Nova (2008)
Science documentaries.
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Episode 1 - Secrets of the Viking Sword
Release Date: 10 Oct. 2012The Vikings were the most ferocious warriors of the Middle Ages. Especially fearsome were the select few who wielded a formidable weapon: a light, razor sharp, virtually indestructible sword with its maker's name, ULFBERHT, inlaid along the blade.
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Episode 2 - Forensics on Trial
Release Date: 17 Oct. 2012Nova investigates forensic science and examines how what is often perceived as rock solid forensic evidence can sometimes lead to wrongful convictions. It looks at a cases where false fingerprint and tooth impression matches have lead to wrongful accusations and convictions. It also examines how MRI and CT technology are now being used to determine causes of death. Finally, it examines problems in the forensics of the O.J. Simpson murder case and looks at how crime scene investigators use computers to record crime scenes in minute detail.
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Episode 3 - Mystery of Easter Island
Release Date: 7 Nov. 2012Easter Island has mystified the world ever since the first Europeans arrived in 1722.
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Episode 4 - Ultimate Mars Challenge
Release Date: 14 Nov. 2012NOVA will be there for the exhilarating moments after Curiosity's landing on Mars --and for the spectacular discoveries sure to come.
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Episode 5 - Inside the Megastorm
Release Date: 18 Nov. 2012Inside the Megastorm takes viewers moment by moment through Hurricane Sandy, its impacts and the future of storm protection.
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Episode 6 - Doomsday Volcanoes
Release Date: 2 Jan. 2013Iceland is a ticking time bomb: When it blows, the consequences will be global. What can we do to prepare for the coming disaster?
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Episode 7 - Decoding Neanderthals
Release Date: 9 Jan. 2013What happened when the first modern humans encountered the Neanderthals? Did they make love or war?
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Episode 8 - Rise of the Drones
Release Date: 23 Jan. 2013Discover the cutting-edge technologies that are propelling us toward a new chapter in aviation history.
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Episode 9 - Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby?
Release Date: 30 Jan. 2013NOVA is reopening one of the most confounding crime mysteries of all time as a team of expert investigators employs state-of-the-art forensic and behavioral science techniques in an effort to determine what really happened to Charles Lindbergh's baby... and why.
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Episode 10 - Building Pharaoh's Chariot
Release Date: 6 Feb. 2013A team of archaeologists, engineers, woodworkers, and horse trainers join forces to build and test two highly accurate replicas of Egyptian royal chariots.
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Episode 11 - Earth from Space
Release Date: 13 Feb. 2013EARTH FROM SPACE is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet.
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Episode 12 - Mind of a Rampage Killer
Release Date: 20 Feb. 2013Can science help us understand these crimes?
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Episode 13 - Meteor Strike
Release Date: 27 Mar. 2013Scientist relish the wealth of data available from the Chelyabinsk meteor impact to determine, for the first time, the physical details of a large meteor strike.
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Episode 14 - Ancient Computer
Release Date: 3 Apr. 2013The arms and faces of ancient statuary litter the seabed at the site of a shipwreck off the coast of Greece. But that's not the most interesting find. Encrusted with over 2,000 years of mineral deposits are highly engineered gears clearly visible as part of a mysterious device dating back to about 50 BCE. Using X-ray technology and working off of the realization that the gears' teeth are prime numbers relating to astronomy, the device is revealed to be the earliest known computer used for predicting eclipses and demonstrating planetary motion.
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Episode 15 - Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Awakening
Release Date: 10 Apr. 2013This four part series describes the origins and diversification of life on earth with Australia as a microcosm. This episode describes the history of Earth from its initial formation through the Cambrian explosion using Australian geological formations as examples.
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Episode 16 - Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Life Explodes
Release Date: 17 Apr. 2013In the early Paleozoic Australia is a coastal region of the super-continent Gondwana making it the scene of life's invasion of the land. But not all the action was on land as fish began to dominate the oceans and Australia has a wealth of superb fossils of early fish and other sea creatures.
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Episode 17 - Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Monsters
Release Date: 24 Apr. 2013Until recently there were very few known dinosaur fossils in Australia. But there are highways full of footprints which along with the recently found skeletal fossils tell uniquely Australian stories of plants, mammals, dinosaurs and other creatures.
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Episode 18 - Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Strange Creatures
Release Date: 1 May 2013The Paleogene opens with the dinosaurs extinct and much of the world's water freezing out in Antarctica as Australia breaks free of Gondwana to chart it's own course. As in the rest of the world mammals, birds and grasses rise to prominence but with an uniquely Australian flavor. Then the first placental mammals arrive.
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Episode 19 - Manhunt: Boston Bombers
Release Date: 29 May 2013How did investigators transform the chaos of the Boston Marathon Bombing into a coherent trail of clues, pointing to the accused killers?
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Episode 20 - Oklahoma's Deadliest Tornadoes
Release Date: 29 May 2013On May 20th 2013, a ferocious F5 tornado over a mile wide tore through Moore, Oklahoma, inflicting 24 deaths and obliterating entire neighborhoods. It was the third time an exceptionally violent tornado had struck the city in 14 years. Yet predicting when and where these killer storms will hit still poses a huge challenge.