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Podcast Description
NOVA brings you short audio stories from the world of science -- anything from hurricanes to mummies to neutrinos. For more science programming online and on air, visit NOVA's Web site at pbs.org/nova, or watch NOVA broadcasts Wednesday nights on PBS.
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(Repeat) NOVA Minute: How to Speak Walrus | Marine biologist Colleen Reichmuth says that few mammals can match the vocal talents of the walrus. | 2/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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(Repeat) NOVA Minute: Whiz Kid | Biochemist Erika Ebbel knows firsthand how important having a mentor can be for a scientist. | 2/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Finding a Fake Van Gogh | Can a computer tell the difference between a real Van Gogh painting and a forgery? | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Archeology in the Deep | Marine archeologist Brendan Foley has big plans to map every ancient wreck in the Mediterranean. | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Speaking Ancient Maya | Barbara MacLeod speaks Maya. As in, ancient Maya. | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life in the Blast Zone | Ecologist Charlie Crisafulli describes how the ecosystem around Mt. St. Helens is rebuilding itself 30 years after the catastrophic eruption. | 1/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Surprises in Your Genes | What makes an embryo-- basically a tiny ball of cells-- grow into a whale, or a fly, or a human? | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In Defense of Pluto | Alan Stern, head of NASA's new mission to Pluto, stands up for the little guy. | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Darwin's Debut | Hear three “big thinkers” on how Darwin's theories were first received. | 12/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sexual Cannibalism | Biologist Madianne Andrade says that the gruesome mating behavior of some spiders is a lesson in evolution. | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Touching the Past | The legend of Pocahontas and the founding of Jamestown have special meaning for Chief Anne "Little Fawn" Richardson. | 11/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Learning From Bonobos | Vanessa Woods is a science journalist and primate researcher who studies Bonobos, a close relative to chimpanzees. She says that when it comes to emotional intelligence, they put the human world to shame. | 11/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Galileo and the Telescope | Learn why Galileo’s early uses for the telescope weren’t so scientific. | 11/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big Deal with CERN: Stephon Alexander | Cosmologist Stephon Alexander says he'd be surprised if we didn't find the Higgs particle. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Space and Time Explained: Leonard Susskind | Physicist Leonard Susskind says that Einstein radically changed the way we think about space, but his equations can’t explain exactly what it is. | 10/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Space and Time Explained: Alan Guth | Physicist Alan Guth says that the concept of “space” is more complicated than you might think. | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Space and Time Explained: Max Tegmark | Physicist Max Tegmark says that researchers still don’t fully understand what time is. It’s one of the biggest mysteries in physics. | 10/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Space and Time Explained: Steven Weinberg | The concept of “Space,” is a tough one to explain--even for a Nobel prize-winnig physicist like Steven Weinberg. | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Space and Time Explained: Jana Levin | Physicist Janna Levin says that Einstein and Newton had very different ideas about what space and time really were. | 9/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Space and Time Explained: Peter Galison | Physicist Peter Galison says that although humans sense time as moving constantly forward, it doesn’t really work that way. | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Space and Time Explained: Jim Gates | Physicist Jim Gates says that even after you take all the matter out of the universe, space still wouldn’t be empty. | 9/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Space and Time Explained: Sean Carroll | Physicists like Sean Carroll have a unique view of space and time. | 9/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rebuilding on Ground Zero | Architecture critic Paul Goldberger gives his take on the new World Trade Center plaza in New York. | 9/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life on Ice | Could frozen water be the key to finding life on Mars? | 8/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shaping Skulls | For the ancient Inca of Peru, body art went beyond skin deep. | 7/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hiding in Plain Sight | In this podcast, marine biologist Roger Hanlon explains why octopuses are masters of camouflage. | 7/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Voice of the Space Shuttle | NASA announcer Steve Nesbitt gave play-by-play radio commentary for more than a dozen space shuttle launches throughout the 1980s. | 7/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cooperative Apes | To understand human evolution, anthropologist Brian Hare is looking at other apes that are good at getting along with one another: Bonobos. | 6/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Bolt From the Blue | Neurologist Oliver Sacks has heard lots of strange stories about the human brain--but none are quite as mysterious as Tony Cicoria's. | 6/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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30 |
