NOVA scienceNOW

Season 2 Episode 2: Mass Extinction

What caused the greatest mass extinction nearly 250 million years ago?1918 Flu: The 1918 flu virus is revived and decoded in the hopes that we can learn from it before the next pandemic.Profile: Cynthia Breazeal: A look at MIT social roboticist Cynthia Breazeal.Papyrus: Can we use space-age technology to read papyri fragments that are almost 2,000 years old?

Genre:

Documentary, News

Seasons:

6

Episodes:

40

Actor:

David Pogue, Ziya Tong, Peter Standring

Quality:

HD

Status:

Ended

First Air:

2005

IMDb:

8.0