Through the Wormhole: What Do Aliens Look Like?

January 10, 2012
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Through the Wormhole: What Do Aliens Look Like?

Science fiction writers have always had their little green men. But these humanoid aliens were based soundly on Earth-based life, not any extra terrestrial evidence. Today, we’ve discovered hundreds of planets around other stars. As we learn what some of these alternative Earths might look like, science and imagination have allowed us to use real science to imagine the biology of their inhabitants. Will they have two eyes? Two legs? What color will their skin be? Which species on Earth can give us clues about likely biology of aliens? And what can we learn from how life on Earth developed to help us understand what ET really looks like? List of all episodes here: Through The Wormhole.   Watch the full...

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Through the Wormhole: Can We Live Forever?

January 10, 2012
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Through the Wormhole: Can We Live Forever?

Medical advances have doubled human life expectancy in past centuries. But can humans ever beat death altogether? Can we control and fix the errors that build up in our DNA over the years? Can we find a way to replace the chemistry of life...

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Through The Wormhole: Can We Travel Faster Than Light?

January 10, 2012
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Through The Wormhole: Can We Travel Faster Than Light?

Prior to the day in 1947 when test pilot Charles E. Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time, people argued it wasn’t possible for a plane to fly that fast. So, perhaps we shouldn’t be deterred by the part of Einstein’s special theory...

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Through The Wormhole: How Does The Universe Work?

January 10, 2012
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Through The Wormhole: How Does The Universe Work?

With the help of massive machines called particle accelerators, scientists studied the subatomic realm and made discoveries about the forces that operate at that level. But the search for a comprehensive explanation still continues. In particular, physicists have sought to find a way to...

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Through The Wormhole: Are There Parallel Universes?

January 10, 2012
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Through The Wormhole: Are There Parallel Universes?

Since the ancient Greeks first speculated that everything they observed in reality was the result of the interaction of tiny particles they called atoms, great thinkers have tried to find a single mathematical formula that governs and explains the workings of the entire universe....

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