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Against the Elements

Disasters, whether manmade or made by Mother Nature, are a part of life on Earth. Hurricanes, massive explosions, tornadoes, floods, mudslides and fires sometimes threaten human lives and ravage communities. Though the devastation is often reported, rarely is it explained exactly how these catastrophes become so ...

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An Idiot Abroad

AN IDIOT ABROAD is the most elaborate practical-joke-turned-social-experiment in television history. In the eight-episode series, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant send their simple curmudgeon of a friend, Karl Pilkington, on a journey around the world to see the Seven Wonders.

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An Idiot Abroad 2: The Bucket List

This January, everyone's favorite reluctant traveler returns to the departure gate when AN IDIOT ABROAD 2: THE BUCKET LIST touches down at SCIENCE.

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Are We Alone?

In one month SCIENCE partners with TED and SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), to enlist like-minded individuals everywhere to tackle this defining question with ARE WE ALONE?, a breakthrough multimedia initiative.


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Blais Off

Top Chef Superstar and culinary modernist Richard Blais brings to Science Channel a daring mission to re-engineer America's most beloved and favorite meals. He uses ultra-modern tools and super cool techniques to deconstruct and create new-and-improved versions of America's most popular meals using science and technology

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Brink

This week on BRINK, host Josh Zepps takes a closer look at the work of Dr. Aydogan Ozcan of UCLA. Professor Ozcan is developing a way to treat patients in rural areas –who are far from hospitals – by turning a cell phone into a mobile medical lab. The device, dubbed LUCAS, could potentially detect diabetes and other ...

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Bugging Out

BUGGING OUT sheds light on the fascinating scientific facts and insights that make exotic, creepy insects extraordinary works of evolutionary biology.

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Build It Bigger

Professional architect Danny Forster is back to shed light on the engineering of the largest and most complex construction projects in an all-new season of BUILD IT BIGGERl. Danny spans the globe to bring viewers an inside look at the creation of enormous bridges, skyscrapers, resorts, ships, stadiums and even beaches.


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Creating Synthetic Life

On May 20, world-renowned scientist Dr. J. Craig Venter announced he and his team at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) became the first in history to synthetically create a living, self-replicating cell. The news holds groundbreaking potential for solutions to a host of global challenges.


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Dark Matters

This August, SCIENCE examines what happens when scientific research goes too far. The six-part series takes viewers inside the laboratory to profile strange science and expose some of history’s most bizarre experiments.

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Deadly Descent

The deepest caves and the darkest ocean floors remain two of the last undiscovered frontiers on our planet.

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Deconstruction: House of the Future

Premieres Wednesday, August 31 at 9 PM. Who wouldn't want a smart house? A house that uses all of the technology we can muster to keep us healthy, comfortable, entertained and connected, and even saves us money? The Science Channel explores the future of home sweet home, everything from backyard wind-driven turbines ...


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Earth Day Marathon

Science Channel’s Earth Day Marathon introduces viewers to the science behind groundbreaking technology and eco-engineering that will not only provide more efficient ways of living but reduce our carbon footprint and reshape our future.

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Ecopolis

Nobel Prize Winning scientist Dr. Daniel Kammen uses the blue-print of a city in 2050 as a test bed for new technologies that could reshape the environmental circumstances of the future megacity. Each episode investigates several different visionary, technology-driven solutions to specific future megacity challenges ...


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Firefly

Navigating the farthest reaches of the galaxy to escape the totalitarian alliance, Captain Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds leads a mercenary crew aboard his ragtag transport spaceship, ironically named "Serenity."

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Flying Anvils

Take two anvils, add a pile of gunpowder and ignite. What might seem like a recipe for disaster is actually the formula for high-flying, explosive fun this Labor Day with the world-premiere special FLYING ANVILS.

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Forensic Factor

Follow the twists and turns of crimes, murders, and mysteries as they are solved by detectives and attorneys using the latest in forensic science techniques.


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Giant Squid: Last Mystery of the Deep

NHK, NHK Enterprises, Science Channel and Atlantic Productions have teamed up for the largest-ever international quest for a living giant squid. Though scientists have tried for decades to find this creature in its natural habitat, researchers have had but the merest glimpse of this notoriously reclusive animal. ...


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Head Games

Think you know it all? This October, Science Channel is willing to bet cold hard cash that you don’t in HEAD GAMES, the network’s first-ever trivia show for television and online.

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Head Rush

Imagine a world where kids are as passionate about physics as they are about Facebook; where excelling in math is the coolest thing in school; and engineers and scientists are treated like rock stars.  Science Channel introduces kids to this new world with the premiere of HEAD RUSH, a new one-hour, ...

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How Do They Do It?

Ever wonder how that GPS System you got from your wife this holiday season actually works?  Or, how engineers fit all that horse power in the Ferrari you wish you had gotten with the GPS?  Science Channel's popular series HOW DO THEY DO IT? is providing answers to these questions and more about Ferraris, ...

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How It's Made

Have you ever wondered how aluminum foil is made? From adhesive bandages to yogurt to contact lenses, find out how many of the everyday objects we seldom stop to think about become the things they are.


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Ingenious Minds

Each episode will take the audience inside the daily reality of living as a genius. Viewers will be astonished, possibly even frightened, as we reveal how in human biology, genius and madness often appear side by side in the same mind.


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JUNKies

JUNKies Freeport team, led by Jimmy "The Junk Genius" Ruocco, will go to any lengths to construct new and inspired devices; including a hovercraft, a coffin car, a lawn mower racer and a flame cannon-all made from the finest discarded spare parts. This eclectic band of dumpster divers will redefine engineering.


