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An intimate look at the weird and wonderful subculture of doll collecting – featuring a young mother who spends more money than the family earns to feed her habit; a Barbie-loving man who never left home; an animator who transforms dolls for an epic robot-porn film; and a married man who believes love dolls give him the best of both sex and art.

In this 2005 segment, NOVA scienceNOW explores the promise and potential of the emerging field of stem cell research, as well as the maelstrom of emotion and politics that engulfs it.

NOVA scienceNOW airs Wednedays ay 10PM/9c on PBS.

Is it possible that swarms of bees communicate in patterns similar to human brain cells? Watch NOVA scienceNOW host David Pogue discuss investigating the inner workings and surprising potency of the hive mind.

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In 2005, astronomer Mike Brown and his team at Caltech discovered a new planet out beyond Neptune. Slightly larger than Pluto, the new object was nicknamed Xena (after the TV show "Xena: The Warrior Princess").

Why do sports fans feel so emotionally invested in the game, reacting almost as if they were part of the game themselves? According to provocative discoveries in brain imaging, inside our heads we constantly "act out" and imitate whatever activity we're observing.

Robots made entirely out of soft materials could be real game-changers. They could integrate more easily with human activities ranging from the ordinary to the exceptional.

A group of engineers at Carnegie Mellon University is working to make such soft robots a hard reality.

Nova - Building Pharaoh's Chariot (PBS Documentary)
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