NOVA Minute: How to Speak Walrus | Marine biologist Colleen Reichmuth says that few mammals can match the vocal talents of the walrus. | 5/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Trip to the Parthenon | What made the Parthenon the greatest temple of Ancient Greece? | 5/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Finding the Lost City | Egyptologist Mark Lehner thinks it took almost 20,000 people to build the Great Pyramids. But where did all those workers live? | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wireless Electricity | Using a new wireless charging system, plug-in electric cars may be able to shed their power cables entirely. | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life in the Blast Zone | Ecologist Charlie Crisafulli describes how the ecosystem around Mt. St. Helens is rebuilding itself 30 years after the catastrophic eruption. | 4/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Clean Energy Future? | Switching to clean energy makes sense for environmental reasons. But what about economic ones? | 4/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Many Gods of Israel | Archeologist Bill Dever says that polytheism may have been the norm in ancient Israel. | 4/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Improving Maternal Health | In the year 2000, the United Nations set out to make maternal healthcare a universal right. How far have we come worldwide? | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Training for a Nuclear Crisis | Are workers at U.S. nuclear power plants prepared to deal with earthquakes, tsunamis, and other disasters? | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Galileo and the Telescope | Learn why Galileo's early uses for the telescope weren’t so scientific. | 3/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Defining Intelligence: Seth Shostak | Astronomer Seth Shostak thinks that if alien intelligence is out there, we'll know it when we see it. | 3/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Defining Intelligence: Steven Pinker | Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker says that modern human intelligence is the result of thousands of years of accumulated knowledge. | 3/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Defining Intelligence: Nicholas Humphrey | Theoretical psychologist Nicholas Humphrey explains the concept of social intelligence. | 3/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Defining Intelligence: Rodney Brooks | Roboticist Rodney Brooks describes what "intelligence" means in his field. | 3/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: The Interaction of Species | Naturalist E.O. Wilson thinks that even today, we're a long way from fully understanding how ecosystems work. | 3/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Toward a Smart Electric Grid | Energy expert Vijay Vaitheesaran thinks the U.S. needs to upgrade to a "smart" electric grid. | 2/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Risks of Automated Flight | Aviation safety expert Bill Voss thinks airlines should change the way they train pilots | 2/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When Lightning Strikes Aircraft | Just how dangerous is lightning to an aircraft in flight? | 2/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Smart Birds | Some parrots can talk—but can they really understand what they're saying? | 2/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Dangers of Nanotech | Nanomaterials are used in consumer goods from cell phones to sunscreen. But how safe are they? | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Suspended Animation | Cell biologist Mark Roth says that suspended animation isn't just science fiction. | 1/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Solar Sails | NASA engineer Dean Alhorn thinks that the next generation of spacecraft will be propelled not by rockets, but by light. | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: Global Earthquakes | Geologist Chris Goldfinger has a hunch that earthquakes in one part of the globe might trigger others worldwide. | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pearl Harbor Sub Discovered | Hear how a newly identified wreck found outside of the harbor may rewrite the history of the Japanese attack. | 1/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: The 2012 Hoax | Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says that despite all those doomsday claims on the Internet, the world will NOT end in 2012. | 12/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: The Language of Science | In this archival audio from 1964, African-American chemistry pioneer Percy Julian gives his take on scientific language. | 12/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: Stewards of the Earth | Native American geologist Alexandrea Bowman follows a trail from baby seals to Long Island Sound. | 12/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ethics of Erasing Memory | Neuroscientists have found a drug that can erase memories in rats. If we could a develop similar drug for humans, should we use it? | 12/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: Whiz Kid | Biochemist Erika Ebbel knows firsthand how important having a mentor can be for a scientist. | 12/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Psychology of Spaceflight | NASA psychologist Al Holland discusses the mental challenges astronauts might face during a mission to Mars. | 12/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: The Enormity of Things | Geologist Adrienne Block explores what's underneath the humongous ice sheets of Antarctica. | 12/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: When I Look Up | Nine-year-old Neil deGrasse Tyson looks up and the universe calls him for a lifetime. | 11/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: Doctor's Orders | Climate scientist Gavin Schmidt explains why the Earth needs to see a doctor… today. | 11/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Astronomy at Stonehenge? | An expert discusses the controversial question of whether Stonehenge was an astronomical observatory. | 11/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: Big Inventions | Engineer Colin Angle builds small robots that yield huge results. | 11/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Origin of Dogs | Learn why the poodle in your neighbor's backyard is technically a wolf. | 11/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: Monkey Psychology | Experimental psychologist Laurie Santos studies monkeys to learn how humans think. | 11/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Got Elevator Stories? | Have you ever been stuck in an elevator? Are you afraid of them? We want to hear your elevator story. Here's one for inspiration. | 11/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How the Elevator Changed New York | Without elevators, Manhattan as we know it today would