NOVA scienceNOW

Mass Extinction, 1918 Flu, Papyrus

TV-G
S3 • E8    Aug 13, 2008
Mass Extinction - What caused the mother of all extinctions 250 million years ago?

1918 Flu - A virus that killed up to 50 million people is brought back to life to decipher its deadliness.

Profile: Cynthia Breazeal - A daring engineer designs robots to communicate and interact the way people do.

Papyrus - Scraps of writings from a garbage dump in ancient Egypt reveal what life was like 2,000 years ago.

Where to Watch NOVA scienceNOW - S3 • E8

  • Neil deGrasse TysonHost
  • Ziya TongSelf (Correspondent)
  • Peter StandringSelf (Correspondent)
  • Chad CohenSelf (Correspondent)

 

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