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Transplanting Hope Preview
NOVA takes you inside the operating room to witness organ transplant teams transferring organs from donors to recipients. Meet families navigating both sides of a transplant, and researchers working to end the organ shortage. Their efforts to understand organ rejection, discover ways to keep organs alive outside the body, and even grow artificial organs with stem cells, could save countless lives.

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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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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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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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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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Can bringing predators—and fear—back into an ecosystem help restore its natural balance?