be a very different place. | 10/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: To Boldly Go... | Ina Vandebroek explores new worlds, new cultures and new plants. | 10/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rescuing the Miners | Hear from Greg Hall, a drilling expert whose team reached 33 Chilean miners trapped more than 2,000 feet underground. | 10/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can Robots Save Miners' Lives? | The amazing mine rescue in Chile has The World's Lisa Mullins wondering: can robots replace humans working underground? | 10/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sacred Architecture | When designing Gothic cathedrals, some medieval builders drew on sacred measurements laid out in the pages of the Bible. | 10/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: Music for the Masses | Game developer Eran Egozy uses ones and zeros to bring music-making to everyone. | 10/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: Inventing the Ascender | Engineer Nate Ball explains why a spectacular failure helped him learn how to build a life-saving device. | 10/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Trip to the Parthenon | What made the Parthenon the greatest temple of Ancient Greece? | 10/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Mission to Mars? | Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin says that a human presence on Mars is inevitable. Find out why in this interview. | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: The Bottom of Things | Biologist Mark Siddall tells us how he hunted down a prize leech... inside a hippo rectum. | 10/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: Becoming the Professor | Nanoscientist Rich Robinson explains what inspired him to become a professor. | 9/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: Cliff Tabin | Geneticist Cliff Tabin explains how limbs form in an embryo. | 9/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Surprises in Your Genes | What makes an embryo—basically a tiny ball of cells—grow into a whale, or a fly, or a human? | 9/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Thinkers: If Darwin Were Here | What would Darwin think if he were here today? | 9/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Thinkers: Why Does Evolution Matter? | Why is it important for us all to understand evolution today? | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: Jonathan Losos | Zoologist Jonathan Losos explains why small lizards outlasted the dinosaurs. | 9/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chasing Down Dinner | Was endurance running the key to how early humans survived? | 9/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How We Became Human | Paleoanthropologist Rick Potts explains how a rapidly changing climate made humans what we are today. | 8/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Music and Memory | Can music help mitigate the effects of Alzheimer's disease? | 8/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Better Forecasts for Aircraft | Could new weather forecasting technology make flights over oceans safer? | 8/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: E.O. Wilson | Naturalist E.O. Wilson gives his thoughts on the ways humans interact with the natural world. | 8/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: Bonnie Bassler | Biologist Bonnie Bassler explains how bacteria "talk" to one another. | 8/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digital Diamonds? | Can man-made diamond pave the way for the electronics of the future? | 7/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hiding in Plain Sight | In this podcast, marine biologist Roger Hanlon explains why octopuses are masters of camouflage. | 7/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: Neil Herman | Pilot Neil Herman from Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome describes what it's like to fly antique aircraft. | 7/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Perfect Hunter | According to biologist Christine Drea, social intelligence is the key to hyena's deadly hunting skills. | 7/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: Chad Wille | Pilot Chad Wille from Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome describes what it's like to fly antique aircraft. | 7/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: Sam Bowring | Geologist Sam Bowring from MIT offers his thoughts on mass extinctions. | 6/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Global Warning | Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson thinks the problems caused by global warming will be far from just environmental. | 6/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NOVA Minute: Mark Lehner | Archeologist Mark Lehner says his work is really about the art of observation. | 6/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Learning From Bonobos | Primate researcher Vanessa Woods says that when it comes to emotional intelligence, Bonobos put humans to shame. | 6/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Bolt From the Blue | Neurologist Oliver Sacks has heard lots of strange stories about the human brain--but none are quite as mysterious as Tony Cicoria's. | 5/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cooperative Apes | To understand human evolution, anthropologist Brian Hare is looking at other apes that are good at getting along with one another: Bonobos. | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NASA's Forgotten Tapes | Learn why forgotten computer tapes from 1960s-era satellites could offer valuable data to lunar researchers. | 5/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Life in the Blast Zone | Ecologist Charlie Crisafulli describes how the ecosystem around Mt. St. Helens is rebuilding itself 30 years after the catastrophic eruption. | 5/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Deciding Factor | A new study at Harvard is exploring how emotions affect our financial decisions, whether we like it or not. | 4/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Twenty Years of Hubble | In this interview, Ed Weiler, former Chief Scientist for the Hubble mission, describes the telescope's early years. | 4/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hubble's Legacy | Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson gives his thoughts on the legacy of the Hubble Space Telescope. | 4/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Galileo and the Telescope | Learn why Galileo's early uses for the telescope weren't so scientific. | 4/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tiny Black Holes | Manufacturing black holes isn't as dangerous as it sounds. | 4/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Origin of Dogs | Learn why the poodle in your neighbor's backyard is technically a wolf. | 3/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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109 |
