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![Absolute Zero](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3501_zero.jpg) | Absolute Zero The story of the harnessing of cold and the race to reach the lowest temperature possible |
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![Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3118_scrolls.jpg) | Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land Israel's remote Cave of Letters holds clues to a Jewish uprising against the Romans. |
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![Arctic Passage](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3307_arctic.jpg) | Arctic Passage Relive two legendary expeditions—one tragic, one triumphant—to pioneer a route through the Northwest Passage. |
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![Astrospies](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3503_astrospi.jpg) | Astrospies An elite corps of secret U.S. astronauts is trained to gather intelligence on the Soviets during the Cold War. |
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![Balloon Race Around the World](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2313_threemen.jpg) | Balloon Race Around the World Delve into the history and science of ballooning, and follow some of the attempts in the '90s to be the first to circumnavigate the globe. |
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![The Bible's Buried Secrets](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3516_bible.jpg) | The Bible's Buried Secrets An archeological detective story traces the origins of the Hebrew Bible. |
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![Boldest Hoax, The](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3202_hoax.jpg) | Boldest Hoax, The Who perpetrated Piltdown Man, the greatest scientific fraud of the 20th century? |
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![Building Pharaoh's Ship](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3702_pharaoh.jpg) | Building Pharaoh's Ship Can the legendary ship of an Egyptian queen sail again? |
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![Cracking the Maya Code](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3506_mayacode.jpg) | Cracking the Maya Code The story behind the centuries-long decipherment of ancient Maya hieroglyphs |
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![Daring Flight, A](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3207_bleriot.jpg) | Daring Flight, A In 1909, Louis Blériot undertakes a heroic first-ever flight across the English Channel. |
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![Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2515_vesuvius.jpg) | Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius The shattered remnants of the Roman city of Pompeii bear witness to the risk that the people of Naples still face today. |
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![Decoding Nazi Secrets](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2615_decoding.jpg) | Decoding Nazi Secrets Allied technologies developed at Britain's Station X helped halt the onslaught of the Third Reich and set the stage for today's computers. |
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![Einstein's Big Idea](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3213_einstein.jpg) | Einstein's Big Idea The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2 |
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![Escape!](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2604_escafire.jpg) | Escape! Engineers learn from past disasters to make fires and car, plane, and ship accidents increasingly survivable. |
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![Everest](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2702_everest.jpg) | Everest Take a virtual climb of Mt. Everest through panoramic photography and explore the personalities, dangers, and history associated with the mountain. |
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![Fall of the Leaning Tower](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2611_pisa.jpg) | Fall of the Leaning Tower An international committee of engineers and architects race to prevent the toppling of Pisa's famous monument. |
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![Faster than Sound](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2412_barrier.jpg) | Faster than Sound Top test pilots describe the dangers, mysteries, and thrill of being the first to fly at supersonic speed. |
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![Forgotten Genius](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3402_julian.jpg) | Forgotten Genius Against all odds, African-American chemist Percy Julian became one of the great scientists of the 20th century. |
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![Galileo's Battle for the Heavens](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2912_galileo.jpg) | 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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![Ghosts of Machu Picchu](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3704_machupicchu.jpg) | Ghosts of Machu Picchu Why did the Incas abandon their city in the clouds? |
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![Great Escape](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3117_greatesc.jpg) | Great Escape Experts dig into World War II's most daring and technically ingenious prison break. |
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![Great Inca Rebellion, The](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3409_inca.jpg) | Great Inca Rebellion, The Mass graves and forensic evidence reveal a complex truth about how the Inca Empire fell. |
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![Hitler's Lost Sub](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2712_lostsub.jpg) | Hitler's Lost Sub A fisherman's net snags off the coast of New Jersey, revealing a missing World War II German U-boat. |
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![Hitler's Sunken Secret](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3216_hydro.jpg) | Hitler's Sunken Secret An expedition to the bottom of Norway's Lake Tinn illuminates Nazi Germany's nuclear ambitions. |
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![Holocaust on Trial](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2711_holocaus.jpg) | Holocaust on Trial A trial in London's High Court examines evidence from Auschwitz to successfully challenge the claims of Holocaust "deniers." |
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![Ice Mummies](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2517_icemsibe.jpg) | Ice Mummies Archeologists from the Andes to the Alps and beyond learn about lost cultures from remarkably well-preserved human remains. |
