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Secrets in Your Data Preview
March 22, 2024
Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. Find out where your data is going, who’s selling it, and how you – and a new kind of web – could put control back in your hands.
TV Schedule
2024 Season
Building Stuff: Change It! Preview
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From electric flight to artificial noses, engineers are finding new ways to preserve our planet....
Building Stuff: Reach It!
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Humans are born to roam. See how engineers are inventing new ways to explore and extend our...
Building Stuff: Boost It!
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Is engineering humanity’s superpower? See how we can amplify our natural abilities in amazing...
Decoding the Universe: Quantum
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Dive into the universe at the tiniest – and weirdest – of scales.
Solar System: Wandering Worlds
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Meet the surprising, oddball worlds moving around our solar system.
Solar System: Icy Worlds
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Visit strange, frozen worlds to discover the bizarre ice that forms beyond Earth.
Solar System: Volcano Worlds
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Discover the powerful volcanic eruptions that have shaped worlds across our solar system.
Solar System: Strange Worlds
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What are the weirdest worlds in our solar system, and how did they come to be?
Solar System: Storm Worlds
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Discover the dramatic forces creating spectacular weather on neighboring planets and moons....
Decoding the Universe: Cosmos
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Explore big discoveries that have revolutionized our understanding of the universe.
Hunt for the Oldest DNA
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Follow the quest to recover DNA millions of years old for the very first time.
Building the Eiffel Tower
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Explore the engineering behind Paris’s iconic landmark, the tallest structure of its time....
Easter Island Origins
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New evidence reveals the real story of Easter Island and the builders of its stone heads.
More Episodes
Sands of Time
September 13, 2024
Using photo archives and ancestral knowledge, witness coastal erosion in Bristol Bay, Alaska....
Keepers of the Coastline
September 13, 2024
In Northern California, Marine science is guided by Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation’s community and...
Tides of Tradition
September 13, 2024
Following a local Unangax̂ hunter, hear the realities of food access in the changing Arctic....
Standing the Heat
September 13, 2024
Reintroducing the hogan, an earthen Navajo structure that stays cool in the summers without...
Megadroughts and Indigenous Voices
September 13, 2024
The Southwest is in a megadrought, but Native Americans have survived them before.
Harvesting the Future
September 13, 2024
Ak-chin farming makes desert agriculture possible, and now, those practices help communities...
Sea Change: Survival in the Gulf of Maine
August 7, 2024
Meet the people leading new efforts to shape the future of the Gulf of Maine and our oceans....
Sea Change: Peril in the Gulf of Maine
July 31, 2024
Explore Cashes Ledge - part of the Gulf of Maine that helps power the Gulf’s more than 3,000...
Sea Change: Bounty in the Gulf of Maine
July 24, 2024
Discover the lasting impact of how international trade forever changed the Gulf of Maine’s...
Cat Tales
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Goddess, demon, house pet? What does science say about the human relationship with cats?
Dog Tales
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Follow the epic journey of dog domestication and see what science says about dogs’ love....
Making North America: Human
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How has the land shaped our lives, from the arrival of the first Americans to today?
NOVA Universe Revealed
Universe Revealed: Big Bang
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Venture back to the birth of space and time as NOVA probes the mystery of the Big Bang.
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