NOVA
PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.
Season 1 Episodes
E1
NOVA premieres on public television with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Oxford Scientific Film…
NOVA explores the mighty Colorado River which today has become the life-blood of the Southwest, providing water and elec…
NOVA explores the impact of whaling and the goods it produces for the industry, verses the grace and beatury of this int…
Does life exist outside this planet? The Viking lander will set down on Mars in July 1976 to try to find out just that. …
How does a primitive nomadic tribe of the Amazon basin cope with the encroachment of Western settlers? NOVA looks at bot…
Medicine was transformed in the 19th century by the discovery of anesthesia; surgery, until then hasty, bloody and compl…
In 1054 AD, the Chinese recorded the explosion of a star so bright that it lit the sky for three weeks, even during the …
Birds migrate in search of perpetual summer, sometimes traveling as much as 20,000 miles every year. NOVA uses radar to …
The advance of medicine depends inevitably on the testing of experimental procedures on human volunteers from either the…
Washoe is a chimp more like a person: she talks with her hands. NOVA visits with Washoe and her teachers—Professor Allen…
When Paul Kammerer committed suicide in 1926, it was taken by most of his fellow biologists as a tacit admission of guil…
Nuclear fusion offers the promises of an unlimited, clean source of energy. But achieving fusion has proved one of the m…
Who were the people that built the first cities -- complete with apartment blocks -- in North America? They were the Ana…
