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Absolute Zero
The story of the harnessing of cold and the race
to reach the lowest temperature possible
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NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Arlie Petters
A boy from a rural village in Belize grows up to
become a world-class mathematician and cosmologist.
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Avalanche!
Scientists take you inside a snow slide to unlock
its deadly secrets.
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Balloon Race Around the World
Delve into the history and science of ballooning,
and follow some of the attempts in the '90s to be the
first to circumnavigate the globe.
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NOVA scienceNOW: CERN
Beneath the Alps, the mother of all particle
accelerators nears completion.
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NOVA scienceNOW: Dark Matter
Turns out most of the universe is held together
by a mysterious, invisible substance.
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Death Star
Astronomers investigate gamma-ray bursts, the
most powerful celestial explosions since the big bang.
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Decoding Nazi Secrets
Allied technologies developed at Britain's
Station X helped halt the onslaught of the Third Reich
and set the stage for today's computers.
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Dirty Bomb
Radiation experts play out a frightening
terrorist scenario—exploding a bomb laden with
radioactive materials.
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Einstein's Big Idea
The story behind the world's most famous
equation, E = mc2
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Einstein Revealed
Meet the young patent clerk whose ideas about
light, space, and time have transformed our view of the
universe.
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Elegant Universe, The
Eleven dimensions, parallel universes, and a
world made out of strings. It's not science fiction,
it's string theory.
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Fall of the Leaning Tower
An international committee of engineers and
architects race to prevent the toppling of Pisa's famous
monument.
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Faster than Sound
Top test pilots describe the dangers, mysteries,
and thrill of being the first to fly at supersonic
speed.
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Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
Galileo struggles to persuade church authorities
of the truth behind his astonishing discoveries about
the cosmos.
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Ghost Particle, The
A 40-year hunt for solar neutrinos leads to a new
understanding of matter itself.
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Hunting the Hidden Dimension
Mysteriously beautiful fractals are shaking up
the world of mathematics and deepening our understanding
of nature.
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Infinite Secrets
A battered manuscript turns up after 1,000 years,
revealing the mind of the Greek genius Archimedes.
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NOVA scienceNOW: Island of Stability
Follow the decades-long quest to create the
elusive element 114.
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NOVA scienceNOW: Kryptos
A coded sculpture at CIA headquarters has yet to
be fully broken.
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Magnetic Storm
Is the magnetic field protecting Earth from
deadly radiation about to reverse direction or even
disappear?
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Newton's Dark Secrets
Sir Isaac Newton, the eccentric genius who helped
define modern science, was also an obsessive alchemist.
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NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: James McLurkin
James McLurkin of MIT is one of the world's
leading designers of robot "swarms"—groups of
robots that work together for a greater purpose.
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Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
Join Mark Everett on his quixotic quest to
understand his father Hugh, creator of a radical theory
of quantum physics.
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Proof, The
Princeton math sleuth Andrew Wiles goes
undercover for eight years to solve history's most
famous math problem: Fermat's Last Theorem.
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Runaway Universe
Astronomers grapple with some very big questions:
what is the size and shape of the universe, and how will
it end?
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NOVA scienceNOW: The Search for ET
Astronomers have their radio telescopes tuned to
receive signals from alien worlds. But is anybody out
there?
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Secrets, Lies & Atomic Spies
NOVA looks back to the 1940s, when American spies
passed their country's deepest scientific secrets to the
Soviets.
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Secrets of Easter Island
A team attempts to recreate the original
islanders' success at moving and erecting giant moai
statues.
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Secrets of Lost Empires II: China Bridge
Two teams working from opposite sides of a
turbulent river attempt to build a 12th-century Chinese
bridge.
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Secrets of Lost Empires II: Easter Island
How did the ancient Easter Islanders move and
erect giant stone statues? Our team tests one theory.
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Secrets of Lost Empires II: Medieval Siege
Two teams set out to build precise replicas of a
fearsome medieval weapon—the trebuchet.
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Secrets of Lost Empires II: Pharaoh's Obelisk
Experts take on the challenge of raising a 40-ton
obelisk without using modern technology.
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Secrets of Lost Empires II: Roman Bath
NOVA sets out to create a working Roman bath,
complete with hot tubs and underfloor heating.
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NOVA scienceNOW: Space Storms
Behind the dazzling display of the aurora
borealis are space storms that could turn the lights off
here on Earth.
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Super Bridge
Engineers solve a unique set of problems in
safety, aesthetics, and cost as they build a bridge over
the Mississippi River.
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Time Travel
Is time travel anything more than sci-fi fantasy?
Leading physicists ponder building a time machine.
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Trillion Dollar Bet
An elegant mathematical formula attracts Wall
Street's attention and spawns a multi-trillion-dollar
industry.
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What's Up with the Weather?
FRONTLINE and NOVA take on a complex and critical
phenomenon—global warming.
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