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NOVA scienceNOW•Season 4•Episode 7

Saving Hubble Update/Gangster Birds/Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa/How Memory Works

Aug 25, 2009
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Get an astronaut's view of the Hubble repair mission, find out why cowbirds are called "gangster birds," meet a Mexican immigrant farmworker-turned-brain surgeon, and learn how neuroscientists are finding ways to erase memories.

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Episode Summary

"Saving Hubble Update/Gangster Birds/Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa/How Memory Works" is episode 7 of NOVA scienceNOW season 4. It aired on August 25, 2009.

Next: E8 · Earthquakes in the Midwest/Sleep/Sang-Mook Lee/First PrimatesBest of Season 4