Nova scienceNOW
This innovative news magazine is designed to help viewers keep up with advances in science and technology. Hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the program draws on a range of stories from repairing the Hubble telescope, to the mystery of the Northern Lights to a profile of famed glaciologist Lonnie Thompson.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
Series 4, Episode 6 (#406Z)
Duration:
55:43 Stereo DVI TVPG
The implications of the personal genetic profile, which will predict a person's chances of contracting one of several serious diseases; a visit to a Texas algae farm, where researchers are creating tailor-made algae cells to coax the fuel they want out of these little organisms, which just may be our biofuel future; scientists on an unprecedented journey to Gakkel Ridge, deep beneath the Arctic Ocean, which may help scientists determine if Europa, one of Jupiter's many moons, could host life; and a profile of roboticist Yoky Matsuoka.






