NOVA’s Big Ideas of 2017
Clip: Season 44 | 3m 8s
Take a look back with us at the biggest science stories of 2017.
Aired: 01/02/18
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Scientists have a new tool to edit genes in human cells to repair mutations. What is it?
What is CRISPR gene editing?
To make their delivery schedule, how quickly must Santa and his reindeer travel the world?
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Could a safety technology have prevented a train crash in Washington that killed three?
How to Prevent Train Crashes
How Much Does a Thought Weigh?
Even in your mind, energy goes with it—bottle up that energy and it has mass.
How Much Does a Thought Weigh?
Climate Action Without the Feds?
Can states, cities, and companies fulfill US obligations to the Paris Accord on their own?
Climate Action Without the Feds?
What's Inside the Great Pyramid?
Cosmic particles reveal a previously hidden void in the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt.
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What makes a brain or machine conscious? This theory is beginning to provide some answers.
Will Robots Become Conscious?
New Kind of Astrophysics is Born
Scientists saw and “heard” a dramatic cosmic explosion simultaneously for the first time.
New Kind of Astrophysics is Born
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