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Season 3 Episode 1: Dark Matter/Alzheimer's-Memory Mice/Hany Farid/Wisdom of the Crowd

Jun 25, 2008TV-G1h 00m8.5

Dark Matter - Turns out most of the universe is held together by a mysterious, invisible substance. Of Mice and Memory - Mice placed in enriched environments can recover lost memories, giving hope to those who study Alzheimer's. Profile:...

Season 3 Episodes:

Episode 1 Dark Matter/Alzheimer's-Memory Mice/Hany Farid/Wisdom of the Crowd

1. Dark Matter/Alzheimer's-Memory Mice/Hany Farid/Wisdom of the Crowd

Aired: Jun 25, 2008

Dark Matter - Turns out most of the universe is held together by a mysterious...

Episode 2 Personal Genome/Digital Art Authentication/Capturing Carbon/Pardis Sabeti

2. Personal Genome/Digital Art Authentication/Capturing Carbon/Pardis Sabeti

Aired: Jul 2, 2008

Personal DNA Testing - Genetic testing to assess risk factors for a handful o...

Episode 3 Hubble Repair/First Primate/Alfredo Quiñones Hinojosa/Iraqi Bacteria

3. Hubble Repair/First Primate/Alfredo Quiñones Hinojosa/Iraqi Bacteria

Aired: Jul 9, 2008

Saving Hubble - Two teams of spacewalkers take on the risky mission of revivi...

Episode 4 Finch Brains/Northern Lights/Yoky Matsuoka/Smart Bridges

4. Finch Brains/Northern Lights/Yoky Matsuoka/Smart Bridges

Aired: Jul 16, 2008

Bird Brains - Clues to the origins of human language are turning up in the br...

5. Leeches/The Search for ET/Stem Cells Breakthrough/Profile: Edith Widder

Aired: Jul 23, 2008

Leeches - A century after falling out of favor, medicinal leeches are back in...

Episode 6 Phoenix Mars Mission/Brain Trauma/Mammoth Mystery/Judah Folkman Tribute

6. Phoenix Mars Mission/Brain Trauma/Mammoth Mystery/Judah Folkman Tribute

Aired: Jul 30, 2008

Phoenix Mars Lander - NASA's latest robot has already found frozen water and ...

Episode 7 Aging, Space Elevator, Maya from Space

7. Aging, Space Elevator, Maya from Space

Aired: Aug 6, 2008

Aging - Will research into "longevity genes" help us live longer and healthie...

Episode 8 Mass Extinction, 1918 Flu, Papyrus

8. Mass Extinction, 1918 Flu, Papyrus

Aired: Aug 13, 2008

Mass Extinction - What caused the mother of all extinctions 250 million years...

Episode 9 Asteroid, Island of Stability, Karl Iagnemma

9. Asteroid, Island of Stability, Karl Iagnemma

Aired: Aug 20, 2008

Asteroid - Will a doomsday rock the size of the Rose Bowl hit Earth in 2036? ...

Episode 10 T-Rex Blood, Epigenetics, Kryptos

10. T-Rex Blood, Epigenetics, Kryptos

Aired: Aug 20, 2008

T-Rex Blood? - Preserved soft tissue, including possible blood vessels and re...

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