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Asteroids: Spark of Life? Preview
What if asteroids, long feared as destroyers of life, were key to our existence? Explore a revolutionary theory that these violent collisions provided the essential ingredients – water, minerals, and energy – needed to jumpstart life on Earth.
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Ancient footprints provide new evidence of humans and extinct giant beasts of the Ice Age.
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Sir David Attenborough explores a site with traces of ancient mammoths and Neanderthals.
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In the Arctic, enormous releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, threaten the climate
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Intrepid paleontologists discover that dinosaurs thrived in the Arctic’s cold and dark.
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Take a tasty look at insect foods that could benefit our health and our warming planet.
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Join the hunt for the universe’s most common—yet most elusive and baffling—particle.
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As state-legalized cannabis spreads, NOVA explores its little-known risks and benefits.
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NASA launches its most ambitious search yet for traces of ancient life on Mars.