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The Perfect Corpse (#3303)

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Archaeological forensics is pushed to its limits while examining unearthed bodies from an Irish bog.

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The Perfect Corpse (#3303)

Archaeological forensics is pushed to its limits while examining unearthed bodies from an Irish bog.
- Tue, July 8, 7:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Tue, July 8, 7:00 PM on IPTV
- Tue, July 8, 10:30 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Wed, July 9, 12:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Sat, July 12, 7:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Sat, July 12, 10:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
The Great Inca Rebellion (#3409)

A Peruvian archaeologist discovers hastily buried corpses from a little known battle in 1532.
- Tue, July 15, 7:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Tue, July 15, 7:00 PM on IPTV
- Tue, July 15, 10:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Thu, July 17, 11:00 AM on IPTV-Digital
- Sat, July 19, 7:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Sat, July 19, 10:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
Mystery of the Megaflood (#3211)

Go back to the Ice Age to learn what happened when a titanic flood swept everything into oblivion.
- Tue, July 22, 7:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Tue, July 22, 7:00 PM on IPTV
- Tue, July 22, 10:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Sat, July 26, 10:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Wed, July 30, 12:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
Car of the Future (#3509)

Tom and Ray Magliozzi of NPR's "Car Talk" examine new technologies and ideas in the world of cars.
- Tue, July 29, 7:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Tue, July 29, 7:00 PM on IPTV
- Tue, July 29, 10:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Thu, July 31, 11:00 AM on IPTV-Digital
- Sat, August 2, 7:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Sat, August 2, 10:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
Wings of Madness (#3316)

Reveals the daring gas-powered balloon flights and dramatic life of inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont.
- Mon, August 4, 11:00 AM on IPTV-Digital
Dimming the Sun (#3310)

Global dimming causes air pollution that allows less sunlight to reach earth's surface.
- Tue, August 5, 7:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Tue, August 5, 7:00 PM on IPTV
- Tue, August 5, 10:30 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Mon, August 11, 12:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
Family That Walks On All Fours (#3317)

Examines the scientific implications of this family's strange impairment using evolutionary data.
- Wed, August 6, 12:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Tue, August 19, 12:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
Nova scienceNOW (#3401)

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts this fast-paced and provocative science newsmagazine.
- Wed, August 6, 8:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Wed, August 6, 8:00 PM on IPTV
- Wed, August 6, 11:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Sun, August 10, 1:00 AM on IPTV
- Sun, August 10, 11:00 AM on IPTV-Digital
- Tue, August 12, 9:00 AM on IPTV-Digital
Kings of Camouflage (#3402)

Cuttlefish can hypnotize their prey, impersonate the opposite sex & kill with lightening fast speed.
- Tue, August 12, 7:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Tue, August 12, 7:00 PM on IPTV
- Tue, August 12, 10:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Sat, August 16, 7:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Sat, August 16, 10:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
Nova ScienceNOW - Extinction (#3318)

Is it possible that the biggest extinction in the history of life was caused by global warming?
- Wed, August 13, 11:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Fri, August 15, 1:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Mon, August 18, 12:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
Storm that Drowned a City (#3218)

A minute-by-minute account of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, exploring the human failures.
- Tue, August 19, 7:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Tue, August 19, 7:00 PM on IPTV
- Tue, August 19, 10:30 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Sat, August 23, 7:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Sat, August 23, 10:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
Nova scienceNOW (#3313)

Explores whether a doomsday asteroid will hit the earth in 2036 and what the consequences could be.
- Wed, August 20, 7:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Wed, August 20, 10:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Fri, August 22, 9:00 AM on IPTV-Digital
- Mon, August 25, 10:00 AM on IPTV-Digital
Nova scienceNOW (#3411)

A look at startling new research that has recovered ancient proteins from dinosaur bones.
- Wed, August 20, 11:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Fri, August 22, 10:00 AM on IPTV-Digital
- Sun, August 24, 1:00 AM on IPTV
- Mon, August 25, 1:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
The Ghost In Your Genes (#3413)

New findings call into question the belief that all inherited traits are passed on by our genes.
- Tue, August 26, 10:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Sat, August 30, 7:00 PM on IPTV-Digital
- Sat, August 30, 10:00 PM on IPTV-Digital