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Will We Survive First Contact?

When playing alien games with friends, young Morgan realizes someone has to be a winner. What would happen if real aliens contacted us?

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When getting water at a segregated fountain, young Morgan begins to reflect on the subject of race. Is one really superior?WWW

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Is There a Superior Race?

Researcher Josh Correll explains what led him to focus on rascism, and ithe importance of understanding it.WWW

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The Puzzle of Racism

An experiement shows when one person in a group starts to “take” instead of “give,” gradually most of the group will resort to taking for themselves as well. Are we influenced by our surroundings?WWW

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Sharing Experiment

Stereotypes affect everyones behavior; Josh Correll illustrates how little snippets of information can lead us to our behavior.WWW

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No matter how arbitrarily a group is formed, we automatically find ourselves aligned with that group, putting it's needs before our own.WWW

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Overriding Our Better Judgement

Researchers have found that the feeling of joy at our rival's failure is something that our brains learn to crave.WWW

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Brain Workings of Competition

Morgan reflects on his youth, facing a stereotype and standing up to a bully.WWW

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Can We Eliminate Evil?

Do we need a time machine to time travel, or could a wormhole do the job?WWW

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Building a Wormhole

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Can We Build a Time Machine?

Professor Paul Davies uses a chocolate factory production line to illustrate how the future limits what can be in the present.WWW

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Imagine Our Universe As A Chocolate Factory

Some theorize we each have an individual slice of the present and our brains trick us into believing it is the same for all. Does our brain trick us into only seeing time in one direction, and could we change that view?WWW

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Is There a Universal "Now?"

Closed time like curves, exotic arrangements of matter overlapping back upon themselves, suggest it might be possible to go back in time. Professor Todd Brun studies this theory, but believes we cannot change events.WWW

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Could We Go Back In Time?

Experiments with subatomic particles show the future position of the particle limits where it can be in the present. Professor Paul Davies thinks may also be happening at the level of our everyday reality.WWW

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Could the Future Affect What’s Happening Now?

Morgan wishes his grandmother was still alive, which leads him to ponder the concept of time.WWW

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Is Time Travel Possible?

As young Morgan plays in the woods in summer, he wonders if time really existsWWW

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Does Time Really Exist?

Richard Lenski, who is conducting the world’s longest evolutionary experiment has tended colonies of e-coli over 27 years. After years, one strain mutates. Why did that group evolve?WWW

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Evolution is Like Poker

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Telling the truth or even a little white lie doesn’t require much thought, but pathological liars string together a lot of information. Is this possible because their neural pathways are different?WWW

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Are Pathological Liars Wired Differently?

Scientists study how we communicate over various forms of digital devices, from email to phone conversations. Where are we more likely to lie and why?WWW

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Do Digital Devices Push Us to Lie?

Because our eyes are only wired to see in two dimenions, it's our brain that creates the rest of the "3D" picture for us. If we actually saw the truth of the world around us, would our brains be able to handle it?WWW

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Can We Handle The Truth?

When young Morgan's mom knows when he's lying, he wonders if she's somehow hacked into his brain.WWW

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Can Our Minds Be Hacked?

An all-new season of Through the Wormhole is back April 29 at 10p, with a new look and questions that are more provocative than ever.WWW

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Through the Wormhole

You'll become gripped by the new Science Channel series Secret Space Escapes, profiling the true stories of astronauts who survived near misses and close calls.WWW

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Secret Space Escapes - A First Look

Astronaut Jerry Linenger and Cosmonaut Valery Korzun recount the harrowing story of battling an intense fire onboard the Mir. Then things get worse for Lineger.WWW

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Fire on the Mir

Jerry Linenger shares his personal "human" moment when in the midst of the firey chaos on Mir, he said goodbye to his wife and son.WWW

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I Said Goodbye To My Wife

Due to budget cuts, the Russians wanted to train Cosmonauts to guide Progress Cargo ships to the MIR by hand. The first attempt was a near-miss. This time we hear about the disastrous collision.WWW

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The Progress Collision

Astronaut David Wolf returns to the MIR, knowing the Shuttle-Mir program will be key in building the ISS. After a space walk with Anatoly Solovyvov, they return to the MIR and find the hatch won't seal. Oxygen rapidly starts to escape the entire station.WWW

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Leak in the Hatch

It took the Shuttle Program 2 1/2 years to fix the technical failures and get back to missions. The loss of the seven astronauts will never be forgotten.WWW

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The Legacy of the Challenger Accident

On the first mission after the Challenger, the Atlantis takes off on a secret mission. After lift off NASA informs the astronauts of tile damage and the astronauts verify it's severe.WWW

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We Are Going to Die

When astronauts attempt to connect a new section to the ISS, a deadly ammonia leak threatens the safety of the entire crew. Astronaut Robert Lee Curbeam Jr. must stop the flow of the dangerous chemical.WWW

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A seemingly simple spacewalk goes awry when astronaut Luca Parmitano discovers a mysterious fluid leaking into his helmet. Fellow astronauts race against time to keep Parmitano from drowning.WWW

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Drowning in Space

Astronaut Mike Mullane shares why he believes the initial launch is the scariest moment during the mission.WWW

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You Will Fear for Your Life

While attempting to perform the first spacewalk completely around the world, astronauts discovered several flaws in the spacesuit design.WWW

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Deadly Spacesuit Design Flaws