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Interesting TV tonight
Jan. 10th, 2006 09:14 amhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/
Nova tonight. 2005 Year-End Edition.
Airs on PBS January 10, 2006 at 8 p.m.
In our fifth episode we will present a special year-end edition produced in collaboration with Discover magazine. The program will offer a fast-paced round-up of a collection of the year's most groundbreaking and curious science stories, including:
Breakthroughs in embryonic stem cell techniques that may offer a way to avoid religious and ethical objections to the research.
The risk posed by a flu pandemic. How would a global outbreak of flu spread, and why do we have to wait for a human-to-human version of the disease to appear before we can create a vaccine?
How cell phone use slows driver reaction times, converting the reflexes of a 20-year-old behind the wheel into those of a 70-year-old.
The inspiring comeback story of the ivory-billed woodpecker, thought to have died out 60 years ago but recently found to have resurfaced in an Arkansas swamp.
Evidence that the threat from powerful hurricanes is growing worse. Is global warming to blame?
A profile of cancer researcher Tyler Curiel of Tulane University as he goes to dramatic lengths to save patients and irreplaceable research samples in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The discovery of a new 10th planet in our solar system potentially one-and-a-half times as big as Pluto.
How scientists can grow edible meat in culture from a few animal cells. But would we ever want to eat it?
A University of San Jose mathematician's new insights into a 2,300-year-old mystery surrounding prime numbers may finally solve the elusive "twin prime conjecture."
The unusual occurrence of toads in an area of northern Germany that get sick, swell, and burst.
Nova tonight. 2005 Year-End Edition.
Airs on PBS January 10, 2006 at 8 p.m.
In our fifth episode we will present a special year-end edition produced in collaboration with Discover magazine. The program will offer a fast-paced round-up of a collection of the year's most groundbreaking and curious science stories, including:
Breakthroughs in embryonic stem cell techniques that may offer a way to avoid religious and ethical objections to the research.
The risk posed by a flu pandemic. How would a global outbreak of flu spread, and why do we have to wait for a human-to-human version of the disease to appear before we can create a vaccine?
How cell phone use slows driver reaction times, converting the reflexes of a 20-year-old behind the wheel into those of a 70-year-old.
The inspiring comeback story of the ivory-billed woodpecker, thought to have died out 60 years ago but recently found to have resurfaced in an Arkansas swamp.
Evidence that the threat from powerful hurricanes is growing worse. Is global warming to blame?
A profile of cancer researcher Tyler Curiel of Tulane University as he goes to dramatic lengths to save patients and irreplaceable research samples in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The discovery of a new 10th planet in our solar system potentially one-and-a-half times as big as Pluto.
How scientists can grow edible meat in culture from a few animal cells. But would we ever want to eat it?
A University of San Jose mathematician's new insights into a 2,300-year-old mystery surrounding prime numbers may finally solve the elusive "twin prime conjecture."
The unusual occurrence of toads in an area of northern Germany that get sick, swell, and burst.
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