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  • Becoming Human: First Steps Six million years ago, what set our ancestors on the path from ape to human? Watch the program.

  • Making Stuff Technology reporter David Pogue hosts a 4-part special series exploring the materials that will shape our future. Watch a preview.

  • How Lightning Works It's like a giant spark in the sky, though with a few puzzling differences. Learn about lightning.

  • Trapped in Salt Take a narrated photo tour of quarter-billion-year-old water bubbles. What's in the bubbles?

  • Becoming Human: Birth of Humanity New discoveries reveal how early humans hunted and formed families. Watch the program.

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  • The Four-Winged Dinosaur

    Surprising fossils from northeastern China spur a debate over how birds evolved.

  • Lizard Kings

    Meet the monitors, the largest, fiercest, and craftiest lizards on Earth.

  • Lord of the Ants

    Naturalist E.O. Wilson's fascination with little creatures has led him to some very big ideas.

  • Alien From Earth

    Do the remains of a tiny hobbit-like creature found on the island of Flores belong to a new human species?

  • Riddles of the Sphinx

    A marvel of ancient Egyptian engineering is threatened. Can it be saved?

  • What Darwin Never Knew

    One hundred and fifty years later, scientists decode nature's greatest mysteries—a two-hour special.

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