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Nova
NOVA—the most widely viewed television
series in high school classrooms—features a wide variety of
new programs on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. this fall.
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“Arctic Dinosaurs”
follows a unique field expedition to Alaska's North
Slope to defrost a jackpot of new fossil clues—and
breathe life into the polar dinosaurs’ lives and
environment in vivid detail—Oct. 7. |
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“Space Shuttle Disaster” provides
a new look at a 2003 tragedy when the Space Shuttle Columbia
disintegrated over Texas just 16 minutes before it was due
to land—Oct. 14. |
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“Parallel Worlds,
Parallel Lives” follows Mark Oliver Everett, the
lead singer of the rock band Eels, on his journey to
learn about his father, Hugh Everett III, a
physicist who gave birth to one of science’s most
bizarre and influential theories—the “many worlds”
interpretation of quantum mechanics—Oct. 21. |
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“Hunting the Hidden Dimension”
tells the dramatic story of a group of pioneering
mathematicians who developed the study of fractals from a
curiosity that few took seriously to an approach that is
touching nearly every branch of understanding—including what
happened after the Big Bang and the ultimate fate of our
universe—Oct. 28. |
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“Alien from Earth”
presents exclusive coverage of new excavations undertaken in the summer of 2007 at the site of Ling Bua on the island of Flores, Indonesia—the first investigations of the cave site since the sensational discovery of tiny and bizarre human fossil bones at the site in 2004—Nov. 11.
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“The Bible’s Buried
Secrets” a two-hour
story of science, history, and faith—breaks exciting new
ground in investigating the origins of the ancient
Israelites, their faith in a single, omnipotent God and the
creation of the Bible—Nov. 18. |
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“Ocean Animal Emergency”
explores the crisis of the world’s oceans through the work
of a San Francisco veterinarian and her team, who run the
equivalent of a West Coast ER for marine animals—Nov. 25. |
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“Is There Life on Mars?” showcases the latest scientific
results from the Mars rovers and the Phoenix probe—Dec. 30.
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