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The longest-running science series on television, Nova offers an informative and entertaining look at challenging subjects. Whether exploring a galaxy or an atom, the series ventures beyond the numbers and into the personalities responsible for the discoveries, and the social consequences of events in the lab.

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Coming up: Australia’s First 4 Billion Years: Awakening
Premieres Wednesday, April 10, at 9pm on WGBH 2

Hidden in the red hills of Australia are clues to the mysteries of Earth’s birth, how life arose, and how it transformed the planet into the world we now live in. Experts unveil the earliest forms of life: an odd assortment of bacterial slime. Life like this would flood the atmosphere with oxygen and spark the biological revolution that conquered the planet. Travel with Nova and host Dr. Richard Smith to meet the cast in the first scenes of the great drama of life on earth. Watch a preview:



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Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Awakening

Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Awakening

NOVA

60 min.

Ancient Computer

Ancient Computer

NOVA

A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world’s first computer.

60 min.

Meteor Strike

Meteor Strike

NOVA

The meteor strike in Siberia is examined.

60 min.

The Mind of a Rampage Killer

The Mind of a Rampage Killer

NOVA

The possible motivations of rampage killers.

60 min.

Earth From Space

Earth From Space

NOVA

120 min.

Building Pharaoh's Chariot

Building Pharaoh's Chariot

NOVA

60 min.

Schedule

Saturday
4/6/13 2:00 AM
WGBH 2
Saturday
4/6/13 1:00 PM
WGBH 44
Sunday
4/7/13 1:00 AM
WGBH 44
Sunday
4/7/13 4:00 AM
WGBH 2
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