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It’s a golden age for planet hunters: NASA's Kepler mission has identified more than 3,500 potential planets orbiting stars beyond our Sun. Some of them, like a planet called Kepler-22b, might even be able to harbor life. How did we come upon this distant planet?

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No Dinosaurs Above the Line

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Dinosaur Fossils

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King of Gore

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Driving Dinosaur Diversity

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Pangea

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Making Granite From Volcanic Rock

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A Massive Volcanic Eruption

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Rock Time Capsules

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The Sandstone Top of the Canyon

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Fossil-Filled Limestone

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The Grand Canyon's Oldest Rocks

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Rockies 2.0

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Manhattan Schist

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Manhattan Skyline

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New York's Mountains

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Mendenhall Glacier

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Monument Rocks 1

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Monument Rocks 2

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Exuma Cays 1

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Exuma Cays 3

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Exuma Cays 4

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Gooseberry Falls 1

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Gooseberry Falls 2

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Gooseberry Falls 3

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Gooseberry Falls 4

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Mount Kilauea

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Grand Canyon 1

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Grand Canyon 2

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Grand Canyon 3

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Grand Canyon 4

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Lethal Seas Excerpt 1

Length 04:11 Premiere Date 05/12/15

Lethal Seas Excerpt 2

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Lethal Seas Excerpt 3

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Lethal Seas Excerpt 4

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The Mother of Hubble

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RNAi Explained

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Dolphin Mirror

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Dogs' Sense of Time

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Animal Robot 1

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Animal Robot 2

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Therapeutic Hypothermia

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Therapeutic Hypothermia 3

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Muon Detection

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Muons

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Plants White

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DNA Patch

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DNA Vaccine

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Earthquake Test

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David Drives

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Shelley

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Pitcher Plant

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SLIPS

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Hagfish

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Hagfish Defense

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Slime Clothes

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New York City One Year Later: Telecommunications

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Sneak Peek: Making Stuff Faster

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David's Race

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Steffen's Plan

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Traveling Salesman

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Eye Robot

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Corkscrew Robot

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Slow Goldfish

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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

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Jellyfish

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The Climate Wild Card

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Life on Europa?

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CloudLab_Megastorm_05

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CloudLab_Megastorm_06

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Flu Probabilities

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CHNOPS: Ingredients for Life

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Electromagnetic Spectrum

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MODIS Sensor

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Putting Energy to Use Old

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Pluto and Beyond - S46 E1

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Join the mission as the New Horizons spacecraft attempts to fly by NASA's most distant target yet. Since it explored Pluto in 2015, New Horizons is zooming toward Ultima Thule, an object four billion miles from Earth.

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Follow the Artemis II engineers and crew on a perilous 10-day journey to orbit the Moon.

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Trace the remarkable origins of Homo sapiens and the crucial moments that shaped our species.

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Human: Into the Americas - S52 E15

Follow the perilous journey of ancient humans into the Americas, where a frigid Ice Age landscape and fearsome beasts, like mammoths, tested their resilience.

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Alien Planets Revealed Preview

Recent Episodes

Return to the Moon

Rain Bombs

Athens: Birth of Democracy

Stone Age Temple Mystery

Mammal Origins

Can Dogs Talk?

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Zombies and Calculus

Two Weeks Under the Sea

The Pattern in Nature's Networks

What Is Gravity Made Of?

Imagining Alien Life

Poop-Eating Sloth Moths

Alien Planets Revealed Preview

Green Energy in China

A Mind for Music

Modeling a Comet Airburst

Six Questions with David Pogue

Surviving an Elevator Fall

Shabbat Elevator

Specials

Interview: Good Anxiety, Exercise, and Connection on the Brain with Wendy Suzuki

Interview: T. Rex to Birds with Steve Brusatte

Interview: Dark Matter = Black Holes? with David Kaiser

Interview: Discovering Dark Energy and the Hubble Tension with Nobel Prize Winner Adam Riess

Interview: Evolution of New Species, Venom, Wings, and More with Sean B. Carroll

Interview: De-Extinction, Dire Wolves, and Jurassic Park with Beth Shapiro

Particles of Thought: The Extremophile’s Guide to Life

Interview: The Animal Translator with Erich Jarvis

Interview: Brain Guru with Heather Berlin

Interview: Bob and Mike’s Big Idea with Bob Hazen and Mike Wong

Interview: Black Hole Badass with Janna Levin

Interview: The Deepfake Detective with Hany Farid

Interview: Mind of a Fossil Hunter with Kirk Johnson

When Machines Prescribe

Sands of Time

Keepers of the Coastline

Tides of Tradition

Standing the Heat

Megadroughts and Indigenous Voices

Harvesting the Future

Sea Change: Survival in the Gulf of Maine

Sea Change: Peril in the Gulf of Maine

Sea Change: Bounty in the Gulf of Maine

When Whales Could Walk (Español)

Ancient Builders of the Amazon (Español)

Ancient Maya Metropolis (Español)

Picture a Scientist (with Audio Description)

Treasures Metals Eiffel Tower

A Labyrinth of Lava

From Mud to Rock

Finding Stromatolites

Stromatolites Were Kings

Ancient Life

Millions of Years Captured in Chalk

A Fourteen-Foot Fish From Kansas

Hell Creek Formation

No Dinosaurs Above the Line

Mammal Survivors

Dinosaur Fossils

King of Gore

Driving Dinosaur Diversity

Pangea

Making Granite From Volcanic Rock

A Massive Volcanic Eruption

Rock Time Capsules

The Sandstone Top of the Canyon

Fossil-Filled Limestone

The Grand Canyon's Oldest Rocks

From Lava to Land

Semi-Precious Pebbles

Five Steps of Volcanic Rock

Tearing North America Apart

Fossilized Sand Dunes

Volcanoes of Sand

Rockies 2.0

Manhattan Schist