Public Genomes/Algae Fuel/Arctic Ocean Seafloor/Yoky Matsuoka

18th August 2009 Season 4 Episode 6

Explore the controversies behind genetic testing and genome sequencing, learn about algae fuel, follow an expedition to the Arctic Ocean seafloor, and meet a woman engineer designing prosthetic limbs controlled by human thought.

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Season 4 · Episode 7

Saving Hubble Update/Gangster Birds/Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa/How Memory Works

Get an astronaut's view of the Hubble repair mission, find out why cowbirds are called "gangster birds," meet a Mexican immigrant farmworker-turned-brain surgeon, and learn how neuroscientists are finding ways to erase memories.

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