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Mammoths of the Ice Age
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The subjects of Stone Age cave paintings thunder onto the screen as NOVA explores Woolly Mammoths. Recent discoveries show that the hairy ancestors of elephants fought off extinction .. show full overview
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Vikings in America
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NOVA investigates the myth and reality of the first known Europeans to reach North America -Vikings. These intrepid Norsemen explored and settled parts of present-day North America 500 years before Columbus set sail.
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Ants: Little Creatures Who Run the World
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NOVA looks at the most successful life forms on the face of the planet in Ants: Little Creatures Who Run the World, hosted by Harvard University's internationally renowned ant authority, .. show full overview
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Nazi Designers of Death
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NOVA uses recently discovered documents to uncover the complicity of German architects and engineers in the Holocaust. Focusing on Auschwitz, the program tells a tale of ever-deepening .. show full overview
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Siamese Twins
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Born joined at the pelvis, Siamese twins Dao and Duan were brought to the United States from Thailand to assess their chances for being separated surgically. NOVA covers the intricate .. show full overview
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Mystery of the Senses: Hearing
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Mystery of the Senses: Smell
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Mystery of the Senses: Taste
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Mystery of the Senses: Touch
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Mystery of the Senses: Vision
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The Universe Within
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What amazing processes go on inside super-athletes and couch potatoes alike? NOVA uses the latest medical imaging techniques to explore the body's incredible inner workings-with the help .. show full overview
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Making of a Doctor
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In the third installment of a 10-year project, NOVA checks up on a group of aspiring doctors who've been chronicled since their first day of medical school in 1987. Now bona fide MDs and .. show full overview
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Fast Cars
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What does it take to win at Indy? NOVA follows champion race driver Bobby Rahal and a team of engineers as they strive to design a new car that can win the checkered flag at the Memorial .. show full overview
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Anastasia Dead or Alive?
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Shortly after midnight on 17 July 19l8, at a house in the town of Ekaterinburg in the Ural mountains, Bolshevik guards awakened the deposed Tsar Nicholas II together with his family and .. show full overview
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Venus Unveiled
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NASA's radar-equipped spacecraft, the Magellan, has sent back unprecedented images of the surface of Venus. Scientists find that most of what was previously believed about the planet was .. show full overview
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Hawaii Born of Fire
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From their blistering beginnings as molten rock, the Hawiian islands have grown into a verdant paradise of unique lifeforms.
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The Doomsday Asteroid
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Is there an asteroid or comet out there with our name on it? NOVA scans the skies and the geological record on Earth, for evidence that giant rocks from outer space have struck before and will eventually plow into our planet again.
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Lightning!
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Lightning! takes you on a high-voltage trip into the most electrically charged weather in the world--culminating in a dazzling lightning show set to music that rivals the most .. show full overview
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Hunt for the Serial Arsonist
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One out of every three fires in the United States is set deliberately. Firefighters must report the cause and origin of each fire they fight. If the cause of a fire cannot be determined .. show full overview
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Treasures of the Great Barrier Reef
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The Great Barrier Reef along the northeast coast of Australia is the largest coral formation in the world, covering more than 365,000 square kilometers. Within it exists a unique .. show full overview
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Race to Catch a Buckyball
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In 1985 a chemist looking at stardust, paired with one searching for brand new materials, stumbled across what science said could not exist – a third form of carbon. They named the .. show full overview
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Can Buildings Make You Sick?
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A search for the causes of Sick Building Syndrome. Experts look at various problem buildings, inspecting their air conditioning, lights and carpets for clues to the mysterious maladies afflicting the workers inside.

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