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PBS Smartest Night on Television

Join PBS tonight for the smartest night of television with NOVA Science Now: How Smart are Animals? at 8 p.m. followed by NOVA:Making Stuff Smarter at 9 p.m. on PBS-HD by Colleen Greer

Nova scienceNow tonight at 8 P.m. on PBS-HD.

Would you care to match wits with a dog, an octopus, a dolphin, or a parrot? You may think twice after watching the segments in this NOVA scienceNOW episode. While we may not be ready to send pets to Harvard, the remarkable footage and findings presented here demonstrate that many animal species are much smarter than we assume and in ways we had never imagined.

Watch the full episode. See more NOVA scienceNOW.

NOVA scienceNow

NOVA tonight at 9 p.m. on PBS-HD.

An army tanker truck that heals its own bullet wounds. An airplane wing that changes shape as it flies. Clothing that can monitor its wearer’s heart rate, health and mood. Host David Pogue looks into the growing number of smart materials that can respond, change and even learn.

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