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Bright Now!
Bright Now!

Bright Now!

—Short stories about science and tech, history, global issues and the personalities at the center of it all.
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Record to watch 12 episodes in the next two weeks

    Tastes Like T-Rex
    The Race to Forecast Weather; Beyond Cold
    Veggie Power
    Sailing to the Stars
    Bear Cub Rescue

  • Astrobiologist and author Lewis Dartnell explores what it would take to stay alive following a global cataclysm, and what knowledge would be needed to rebuild civilization.
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  • A look at the tiny insects with incredible capabilities that are locked in a struggle to survive in the surface film of most lakes and ponds.
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  • Ohio bicycle mechanics Orville and Wilbur Wright change the world by flying the world's first successful airplane in 1903.
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  • The archeology of shipwrecks.
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  • Discovered on Oct. 19, 2017, 'Oumuamua is the first known object to have come from outside the solar system.
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  • Tastes Like T-Rex

    A look at whether science can be used to alter chicken embryos to resemble a Tyrannosaurus rex.
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