NOVA scienceNOW

Season 3 Episode 8: Mass Extinction, 1918 Flu, Papyrus

Mass Extinction - What caused the mother of all extinctions 250 million years ago? 1918 Flu - A virus that killed up to 50 million people is brought back to life to decipher its deadliness. Profile: Cynthia Breazeal - A daring engineer designs robots to communicate and interact the way people do. Papyrus - Scraps of writings from a garbage dump in ancient Egypt reveal what life was like 2,000 years ago.

Genre:

Documentary, News

Seasons:

6

Episodes:

40

Cast:

David Pogue, Ziya Tong, Peter Standring

Quality:

HD

Duration:

55 min

First Air:

2005

Rating:

8.0