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Doctors combat the deadliest form of meningitis, which strikes young people out of the blue.
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Toxic caverns teeming with strange life-forms spark a radical theory of how caves take shape.
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Experts rescue priceless mosaics from an ancient city about to vanish beneath a reservoir.
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Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
Galileo struggles to persuade church authorities of the truth behind his astonishing discoveries about the cosmos.
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A man obsessed with understanding volcanoes comes up with a radical new way to predict eruptions.
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Experts struggle to save the City of Canals before it vanishes beneath the waves
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NOVA investigates an all-consuming passion for orchids, nature's most highly evolved plant.
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Nova recounts the history of the development of military unmanned aerial vehicles along with the opportunities and challenges they present.
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Forensic scientists set out to discover what happened to seven American airmen whose plane crashed in Kamchatka during World War II.
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Meet the coelacanth, a bizarre fish and "living fossil" that has changed little in its 400 million years on Earth.
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Two aviation giants, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, compete to build the next-generation fighter jet.
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Jon Krakauer and fellow mountaineers pioneer a new route on a scientific expedition up Antarctica's highest peak.
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A crack restoration team tries to prevent priceless medieval Buddhist murals from crumbling into dust.
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Radiation experts play out a frightening terrorist scenario—exploding a bomb laden with radioactive materials.
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A toxic aquarium plant is accidentally released into the Mediterranean, overwhelming marine life and threatening to spread worldwide.
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Meet Rosalind Franklin, the unsung heroine behind the discovery of DNA's double helix
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