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Science | November 2025

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Jennifer Wieland
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Enjoy programming from Nature and NOVA which highlights the remarkable discoveries of science that uncover the beautiful and bizarre in the natural world. Learn about the secret order of New York's pigeon flocks and witness the amazing ecosystem involving masses of sea turtles and a resurging population of Jaguars remote on a unique stretch of Central America's Pacific coast. 

Nature
The Pigeon Hustle 
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 7pm

Follow in the footsteps of London and New York's pigeon flocks to uncover their secret world as never before. Witness the challenges of city life and how the humble pigeon has overcome them! With a world population hundreds of millions strong, feral pigeons are our most familiar neighbors. They have been an ever-present companion to people for millennia, yet despite such familiarity, there's still so much we don't know about the remarkable, resilient pigeon! 

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Nature
Jaguar Beach 
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 7pm

On a remote stretch of Central America's Pacific coast, the lush, volcanic landscape gives way to a startlingly different world: a dry tropical forest--one of the last of its kind on the planet--where a newly resurgent population of jaguars has reclaimed their kingdom. In the waters at its edge, legions of olive ridley sea turtles emerge from the ocean for one of nature's most spectacular events, a mass nesting ritual called the arribada. Here, two unlikely creatures--the sea turtle and the jaguar--meet with spectacular consequences for both their species and the very different environments they inhabit. 

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NOVA
High-Risk Build 
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 8pm

From ammonia leaks to Space Shuttle disasters to a spacewalk gone terribly wrong, astronauts and Mission Control insiders relive the most terrifying moments during construction of the International Space Station. 

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NOVA
Science and Survival 
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 8pm

Witness life-or-death decisions 250 miles above Earth, as astronauts and Mission Control work together to survive moments of high danger on board humanity's remarkable orbiting laboratory, the International Space Station. 

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