Summary: The groundbreaking series returns, exploring the next phase of human colonization on Mars. Blending powerful drama, action, and visual effects, with insightful interviews featuring leading space-science innovators and thinkers -- such as Elon Musk, Andy Weir, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Kim Stanley Robinson -- MARS explores the perils and promise of the next great frontier.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAR

Summary: In Augmented, Hugh Herr, a biophysicist working to create brain-controlled robotic limbs, shares his personal journey. At age 17, Herr's legs were amputated after a climbing accident. Frustrated by the crude prosthetic limbs he was given, Herr set out to remedy their design, leading him to a career as an inventor of innovative prosthetic devices. Now, Herr is teaming up with an injured climber...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AUG

Summary: A team of archaeologists excavating the site of an early American colony discovers something surprising: the remains of a young woman, dating back to 1609, buried in the trash layer of a cellar. Now, 400 years later, a cellar excavation has uncovered numerous bone fragments, all belonging to this adolescent female. With the help of forensic anthropologists, the extraordinary and frightening...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JAM

Summary: Butterflies are perhaps the world's most beloved insects. But beneath their colorful charm, there's a wealth of hidden scientific secrets that show butterflies to be smarter and more resilient than we ever imagined.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BUT

Summary: Using specially developed camera lenses, Nova brings you the most intimate and most spectacular portrayal of a working bee colony ever filmed.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BEE

Summary: Dr. Helen Magnus, a beautiful and enigmatic scientist and her team run Sanctuary, an organization that seeks out intelligent non-human or mutated creatures to study and protect them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One 2012

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SAN

Summary: A team of intrepid paleontologists recently discovered a lost world of dinosaurs in the unlikeliest of places - deep in the dark, snowy wilds of northern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ALA

Summary: In addition to fascinating facts about sharks, this collections adds up the other side of the equation and includes some of the most terrifying shark attacks in recent history. Survivorman's Les Stroud adds his signature wisdom to the mix with a trek to five of the most notorious shark-infested waters on the planet, and former Force Recon Marine Charles Ingram gets answers from the experts to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam Americas, Inc. 2010

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Summary: Sir David Attenborough drops in for tea at the modest suburban home of Neville and Sally Hollingworth, both amateur fossil hunters in southern England. He's there to look at some of the unusual objects that decorate their living room, including giant tusks and massive molars that belonged to extinct mammoths and a hand-axe shaped by Neanderthals.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRE

Summary: Earth has never experienced anything like us: a single species dominating and transforming the planet. Biologist Shane Campbell-Staton travels the world to explore our global impact. Because while we may tell ourselves what it means to be human, the clearest vision of who we are emerges from what we do.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HUM

Summary: "In distant realms far beyond the familiar solar system, an epic drama is playing out, with a cast list featuring rogue planets, colliding galaxies, and black holes more massive than a billion suns, and each character has its own extraordinary story to tell."

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV UNI

Summary: Completing the Planet Earth trilogy, Planet Earth III explores the greatest habitats on our planet and the extraordinary animals that live in them. Filled with wonder and insight, Planet Earth III celebrates places and animals beyond our imagination. From the depths of the ocean to the most remote jungle, discover the planet's last great wild places and the astonishing strategies animals have...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC PLA

Summary: Explore the revolutionary engineering behind Paris's iconic landmark. Completed in just over two years for the 1889 World's Fair, the iron tower smashed the record for the tallest structure on Earth, ushering in a new age of global construction that reached for the skies. How did the engineers do it?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2024

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV BUI

Summary: "How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui - also known as Easter Island - carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arrived on this remote Pacific island over 300 years ago, controversy has swirled around the iconic ancient statues and the history of the people who created them. Now, a new generation of researchers is overturning old theories, revealing the rich history, innovation and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2024

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NF EAS

Summary: Malaria is one of humanity's oldest and most devastating plagues. In many parts of the world, it remains an ever-present scourge that sickens or kills millions of people each year. What if it could finally be defeated? Now, scientists may be on the verge of a breakthrough with a promising new vaccine.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BAT