National Science Foundation
 - 01/2/2024

Award-winning actor, Andy Serkis, narrates this stunning IMAX®/Giant Screen film that brought the world’s largest animal to the world’s largest screen, BLUE WHALES: RETURN OF THE GIANTS. Jared Lipworth is the Head of Studio and Executive Producer at HHMI Tangle Bank Studios and discusses the challenges and triumphs of a film like this.

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KPBS
 - 11/13/2023

Premieres Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encores Sunday, Nov. 19 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV and 9 p.m. on KPBS 2

NOVA, "The Battle to Beat Malaria" brings viewers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the University of Oxford research team that spearheaded the new R21 vaccine — being hailed as a major breakthrough in the fight against malaria — and its long path from development to approval by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) in October 2023. 

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Giant Impact for the Giant Screen

Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever lived. Once abundant in our oceans, their habitats and numbers are dwindling. By bringing their story to the giant screen, is it possible to inspire people to do more to save this awe-inspiring animal?

Told through the eyes of Grammy-nominated DJ and marine biologist, Jayda Guy, accompanied by a score from the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA and featuring Seu Jorge, Blue Carbon is an environmental feature documentary that brings together music and science to uncover what could be our greatest weapon in the fight against climate change.  

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Shorebirds fly thousands of miles each year along ancient and largely unknown migratory routes called Flyways. More than 200 species, such as Far Eastern Curlews, Lesser Yellowlegs, Red Knots and Hudsonian Godwits, travel from feeding grounds in the southern hemisphere to breeding grounds in the Arctic and back again, flying up to nine days non-stop without food or water.

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Two decades ago, Eske Willerslev had a radical idea: Could DNA, the fragile chemical code of life, survive intact in frozen sediment for millennia? Fellow scientists called him crazy, but the Danish biologist set out to prove everybody wrong, and his perseverance paid off. After years of failure, Willerslev and his team recovered the genetic traces of a lush forest ecosystem from before the ice age, more than two million years ago.

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