NOVA Season 35 Episode 8 Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold 2007
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Our mastery of cold is something we take for granted, whether it s air conditioning and frozen food or the liquefied gases and superconductivity at the heart of cutting-edge technology. But what is cold? How do you achieve it, and how cold can it get? This two-part NOVA special brings the history of this frosty fascination to life with brilliant dramatic recreations of high moments in low-temperature research and the quest for ever-lower notches on the thermometer. The first hour, The Conquest of Cold, opens in the 1600s when the nature of cold and heat was a complete mystery. Were they different aspects of the same phenomenon? The experiments that settled these questions helped stoke the Industrial Revolution.
- Released: 2008-01-08
- Runtime: 55 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
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2. Ghost in Your Genes 2007-10-16
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3. Marathon Challenge 2007-10-30
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4. Sputnik Declassified 2007-11-07
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6. Master of the Killer Ants 2007-11-20
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7. Missing in MiG Alley 2007-12-18
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8. Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold 2008-01-08
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14. Cracking the Maya Code 2008-04-08
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16. A Walk to Beautiful 2008-05-13
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17. Lord of the Ants 2008-05-20
