Neil deGrasse Tyson embarks on a quest with leech expert Mark Siddall in the swamps of Con
Neil deGrasse Tyson embarks on a quest with leech expert Mark Siddall in the swamps of Connecticut to seek out the infamous decorated leech.
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Video podcast produced and edited by Melissa Salpietra. Original footage and interviews for NOVA scienceNOW produced by Julia Cort.
NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by Pfizer, the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.
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Jill Tartar, director of the SETI Institute, has thought long and hard about what we could
Jill Tartar, director of the SETI Institute, has thought long and hard about what we could, should, and would say to an alien civilization.
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Video podcast edited and narrated by Melissa Salpietra. Original footage and interviews produced by Josh Rosen for NOVA. Stock footage: Morgan Lane Photography/istockphoto.com, David Baumber/istockphoto.com, Paul Rogers/istockphoto.com, NASA
NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by Pfizer, the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.
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Hubble veteran, Mike Massimino, tells it like it is—the good and bad of being an astronaut
Hubble veteran, Mike Massimino, tells it like it is—the good and bad of being an astronaut.
Don't miss the new season of NOVA scienceNOW, airing every Wednesday this summer.
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Video podcast produced and narrated by Melissa Salpietra. Original footage produced by Rushmore DeNooyer for NOVA scienceNOW. Archival footage and animation courtesy NASA.
NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by Pfizer, the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0407101. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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How do paleontologists get fossils out of the rocks they find them in? Watch as scientists
How do paleontologists get fossils out of the rocks they find them in? Watch as scientists free a fossil from the rock in which it is embedded. Then tune in to NOVA scienceNOW on Wednesday, July 9 at 9pm on PBS to get a look at the finished product!
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If you were a shrimp (the invertebrate kind), how would you defend yourself?
Watch the
If you were a shrimp (the invertebrate kind), how would you defend yourself?
Watch the new season of NOVA scienceNOW, airing every Wednesday this summer on PBS.
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The Personal Genome Project, spearheaded by George Church, the Director of Harvard's Cente
The Personal Genome Project, spearheaded by George Church, the Director of Harvard's Center for Computational Genetics, aims to recruit 100,000 people to offer up their DNA and personal life histories, all in an effort to further knowledge of human genetics and why we get—or don't get—diseases.
Don't miss the new episode of NOVA scienceNOW, airing Wednesday, July 2 at 9pm on PBS.
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Video podcast produced by Julia Cort. Edited and narrated by Melissa Salpietra. Original footage and interviews for NOVA scienceNOW produced by Julia Cort. Stock footage provided by istockphoto.com.
NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by Pfizer, the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.
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Watch step by step as an artist creates a replica of a famous van Gogh painting. Can you t
Watch step by step as an artist creates a replica of a famous van Gogh painting. Can you tell the genuine article from the forgery? NOVA scienceNOW challenges three teams of computer scientists to the task of telling the real van Gogh from the fake. Tune in July 2 at 9 p.m. on PBS.
A brand new season of NOVA scienceNOW starts Wednesday June 25 at 9pm on PBS. Learn more at: www.pbs.org/novasciencenow
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Ask enough people to estimate something, and the average of all their guesses will get you
Ask enough people to estimate something, and the average of all their guesses will get you surprisingly close to the right answer.
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NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by Pfizer, the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.
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We can't see dark matter, and some skeptics doubt its existence, but many scientists think
We can't see dark matter, and some skeptics doubt its existence, but many scientists think it makes up 20-some percent of our universe. Astronomer Doug Clowe explains how the Bullet Cluster, a group of galaxies billions of light years away, may shed some light on this mysterious stuff.
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Video podcast produced by Melissa Salpietra and Susan K. Lewis. Edited and narrated by Melissa Salpietra. Original footage and interviews produced by Julia Cort. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by Pfizer, the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.
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