Archeology in the Deep | Marine archeologist Brendan Foley has big plans to map every ancient wreck in the Mediterranean. | 3/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stuck on Mars | NASA's Spirit rover is now stuck permanently in a Martian sandpit. But could this turn of events be a blessing in disguise? | 3/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Littlest Planet | Learn why a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt might hold clues to how life formed on Earth. | 3/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In Defense of Pluto | Alan Stern, head of NASA's new mission to Pluto, stands up for the little guy. | 2/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Photographing Extreme Ice | In this interview, renowned nature photographer James Balog discusses his most recent project—the Extreme Ice Survey. | 2/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Diving Into Danger | Flooded caves in the Bahamas called "blue holes" are one of Earth's least explored and perhaps most dangerous frontiers. | 2/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Shaping Skulls | For the ancient Inca of Peru, body art went beyond skin deep. | 1/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Finding the Lost City | Egyptologist Mark Lehner thinks it took almost 20,000 people to build the Great Pyramids. But where did all those workers live? | 1/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Notes from The Pluto Files | Neil deGrasse Tyson travels cross-country to trace Pluto's history. | 1/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Surprises in Your Genes | What makes an embryo—basically a tiny ball of cells—grow into a whale, or a fly, or a human? | 12/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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119 |
Big Thinkers: If Darwin Were Here | What would Darwin think if he were here today? | 12/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Thinkers: Why Does Evolution Matter? | Why is it important for us all to understand evolution today? | 12/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Thinkers: Evolution and God | Was evolution a threat to religion in Darwin's day, and is it compatible with conventional faith today? | 12/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pearl Harbor Sub Discovered | Hear how a newly identified wreck found outside the harbor may rewrite the history of the Japanese attack. | 12/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Thinkers: Darwin's Debut | Darwin's "Origin of Species" was published 150 years ago today. Hear three "big thinkers" on how his theories were received a century ago | 11/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chasing Down Dinner | Was endurance running the key to how early humans survived? | 11/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How We Became Human | Paleoanthropologist Rick Potts explains how a rapidly changing climate made humans what we are today. | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hands on Hubble | While fixing the Hubble Space Telescope, astronauts had to let their fingers do the walking. Literally. | 10/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Capturing Darwin's Dilemma | In this interview, scriptwriter John Goldsmith describes the challenges of crafting NOVA's two-hour special,"Darwin's Darkest Hour." | 10/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Portland Science Pub | At a recent event in Portland, Oregon called the "Science Pub," Neil deGrasse Tyson answered questions about black holes, science literacy, and more. | 9/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cosmic Perspective: Looking Up | Neil deGrasse Tyson gives his "Cosmic Perspective" on what it means to really look at the night sky. | 8/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cosmic Perspective: Bad News | Neil deGrasse Tyson gives his "Cosmic Perspective" on bad news. | 8/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cosmic Perspective: The Search for Life | Neil deGrasse Tyson gives his "Cosmic Perspective" on the search for life in the universe. | 8/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cosmic Perspective: Dark Matter | Neil deGrasse Tyson gives his "Cosmic Perspective" on dark matter. | 8/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cosmic Perspective: Water | Neil deGrasse Tyson gives his "Cosmic Perspective" on finding water on other planets. | 7/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cosmic Perspective: Coming To Our Senses | Neil deGrasse Tyson gives his "Cosmic Perspective" on coming to our senses. | 7/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cosmic Perspective: Northern Lights | Neil deGrasse Tyson gives his "Cosmic Perspective" on the Northern Lights. | 7/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cosmic Perspective: Finding Planets | Neil deGrasse Tyson gives his "Cosmic Perspective" on the search for other planets. | 7/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Bolt From the Blue | Neurologist Oliver Sacks has heard lots of strange stories about the human brain--but none are quite as mysterious as Tony Cicoria's. | 6/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cosmic Perspective: Carbon | Neil deGrasse Tyson gives his "Cosmic Perspective" on carbon. | 6/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pitch Perfect | Can a pitch correction software called Auto-Tune make even hopeless singers sound like pros? | 6/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Life in Space | Astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz turned his boyhood dream into an improbable career. | 6/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Forgotten Genius: Who was my father? | In this podcast, the late son of African-American chemistry pioneer Percy Julian describes his