Оригінальна назва
Scientific American Frontiers
Випущено
01.10.1990
Країна
US
Жанр
Документальний
Статус
Завершено
Кількість сезонів
15
Кількість епізодів
96
Scientific American Frontiers was an American television program primarily focused on informing the public about new technologies and discoveries in science and medicine. It was a companion program to the Scientific American magazine. The show was produced for PBS in the U.S. by The Chedd-Angier Production Company, Watertown, Massachusetts, and typically aired once every two to four weeks. To this day, the shows can be viewed on-line at their website, and continue to air regularly on the national digital channel World. The show first aired in 1990 with MIT professor Woodie Flowers who served as the original host from 1990 to the spring of 1993. Actor Alan Alda became the permanent host starting in the fall season of 1993 and continued until the show ended in 2005. Alda's tenure has been notable for his humble and often humorous approach: in one memorable segment, he became car sick while driving an experimental, virtual reality vehicle. In 2005, Alda published his first round of memoirs, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I've Learned, published by Random House; in the book, he recalls his intestines becoming strangulated while on location in Chile for the show, an incident that nearly cost him his life since he was in a remote region and it was difficult to get to a doctor. Finally he found one, who turned out to be a M*A*S*H fan. Further, the treatment was familiar to Alda; the historical development of techniques for vascular anastomosis during the Korean war had featured in the show's scripts.
In the episode entitled, "Sci-Fly", Scientific American Frontiers comes to the Georgia Institute of Technology to film the International Aerial Robotics Competition and its creator, Prof. Robert C. Michelson during its inaugural year. The competition involved fully autonomous aerial robots attempting to complete a complex task without human intervention.
In the episode entitled, "Flying High" (Robo Flyers segment), Alan Alda travels to the Georgia Institute of Technology to film the International Aerial Robotics Competition and to interview its creator, Prof. Robert C. Michelson.
Some of the nations top neuroscientists uncover new evidence of our brain's ability to change.
Discover the science behind people who push themselves to the limits of human performance.
How did life arise on Earth? What separates humans from apes? Will machines one day invent themselves? Learn more here.
Learn about advances in the repair and replacement of the hard-working heart.
Why can't you tickle yourself? Is laughter uniquely human? These little questions might have some big answers.
Alan Alda learns that sometimes saving endangered species requires restoring whole ecosystems.
Researchers are uniting biology and technology to give hope to the paralyzed.
Get to know chimpanzees, how they socialize with each other, new dangers they face, and just how similar our species truly are.
Join aviation engineer Paul MacCready and Alan Alda as they test fly a variety of unconventional planes.
Alan Alda explores the real science behind fad foods, eating habits and lifestyles.
Scientists reconstruct past events from evidence of excavated remains.
Medical treatments for children with physical disabilities.
Science and technology improves on sports.
New technologies and research techniques, some from the work of pioneer oceanographer Robert Ballard, open up the oceans' depths to humans.
Science and engineering students participate in a design contest, an aerial robot contest, a human powered submarine race and robot soccer games.
“Coming into America” explores how prehistoric immigrants (host Alan Alda calls them “the true American pioneers”) might have arrived here---up to 20,000 years ago. Conventional wisdom has been that the “Clovis people” made their way down from Siberia about 13,000 years ago and spread out. But archaeologists interviewed point to artifacts in various places around the U.S. that are far older---and there's evidence that the ice sheets remained in place longer than previously thought---casting doubt on that theory.
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