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Ice Age Footprints
Season 49
Episode 9
Ancient footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park reveal new evidence of Ice Age humans that walked the land alongside enormous ground sloths and mammoths—thousands of years earlier than archaeologists thought people were in the Americas.
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Explore great ancient Maya cities and why their inhabitants abandoned them.
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Intrepid paleontologists discover that dinosaurs thrived in the Arctic’s cold and dark.
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As state-legalized cannabis spreads, NOVA explores its little-known risks and benefits.
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Scientists race to help corals adapt to warming oceans through assisted evolution.
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NASA launches its most ambitious search yet for traces of ancient life on Mars.
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Discover the fascinating chemistry that makes our world and everything in it—including us.
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Discover the fascinating chemistry that makes our world and everything in it—including us.
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Scientists look to geoengineering and other methods to cool the planet.
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