experience with his father. | 6/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Forgotten Genius: Percy Julian | In this podcast, hear an excerpt from a speech given by African-American chemistry pioneer Percy Julian in 1965. | 5/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sexual Cannibalism | Biologist Madianne Andrade says that the gruesome mating behavior of some spiders is a lesson in evolution. | 5/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Insider Who Knew | NASA engineer Rodney Rocha speaks out about his efforts to prevent the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster. | 5/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Speaking Ancient Maya | Barbara MacLeod speaks Maya. As in, ancient Maya. | 4/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Global Warning | Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson thinks the problems caused by global warming will be far from just environmental. | 4/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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More Than Games | Can video gamers help solve big problems that stump computers? | 4/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tom and Ray Take Liberties | If you ask Click and Clack for their candid opinion, you may get it. | 4/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Back To the Moon | In this interview, David Morrison of NASA's Lunar Science Institute discusses why it's important for humans to return to the Moon. | 4/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Photographing Extreme Ice | In this interview, renowned nature photographer James Balog discusses his most recent project--the Extreme Ice Survey. | 3/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Forging the Inca Empire | Terence D'Altroy of Columbia University discusses how the short-lived Inca Empire grew so rapidly. | 3/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Neil on Hubble | Neil deGrasse Tyson describes where he'd point the Hubble Space Telescope if he had the chance. | 3/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Art of Running | For elite athlete Uta Pippig, training for a marathon is as much an art as it is a sport. | 3/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The 2012 Hoax | Our series host Neil deGrasse Tyson says that despite all those doomsday claims on the Internet, the world will NOT end in 2012. | 2/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Defining Science: The Power of Science | Not every idea, no matter how beautiful it may be, qualifies as science. | 2/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Defining Science: Science Is Not Dogmatic | Robert Pennock thinks that when creationists claim that "science itself is a religion", their argument doesn't hold up. | 2/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Defining Science: Science vs. Religion | Biologist Ken Miller describes the nature of science, its limits, and how it differs from religion. | 2/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Defining Science: Only a Theory? | Philosopher Barbara Forrest says that people who claim evolution is "only a theory" are misusing the word "theory". | 2/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Caught in a Culture War | For Lauri Lebo, a journalist who grew up in the area, the Dover, PA trial hit home. | 2/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Judging Intelligent Design | Does intelligent design qualify as science? Not according to Judge John Jones. | 2/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Decoding Speech | If you think computers can easily recognize and transcribe spoken language, think again. | 1/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Governator | California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger describes his state's plan to fight global warming. | 1/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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163 |
Digital Diamonds? | Can man-made diamond pave the way for the electronics of the future? | 1/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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164 |
Luscious Garage | Most auto repair shops don't make a point of being environmentally friendly-but Luscious Garage isn't your average shop. | 1/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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165 |
Life on Ice | Could frozen water be the key to finding life on Mars? | 12/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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166 |
The Coldest Frontier | Science historian Simon Schaffer says the concept of absolute zero didn't come easily. | 12/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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167 |
Phoenix Arrives | Peter Smith, Principal Investigator for the Phoenix Lander mission, describes the nerve-wracking moments of launch and landing. | 12/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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168 |
Did Bugs Do In the Dinos? | Did a massive asteroid kill off the dinosaurs? Entomologist George Poinar thinks something much smaller might have done the job. | 12/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Touching the Past | The legend of Pocahontas and the founding of Jamestown have special meaning for Chief Anne "Little Fawn" Richardson. | 12/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Talking With Apes | Can apes learn human language? Primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh thinks so. | 12/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 170 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Short teasers 2-5 minutes in length
These are nothing more than short teasers for the full Nova programs. I wish you would podcast the complete program. Includes virtually no information, just a commercial.
It's OK
These NOVA podcasts have their advantages and disadvantages. They do put a good amount of information considering their length. However, it's much simpler and smarter to just listen to them as you're surfing the iTunes music store. I like the NOVA TV show and I hope that PBS continues to show them on TV and in the iTunes music store.
Great Stuff!
This is a fascinating podcast -- great access to interesting people. Very well done.
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