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Season 46 Episodes

Decoding da Vinci

S46 E21 Length 53:30 Premiere Date 11/13/19

Animal Espionage Preview

Preview Length 00:26 Premiere Date 11/27/19

Using Drones to Solve 170-Year Bowhead Whale Mystery

Clip Length 03:00 Premiere Date 11/27/19

This Little Armadillo Was a Big Ambassador for His Species

Clip Length 03:51 Premiere Date 11/27/19

Can Super Corals Save Reefs?

Clip Length 03:29 Premiere Date 02/21/19

Did Climate Change Cause Hurricane Harvey?

Clip Length 02:32 Premiere Date 02/21/19

Climate Change Flooding: A Threat to National Security?

Clip Length 04:01 Premiere Date 02/21/19

Why Hurricane Florence Caused So Much Flooding

Clip Length 03:02 Premiere Date 02/21/19

What is Coral Bleaching?

Clip Length 02:29 Premiere Date 02/20/19

Why Kicking a Field Goal is Harder Than it Looks

Clip Length 03:28 Premiere Date 02/06/19

What Does the Polar Vortex Have to do With Climate Change?

Clip Length 03:18 Premiere Date 02/01/19

AI Helps Young Man with Cerebral Palsy Find Independence

Clip Length 04:46 Premiere Date 01/31/19

How Does a Government Shutdown Affect Science?

Clip Length 03:01 Premiere Date 01/23/19

Five Moon Names to Know for Successful Moongazing

Clip Length 02:06 Premiere Date 01/23/19

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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

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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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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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