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Saving the Dead Sea

Saving the Dead Sea

Saving the Dead Sea

As the Dead Sea shrinks, engineers prepare a daring solution: connect it with the Red Sea by way of a massive desalination plant. If it works, it could stabilize the legendary lake and ease regional tensions. But will it put the environment at risk?
S46 E7 Length 53:32 Premiere: 4.24.19

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Lethal Seas - S42 E11

As carbon emissions raise the oceans' acidity, scientists are seeking solutions and making breakthrough discoveries that offer a glimpse of what the seas could be like in a half-century.

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Picture a Scientist

Women make up less than a quarter of STEM professionals in the United States, and numbers are even lower for women of color. But a group of researchers is exposing longstanding discrimination and making science more inclusive.

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Scientists from around the world are rushing to help corals adapt to a changing climate through assisted evolution.

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Fighting for Fertility

Explore barriers to fertility, from social to biological, and assisted reproductive technologies. Follow the journeys of people navigating challenges from structural inequalities and racism to falling sperm counts, egg freezing and IVF.

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Hindenburg: The New Evidence

A new investigation into the 1937 Hindenburg disaster includes a set of experiments that tests scenarios that may have led to the Hindenburg's ignition.

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The program explores emission-free electric planes on the horizon and some impressive prototypes already in the air.

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Season 46 Episodes

Animal Espionage
S46 E23 Length 53:29 Premiere Date 11.27.19

The Violence Paradox
S46 E22 Length 1:53:22 Premiere Date 11.20.19

Decoding da Vinci
S46 E21 Length 53:31 Premiere Date 11.13.19

Dead Sea Scroll Detectives
S46 E20 Length 53:15 Premiere Date 11.6.19

Look Who's Driving
S46 E19 Length 53:21 Premiere Date 10.23.19

Why Bridges Collapse
S46 E18 Length 53:09 Premiere Date 10.16.19

Rise of the Mammals
S46 E17 Length 53:26 Premiere Date 10.30.19

The Planets: Ice Worlds
S46 E16 Length 52:48 Premiere Date 8.14.19

The Planets: Saturn
S46 E15 Length 53:54 Premiere Date 8.7.19

The Planets: Jupiter
S46 E14 Length 53:18 Premiere Date 7.31.19

The Planets: Mars
S46 E13 Length 53:54 Premiere Date 7.24.19

The Planets: Inner Worlds
S46 E12 Length 53:49 Premiere Date 7.24.19

Lost Viking Army
S46 E10 Length 53:26 Premiere Date 5.22.19

First Horse Warriors
S46 E9 Length 53:09 Premiere Date 5.15.19

Inside the Megafire
S46 E8 Length 53:16 Premiere Date 5.8.19

Saving the Dead Sea
S46 E7 Length 53:32 Premiere Date 4.24.19

The Next Pompeii
S46 E6 Length 53:10 Premiere Date 2.20.19

Rise of the Rockets
S46 E5 Length 53:29 Premiere Date 2.13.19

Decoding the Great Pyramid
S46 E4 Length 53:04 Premiere Date 2.6.19

Kīlauea: Hawaiʻi on Fire
S46 E3 Length 53:21 Premiere Date 1.23.19

Einstein's Quantum Riddle
S46 E2 Length 53:12 Premiere Date 1.9.19

Pluto and Beyond
S46 E1 Length 53:36 Premiere Date 1.2.19

Saving the Dead Sea Preview
Preview Length 00:28 Premiere Date 4.24.19

To Save Water, Women in Jordan Learn to Plumb
Clip Length 01:04 Premiere Date 4.24.19

Scientists Use Drones to Track Dead Sea Sinkholes
Clip Length 02:48 Premiere Date 4.24.19

How Does a Government Shutdown Affect Science?
Clip Length 03:01 Premiere Date 1.23.19

Five Moon Names to Know for Successful Moongazing
Clip Length 02:06 Premiere Date 1.23.19

AI Helps Young Man with Cerebral Palsy Find Independence
Clip Length 04:46 Premiere Date 1.31.19

What Does the Polar Vortex Have to do With Climate Change?
Clip Length 03:18 Premiere Date 2.1.19

