The Mars Underground
Mars, as a destination for our planet's various combined space agencies, is both an amazingly welcoming Earth-like world, as well as a cold, forbidding and distant challenge. Unlike our Moon, Mars will...
View ArticleBrave New World with Stephen Hawking
Professor Stephen Hawking presents a global exploration of the scientific breakthroughs that are transforming our lives in the 21st century. The post Brave New World with Stephen Hawking appeared first...
View ArticleWelcome to Mars
Meet Spirit and Opportunity. They look like WALL-E. They are exploring Mars – something that people in 1969 thought we would have done by now in person. Welcome to Mars. NOVA takes us where no man has...
View ArticleNOVA: Can We Live Forever?
Can We Live Forever? Technology has made this question less rhetorical nonsense and more practical planning. Surgery, drugs, and the study of DNA have all contributed to a human species living into our...
View ArticleCity Under the Sea: the future of humanity?
The Earth has its share of problems: too many humans live on its crust. There are earthquakes, hurricanes, and tidal waves. Humans are looking for alternatives. Space is often mentioned, but the far...
View ArticleThe Choice is Ours
This two-part documentary film by Roxanne Meadows and Joel Holt explores the determinants of behavior to dispel the myths and prove that environment shapes human behavior. The film illustrates how...
View ArticleThe Year of Pluto
Our Solar System has a mysterious zone that holds the clue to our origins. NASA has been trying since 2006 to gain access to this zone aboard the biggest rocket yet. Exploring the outer Solar System...
View ArticleIf I Die on Mars
Hundreds of years from now, few people will remember the names of famous celebrities, but everyone will remember the names of those four brave men and women who were the first to live on Mars. In 2012,...
View ArticleThe Seed Vault
Nestled in the frozen Norwegian landscape lies the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It can be described as a library of life with an incomplete catalog. The Seed Vault holds over 880,000 seed samples. It is...
View ArticleMars Calling
There are some who see Mars as a frontier of freedom and prosperity—the next home for humans. But the true Mars is a failing world, harsh cold, bone dry, and with a toxic landscape. Although we might...
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