NOVA scienceNOW

Phoenix Mars Mission NOVA scienceNOW follows the upcoming NASA mission to send a lander to Mars. The lander is set to dig for water at the planet’s poles in an attempt to understand the mysterious red planet’s potential or past ability to support life.

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Mammoth Mystery In 1962, paleontologists uncovered the rarest of Ice Age fossils in the Nebraska badlands: two complete male mammoths locked in a death grip by their 12-foot long tusks. But what made them fight? And why did they die together? The fatal sequence of events has been a mystery for more than forty years. NOVA scienceNOW explores the details of “Clash of the Mammoths,” two battling titans entangled in mortal combat — the only discovery of its kind in the world. Following forensic clues, paleontologists determine the sex and age of the mammoths, their eating patterns, the time of year of their deadly battle, their injuries and how their violent clash doomed them.

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Judah Folkman Tribute With the recent passing of famed “cancer warrior” Judah Folkman, NOVA scienceNOW takes a look back at the great man’s accomplishments and where his groundbreaking angiogenesis work is leading the medical field today. Long ignored and even initially rejected, angiogenesis is now widely accepted as the process by which tumors prompt the growth of blood vessels to help with their survival. Dr. Folkman spent much of his early career convincing the scientific establishment of the existence and importance of angiogenesis and then devoted his remaining years to trying to apply it to medical research. New work in the Folkman lab — based on the principles of angiogenesis — is leading to earlier detection of cancer, better drugs and even cures for diseases like macular degeneration.

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Watch it Wednesday, July 30th at 8pm on KUAT6 and 9pm on KUAT-HD