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What "NOVA" 8-th episode about
Our mastery of cold is something we take for granted, whether it s air conditioning and frozen food or the liquefied gases and superconductivity at the heart of cutting-edge technology. But what is cold? How do you achieve it, and how cold can it get? This two-part NOVA special brings the history of this frosty fascination to life with brilliant dramatic recreations of high moments in low-temperature research and the quest for ever-lower notches on the thermometer.
Episode number: 8
Episode name: "Absolute Zero: The Conquest Of Cold (1)"
Episode release date: 9 january 2008 at 02:00
Status: aired