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Arctic Sinkholes
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Colossal explosions shake a remote corner of the Siberian tundra, leaving behind massive craters. In Alaska, a huge lake erupts with bubbles of inflammable gas. Scientists are .. show full overview
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Secrets in the Scat
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Scott Burnett is “Scatman”—an Australian ecologist on the trail of the secrets of poop. By identifying and analyzing animal scat for DNA and hormones, he discovers essential details of .. show full overview
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Great Mammoth Mystery
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Sir David Attenborough investigates a unique site in southern England where amateur fossil hunters uncovered giant mammoth bones and evidence of Neanderthals. A team of paleontologists .. show full overview
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Augmented
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Follow the dramatic personal journey of Hugh Herr, a biophysicist working to create brain-controlled robotic limbs. At age 17, Herr’s legs were amputated after a climbing accident. .. show full overview
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Predicting My MS
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A filmmaker with a rare type of multiple sclerosis explores the mysterious causes of MS.
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Predicting My MS
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The filmmaker looks back on his life, trying to understand why he contracted a rare form of Multiple Sclerosis: Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis.
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Determined: Fighting Alzheimer's
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Follow three women at risk of developing Alzheimer’s as they join a groundbreaking study to try to prevent the disease – sharing their ups and downs, anxiously watching for symptoms, and hoping they can make a difference.
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Dinosaur Apocalypse: The New Evidence
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Striking new fossils paint a picture of life right before the asteroid impact.
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Dinosaur Apocalypse: The Last Day
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Scientists use new fossils to reconstruct the day the dinosaurs died.
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Why Ships Crash
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How could a single ship cause a major supply chain crisis around the globe?
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Ice Age Footprints
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Ancient footprints provide new evidence of humans and extinct giant beasts of the Ice Age.
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Ultimate Space Telescope
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Follow the dramatic story of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – the most complex machine ever launched into space – in hopes of peering deeper back in time than ever before and answering some of astronomy’s biggest questions.
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Saving Venice
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Rising seas and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Can the city’s new hi-tech flood barrier save it? Discover the innovative projects and feats of engineering designed to stop this historic city from being lost to future generations.
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Ending HIV in America
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Almost 40 years after the discovery of HIV, could we be on the verge of ending the AIDS epidemic in America? As of 2019, in the U.S., there were only 34,000 new cases of the disease—a .. show full overview
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Computers v. Crime
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In police departments and courts across the country, artificial intelligence is being used to help decide who is policed, who gets bail, how offenders should be sentenced, and who gets .. show full overview
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Can Psychedelics Cure?
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Hallucinogenic drugs—popularly called psychedelics—have been used by human societies for thousands of years. Today, scientists are taking a second look at many of these mind-altering .. show full overview
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Ocean Invaders
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Lionfish – long prized in home aquariums – have invaded the Atlantic, and are now one of the ocean’s most successful invasive species, wreaking havoc in waters across the globe. Join .. show full overview
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Nazca Desert Mystery
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One of the world’s greatest ancient enigmas, the Nazca lines are a dense network of criss-crossing lines, geometric shapes, and animal figures etched across 200 square miles of Peruvian .. show full overview
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Crypto Decoded
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From Bitcoin to NFTs, crypto is making headlines. But what exactly is it, and how does it work? Experts go beyond the hype and skepticism to unravel the social and technological .. show full overview
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Zero to Infinity
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Zero and infinity. These seemingly opposite, obvious, and indispensable concepts are relatively recent human inventions. Discover the surprising story of how these key concepts that .. show full overview
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Rebuilding Notre Dame
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In April 2019, the world watched as a devastating fire almost destroyed Paris’s iconic Notre Dame Cathedral. Go behind the scenes with a team of engineers, masons, and timber workers .. show full overview

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