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NOVA captures New Horizons' historic flyby of Pluto, the culmination of the spacecraft's nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to reveal the first ever detailed images of this strange, icy world at the very edge of our solar system.
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Researchers seek solutions to contain the rising acidity levels that are threatening the world's oceans.
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El 5 agosto de 2012, el Curiosity aterrizó en el interior del cráter Gale, en Marte, con diez nuevos instrumentos para avanzar en la búsqueda de indicios de que el planeta alguna vez pudo haber sido adecuado para la vida. Adentrándonos en el corazón del equipo de científicos e ingenieros responsables de los experimentos del Curiosity, viviremos los momentos emocionantes después del aterrizaje del rover y sus espectaculares descubrimientos. Las profundas cuestiones planteadas desde hace 40 años sobre Marte siguen hoy vigentes: ¿Cómo se define la vida? ¿Cómo comienza, y qué necesita para sobrevivir? ¿Estamos solos en el universo?
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The Vikings were the most ferocious warriors of the Middle Ages. Especially fearsome were the select few who wielded a formidable weapon: a light, razor sharp, virtually indestructible sword with its maker's name, Ulfberht, inlaid along the blade.
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It contains 99.9 percent of all the matter in our solar system and sheds hot plasma at nearly a million miles an hour. The temperature at its core is a staggering 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. It convulses, it blazes, it sings. You know it as the sun. Scientists know it as one of the most amazing physics laboratories in the universe.
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In a race against developers in the Rocky Mountains, paleontologists uncover a unique fossil site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons, and other giant extinct beasts. The discovery opens a highly focused window on the vanished world of the Ice Age in North America.
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The real Great Escape didn't feature Steve McQueen racing through the Third Reich on a motorcycle like in the 1963 movie, but the big breakout was still thrilling in every way. This program sheds new light on the audacious escape of 76 Allied airmen from a Nazi POW camp during World War II.