Why Kicking a Field Goal is Harder Than it Looks
Clip Length 03:28 Premiere Date 2.6.19

What is Coral Bleaching?
Clip Length 02:29 Premiere Date 2.20.19

Can Super Corals Save Reefs?
Clip Length 03:29 Premiere Date 2.21.19

Did Climate Change Cause Hurricane Harvey?
Clip Length 02:32 Premiere Date 2.21.19

Climate Change Flooding: A Threat to National Security?
Clip Length 04:01 Premiere Date 2.21.19

Why Hurricane Florence Caused So Much Flooding
Clip Length 03:02 Premiere Date 2.21.19

Specials

Picture a Scientist (with Audio Description)
Length 1:52:37 Premiere Date 4.14.21

Beyond the Elements: Life (with Audio Description)
Length 53:17 Premiere Date 2.17.21

Beyond the Elements: Indestructible (with Audio Description)
Length 53:17 Premiere Date 2.10.21

Beyond the Elements: Reactions (with Audio Description)
Length 53:17 Premiere Date 2.3.21

Secrets in our DNA (with Audio Description)
Length 53:26 Premiere Date 1.13.21

Treasures Metals Eiffel Tower
Length 02:09 Premiere Date 12.9.16

A Labyrinth of Lava
Length 01:13 Premiere Date 11.2.15

Driving Dinosaur Diversity
Length 01:47 Premiere Date 10.22.15

Pangea
Length 00:56 Premiere Date 10.22.15

Making Granite From Volcanic Rock
Length 02:16 Premiere Date 10.22.15

A Massive Volcanic Eruption
Length 01:14 Premiere Date 10.22.15

From Mud to Rock
Length 01:36 Premiere Date 10.22.15

Finding Stromatolites
Length 01:23 Premiere Date 10.22.15

Stromatolites Were Kings
Length 01:05 Premiere Date 10.22.15

Ancient Life
Length 00:28 Premiere Date 10.22.15

Millions of Years Captured in Chalk
Length 01:17 Premiere Date 10.22.15

A Fourteen-Foot Fish From Kansas
Length 01:38 Premiere Date 10.22.15

Hell Creek Formation
Length 01:10 Premiere Date 10.22.15

No Dinosaurs Above the Line
Length 02:00 Premiere Date 10.22.15

Mammal Survivors
Length 01:40 Premiere Date 10.22.15

Dinosaur Fossils
Length 01:53 Premiere Date 10.22.15

King of Gore
Length 02:00 Premiere Date 10.22.15

Manhattan Skyline
Length 00:52 Premiere Date 10.21.15

New York's Mountains
Length 01:13 Premiere Date 10.21.15

Rock Time Capsules
Length 01:18 Premiere Date 10.21.15

The Sandstone Top of the Canyon
Length 01:15 Premiere Date 10.21.15

Fossil-Filled Limestone
Length 00:54 Premiere Date 10.21.15

The Grand Canyon's Oldest Rocks
Length 00:19 Premiere Date 10.21.15

From Lava to Land
Length 02:14 Premiere Date 10.21.15

Semi-Precious Pebbles
Length 00:57 Premiere Date 10.21.15

Five Steps of Volcanic Rock
Length 00:26 Premiere Date 10.21.15

Tearing North America Apart
Length 01:01 Premiere Date 10.21.15

Fossilized Sand Dunes
Length 01:15 Premiere Date 10.21.15

Volcanoes of Sand
Length 01:33 Premiere Date 10.21.15

Rockies 2.0
Length 02:00 Premiere Date 10.21.15

Manhattan Schist
Length 01:13 Premiere Date 10.21.15

Grand Canyon 4
Length 00:19 Premiere Date 8.2.15

Mendenhall Glacier
Length 02:51 Premiere Date 8.2.15

Monument Rocks 1
Length 01:18 Premiere Date 8.2.15

Monument Rocks 2
Length 01:48 Premiere Date 8.2.15

Exuma Cays 1
Length 01:26 Premiere Date 8.2.15

Exuma Cays 3
Length 00:28 Premiere Date 8.2.15

Exuma Cays 4
