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Astrospies
Read short biographies of eight of the 17 Manned Orbiting Laboratory
astronauts, learn about the today's "space race," and take a look at
surveillance images that display influential political locations
worldwide.
Battle Alert in the Gulf
Get the facts on the crafts that make up the Navy battle command,
meet a female lieutenant serving on board a carrier, and read
e-mails from the film's director while on location.
Battle of the X-Planes
Explore aspects of tomorrow's fighter planes, learn what makes up a
fighter pilot's outfit, visit a plane graveyard in Arizona, and see
if you can get a virtual plane aloft.
Battle Plan Under Fire
Read about the technology challenges posed by Iraq, learn about
war-fighting strategies, view a time line of unmanned aerial
vehicles, see how to image with radar, and find out how one plane is
designed for stealth.
Bomb Squad
Read a robotics scientists' personal views on robots, watch six
different robots in action, and see if you can match the right robot
to the hazardous duty job for which it was created.
Building Big: Bridges
Learn bridge basics, take the bridge challenge, find data on bridges
throughout the world, discover what forces affect structures, and
read about careers involved with bridge building.
Building Big: Dams
Find out what careers are involved with dam construction, learn dam
basics, take the dam challenge, find information of dam projects
worldwide, and explore the three most common shapes used to build
structures.
Building Big: Domes
Search a databank for well-known dome structures, take the dome
challenge, investigate properties of materials, learn dome basics,
and read about careers involved with building domes.
Building Big: Skyscrapers
Take the skyscraper challenge, discover careers related to these
superstructures, find data on skyscrapers worldwide, learn how
structures experience loads, and read about careers involved with
building skyscrapers.
Building Big: Tunnels
Learn basics about tunnels, take the tunnel challenge, find data on
tunnels throughout the world, explore the forces that affect
structures, and read about careers involved in tunnel building.
Building on Ground Zero
Learn why the towers were innovative and what led to their collapse,
read one survivor's story, outfit a firefighter, explore the atomic
structure of metal, and more.
Car of the Future
See innovative autos from the past and those of future, meet people
who currently drive alternative-fuel powered cars, read about when
new technologies may be realized, and tell your own story using our
downloadable video clips.
Cut to the Heart
Learn how military doctors pioneered medical advances, read an
overview of how the heart works, explore annotated photos of
diseased hearts, and see how blood flows through a human heart.
Danger in the Jet Stream
Read what it is like to ride the jet stream, explore the
atmosphere's layers, take a virtual balloon flight, and learn how to
estimate the distance to a far-away balloon.
Daring Flight, A
Read an interview with Louis Bl�riot's grandson, discover more about
female pilot Harriet Quimby, explore the parts of a Bl�riot XI, and
take a close-up look at each of Bl�riot's 11 aircraft designs.
Eighteen Ways to Make a Baby
Learn the 18-plus ways to make a baby, explore issues about cloning,
find out how fertility changes through life's stages, and discover
how meiosis and mitosis work in an animated comparison of the two.
Electric Heart
Read what a heart transplant surgeon has to say about artificial
hearts, learn facts about the human heart, see an animation of how
blood flows through the heart, and perform a virtual heart
transplant.
Escape! Because Accidents Happen -- Abandon Ship
Learn about how to behave in an emergency, discover various survival
strategies, read survivor stories, and scan a timeline of safety
improvements in cars, planes, lifeboats, and firefighting equipment.
Escape! Because Accidents Happen -- Fire
Learn about how to behave in an emergency, discover various survival
strategies, read survivor stories, and scan a timeline of safety
improvements in cars, planes, lifeboats, and firefighting equipment.
Escape! Because Accidents Happen -- Plane Crash
Learn about how to behave in an emergency, discover various survival
strategies, read survivor stories, and scan a timeline of safety
improvements in cars, planes, lifeboats, and firefighting equipment.
Fall of the Leaning Tower
Learn why the tower leans and what is being done about it, read a
timeline of interventions across 800 years, see what is being done
to rescue other world monuments, and play a set of Galileo games.
Faster Than Sound
Read an interview with Chuck Yeager, find out the obstacles to
breaking the sound barrier, gets the basics on a sonic boom, and
learn about the speediest planes, boats, and cars.
Great Escape
Read the story of the only three to make it to freedom, consider
some of the greatest jailbreaks of all time, view drawings of Stalag
Luft III made by a prisoner, and learn about the creative inventions
that allowed the Allied airmen to escape.
