NOVA scienceNOW - Season 2 Episode 3 Aging

Name: NOVA scienceNOW
Genre: Documentary, News
Released: 14 Nov 2012
Rating: 8.00
Cast: David Pogue, Ziya Tong, Peter Standring, Chad Cohen

2012-11-14 United States of America 55 minutes.

8.00 8 votes

Documentary News

Episodes
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Season - Episode

6 Season 6 Oct 10, 2012

6 - 1

What Makes Us Human? Oct 10, 2012
6 - 2

Can Science Stop Crime? Oct 17, 2012
6 - 3

How Smart Can We Get? Oct 24, 2012
6 - 4

Can I Eat That? Oct 31, 2012
6 - 5

What Are Animals Thinking? Nov 07, 2012
6 - 6

What Will the Future Be Like? Nov 14, 2012

5 Season 5 Jan 19, 2011

5 - 1

Can We Make It to Mars? Jan 19, 2011
5 - 2

Can We Live Forever? Jan 26, 2011
5 - 3

How Does the Brain Work? Feb 02, 2011
5 - 4

How Smart Are Animals? Feb 09, 2011
5 - 5

Where Did We Come From? Feb 16, 2011
5 - 6

What's the Next Big Thing? Feb 23, 2011

4 Season 4 Jun 30, 2009

4 - 1

Diamond Factory / Anthrax Investigation / Auto-Tune / Luis Von Ahn Jun 30, 2009
4 - 2

Hunt for Alien Earths / Art Authentication / Maydianne Andrade / Autism Genes Jul 07, 2009
4 - 3

Marathon Mouse/Dinosaur Plague/Franklin Chang-Díaz/Space Storms Jul 14, 2009
4 - 4

Picky Eaters/Capturing Carbon/Sea Lions and Walruses/Sangeeta Bhatia Jul 21, 2009
4 - 5

Moon Smasher/Secrets in the Salt/Bird Brains/Lonnie Thompson Jul 28, 2009
4 - 6

Public Genomes/Algae Fuel/Arctic Ocean Seafloor/Yoky Matsuoka Aug 18, 2009
4 - 7

Saving Hubble Update/Gangster Birds/Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa/How Memory Works Aug 25, 2009
4 - 8

Earthquakes in the Midwest/Sleep/Sang-Mook Lee/First Primates Sep 01, 2009

3 Season 3 Jun 25, 2008

3 - 1

Dark Matter, Mice, Crowd Wisdom Jun 25, 2008
3 - 2

Personal Genome; Digital Art Authentication; Carbon Sequestration; Pardis Sabeti Profile Jul 02, 2008
3 - 3

Saving Hubble, First Primates, Iraqibacter Jul 09, 2008
3 - 4

Bird Brains, Space Storms, Smart Bridges Jul 16, 2008
3 - 5

Leeches; SETI; Stem Cells; Edith Widder Jul 23, 2008
3 - 6

Phoenix; Mammoth Mystery; Judah Folkman Tribute Jul 30, 2008
3 - 7

Aging, Space Elevator, Maya from Space Aug 06, 2008
3 - 8

Mass Extinction, 1918 Flu, Papyrus Aug 13, 2008
3 - 9

Asteroid, Island of Stability, Karl Iagnemma Aug 20, 2008
3 - 10

T-Rex Blood, Epigenetics, Kryptos Aug 20, 2008

2 Season 2 Oct 03, 2006

2 - 1

Asteroid Oct 03, 2006
2 - 2

Mass Extinction Nov 21, 2006
2 - 3

Aging Jan 09, 2007
2 - 4

Sleep Jul 10, 2007
2 - 5

Dino Blood? Jul 24, 2007

1 Season 1 Jan 25, 2005

1 - 1

Mirror Neurons, Hurricanes, Sand Dunes Jan 25, 2005
1 - 2

3-Foot Humans, T. Rex, Stem Cells Apr 19, 2005
1 - 3

Hydrogen Cars, Petunias, Glaciers Jul 26, 2005
1 - 4

Life in the Lab, Lightning, Fish Surgery Oct 18, 2005
1 - 5

Tenth Planet, Twin Primes, Bird Flu Jan 10, 2006

Overview

A look at recent research on the aging process, and how we might slow it down.Space Elevator: The possible creation of a "space elevator" made from nanotubes, and a NASA contest designed to fuel innovation behind this idea.Maya: The use of a new NASA satellite technique to find lost Maya ruins.Profile: Bonnie Bassler: A look at Princeton molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler and her research on bacteria communication.

Year 2012

Studio PBS

Director

Crew Joshua Seftel (Director), Julia Cort (Director), Terri Randall (Director), Paula S. Apsell (Producer)

Popularity 1.2951

Language English