NOVA scienceNOW S3 E3 - Saving Hubble, First Primates, Iraqibacter

NOVA scienceNOW

NOVA scienceNOW S3 E3 - Saving Hubble, First Primates, Iraqibacter
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Saving Hubble - Two teams of spacewalkers take on the risky mission of reviving the ailing Space Telescope.First Primates - Our most distant primate ancestors, which lived about 55 million years ago, were tree-dwellers the size of mice.Profile: Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa - He jumped the fence from Mexico to work as a farmhand and ended up a leading brain surgeon.Killer Microbe - A relatively benign bug becomes a highly lethal pathogen, known to U.S. soldiers as Iraqibacter.