NOVA Series

NOVA Series

A popular science television series from the USA produced by WGBH Boston. It can be seen on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States, and in more than 100 other countries.
 
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Headline Tag: Celebrities Rating: Amazing Hits: 710 Comments: 0 NOVA, Attenborough: Jewel of the Earth NOVA, Attenborough: Jewel of the Earth Amber fascinates Sir David Attenborough and many others based upon what's inside the ancient sap. User: spam_vigilante Oct 28, 2012 5:38 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 1231 Comments: 0 Nova Science Now: How Smart Are Dogs? Nova Science Now: How Smart Are Dogs? Meet an extraordinary Border collie and other dogs that are changing our view of canine intelligence. Aired February 9, 2011 on PBS. New discoveries are revealing that "man's best friend" is smarter than we ever thought, with a brain that resembles our own in ways we never imagined. Travel to Wolf Park, where scientists are tracing the evolutionary path that turned wild animals into our cuddly companions, and meet a superdog with a vocabulary of over 1,000 words. This brilliant border collie understands 1,022 nouns User: Pantufas Apr 30, 2012 9:21 AM
Headline Tag: Celebrities Rating: Amazing Hits: 1667 Comments: 5 What Darwin Never Knew What Darwin Never Knew Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish and more than 350,000 species of beetles. What explains this explosion of living creatures, 1.4 million different species discovered so far, with perhaps another 50 million to go? The source of life's endless forms was a mystery until Charles Darwin's revolutionary idea of natural selection, which he showed could help explain the gradual development of life on Earth. But Darwin's radical insights raised as many questions as they answered. What actually drives evolution and turns one species into another? And how did we evolve? NOVA reveals answers to the riddles that Darwin couldn't explain. Breakthroughs in a brand new science nicknamed "evo devo" are linking the enigma of origins to another of nature's great mysteries, the development of an embryo. NOVA takes viewers on a journey from the Galapagos Islands to the Arctic and from the Cambrian explosion of animal forms half a billion years ago to the research labs of today. Here scientists are finally beginning to crack nature's biggest secrets at the genetic level. And, as "NOVA" shows, the results are confirming the brilliance of Darwin's insights while exposing clues to life's breathtaking diversity. User: Pantufas Apr 24, 2012 5:52 AM
Headline Tag: Animals Rating: Good Hits: 1042 Comments: 4 NOVA: Dogs and More Dogs NOVA: Dogs and More Dogs How and why did man's best friend evolve from wolves, and why are dogs so remarkably diverse today? User: spam_vigilante Apr 22, 2012 4:56 AM
Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 231 Comments: 0 Titanic Memorial Cruise to Visit Grave Site Titanic Memorial Cruise to Visit Grave Site Passengers aboard a memorial ship left New York for Nova Scotia, Canada to visit the graves of those who perished on the Titanic. The memorial cruise set sail on Tuesday, 100 years after the original Titanic left Southampton, England. (April 10) Apr 10, 2012 9:03 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Television Rating: Bad Hits: 486 Comments: 0 Liam Kyle Sullivan: What is the Line? Forrest Gump Liam Kyle Sullivan: What is the Line? Forrest Gump The line that made our favorite movie simpleton famous, proved almost too difficult for Tom Hanks to say. Mar 7, 2012 11:04 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 1250 Comments: 2 Nova: Extract Your DNA Nova: Extract Your DNA Ever wish you could see the strands of genetic material that make you...you? You can, and there's no fancy lab equipment required. In this NOVA video short, learn how to extract your own DNA using just a few common household items. Watch NOVA's Cracking Your Genetic Code Wednesday, April 28th at 9PM/8c on PBS. User: RabidMadness Mar 2, 2012 11:07 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Celebrities Rating: No Votes Hits: 309 Comments: 0 Jason O'Mara: War is Coming to 'Terra Nova' Jason O'Mara: War is Coming to 'Terra Nova' Jason O'Mara says war is coming to 'Terra Nova' and more than one character dies in the two-hour season finale of Steven Spielberg's dinosaur drama on Fox. (Dec. 11) Dec 11, 2011 4:03 PM
