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Algae Fuel
Original Air Date: 8/18/09 |
Season 4, Episode 6
Date Added: 7/30/11
This episode of NOVA scienceNOW takes a closer look at algae and asks if it may be our biofuel of the future.
Autism Genes
Original Air Date: 7/7/09 |
Season 4, Episode 2
Date Added: 7/30/11
This episode of NOVA scienceNOW introduces Rudy Tanzi, a pioneer in discovering genes for Alzheimers disease, now turning his attention to autism.
Can We Live Forever?
Original Air Date: 1/26/11 |
Season 5, Episode 2
Date Added: 7/30/11
Episode includes: Can My Car Live Forever?; Body Shop for Body Parts; Can We Slow Down Aging?; Human Hibernation; and Profile: Jason Leigh
Can We Make It To Mars?
Original Air Date: 1/19/11 |
Season 5, Episode 1
Date Added: 8/1/11
Episode includes: Space Dangers; Next-Generation Space Suits; Space Food; Space Rockets; and Profile: Vandi Verma
Capturing Carbon
Original Air Date: 7/21/09 |
Season 4, Episode 4
Date Added: 7/30/11
This episode of NOVA scienceNOW looks to an eighth graders science fair project to help tackle rising levels of carbon dioxide.
Climate Scientist Lonnie Thompson
Original Air Date: 7/28/09 |
Season 4, Episode 5
Date Added: 7/30/11
This episode of NOVA scienceNOW profiles climatologist Lonnie Thompson, a recent winner of the prestigious National Medal of Science, who has been...
Diamond Factory
Original Air Date: 6/30/09 |
Season 4, Episode 1
Date Added: 7/30/11
This episode of NOVA scienceNOW travels to a top-secret diamond farm to investigate breakthroughs in engineering artificial diamonds.
Earthquakes In The Midwest
Original Air Date: 9/1/09 |
Season 4, Episode 8
Date Added: 7/30/11
This episode of NOVA scienceNOW explores new data from cave stalagmites and the Mississippi riverbed to understand earthquakes that strike in the...
How Does The Brain Work?
Original Air Date: 2/2/11 |
Season 5, Episode 3
Date Added: 8/2/11
Episode includes: Magic and the Brain; Can Machines Think Like Us?; Magnetic Mind Control; and Profile: David Eagleman
How Smart are Animals?
Original Air Date: 2/9/11 |
Season 5, Episode 4
Date Added: 8/1/11
Episode includes: How Smart are Dogs? How Smart are Dolphins? How Smart is an Octopus? and Profile: Irene Pepperberg and Alex
Rocket Scientist Franklin Chang-Diaz
Original Air Date: 7/14/09 |
Season 4, Episode 3
Date Added: 7/30/11
This episode of NOVA scienceNOW profiles Franklin Chang-Diaz, designer of a revolutionary new rocket that could power a new generation of space...
Saving Hubble
Original Air Date: 8/25/09 |
Season 4, Episode 7
Date Added: 7/30/11
This episode of NOVA scienceNOW takes a close look at one of NASA's most complex missions: to repair the Hubble telescope.
What's The Next Big Thing?
Original Air Date: 2/23/11 |
Season 5, Episode 6
Date Added: 8/1/11
Episode includes: Social Robots; Robotic Cars; Detecting Earthquakes; Smart Grid; and Profile: Jay Keasling
Where Did We Come From?
Original Air Date: 2/16/11 |
Season 5, Episode 5
Date Added: 8/1/11
Episode includes: Origins of the Solar System; Revealing the Origins of Life; Lice and Human Evolution; and Profile: Andre Fenton