Nova (2008)
Science documentaries.
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Episode 1 - Engineering Ground Zero
Release Date: 6 Sep. 2011On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, NOVA presents an epic story of engineering, innovation and the perseverance of the human spirit.
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Episode 2 - Surviving the Tsunami
Release Date: 2011Add a Plot
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Episode 3 - Finding Life Beyond Earth
Release Date: 19 Oct. 2011Scientists are on the verge of answering one of the greatest questions in history: Are we alone? Finding Life Beyond Earth immerses audiences in the sights and sounds of alien worlds, while top astrobiologists explain how these places are changing how we think about the potential for life in our solar system.
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Episode 5 - The Fabric of the Cosmos: What is Space?
Release Date: 2011Simple, obvious, ever-present aspects of our daily lives give scientists fits trying to understand them. One of these aspects is space which physicists are convinced is something more than nothing. This program explains the experiments that are giving scientists hints about what space is.
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Episode 6 - The Fabric of the Cosmos: The Illusion of Time
Release Date: 2011This program challenges our traditional questions about time such as; does it flow in one direction or does it flow at all? Does everyone experience the same now? Is time travel possible? Will time come to an end?
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Episode 7 - The Fabric of the Cosmos: Quantum Leap
Release Date: 16 Nov. 2011This program explains some of the weirdest aspects of quantum mechanics: uncertainty and entanglement. Despite the absurdity of these behaviors they have been confirmed time and again and have never been refuted. Lastly the theory that suggests the possibility that teleportation and quantum computers may be possible are examined.
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Episode 8 - The Fabric of the Cosmos: Universe or Multiverse?
Release Date: 2011Hard as it is to swallow, cutting-edge theories are suggesting that our universe may not be the only universe. Instead, it may be just one of an infinite number of worlds that make up the multiverse. In this show, Brian Greene takes us on a tour of this brave new theory at the frontier of physics, explaining why scientists believe it's true and showing what some of these alternate realities might be like.
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Episode 9 - Deadliest Volcanoes
Release Date: 4 Jan. 2012Millions of people around the world live in the shadow of active volcanoes. Under constant threat of massive volcanic eruptions, their homes and their lives are daily at risk from these sleeping giants. From Japan's Mount Fuji to the "Sleeping Giant" submerged beneath Naples to the Yellowstone "supervolcano" in the United States, we will travel with scientists from around the world who are at work on these sites, attempting to discover how likely these volcanoes are to erupt, when it might happen, and exactly how deadly they could prove to be.
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Episode 10 - Bombing Hitler's Dams
Release Date: 11 Jan. 2012The physics and design of the World War II Dambuster attack are examined and recreated.
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Episode 11 - 3D Spies of WWII
Release Date: 18 Jan. 2012The story of British aerial military photographic reconnaissance and analysis using stereoscopic viewing techniques during World War II.
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Episode 12 - Mystery of a Masterpiece
Release Date: 25 Jan. 2012NOVA meets a new breed of experts who are approaching "cold case" art mysteries as if they were crime scenes, determined to discover "who committed the art," and follows art sleuths as they deploy new techniques to combat the multi-billion dollar criminal market in stolen and fraudulent art.
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Episode 13 - Ice Age Death Trap
Release Date: 2012In a race against developers in the Rocky Mountains, archaeologists uncover a unique fossil site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons, and other giant extinct beasts. The discovery opens a highly focused window on the vanished world of the Ice Age in North America.
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Episode 14 - Separating Twins
Release Date: 8 Feb. 2012Witness the extraordinary surgery that will allow twin girls, born joined at the head, to live separate lives.
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Episode 16 - Cracking Your Genetic Code
Release Date: 28 Mar. 2012Those in the know contend that soon gene sequencing will be cheap enough that anyone can have their genome deciphered. This program shows how confusing this knowledge can be as people struggle with how to chart their lives and protect their privacy. But it is also leading to promising treatments for previously intractable diseases and patients with mysterious illnesses.
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Episode 17 - Hunting the Elements
Release Date: 2012Where do nature's building blocks, called the elements, come from? They're the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our bodies to the metals in our smartphones. Watch as David Pogue unlocks their secrets.
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Episode 18 - Deadliest Tornadoes
Release Date: 2012In 2011, the worst tornado season in decades left a trail of destruction across the U.S., killing more than 550 people. Why was there such an extreme outbreak? How do such outbreaks form? With modern warning systems, why did so many die? Is our weather getting more extreme - and if so how bad will it get? In this NOVA special, we meet scientists striving to understand the forces at work behind last year's outbreak. Could their work improve tornado prediction in the future? We also meet people whose lives have been upended by these extreme weather events and and learn ...
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Episode 19 - Why Ships Sink
Release Date: 18 Apr. 2012NOVA looks at questions about cruise ship safety and the science of the ships' buoyancy
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Episode 20 - Secrets of the Sun
Release Date: 25 Apr. 2012Nova reviews what scientists have learned in recent years about the sun's behavior and how it works. Most significantly, astronomers are at last beginning to understand the the solar phenomenon that impact our civilization; solar flares and coronal mass ejections.