Great Robot Race, The
Learn more about 12 of the teams that raced, discover some
real-world applications for autonomous vehicles, see video extras,
and view a slide show that reveals what racing robots see.
Harvest of Fear
Explore some of the issues in genetic engineering, compare the
traditional method of selective breeding to one of the latest
transgenic methods, and take a peek at what GM foods might appear on
grocery shelves.
Killer's Trail, The
Read a chronology of the Sam Sheppard case, learn about a
laser-imaging system that produces 3-D pictures of objects, see a
list of inmates cleared by DNA, and create a virtual DNA
fingerprint.
Lincoln's Secret Weapon
Take a look inside a virtual recreation of the USS Monitor, read
letters from the Monitor's paymaster, follow an hour-by-hour account
of one diver's day, and take control of a reciprocating steam
engine.
Lost at Sea -- The Search for Longitude
Read views from leading scientists about today's greatest scientific
and technological challenges, learn the navigation techniques of
ancient seafarers, see how GPS works, and find out how to determine
longitude at sea.
Lost Roman Treasure
Find out the current state of Zeugma, learn about 10 modern
remote-sensing tools, look at six other dam projects, and view 10
Roman mosaics depicting Greek mythology.
MARS Dead or Alive
Watch the program online, learn why water is necessary for life,
investigate the rover's parts, explore Mars' landscape, and design
your own parachute.
Missing in MiG Alley
Find out about U.S. efforts to identify, bring back, and inter all
American personnel lost since World War II; learn about gravity
forces and their impact on the human body; and take a look at the
equipment essential to a fighter pilot.
Nazi Prison Escape
Use an interactive map to trace 25 escape attempts, learn what it
was like to work as a prison guard, discover how the Colditz glider
was built, and find out how an airplane's wing creates lift.
NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Hany Farid
Decide whether nine photographs are fake or real and read Hany
Farid's answers to questions about digital image manipulation and
photo fakeries.
NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: James McLurkin
Watch the segment, learn more about MIT graduate student James
McLurkin, click through a time line of McLurkin's life, and snoop
through the inventor's backpack.
NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Naomi Halas
Watch the segment, learn more about nanoshells, and explore
nanotechnology that may someday be used for cancer treatment.
NOVA scienceNOW: Saving Hubble
Learn about the challenges of working in space, hear about the risks
involved in repairing the Hubble, find out what happened after NASA
cut funding to repair the Hubble, and read experts�� answers to
questions about the mission.
Odyssey of Life, Part I -- The Ultimate Journey
Learn about microphotography technology, watch time-lapse sequences
of growing embryos, read a debate on the question "How did we get
here?", and discover creatures that may be in a house and human
body.
Perfect Pearl, The
Read theories behind the oyster's decline in Japan's Ago Bay, find
out the role the pearl has played in history, learn how freshwater
pearls are cultured, and estimate the number pearls in a treasure
chest.
Saved By the Sun
Learn about the latest solar technologies, see how to convert a home
to solar power, discover how a photovoltaic cell works, and join the
discussion about solar technologies.
Saving the National Treasures
Explore how light causes damage, read what conservators have to say
about working on the Charters of Freedom, take a close-up look at
the Declaration, and delve into the details of the case
construction.
Search for a Safe Cigarette
Compare what was known in 1900 to today, quiz some of the 20th
century's prominent scientists in a game-show format, explore a
databank of discoveries, or try your hand at eight interactive
activities.
Secrets of Lost Empires II -- China Bridge
Read up on China's Song Dynasty, see how NOVA recreated China's
rainbow bridge, discover facts about bamboo, and match four types of
bridges to their proper locations.
Secrets of Lost Empires II -- Easter Island
Explore Easter Island and learn about its first inhabitants, see how
NOVA tried to move and erect a moai, try different techniques to
move a moai yourself, and compare the weight of a moai to a herd of
elephants.
Secrets of Lost Empires II -- Medieval Siege
Learn some of the major weapons and strategies used in medieval
offense and defense, see how NOVA tried to build a trebuchet, try
your hand at building a virtual trebuchet, and discover what life in
a castle was like.
Secrets of Lost Empires II -- Pharaoh's Obelisk
Tour the Land of the Pharaohs, find out more about the pyramids, see
how NOVA tried to raise an obelisk, explore how levers work, and
compare the weight of an obelisk to a herd of elephants.
