Season 47

Discover the fascinating chemistry that makes our world and everything in it—including us.
Beyond the Elements: Life

Beyond the Elements: Indestructible
Discover the fascinating chemistry that makes our world and everything in it—including us.
Beyond the Elements: Indestructible

Beyond the Elements: Reactions
Discover the fascinating chemistry that makes our world and everything in it—including us.
Beyond the Elements: Reactions

Scientists and engineers fight to save Notre Dame Cathedral after the 2019 fire.
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Saving Notre Dame

Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx attempts to grab a piece of an asteroid to bring it back to Earth.
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Touching the Asteroid

Can bringing predators—and fear—back into an ecosystem help restore its natural balance?
Nature's Fear Factor

A to Z: How Writing Changed the World
The creation of printing, the first information technology, drove empires and revolutions.
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A to Z: How Writing Changed the World

The birth of writing and the first alphabet were among the world’s most vital inventions.
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A to Z: The First Alphabet

Meet slime molds: the brainless blobs that can learn, make decisions, and navigate mazes.
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Secret Mind of Slime

We can now edit the human genome with a tool called CRISPR. But how far should we go?
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Human Nature

Follow eagles from the nest to the skies to see what makes these predators so remarkable.
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Eagle Power

Scientists race to understand and defeat the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic.
Decoding COVID-19

Could it be that body fat has more to do with biological processes than personal choices?
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The Truth About Fat

Can Cuba's innovative lung cancer vaccines give new hope to patients across the world?
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Cuba's Cancer Hope

Why do we sleep? And what does sleep have to do with memory, trauma, and our emotions?
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Mysteries of Sleep

Paleontologist Kirk Johnson explores the dynamic history—and future—of ice at the poles.