Science Channel Features
By Science Channel
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Special features, interviews, and behind the scenes stories from the Science Channel.
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Bad Breath Explained | Why Tell Me Why? Discovery News reporter Kasey Dee Gardner gets the low-down on bad breath | 12/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Plastic Addiction | Why are we so obsessed with altering our appearance? | 12/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Science of Alcohol: Making of a Hangover | Examining the science behind one of our most common self-imposed maladies. | 12/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Science of Strength | We take a look at the science behind extraordinary human strength. | 11/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Eric Anderson - CEO of Space Adventures | Eric Anderson, the CEO of Space Adventures, the world's only company to send private explorers to space, spoke about his company and vision for the future. | 11/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard Garriott - Videogame Designer, Programmer, Astronaut | Richard Garriott, creator of the legendary "Ultima" series of videogames, spoke about his recent trip to space and how it's inspired him. | 11/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Jason Downs - A Brief History of Spines | A recent discovery has patched a hole in the fossil record, telling us more about how creatures changed on the way to living on land. But how did the spine actually come to exist, and why is it so universal among land-based creatures? | 11/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dennis vanEngelsdorp - What's Happening to Our Bees? | Honey bees in America are responsible for pollinating crops across the country. But colonies are dying off without warning. What is Colony Collapse Disorder and what's in beekeepers' futures? | 11/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Seth Shostak - Stars | Dr. Seth Shostak knows a bit about the stars - as senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, he should. Hear a few tidbits about the stars, like how they're formed, how they're graded, and where they go when they die. | 10/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Dave McComas - IBEX | The IBEX was launched to image the heliosphere - a boundary around our solar system - in an attempt to understand the complex physics at work. | 10/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Seth Shostak - The Allen Telescope Array | Seth Shostak tells us about the Allen Telescope Array, SETI's newest and (eventually) biggest tool to find ET. | 10/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Mark Scriber - Entomology | Dr. Mark Scriber talks about his studies - in particular, how one species can change and form a new species, and the strange things happen on the way. | 10/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Michio Kaku - Interstellar Travel | Dr. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, talks about man's quest for the stars - and how, when a ship from Earth finally makes the journey to another system, we might not be there for the trip. | 10/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dan Wallach - Hack-A-Vote | Computer scientist Dan Wallach holds an experiment in his class where students try to hack an electoral machine and throw an election. Can his techniques be used to rig a real election? Has it already happened? | 10/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Will Pomerantz - The X Prize | Will Pomerantz, Senior Director of Space Projects at the X Prize Foundation, talks about the Google Lunar X Prize, the inspiration behind the company, and million dollar achievements. | 10/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leroy Chiao - American Astronaut | Former NASA astronaut Dr. Leroy Chiao discusses his path to NASA, his missions, what he's up to now, and how to vote from space. | 10/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Michio Kaku - Time Travel | Dr. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, discusses the "giggle factor" of time travel - and why scientists are no longer laughing. | 10/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Leroy Chiao - China's First Spacewalk | Former NASA astronaut Dr. Leroy Chiao speaks about China's first spacewalk and what this means for the future of space exploration. | 9/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bill Nye | Bill Nye answers questions from fans, talks about his new show Stuff Happens, how people can be greener, and how he will crush Ed Begley, Jr. | 9/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Michio Kaku - The Large Hadron Collider | Dr. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist, talks about the possibilities inherent in the Large Hadron Collider - from the theory of everything to string theory. | 9/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Seth Shostak - What Happens If SETI Finds Life? | Dr. Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, tells us what SETI's going to do upon finding a signal from space. | 9/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dave Mosher - LHC and Future Colliders | Discovery Space producer Dave Mosher talks about the future of particle colliders around the world, as well as his own time living next to one. | 9/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chumby - A Squishy Everything Machine | CEO of Chumby Industries Steve Tomlin talks about the Chumby - an interactive internet media player that can be exactly what you make it. | 9/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gia Milinovich - Science Groupie | Gia Milinovich is a TV presenter, photographer, new media consultant, blogger (giagia.co.uk), wife of physicist Dr. Brian Cox, and self-proclaimed "science groupie." Hear her talk about her discovering science, her work with CERN on the LHC, and how the a | 9/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Seth Shostak - What's the Wow! Signal? | Dr. Seth Shostak goes deep into the annals of SETI's history to talk about the Wow! signal of 1977. | 9/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Phil Plait - Bad Astronomy | Dr. Phil Plait sits down to talk to us about everything from his work on the Mythbusters moonlanding episode, becoming the president of JREF, and his new book, "Death From the Skies." | 9/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Seth Shostak - Are Solar Systems Rare? | A recent study shows that solar systems like ours may be incredibly rare. What does this mean for SETI's search for life? | 8/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Visions of the Future - Matter: The Quantum Revolution | Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku speaks about what could be the biggest revolution of all - our ability to directly control the building blocks of the world around us. | 8/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dr. Seth Shostak - The Bigfoot Scam | Dr. Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, was in the crowd when Bigfoot's body was revealed to the world. Or, it was supposed to be. | 8/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Visions of the Future - Life: The Biotech Revolution | Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku speaks about what the future holds for our life, from lab-grown organs to genetic screening. | 8/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Visions of the Future - Intelligence: The Computer Revolution | Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku sits down with us to discuss the future of intelligence, from thinking machines to the ubiquitous computer. | 8/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Water on Mars | The Phoenix Lander is hard at work on the frigid surface of Mars. | 7/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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LOFAR | Dr. Seth Shostak talks about a new satellite array that will be able to pick up frequencies from the edge of space. | 6/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Origins: Vision Correction | When did eyeglasses first come into existence? | 5/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mars Mission | What's the best NASA can hope to get out of their Phoenix mission on Mars? | 5/31/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Origins: Microwaves | Where did the idea of cooking with radio waves first come from? | 5/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Origins: Telephones | From the first dial phone in 1880 to the billions of cellphones now in use, how did the telephone get to where it is today? | 5/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Origins: Refrigerator | Have you ever wondered where the refrigerator got its start? | 5/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Origins: Fast Food | 75 million Americans eat fast food a day. How did it all begin? | 5/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Origins: Freeways | Highways and freeways have proliferated globally...but how did it all begin? | 5/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gamma Ray Burst | Astronomers are excited about the brightest object we've ever seen in space. | 5/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Physics of the Impossible | Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku explains why science fiction isn't necessarily fiction. | 4/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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"Earth-like" Planets | Will we ever find another earth-like planet? And what does it mean to be earth-like? | 2/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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"Close Call" with Asteroid | Planet Earth avoids another asteroid collision | 1/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Search for ET | Learn how you can help Berkeley astronomers search for ET! | 1/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 45 Episodes |
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