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NOVA examines the high-stakes battle waged between Boeing and Lockheed Martin to build the most capable and versatile fighter ever created the Joint Strike Fighter. You're on the front line as NOVA records classified meetings and climbs into cockpits to fly these revolutionary planes. Watch as the two aerospace giants fight for a contract that will make aviation history and help protect America and that could provide the winner total domination of the U.S. defense fighter industry.

LeapFrog has answered Vtech's V.Smile Motion console with an exercised focused console of its own. Rather than press buttons, kids will have to run, dance and jig there way through the menus and educational games on offer.

Wired Science travels to Japan and meets up with a GeekDad who builds fighting robots for competitions; Adam sits down with Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey, the co-founders of 23andMe, to chat about giving people insight into their genetic information; we meet medical professionals who are working to eliminate symptoms of various diseases by supplying electricity to the brain; chemistry teacher Chris Schrempp makes hot ice; we venture out to the first International Rocketbelt Convention in Niagara Falls; and Ziya Tong travels to Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park to discover how lasers aid in the preservation of ancient sites.

A roundup of the action at Stuff Live 2008

A Woods Hole Institute expedition sails to the Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean to deploy autonomous undersea vehicles in hopes of discovering new life forms; chemistry teacher Chris Schrempp turns cotton balls into smokeless gunpowder; Chris Hardwick and Kamala Lopez tour the WIRED Living Home; Ziya Tong explores the area in West Virginia known as 'the quiet zone' and learns why this is the perfect site for radio astronomers searching for life on other planets; Adam Rogers goes behind the scenes to show us how Hollywood is cracking the code to create "perfect water:" on screen; and Rainn Wilson joins Chris Hardwick to explore what's inside a popular product that relieves symptoms of the common cold.

In the premiere episode of PBS' newest weekly series, Josh Davis of Wired magazine investigates an internet botnet attack of Estonia's banks and newspapers; WIRED SCIENCE reports on cardiac surgery performed by a "robo-doc"; Adam Rogers explores the disappearance of home chemistry sets; and Ziya Tong delves into technology that is helping children with Asperger's Syndrome by translating facial expressions into emotions.

It's the Stuff.tv Christmas countdown!

Top tech for 2009 in our IFA special

Adam Rogers rummages through a "space junkyard" to see how spaceships are being reverse-engineered from 40-year-old technology; Ziya Tong interviews computer scientist Louis von Ahn about using human perception to digitize books; Wisconsin neuroscientists show off an invention that's helping blind patients see with their tongues;Chris Hardwick interviews maverick genomics pioneer Craig Venter; Ziya Tong travels to Napa Valley to find out what science has to do with creating the perfect bottle of wine.

WIRED SCIENCE watches as sensors are placed on a bridge to prevent its collapsing; Ziya Tong examines restless leg syndrome; Rocky Roccanova, CEO of TouchTable, Inc., demonstrates TouchTable's interactive interface; Jeff Hawkins chats with Adam Rogers about his quest to build the first genuinely intelligent machine; and WIRED SCIENCE'S very own Geek Dad, Dylan Tweeny, sets out to build a UFO hovercraft with his six year old daughter.

8MP camphones megatest, plus Christmas gifts for the Extremist

Our special bumper 100th episode!

Compact camera face-off plus the Hummer golf cart

Ziya Tong follows retired oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer as he discovers a giant garbage patch in the middle of the North Pacific Gyre. WIRED SCIENCE takes a look at new ways that water, wind and technology are being used to fight today's fires and investigates the impact of global warming on plant growth, and Adam Rogers tests out a new technology that claims to be able to "read your mind" and tell if you are lying.

The popSiren girls take the show to an ISLAND, the Treasure Island Music Festival! An exclusive interview with Hot Chip, new music from TV on the Radio & hipsters galore!

Samsung Tocco Ultra Edition plus Pico Projector roundup

Mobile gaming special plus Christmas gifts for the Urbanite

Samsung look to take on the ipod Touch with this new fully touch screen mp3 offering with Haptics feedback

Milton Garces takes viewers through his studies on infrasonic waves; Ziya Tong visits a group of professionals redesigning wheelchairs; WIRED SCIENCE checks in with mechanical engineers to make sure every baseball that makes it to a major league game has the correct degree of hardness and bounce; and Adam Rogers travels to Oakland, California, where he tests out the "shot spotter" as he rides along with Oakland police.

iFanboy asked our audience what Manga books we should read and on this episode you hear our thoughts on Death Note, The Push Man and Battle Royale. Watch as the iFanboy guys struggle with the Japanese language and find that these comics are actually pretty good!