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How Smart Can We Get?

Albert Einstein

How do you get a genius brain? Is it all in your DNA? Or is it hard work? Is it possible that everyone’s brain has untapped genius — just waiting for the right circumstances so it can be unleashed? From a man who suddenly acquired an extraordinary musical gift after a freak head injury to a “memory athlete” who can remember strings of hundreds of random numbers, David Pogue meets people stretching the boundaries of what the human mind can do in NOVA scienceNOW: How Smart Can We Get?

Turning Crime-solving Into A Precise Science

NOVA Forensics on Trial

There is a startling gap between the glamorous television world of “CSI” and the gritty reality of the forensic crime lab. With few established scientific standards, no central oversight, and poor regulation of examiners, forensics in the U.S. is in a state of crisis.

NOVA: Making Stuff Stronger, Smaller

NOVA Making Stuff

What is the strongest material in the world? Is it steel, Kevlar, carbon nanotubes, or something entirely new? NOVA kicks off the four-part series “Making Stuff” with a quest for the world’s strongest substances. Host David Pogue takes a look at what defines strength, examining everything from steel cables to mollusk shells to a toucan’s beak. Pogue travels from the deck of a U.S.

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NOVA

What Made the 1918 Flu So Deadly?
How the 1918 Flu Infected People
Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Strange Creatures
Manhunt—Boston Bombers Preview
Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Monsters
Fertilizing the Amazon
Flu Probabilities
Australia: Life Explodes

Nature

Great Zebra Exodus
The Zebra of Botswana's Saltpans
Posturing Meerkat Pups
Making The Private Life of Deer
The Private Life of Deer Preview
The Ghost Deer
Clearing Fences
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