Secrets of Lost Empires II -- Roman Bath
Learn about the Romans' sophisticated water distribution system,
take a stroll around a Roman bath, see how NOVA tried to build a
Roman bath, construct an virtual aqueduct, and examine some ancient
Roman recipes.
Secrets of Making Money
Learn more about the safety features of the redesigned U.S.
currency, review the history of money, and try to spot five
incorrect features on a bogus bill.
Secrets of the Parthenon
Learn more about the history behind the Parthenon; see how
architects, historians, and masons are reassembling the monument;
and view an interactive time line of the structure's different uses
and alterations over time.
Secrets of the Samurai Sword
Find out more about metal and the science of swordsmithing, learn
about the origin and evolution of the samurai warrior, and read some
of the principles of the samurai warrior's code of conduct.
Sinking City of Venice
Discover why Venice is facing increasing flooding, view how the
proposed hinged barriers would work, learn about the region's
problems through three satellite photographs, and find out what
causes tides.
Sinking the Supership
Learn what it took to tell the story of the Yamato, read eyewitness
accounts of the ship's fatal last conflict, use an interactive map
to explore the ship's features, and view dramatic archival
photographs from the ship's final battle.
Space Shuttle Disaster
Read how a high-risk effort to save Columbia's crew in space might
have unfolded, find out how Scott Hubbard fought to convince NASA of
the true cause of the Columbia accident, hear a podcast about the
Columbia disaster, and more.
Special Effects -- Titanic and Beyond
Learn about computer-generated characters, explore a timeline of
developments in special effects, read interviews with an animator
and visual effects supervisor, and turn a regular-sized chicken into
a 50-foot-tall giant.
Spies That Fly
Examine 14 influential surveillance images, learn about Cuban
missile crisis surveillance photos, scan a timeline of unmanned
aerial vehicles, and analyze a synthetic aperture radar image of
Washington, D.C.
Sputnik Declassified
Explore a historical time line of the first two decades of space
travel, read a biographical excerpt from a V-2 rocket pioneer, and
find out more about the many ways satellites are used to survey
Earth.
Stationed in the Stars
Explore key components of the space station, hear from astronauts
about what it's like to move around in space, find out how science
fiction has informed science fact, and learn why astronauts feel
weightless in space.
Super Bridge
Look at four different sites that need bridges and determine which
bridge is best for each -- arch, beam, suspension, or cable stay.
Supersonic Dream
Learn about efforts to silence the sonic boom, read about what it
was like to fly the Concorde, explore features of the supersonic
jet, and view a slide show of the past century's revolutionary
planes.
Supersonic Spies
Read about efforts to design a supersonic passenger jet, view an
animation of what the next supersonic transport plane might look
like, and explore a few of the Concorde's features.
The Big Energy Gamble
Find out the pros and cons of California's approach to energy issues
in audio highlights and interviews with Governor Schwarzenegger,
Energy Secretary Steven Chu, and more, and follow a NOVA staffer's
efforts to reduce her energy use.
The Spy Factory
Learn how computers decipher spoken language, read an interview with
the Staff Director of the Joint Congressional Inquiry on the
September 11th Attacks, and find out more about the National
Security Agency's artificial intelligence system.
Three Men and a Balloon
Read what it is like to ride the jet stream, explore the
atmosphere's layers, take a virtual balloon flight, and learn how to
estimate the distance to a far-away balloon.
Time Travel
Read Carl Sagan's views on the nature of time, see why one author
thinks time travel is possible, learn the definitions behind the
concepts related to time travel, and try to think like Einstein.
To the Moon
View panoramas of the moon's surface, learn where the moon might
have come from, hear astronauts talk about their adventures in
space, read what it's like to walk on the moon, and try to solve
four lunar puzzlers.
Underwater Dream Machine
Read an excerpt from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,
find out from entrepreneur Peter Robbins what it was like to build a
sub, view a collection of research subs over time, and take a
virtual tour of some extraordinary adventures.
Welcome to Mars
Learn why water is necessary for life, investigate the rovers'
parts, take a visual tour of the rovers' most revealing discoveries,
design your own parachute, and more.
Why the Towers Fell
Learn the history of the towers and what led to the structural
failure, read an account of survival from the 84th floor, explore
the crystalline structure of metal, and check out the gear that
firefighters wear.
Wright Brothers' Flying Machine
Find out why the Wrights were successful, manipulate the controls of
an online Wright Flyer, read reports about the Wrights' earliest
flights, learn about lift, and experiment with various airfoil
designs.
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