Length 03:22 Premiere Date 8.2.15

Gooseberry Falls 1
Length 00:57 Premiere Date 8.2.15

Gooseberry Falls 2
Length 00:24 Premiere Date 8.2.15

Gooseberry Falls 3
Length 01:06 Premiere Date 8.2.15

Gooseberry Falls 4
Length 01:01 Premiere Date 8.2.15

Mount Kilauea
Length 01:30 Premiere Date 8.2.15

Grand Canyon 1
Length 01:19 Premiere Date 8.2.15

Grand Canyon 2
Length 01:05 Premiere Date 8.2.15

Grand Canyon 3
Length 00:58 Premiere Date 8.2.15

Lethal Seas Excerpt 1
Length 04:11 Premiere Date 5.12.15

Lethal Seas Excerpt 2
Length 01:00 Premiere Date 5.12.15

Lethal Seas Excerpt 3
Length 00:35 Premiere Date 5.12.15

Lethal Seas Excerpt 4
Length 00:51 Premiere Date 5.12.15

The Mother of Hubble
Length 02:28 Premiere Date 4.14.15

Formation of a Typhoon
Length 01:34 Premiere Date 6.25.14

Flatfish Larvae
Length 00:51 Premiere Date 5.6.14

RNAi Explained
Length 01:47 Premiere Date 4.22.14

Dolphin Mirror
Length 03:18 Premiere Date 4.22.14

Dogs' Sense of Time
Length 01:28 Premiere Date 4.13.14

Cockatoo Excerpt
Length 01:30 Premiere Date 4.8.14

How Solar Cells Work
Length 00:33 Premiere Date 2.26.14

Solar Power's Promise
Length 00:51 Premiere Date 2.26.14

Microneedle
Length 01:41 Premiere Date 12.30.13

Non-Newtonian Gel
Length 01:00 Premiere Date 11.15.13

GM Plants
Length 01:27 Premiere Date 11.15.13

Soft-Story Buildings
Length 07:36 Premiere Date 11.13.13

Levitation
Length 00:50 Premiere Date 10.24.13

Superconductor
Length 01:47 Premiere Date 10.24.13

Animal Robot 1
Length 02:35 Premiere Date 10.24.13

Animal Robot 2
Length 02:02 Premiere Date 10.24.13

Therapeutic Hypothermia
Length 01:11 Premiere Date 10.24.13

Therapeutic Hypothermia 2
Length 01:07 Premiere Date 10.24.13

Therapeutic Hypothermia 3
Length 01:43 Premiere Date 10.24.13

Therapeutic Hypothermia 4
Length 02:01 Premiere Date 10.24.13

Swarming Robots
Length 01:31 Premiere Date 10.21.13

Sneak Peek: Making Stuff Wilder
Length 06:14 Premiere Date 10.21.13

Sail Wing
Length 01:02 Premiere Date 10.19.13

Hydrofoil
Length 01:01 Premiere Date 10.19.13

Chicken Feathers
Length 01:56 Premiere Date 10.19.13

KillaCycle
Length 00:48 Premiere Date 10.19.13

How Batteries Work
Length 00:49 Premiere Date 10.19.13

Muon Detection
Length 01:52 Premiere Date 10.19.13

Muons
Length 01:25 Premiere Date 10.19.13

Plants White
Length 02:11 Premiere Date 10.19.13

DNA Patch
Length 01:19 Premiere Date 10.19.13

DNA Vaccine
Length 00:38 Premiere Date 10.19.13

Earthquake Test
Length 02:03 Premiere Date 10.19.13

David Drives
Length 01:27 Premiere Date 10.19.13

Virus Battery
Length 02:21 Premiere Date 10.19.13

Shelley
Length 02:07 Premiere Date 10.19.13

Robot Arm
Length 00:56 Premiere Date 10.19.13

Elephant Arm
Length 01:22 Premiere Date 10.19.13

FinGripper
Length 00:55 Premiere Date 10.19.13

Hagfish Defense
Length 01:36 Premiere Date 10.17.13

Slime Clothes
Length 01:00 Premiere Date 10.17.13

Pitcher Plant
Length 01:48 Premiere Date 10.17.13

SLIPS
Length 01:01 Premiere Date 10.17.13

Hagfish
Length 00:51 Premiere Date 10.17.13

New York City One Year Later: Telecommunications
Length 03:14 Premiere Date 10.16.13

