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Jun 28, 1978
Congress is currently considering a proposal that would double the size of America's national park system by designating a sizeable chunk of Alaska...
Jun 21, 1978
In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two radio astronomers at Bell Telephone Laboratories, discovered faint, but ever-present, microwave signals...
Jun 14, 1978
Traditionally zoos were designed neither for people nor animals; barred cages taught people more about their separation from nature than about an...
Jun 7, 1978
NOVA explores Bovine sleeping sickness. Spread by a fly, it is a deadly disease that poses a threat to Africa's cattle.
May 31, 1978
For thousands of years people have managed to live in deserts all over the world. But in recent years, a growing population and the demands of the...
May 24, 1978
In a world that each year loses up to 40 percent of its crops to insects, some form of pest control is desperately needed. But chemical pesticides...
May 10, 1978
When first invented 18 years ago, lasers were called "a solution looking for a problem;" nobody could think what to do with them. But in fact...
May 3, 1978
Henry Ford, a great friend of Edison, was a film enthusiast who amassed some one and a half million feet of film during his lifetime. Deposited in...
Apr 19, 1978
The fortified plateau above Athens known as the Acropolis is the site of some of the most remarkable architecture in the world: its marble structures...
Apr 12, 1978
NOVA shows a year in the life of a beaver pond and includes almost every life form that exists in, on, under, around and above the water, from the...
Mar 29, 1978
In the summer of 1977 Paul MacCready, a California scientist and businessman, won the coveted Kremer Prize. His achievement was to design and build...
Mar 22, 1978
Today's scientists may be creating their own successors. Work being done in Artificial Intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science, only suggest...
Mar 8, 1978
NOVA investigates the theories of von Daniken and others that the Earth has been visited by intelligent beings from outer space. Among claims...
Mar 1, 1978
A science-based revolution in the making of wine is underway. NOVA traces the secrets of the aging process and science's involvement with the...
Feb 22, 1978
In a dramatic docudrama, NOVA reconstructs the controversial lawsuit raised against renowned heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley when one of his patients...
Feb 15, 1978
In the rain forests of Zaire, in the heart of Africa, live the Mbuti Pygmies. The Pygmy way of life has always been extraordinarily difficult to...
Feb 1, 1978
Second of the two-part series on space programs, NOVA looks ahead to the future, post-Apollo and the role that man in space will play, including the...
Jan 25, 1978
Part one of a two-part series on the subject of man in space, NOVA examines the history of NASA—from the origin of the space race through the...
Jan 18, 1978
It has been known since the turn of the century that there are four human blood groups, based on different red cells and serum characteristics. NOVA...
Jan 4, 1978
Can a nuclear war be survived? Some members of the defense community say yes. NOVA explores the possibility.
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