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Watch NOVA scienceNOW Season 5
Episode 6
What's The Next Big Thing?
aired: Tue, Feb 22, 2011
Greet the future: social robots, a "smart" electric grid & microbes that make diesel fuel.
Episode 5
Where Did We Come From?
aired: Tue, Feb 15, 2011
Explore the origin of our solar system and the start of life itself, how head lice figure in human evolution, and more.
Episode 4
How Smart are Animals?
aired: Tue, Feb 8, 2011
Dogs, dolphins, parrots and even octopuses (mere mollusks!) may be smarter than you think.
Episode 3
How Does The Brain Work?
aired: Tue, Feb 1, 2011
Investigate the psychology of magic tricks, magnetic wands, artificial intelligence, and more.
Episode 2
Can We Live Forever?
aired: Tue, Jan 25, 2011
See artificial organs, suspended animation, genes that impact aging, and lifelike avatars.
Episode 1
Can We Make It To Mars?
aired: Tue, Jan 18, 2011
See new space suits, foods, and rockets that may support future Mars-bound astronauts, and meet a Mars rover driver.
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Episode 8
Earthquakes In The Midwest
aired: Mon, Aug 31, 2009
This episode of NOVA scienceNOW explores new data from cave stalagmites and the Mississippi riverbed to understand earthquakes that strike in the heartland.
Episode 7
Saving Hubble
aired: Mon, Aug 24, 2009
This episode of NOVA scienceNOW takes a close look at one of NASA's most complex missions: to repair the Hubble telescope.
Episode 6
Algae Fuel
aired: Mon, Aug 17, 2009
This episode of NOVA scienceNOW takes a closer look at algae and asks if it may be our biofuel of the future.
Episode 5
Climate Scientist Lonnie Thompson
aired: Mon, Jul 27, 2009
This episode of NOVA scienceNOW profiles climatologist Lonnie Thompson, a recent winner of the prestigious National Medal of Science, who has been drilling tropical ice cores at high elevations since 1976.
Episode 4
Capturing Carbon
aired: Mon, Jul 20, 2009
This episode of NOVA scienceNOW looks to an eighth graders science fair project to help tackle rising levels of carbon dioxide.
Episode 3
Rocket Scientist Franklin Chang-Diaz
aired: Mon, Jul 13, 2009
This episode of NOVA scienceNOW profiles Franklin Chang-Diaz, designer of a revolutionary new rocket that could power a new generation of space explorers.
Episode 2
Autism Genes
aired: Mon, Jul 6, 2009
This episode of NOVA scienceNOW introduces Rudy Tanzi, a pioneer in discovering genes for Alzheimers disease, now turning his attention to autism.
Episode 1
Diamond Factory
aired: Mon, Jun 29, 2009
This episode of NOVA scienceNOW travels to a top-secret diamond farm to investigate breakthroughs in engineering artificial diamonds.
Episodes
Episode
NOVA scienceNOW: Dinosaur Plague
aired: Tue, Apr 26, 2011
Insects caught in amber spark a controversial theory about what killed the dinosaurs.
Episode
NOVA scienceNOW: Diamond Factory, Anthrax Investigation, Auto-Tune, Luis von Ahn
aired: Tue, Sep 14, 2010
Season 4: Episode 1
Episode
NOVA scienceNOW: Hunt for Alien Earths, Art Authentication, Maydianne Andrade, Autism Genes
aired: Tue, Sep 14, 2010
Season 4: Episode 2
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NOVA scienceNOW: Marathon Mouse, Dinosaur Plague, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Space Storms
aired: Tue, Sep 14, 2010
Season 4: Episode 3
Episode
NOVA scienceNOW: The Science of Picky Eaters, Smart Marine Mammals, Sangeeta Bhatia, Capturing Carbon
aired: Tue, Sep 14, 2010
Season 4: Episode 4
Episode
NOVA scienceNOW: Moon Smasher, Secrets in the Salt, Bird Brains, Lonnie Thompson
aired: Tue, Sep 14, 2010
Season 4: Episode 5
Episode
NOVA scienceNOW: Sleep, First Primates, Earthquakes in the Midwest, Sang-Mook Lee
aired: Tue, Sep 14, 2010
Season 4: Episode 8
Episode
NOVA scienceNOW: Bird Brains, Space Storms, Yoky Matsuoka, Smart Bridges
aired: Tue, Sep 14, 2010
Season 3: Episode 4
Episode
NOVA scienceNOW: Saving Hubble Update, Gangster Birds, How Memory Works
aired: Tue, Sep 14, 2010
Season 4: Episode 7
Episode
NOVA scienceNOW: Personal DNA Testing, Art Authentication, Carpturing Carbon, Pardis Sabeti
aired: Tue, Sep 15, 2009
Season 3: Episode 2
Episode
NOVA scienceNOW: Phoenix Mars Lander, Brain Trauma, Mammoth Mystery, Judah Folkman
aired: Wed, Sep 2, 2009
Season 3: Episode 6
Episode
NOVA scienceNOW: Saving Hubble, First Primates, Alfredo Quinones Hinojosa, Killer Microbe
aired: Wed, Apr 22, 2009
Season 3: Episode 3
Episode
NOVA scienceNOW: Dark Matter, Of Mice and Memory, Hany Farid, Wisdom of the Crowds
aired: Sat, Mar 14, 2009
Season 3: Episode 1
Episode
NOVA scienceNOW: Leeches, The Search for ET, Stem Cells Breakthrough, Edith Widder
aired: Sat, Mar 14, 2009
Season 3: Episode 5