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![Infinite Secrets](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3010_archimed.jpg) | Infinite Secrets A battered manuscript turns up after 1,000 years, revealing the mind of the Greek genius Archimedes. |
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![Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3416_id.jpg) | Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial Science is 'Exhibit A' in a landmark trial on the teaching of evolution. |
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![Killer's Trail, The](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2613_sheppard.jpg) | Killer's Trail, The Forensic scientists revisit the infamous Sheppard murder case of the 1950s in search of the true killer. |
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![Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3701_killersubs.jpg) | Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor Beneath the waves, discover an untold story of a day that lives in infamy. |
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![Last Flight of Bomber 31](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3002_bomber.jpg) | Last Flight of Bomber 31 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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![Life and Death in the War Zone](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3106_combatdo.jpg) | Life and Death in the War Zone An American combat hospital mobilized in Iraq faces a daily drama of wartime treatment. |
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![Lincoln's Secret Weapon](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2710_monitor.jpg) | Lincoln's Secret Weapon The Navy undertakes a risky project to salvage the USS Monitor, an innovative armored combat vessel from the Civil War. |
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![Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2511_longitud.jpg) | Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude How the quest for a reliable method to find your way at sea was solved by an 18th-century English clockmaker. |
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![Lost Roman Treasure](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2911_zeugma.jpg) | Lost Roman Treasure Experts rescue priceless mosaics from an ancient city about to vanish beneath a reservoir. |
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![Lost King of the Maya](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2804_maya.jpg) | Lost King of the Maya Using ancient hieroglyphs and new excavations, archeologists investigate the rise and fall of the majestic city of Copan. |
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![Lost Tribes of Israel](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2706_israel.jpg) | Lost Tribes of Israel An anthropologist looks for the lost city of Africa's Lemba tribe, and investigates their claim to an ancient Jewish heritage. |
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![NOVA scienceNOW: Maya](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3401_03_nsn.jpg) | NOVA scienceNOW: Maya NASA archeologists use satellites to pinpoint ancient ruins buried deep in the jungle. |
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![Missing in MiG Alley](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3418_warplane.jpg) | Missing in MiG Alley What happened to American pilots shot down over Korea half a century ago? |
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![Most Dangerous Woman in America, The](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3115_typhoid.jpg) | Most Dangerous Woman in America, The Examine the complex case of Typhoid Mary, a cook who was quarantined for life against her will in the early 1900s. |
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![Nazi Prison Escape](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2803_nazipris.jpg) | Nazi Prison Escape From 1940 to 1945, Allied prisoners of war engineered spectacular escapes from Colditz Castle, the Nazis' most impregnable prison. |
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![Newton's Dark Secrets](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3217_newton.jpg) | Newton's Dark Secrets Sir Isaac Newton, the eccentric genius who helped define modern science, was also an obsessive alchemist. |
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![Mummy Who Would be King, The](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3301_mummy.jpg) | Mummy Who Would be King, The Could a mummy exhibited for 140 years at an obscure museum in Niagara Falls be the remains of a long-lost Egyptian pharaoh? |
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![NOVA scienceNOW: Papyrus](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3318_04_nsn.jpg) | NOVA scienceNOW: Papyrus Scraps of writings from a garbage dump in ancient Egypt reveal what life was like 2,000 years ago. |
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![Pocahontas Revealed](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3407_pocahont.jpg) | Pocahontas Revealed Archeologists uncover the reality behind a great American myth. |
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![Riddles of the Sphinx](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3703_sphinx.jpg) | Riddles of the Sphinx A marvel of ancient engineering is vanishing. Can it be saved? |
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![NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Julie Schablitsky](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3410_04_nsn.jpg) | NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Julie Schablitsky Meet an archeologist who is helping to rewrite the history of the Old West. |
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![Saving the National Treasures](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3206_charters.jpg) | Saving the National Treasures Restorers take on the preservation of the original Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. |
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![Secret of Photo 51](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3009_photo51.jpg) | Secret of Photo 51 Meet Rosalind Franklin, the unsung heroine behind the discovery of DNA's double helix. |
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![Secrets, Lies & Atomic Spies](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2904_venona.jpg) | Secrets, Lies & Atomic Spies NOVA looks back to the 1940s, when American spies passed their country's deepest scientific secrets to the Soviets. |
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![Secrets of Easter Island](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_27ei_sle2east.jpg) | Secrets of Easter Island A team attempts to recreate the original islanders' success at moving and erecting giant moai statues. |
