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Season 45 Episodes

Thai Cave Rescue
S45 E14 Length 53:34 Premiere Date 10/29/18

Addiction
S45 E12 Length 53:45 Premiere Date 09/25/18

Black Hole Apocalypse
S45 E1 Length 53:26 Premiere Date 12/06/17

Seeing Quantum with the Naked Eye
Clip Length 03:55 Premiere Date 02/06/18

Can Tech Save Players’ Brains?
Clip Length 02:49 Premiere Date 02/03/18

Predicting Landslides
Clip Length 01:34 Premiere Date 01/17/18

Does the Flu Shot Work?
Clip Length 02:14 Premiere Date 01/17/18

Black Hole Apocalypse Trailer
Preview Length 03:00 Premiere Date 12/06/17

Black Hole Apocalypse Preview
Preview Length 00:30 Premiere Date 12/06/17

Four Types of Black Holes
Clip Length 02:00 Premiere Date 12/06/17

Black Hole Hunter: Janna Levin
Clip Length 04:15 Premiere Date 12/06/17

Black Hole Hunter: Andrea Ghez
Clip Length 03:39 Premiere Date 12/06/17

Black Hole Hunter: Priyamvda Natarajan
Clip Length 03:55 Premiere Date 12/06/17

Black Hole Hunter: Chung-Pei Ma
Clip Length 04:22 Premiere Date 12/06/17

Black Hole Star Cake
Clip Length 05:10 Premiere Date 12/06/17

What's Inside a Black Hole?
Clip Length 03:36 Premiere Date 12/06/17

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Secrets of the Forest - S52 E8

Scientists gather data on how forests work and try to figure out how they can help tackle the twin threats of climate change and species extinction.

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Ancient Desert Death Trap - S52 E17

Archaeologists investigate strange Stone Age megastructures in the Arabian desert, built by a mysterious people 9000 years ago.

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Athens: Birth of Democracy - S53 E7

Archaeologists investigate the dramatic origins of democracy in ancient Greece 2,500 years ago. Mass graves and ancient ruins where tyrants were murdered shine new light on the birth of a revolutionary form of government.

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Revolutionary War Weapons - S52 E7

American and British archaeologists and historians reveal the technology, innovation and luck that determined the outcomes of key battles of the Revolutionary War.

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Black Hole Apocalypse - S45 E1

Premiered On: 01/10/2018

Join astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin on a mind-blowing voyage to the frontiers of black hole science, which is shining new light on the most powerful and mysterious objects in the universe.

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Black Hole Universe - S45 E2

Premiered On: 07/03/2019

Join astrophysicist Janna Levin on a mind-bending journey to the frontiers of black hole research. Discover how scientists may soon be able to "see" a black hole and are revealing new clues to the strangest and most extreme objects in the universe.

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Chasing Pluto - S42 E13

Premiered On: 07/15/2015

The New Horizon's spacecraft will fly by and take the first detailed images of Pluto. It is the culmination of the spacecraft's nine-year, three-billion-mile journey.

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Secrets of the Forest - S52 E8

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Alaskan Dinosaurs - S48 E21

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Can Dogs Talk? - S53 E3

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Great Mammoth Mystery - S49 E3

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When Whales Could Walk - S51 E1

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