Headline Tag: Animals Rating: Amazing Hits: 2439 Comments: 7 The Dog Who Knows 1,000 Words The Dog Who Knows 1,000 Words Neil Degrasse Tyson introduces you to one amazing K-9. 2/9/2011 User: RabidMadness Feb 10, 2011 4:27 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 1215 Comments: 4 NOVA scienceNOW: Dolphin Reading Testing NOVA scienceNOW: Dolphin Reading Testing http://www.pbs.org/nova/sciencenow/ The ability to read is not just limited to humans. The trainers at Roatan Institute for Marine Sciences in Honduras have trained their dolphins to read two-dimensional symbols as commands. In this video, watch as the pupil, a dolphin named Cedana, puts her reading skills to the tests. User: spam_vigilante Jan 9, 2011 7:39 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 304 Comments: 0 Nova: Making Stuff Stronger: PBS Nova: Making Stuff Stronger: PBS www.pbs.org/nova/makingstuff Materials have defined many eras of humankind including the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age, as well as recent periods dominated by plastics and silicon, and more. Now, our world is poised on the edge of a revolution in the science of materials. MAKING STUFF, a 4-part NOVA series, reveals materials pushed to the extreme, then takes viewers on a nano-journey inside to reveal how atoms themselves can be manipulated. The results will change the future of medicine, computers, energy, and more: The "stuff" that makes this material world turn. Aug 24, 2010 10:32 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Science Rating: No Votes Hits: 373 Comments: 0 NOVA: Everest - The Death Zone NOVA: Everest - The Death Zone Circa 1998. The human body is highly adaptable to change. It adjusts when you vigorously exercise, move in and out of different temperatures, or face stressful situations. But what about when your body is pushed to extremes, like those of climbers attempting to summit Mt. Everest, which rises 8,848 m (29,028 ft) above sea level? In this environment, climbers confront an atmosphere of one-third less oxygen than at sea level and life-threatening, frigid temperatures. This episode of NOVA follows a doctor at Everest's Base Camp who tracks and analyzes the effects of this harsh environment on climbers' bodies and cognitive functions. The data reveal to what extent these climbers' bodies can adapt and survive at high altitudes. User: spam_vigilante Jun 13, 2010 2:08 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 3163 Comments: 1 James Randi Exposes Telekinesis James Randi Exposes Telekinesis James Randi explains how to move an object without touching (so-called telekinesis). User: spam_vigilante May 15, 2010 12:26 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 2875 Comments: 7 NOVA: Smart Sea Lions & Talking Walruses NOVA: Smart Sea Lions & Talking Walruses From NOVA ScienceNow: Marine mammals are wowing researchers with more than just circus tricks. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided 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." User: spam_vigilante Mar 1, 2010 10:46 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 3689 Comments: 1 NOVA: The Four-Winged Dinosaur NOVA: The Four-Winged Dinosaur In 2002, the discovery of a beautiful and bizarre fossil astonished scientists and reignited the debate over the origin of flight. With four wings and superbly preserved feathers, the 130 million-year-old creature was like nothing paleontologists had ever seen before. In this program, NOVA travels to the Chinese stone quarry where the fossil was discovered (a famed fossil treasure trove) and teams up with the world’s leading figures in paleontology, biomechanics, aerodynamics, animation, and scientific reconstruction to perform an unorthodox experiment: a wind tunnel flight test of a scientific replica of the ancient oddity. Dubbed Microraptor, the crow-sized fossil is one of the smallest dinosaurs ever found and one of the most controversial, challenging conventional theories and assumptions about the evolution of flight. But how did Microraptor use its wings? Did it array its arm- and leg-mounted wings in the style of an early 20th-century biplane to produce high lift at low speed? Did it use them to create a single lifting surface for efficient, swift gliding? Did it employ some combination of these two methods? Or were the extra wings useless for flight and likely to have been for some other purpose, such as attracting a mate? To answer these questions, NOVA interviews Chinese paleontologist Xu Xing, who first recognized the importance of Microraptor and gave it its name; paleontologist Mark Norell and artist Mick Ellison of the American Museum of Natural History; paleontologist Larry Martin of the University of Kansas; anatomist Farish Jenkins of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University; and aerodynamicist Kenny Breuer of Brown University. In addition, NOVA commissions a “flight-ready” wind tunnel model of Microraptor complete with feathers and articulating joints. Artists have historically played an important role in paleontology by helping to reconstruct the appearance and behavior of ancient animals. In the case of Microraptor, two completely different reconstructions were made, one at the American Museum of Natural History, and the other at the University of Kansas, based on different specimens and different techniques. The two markedly different reconstructions play into a long-running scientific controversy over the origin of flight in birds. For years the debate has been a standoff between two camps—those who believe dinosaurs were the ancestors of birds, and those who do not. User: spam_vigilante Dec 4, 2009 12:42 PM
 
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