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![Secrets of Lost Empires II: China Bridge](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_27fb_sle2chin.jpg) | Secrets of Lost Empires II: China Bridge Two teams working from opposite sides of a turbulent river attempt to build a 12th-century Chinese bridge. |
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![Secrets of Lost Empires II: Easter Island](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_27ei_sle2east.jpg) | Secrets of Lost Empires II: Easter Island How did the ancient Easter Islanders move and erect giant stone statues? Our team tests one theory. |
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![Secrets of Lost Empires II: Medieval Siege](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_27ms_sle2treb.jpg) | Secrets of Lost Empires II: Medieval Siege Two teams set out to build precise replicas of a fearsome medieval weapon—the trebuchet. |
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![Secrets of Lost Empires II: Pharaoh's Obelisk](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_27po_sle2phar.jpg) | Secrets of Lost Empires II: Pharaoh's Obelisk Experts take on the challenge of raising a 40-ton obelisk without using modern technology. |
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![Secrets of Lost Empires II: Roman Bath](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_27rb_sle2roma.jpg) | Secrets of Lost Empires II: Roman Bath NOVA sets out to create a working Roman bath, complete with hot tubs and underfloor heating. |
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![Secrets of the Parthenon](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3502_partheno.jpg) | Secrets of the Parthenon How did the ancient Athenians build this near-flawless icon of Greece's golden age? |
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![Secrets of the Samurai Sword](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3412_samurai.jpg) | Secrets of the Samurai Sword Examine the thousand-year-old art and science behind the making of a Japanese warrior's key weapon. |
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![Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2906_shacklet.jpg) | Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance Beginning in 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton and 27 men survive a year and a half lost in the Antarctic. |
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![Sinking the Supership](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3212_supershi.jpg) | Sinking the Supership The tragic WWII story of the Yamato, the largest battleship ever built. |
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![Submarines, Secrets and Spies](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2602_subsecre.jpg) | Submarines, Secrets and Spies Explorer Robert Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, investigates the wrecks of two Cold War-era nuclear submarines. |
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![Sultan's Lost Treasure](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2801_sultan.jpg) | Sultan's Lost Treasure Archeologists salvage more than 12,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain from an ancient shipwreck. |
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![Spies That Fly](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3001_spiesfly.jpg) | Spies That Fly A new generation of pilotless planes fly, spy, and bomb in places too risky for human pilots. |
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![Sputnik Declassified](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3415_sputnik.jpg) | Sputnik Declassified Top-secret documents rewrite the history of the famous satellite and the early space race. |
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![The Spy Factory](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3602_spyfactory.jpg) | The Spy Factory Examine the high-tech eavesdropping carried out by the National Security Agency and the pitfalls of surveillance in an age of terrorism. |
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![Supersonic Spies](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2503_superson.jpg) | Supersonic Spies The race to build the world's first supersonic passenger airliner leads to a massive Cold War espionage effort. |
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![Titanic's Lost Sister](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2402_titanic.jpg) | Titanic's Lost Sister Underwater explorer Robert Ballard uses sonar technology to find the Britannic, a ship lost in the Aegean in World War I. |
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![To The Moon](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2610_tothemoo.jpg) | To The Moon Relive the remarkable history of humankind's journeys to the moon. |
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![Treasures of the Sunken City](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2417_sunken.jpg) | Treasures of the Sunken City Divers search the seafloor for one of the seven wonders of the ancient world: the Lighthouse of Alexandria. |
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![Vanished!](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2802_vanished.jpg) | Vanished! The mysterious 1947 disappearance of an airplane high in the Andes en route from Argentina to Chile is finally resolved. |
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![Viking Deception, The](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3205_vinland.jpg) | Viking Deception, The Is the Vinland Map a priceless depiction of the New World made before Columbus's voyage or a 20th-century fake? |
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![Vikings, The](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2708_vikings.jpg) | Vikings, The Recent discoveries paint a complex portrait of the Vikings and their boat journeys to places as far-flung as Istanbul. |
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![Voyage of Doom](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_2616_lasalle.jpg) | Voyage of Doom Nautical archeologists uncover the wrecked ship of 17th century French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle. |
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![Who Killed the Red Baron?](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3011_redbaron.jpg) | Who Killed the Red Baron? Forensic experts investigate the most famous aviation mystery of World War I. |
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![Wings of Madness](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3316_santos.jpg) | Wings of Madness The flamboyant rise and tragic death of pioneering aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont. |
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![Wright Brothers' Flying Machine](/wgbh/nova/images03/ticon_3015_wright.jpg) | Wright Brothers' Flying Machine Relive the engineering challenges that two obscure bicycle makers overcame to become first in flight. |
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