NOVA scienceNOW Season 3 Saving Hubble, First Primates, Iraqibacter 2008
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Saving Hubble - Two teams of spacewalkers take on the risky mission of reviving the ailing Space Telescope. First Primates - Our most distant primate ancestors, which lived about 55 million years ago, were tree-dwellers the size of mice. Profile: Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa - He jumped the fence from Mexico to work as a farmhand and ended up a leading brain surgeon. Killer Microbe - A relatively benign bug becomes a highly lethal pathogen, known to U.S. soldiers as Iraqibacter.
- Released: 2008-07-09
- Runtime: 55 minutes
- Genre: Documentary, News
- Stars: David Pogue, Ziya Tong, Peter Standring, Chad Cohen
- Director: Joshua Seftel, Julia Cort, Terri Randall, Paula S. Apsell
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1. Dark Matter, Mice, Crowd Wisdom 2008-06-25
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4. Bird Brains, Space Storms, Smart Bridges 2008-07-16
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5. Leeches; SETI; Stem Cells; Edith Widder 2008-07-23
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7. Aging, Space Elevator, Maya from Space 2008-08-06
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8. Mass Extinction, 1918 Flu, Papyrus 2008-08-13
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10. T-Rex Blood, Epigenetics, Kryptos 2008-08-20
