Neil deGrasse Tyson embarks on a quest with leech expert Mark Siddall in the swamps of Connecticut to seek out the infamous decorated leech.
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Jill Tartar, director of the SETI Institute, has thought long and hard about what we could, should, and would say to an alien civilization.
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Hubble veteran, Mike Massimino, tells it like it is-the good and bad of being an astronaut.
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The Personal Genome Project, spearheaded by George Church, the Director of Harvard's Center for Computational Genetics, aims to recruit 100,000 people to offer up their DNA and personal life histories, all in an effort to further knowledge of human genetics and why we get-or don't get-diseases.
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Ever wonder what would happen if you dug a whole from one side of the Earth, through the center, out the other side, and then jumped in?
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We can't see dark matter, and some skeptics doubt its existence, but many scientists think it makes up 20-some percent of our universe. Astronomer Doug Clowe explains how the Bullet Cluster, a group of galaxies billions of light years away, may shed some light on this mysterious stuff.
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Ask enough people to estimate something, and the average of all their guesses will get you surprisingly close to the right answer.
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Throw away your textbooks. Here is the latest, atomically correct, version of our old friend, the atom.
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New insight into a 2,300-year-old mystery surrounding prime numbers inspires a song.
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World-renowned naturalist Edward O. Wilson explains amazing discoveries in ant communication and behavior.
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