Sneak Peek: Making Stuff Faster
Length 05:06 Premiere Date 10.15.13

David's Race
Length 01:28 Premiere Date 10.15.13

Steffen's Plan
Length 01:59 Premiere Date 10.15.13

Traveling Salesman
Length 01:21 Premiere Date 10.15.13

Eye Robot
Length 01:51 Premiere Date 10.10.13

Corkscrew Robot
Length 00:32 Premiere Date 10.10.13

Slow Goldfish
Length 01:39 Premiere Date 10.10.13

Bee Toxin
Length 01:31 Premiere Date 10.10.13

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Length 03:36 Premiere Date 10.7.13

Invisibility Cloak
Length 01:22 Premiere Date 9.24.13

Shape Memory Alloys
Length 00:32 Premiere Date 9.8.13

Jellyfish
Length 00:38 Premiere Date 9.8.13

Bird Wings
Length 01:56 Premiere Date 9.8.13

Shrinking Chips
Length 01:06 Premiere Date 9.5.13

Pizza Transistor
Length 01:34 Premiere Date 9.5.13

Graphene
Length 01:11 Premiere Date 9.5.13

Wheat Straw Plastic
Length 01:04 Premiere Date 8.29.13

Solar Leaves
Length 00:53 Premiere Date 8.29.13

Battle Jacket
Length 01:49 Premiere Date 8.29.13

Oobleck
Length 00:40 Premiere Date 8.29.13

Magnetic Oobleck
Length 00:54 Premiere Date 8.29.13

Life-Saving Non-Newtonian Fluids
Length 01:43 Premiere Date 8.29.13

Silicon Transistors
Length 00:50 Premiere Date 8.29.13

Starling 8
Length 00:44 Premiere Date 7.15.13

sandy-raw-1-2
Length 00:04 Premiere Date 7.8.13

sandy-raw-5-1
Length 01:02 Premiere Date 7.8.13

Chemotherapy Goes Small
Length 01:17 Premiere Date 7.1.13

The Making of a Cloud Old
Length 03:10 Premiere Date 6.30.13

Why So Many Cloud Types?
Length 03:35 Premiere Date 6.30.13

Clouds and Weather
Length 03:21 Premiere Date 6.30.13

Severe Storms
Length 03:37 Premiere Date 6.30.13

The Climate Wild Card
Length 03:02 Premiere Date 6.30.13

Life on Europa?
Length 02:25 Premiere Date 6.9.13

CloudLab_Megastorm_03
Length 01:41 Premiere Date 5.29.13

CloudLab_Megastorm_04
Length 01:43 Premiere Date 5.29.13

CloudLab_Megastorm_05
Length 01:04 Premiere Date 5.29.13

CloudLab_Megastorm_06
Length 00:40 Premiere Date 5.29.13

CloudLab_Megastorm_07
Length 03:07 Premiere Date 5.29.13

CloudLab_Megastorm_01
Length 00:35 Premiere Date 5.28.13

CloudLab_Megastorm_02
Length 00:31 Premiere Date 5.28.13

What Made the 1918 Flu So Deadly?
Length 01:28 Premiere Date 5.13.13

How the 1918 Flu Infected People
Length 00:25 Premiere Date 5.13.13

Fertilizing the Amazon
Length 03:27 Premiere Date 4.21.13

Flu Probabilities
Length 01:53 Premiere Date 4.16.13

Rare Earth Elements
Length 04:17 Premiere Date 4.1.13

CHNOPS: Ingredients for Life
Length 02:36 Premiere Date 3.12.13

Electromagnetic Spectrum
Length 00:44 Premiere Date 2.28.13

MODIS Sensor
Length 00:26 Premiere Date 2.28.13

Solving the Storage Problem
Length 02:26 Premiere Date 10.25.12

Putting Energy to Use Old
Length 02:14 Premiere Date 10.8.12

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