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Animating the Bible
Get a behind-the-scenes look at how filmmakers and visual-effects artists created a 3-D animation of the Hebrew Bible for NOVA's two-hour special, “The Bible's Buried rets.”
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Bird Brains
Clues to the origins of human language are turning up in the brains of birds.
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Portraying the Writers
Find out how scenes for NOVA's upcog two-hour special, “The Bible's Buried rets,” were filmed.
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Killer Microbe
A relatively benign bug becomes a highly lethal pathogen, known to U.S. soldiers as Iraqibacter.
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Recreating the Temple
Gary Glassman, producer and director of NOVA's two-hour special, "The Bible's Buried rets," and associate producer Tristan Barako take you behind the scenes on a tour of Solomon's Temple.
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Did God Have a Wife?
In this excerpt from NOVA's two-hour special, "The Bible's Buried rets," archeologist William Dever describes evidence that the ancient Israelite God, YHWH, had a female counterpart.
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Profile: Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa
He jumped the fence from Mexico to work as a farmhand and ended up a leading brain surgeon.
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10/31/08 from
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First Primates
Our most distant primate ancestors, which took the stage shortly after the dinosaurs left it, were tree-dwellers the size of mice.
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Nature's Hidden Geometry
In this excerpt from NOVA's "Hunting the Hidden Dimension," get a glimpse of the birth of a new branch of mathematics that explains geometric patterns found throughout nature.
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Saving Hubble
Two teams of spacewalkers take on the risky mission of reviving the ailing Space Telescope.
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10/17/08 from
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No Simple Mission
In this excerpt from NOVA's "Space Shuttle Disaster," get a glimpse of the factors that led to one of the worst accidents in the history of America's space program.
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Capturing Carbon
An eighth-grader's science fair project prompts her scientist father to develop a new way to pull excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
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10/10/08 from
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Space Storms
Behind the dazzling display of the aurora borealis are space storms that could turn the lights off here on Earth.
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10/03/08 from
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Profile: Pardis Sabeti
By night she's a rocker. By day, she's a Harvard geneticist tracking the evolution of the human genome.
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09/26/08 from
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Dark Matter
Learn more about dark matter, and how science is searching for it.
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09/19/08 from
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Personal DNA Testing
Genetic testing to assess risk factors for a handful of serious illnesses is now commercially available. But is it a good idea?
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09/12/08 from
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Of Mice and Memory
Mice placed in enriched environments can recover lost memories, giving hope to those who study Alzheimer's.
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09/05/08 from
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Art Authentication
See how clever computer algorithms can distinguish a master fake from a masterpiece.
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Profile: Hany Farid
This self-proclaimed "accidental scientist" is a digital detective inventing new ways to tell if photos have been faked.
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