is time travel anything more than sci-fi fantasy? Leading physicists ponder building a time machine. |
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 | Trillion Dollar Bet
An elegant mathematical formula attracts Wall Street's attention and spawns a multi-trillion-dollar industry. |
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 | What's Up with the Weather?
FRONTLINE and NOVA take on a complex and critical phenomenon—global warming. |
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