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Xploration Outer Space volume 10
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Emily Calandrelli delves into the world of satellites.
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Uranium Twisting the Dragon's Tail volume 1
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Dr. Muller embarks on an epic journey across the globe to explain the fascinating details of uranium's birth and longevity. Born from the collapse of a star, uranium has brought hope, progress and destruction.
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Xploration Earth 2050 volume 1
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Weather is Mother Nature's way to remind us how beautiful and fickle she can be.
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Xploration Awesome Planet volume 12
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Philippe Cousteau looks at the impact tides have on many coasts.
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Wild Life volume 5
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Life in the Iberian Peninsula is lush and varied. Learn how two opposing worlds were joined in a single territory that remained isolated by the Pyrenees Mountains. The results are a collection of forgotten places, exciting animals, and unique splendors.
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Angry Planet volume 8
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George and his storm chase team head straight into the "bears' cage", looking to get beat up by the biggest, baddest hailstones that Texas and Oklahoma can throw at them. They find it – and their storm chasing vehicles don't look too pretty after coming through these massive storms.
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Xploration Earth 2050 volume 14
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Robots are no longer science fiction, they are a fact of science and their creators are featured.
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A powerful tornado is a terrifying phenomenon that continues to defy decades of scientific efforts to predict it. During one of the worst tornado seasons on record, a NOVA camera team chased across the Midwest, capturing hair-raising footage of highly destructive twisters in action. But HUNT FOR THE SUPERTWISTER is much more than just another "extreme weather" show. Our story focuses on the efforts of two scientists at the University of Oklahoma to...
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Xploration Earth 2050 volume 7
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Chuck Pell visits a lab where vaccines are developed inside of plants and then processed into pills.
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Xploration Earth 2050 volume 2
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High tech is revolutionizing the way kids learn AND the way teachers teach.
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What's Up In Space? volume 6
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How are stars formed, and what are they made of? How far away are the stars we see in the night sky? These are some of the questions answered in the program, “STARS.” Information about comets and shooting stars is also included in this program.
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Xploration Animal Science volume 10
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This episode features a variety of animals found on land, and in the sea. Find out how the box turtle can live for up to 100 years. And why the red lionfish is considered one of the most dangerous animals in the world.
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Xploration Earth 2050 volume 1
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Sound - you don't think much about it, but futurists and entrepreneurs do.
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Xploration Outer Space volume 13
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Emily understands why we explore through the eyes of astronauts, entrepreneurs, and inventors.
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How do you get a genius brain? Is it all in your genes? Or is it hard work? Is it possible that everyone's brain has untapped genius–just waiting for the right circumstances so it can be unleashed? From a man who can immediately name the day of the week of any date in history to a "memory athlete" who can remember strings of hundreds of random numbers, David Pogue meets people stretching the boundaries of what the human mind can do. Then, Pogue...
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In February 2008 a unique wildlife reserve of 1,250 hectares was established around Lionsrock, South Africa, with the aim of returning lions and other big cats to the land of their ancestors. Most are from Europe, from rundown zoos or circuses, removed to dubious holding pens like the dilapidated Panterabig cats' asylum in the Netherlands. From here a rescued lion family are sedated and air-freighted to a perfect savanna landscape, where for the first...
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Water Life volume 25
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Pollution, uncontrolled fishing, and other factors are having a devastating impact on ecosystems. As rainforests, rivers, seas, and wetlands are imperiled, so is the very existence of the species that inhabit them.
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Nature Knows Best volume 10
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We look at how today's scientists are studying this swarm behavior to make better robots.
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Nova volume 1
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Part 1, "First Steps," examines the factors that caused us to split from the other great apes. The program explores the fossil of "Selam," also known as "Lucy's Child." Paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged spent five years carefully excavating the sandstone-embedded fossil. NOVA's cameras are there to capture the unveiling of the face, spine, and shoulder blades of this 3.3 million-year-old fossil child. And NOVA takes viewers "inside the skull" to...
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Xploration Outer Space volume 10
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Emily Calandrelli explores the most inhospitable and extreme places in our own solar system.
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