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Codebreakers
Explore the history of secret codes, including the most celebrated of all cryptographic coups: The breaking of the World War II codes used by Japan and Germany. 1 hr.
Decoding Nazi Secrets
Allied technologies developed at Britain's Station X helped halt the onslaught of the Third Reich and set the stage for today's computers. 2 hrs.
Infinite Secrets
Follow the journey of the Archimedes Palimpsest, a treatise of the famous mathematician's work, and see how technology is helping to reveal its mathematical treasures. 1 hr.
Newton's Dark Secrets
Step into the life and science of Sir Isaac Newton (1642ñ1727), one of the greatest scientists who ever lived. 1 hr.
NOVA scienceNOW: Emergence
Learn more about emergence, a science that studies how complex patterns and behaviors arise from the actions of individual units acting independently.
NOVA scienceNOW: Kryptos
Learn more about Kryptos, a giant sculpture with an encrypted message that many people are working to decipher. (Running time: 11:52)
Proof, The
Princeton math sleuth Andrew Wiles goes undercover for eight years to solve history's most famous math problem: Fermat's Last Theorem. 1 hr.
Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies
NOVA looks back to the 1940s, when American spies passed their country's deepest scientific secrets to the Soviets. 1 hr.
Time Travel
Is time travel anything more than sci-fi fantasy? Leading physicists ponder building a time machine. 1 hr.
Trillion Dollar Bet
An elegant mathematical formula attracts Wall Street's attention and spawns a multi-trillion-dollar industry. 1 hr.
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