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 | NOVA scienceNOW: 1918 Flu
A virus that killed up to 50 million people is brought back to life to decipher its deadliness. |
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 | Boldest Hoax, The
Who perpetrated Piltdown Man, the greatest scientific fraud of the 20th century? |
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 | Bombing of America
Forensic scientists search for clues hidden within the chaos of crime scenes to help law enforcement find the Unabomber. |
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 | Brain Eater, The
Scientists scramble to understand the devastating ailment known as mad cow disease. |
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 | Building on Ground Zero
Can lessons learned from the Twin Towers' collapse make new buildings safer? |
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 | Crash of Flight 111
One of the most exhaustive investigations in aviation history reveals telling clues to the cause of a disaster off Nova Scotia. |
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 | Curse of T. rex
How do paleontologists and commercial fossil hunters know where to look for rare and priceless dinosaur bones? |
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 | Deep Sea Invasion
A toxic aquarium plant is accidentally released into the Mediterranean, overwhelming marine life and threatening to spread worldwide. |
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 | Diamond Deception
Makeshift labs in China and Russia are turning out synthetic gemstones that rival natural diamonds. |
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 | Great Inca Rebellion, The
Mass graves and forensic evidence reveal a complex truth about how the Inca Empire fell. |
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 | Hitler's Lost Sub
A fisherman's net snags off the coast of New Jersey, revealing a missing World War II German U-boat. |
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 | Hitler's Sunken Secret
An expedition to the bottom of Norway's Lake Tinn illuminates Nazi Germany's nuclear ambitions. |
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 | Holocaust on Trial
A trial in London's High Court examines evidence from Auschwitz to successfully challenge the claims of Holocaust "deniers." |
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 | Hunt for the Supertwister
Tornado-chasing scientists with an eye to better forecasting risk their lives to plumb the secrets of nature's most terrifying killer. |
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 | Kidnapped by UFOs?
Carl Sagan and other scientists investigate claims that people have been visited or abducted by aliens. |
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 | Killer's Trail, The
Forensic scientists revisit the infamous Sheppard murder case of the 1950s in search of the true killer. |
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 | Last Flight of Bomber 31
Forensic scientists set out to discover what happened to seven American airmen whose plane crashed in Kamchatka during World War II. |
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 | Missing in MiG Alley
What happened to American pilots shot down over Korea half a century ago? |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Little People of Flores
The remains of three-foot-tall humans are discovered on a remote Indonesian island. |
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 | Mummy Who Would be King, The
Could a mummy exhibited for 140 years at an obscure museum in Niagara Falls be the remains of a long-lost Egyptian pharaoh? |
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 | Most Dangerous Woman in America, The
Examine the complex case of Typhoid Mary, a cook who was quarantined for life against her will in the early 1900s. |
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 | Mystery of the First Americans
The discovery of a 9,000-year-old skeleton embroils scientists in a debate over North America's first inhabitants. |
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 | Perfect Corpse, The
Forensic investigators tease secrets from the well-preserved bodies of people buried long ago in peat bogs. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Julie Schablitsky
Meet an archeologist who is helping to rewrite the history of the Old West. |
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 | Secrets of Making Money
With a radically redesigned bill, the U.S. Treasury fights back against a new breed of counterfeiters. |
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 | Viking Deception, The
Is the Vinland Map a priceless depiction of the New World made before Columbus's voyage or a 20th-century fake? |
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 | Vanished!
The mysterious 1947 disappearance of an airplane high in the Andes en route from Argentina to Chile is finally resolved. |
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 | Why the Towers Fell
Forensic engineers investigate the collapse of the World Trade Center. |
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