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L.D.R.S. 2010

Once a year the most fearless, hardcore of all amateur rocket builders from every corner of the country gather at the premiere, high-power rocketry event - Large Dangerous Rocket Ships (L.D.R.S.).  For five days they launch more than 2,000 of the biggest cutting-edge homemade and hand-designed rockets on ...

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Last Shuttle: Our Journey

On July 8, 2011, history will be made as the shuttle Atlantis lifts off on the final flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle program. Thirty years after the first shuttle launch, the eyes of the world again will be on Kennedy Space Center as an unforgettable period of science, wonder and imagination comes to an end. Upon its ret


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Mantracker

Back by popular demand, MANTRACKER is at it again to challenge the wits and wills of weekend warriors in an intense game of cat and mouse played out in the rough countryside. Each episode of this gritty adventure series pits two new competitors against MANTRACKER, a veteran outdoorsman trained in tracking and ...

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Meteorite Men

METEORITE MEN premieres on Wednesday, January 20, 2010, at 9 PM (ET/PT).

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Monster Bug Wars

MONSTER BUG WARS combines the fun of a classic 1950s monster movie with the intense action of a steel cage match as it follows the insect world's most lethal predators engaging in one-on-one showdowns for survival, supremacy...and supper.


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Oddities Season 2

Back for its second season, Oddities presents the crew from the wild, weird world of Obscura Oddities and Antiques, a store where the customers are as odd as the artifacts.


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Popular Science's Future Of

Baratunde Thurston is many things: author, pundit, blogger, tech ethusiast, comedian and journalist. Now he is adding correspondent of the future to his resumé as host of Science Channel's POPULAR SCIENCE'S FUTURE OF. The all-new series brings viewers an extraordinary glimpse of the unbelievable scientific and ...

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Prophets of Science Fiction

Ridley Scott, the creative genius behind legendary Hollywood classics including “Alien,” “Blade Runner” and “Gladiator,” comes to SCIENCE this November with the world premiere eight-part series, PROPHETS OF SCIENCE FICTION.

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Punkin Chunkin 2009

PUNKIN CHUNKIN World Premieres Thanksgiving day at 8 PM (ET/PT)

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Punkin Chunkin 2011

Pumpkins become projectiles once again with the return of PUNKIN CHUNKIN, the annual special that’s becoming as much as part of Thanksgiving tradition as turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce.


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Sci Fi Science: Phyiscs of the Impossible (Season 2)

In season two of Science Channel's hit series SCI FI SCIENCE: PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, world-renowned physicist and best-selling author Dr. Michio Kaku returns to tackle how mankind will deal with real-life situations from the world of science fiction.

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Sci Sports: Killer Robots

Man-made metal monsters meet up on SCIENCE this Memorial Day in a sudden-death elimination battle to avoid the scrap heap. On Monday, May 30, at 9:00 ET/PT, SCIENCE’s signature SCI SPORTS franchise introduces its latest sensation, KILLER ROBOTS: ROBOGAMES 2011.

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Sci-Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible

Explore the world of the seemingly impossible with the all-new series SCI FI SCIENCE. Hosted by internationally-renowned physicist and co-founder of string field theory, Dr. Michio Kaku, this series poses the idea that science fiction may not be so far from science fact. Examine topics that currently seem so far ...

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Science Channel on Twitter

For up-to-date information on everything science and technology, follow Science Channel on Twitter at twitter.com/sciencechannel. The network will tweet daily on innovations, discoveries, science news, new technology, network casting calls, programming information and sciencechannel.com updates. And will respond to ...

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Science Channel Upfront 2011

Science Channel Upfront 2011

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The Science Channel's Upfront Images: 2010/2011

The Science Channel's Upfront Images: 2010/2011

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Spy Wars

With “Bourne”-like recreations, a rare “behind the curtain” look at the most sophisticated and secretive intelligence communities in the world. Meet the men and women who served as double agents in the U.S., went undercover in Cuba, Israel, Britain, Russia and China, and lived to tell their stories.

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Stuck with Hackett

Hackett takes on an engineering/survival adventure each week as he's stranded far from modern luxuries. He doesn't eat bugs for survival, and he doesn't dig a hole in which to sleep. Rather Hackett shows true gumption and tenacity as he thrives in each and every adventure. Nobody wants to be voted off this island!


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Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman

Academy Award®-winning actor and space enthusiast Morgan Freeman executive produces, hosts and narrates this exploration of the greatest mysteries of the universe.  This new series, produced by Freeman's Revelations Entertainment, seeks the answers to the big questions:  Are we alone?  Where did we ...

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Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman: Season 2

The iconic Morgan Freeman returns to SCIENCE for a second season of the breakthrough series, THROUGH THE WORMHOLE. Each of the 10 world-premiere episodes poses an all-new question that spans space, science and the unknown – and peaks Freeman’s insatiable curiosity

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Trek Nation

In 1966, Gene Roddenberry created a world-wide pop culture phenomenon with the original STAR TREK. Forty five years later, his only son embarks on a journey to discover how his late father's vision changed the way people saw the future - and interacted with each other.


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Weird Creatures

From the rainforests of Borneo to the Australian outback, the far-flung islands off Panama to the mayhem of Mexico City, naturalist Nick Baker takes us to some of the most remote and most inhospitable corners of the earth on a colorful, exhilarating and fact-packed journey to seek out the very strangest animals on ...

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Wonders of the Solar System

Experience the universe like never before as physicist and professor Brian Cox explores the most exquisite places and events around the world to explain how the laws of nature have carved spectacular landscapes throughout the solar system in Science Channel's brand new series WONDERS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.

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Wonders of the Universe

SCIENCE welcomes back Professor Brian Cox for the four-part series WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE. Expanding on the promise of 2010's Peabody Award-winning WONDERS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM, WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE kicks off on Wednesday, July 27, at 9 PM (ET/PT), with new episodes airing over four consecutive weeks.