All foreign encyclopedias speak of him as an outstanding American physicist. A memorial plaque adorns the wall of the prestigious George Washington University in the US capital; astronauts have named a large crater on the Moon after him. But the physicist George Gammow was the Russian Georgy Antonovich Gamow. Before perestroika, his name was banned in Russia. Only in 1990, Gamow was posthumously returned the title of Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which he received in 1928, becoming the youngest chosen one in the history of Russian science.
Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down—along with the lives of his two newfound best friends.
10,000 B.C. was a time of cataclysmic change on Earth. Extreme climactic fluctuations hurled the planet into a minor ice age; megafauna like the saber-toothed tiger and woolly mammoth were suddenly becoming extinct; and early humans began to inhabit North America.
In this unaired TNT TV pilot, a Charlestown native returns to his hometown from serving in Afghanistan to join the Boston Police force like his father and brother before him.
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up.
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.