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 13 Episodes
NOVA observes worldwide preparations as amateur comet hunters, astronomers and scientists armed with specialized cameras…
Gaia, the Greek word for Earth goddess, also is the name of the controversial hypothesis that life on Earth controls the…
For centuries, the Chinese Kazakh horseman preserved their ancient traditions, refusing to be dominated by either the Ch…
NOVA explores the incredibly complex emotional development of infants and examines the current theory that early childho…
In July 1982, a 42-year-old addict in a San Jose, California jail became paralyzed—unable to move or talk. His symptoms,…
When a high number of cancer cases struck the suburban community of Woburn, Massachusetts, the town mobilized to investi…
NOVA journeys to a remote region of southern Venezuela where the land is alive with spectacular waterfalls, colored by e…
NOVA follows a conservation success story as environmentalists, scientists and bird-lovers fight to save the majestic Os…
When Alexander Fleming discovered the penicillin mold in 1928, he never considered its possible therapeutic value. NOVA …
NOVA examines the medical community's alarm as the spread of antibiotic-resistant infection increases, and studies how o…
NOVA and Frontline combine resources to explore the Strategic Defense Initiative. The two-hour documentary contains the …
NOVA joins scientists in Argentina as they help locate kidnapped children and identify thousands of dead in the aftermat…
The adventures of the Voyager 2 spacecraft continue as it passes the rings of Uranus. Scientists suspect that violent ev…
Scientific breakthroughs now make it possible to reproduce ourselves in ways never before imagined. NOVA looks at the me…
What are the prospects for halting or curing the deadliest epidemic ever to challenge modern medicine? NOVA finds cause …
Could there be life beyond Earth? Only recently has it become possible to scan the skies in a systematic attempt to find…
Birds do it; bees do it, butterflies, bats and eels do it—all leave one habitat to migrate to another, often thousands o…
NOVA dips into the sad plight of our coastal waters, where toxic chemicals, raw sewage and disease-carrying microbes are…
Yankee ingenuity has designs on the America's Cup. NOVA goes behind-the-scenes to look at the engineering effort to desi…
Leprosy, a misunderstood disease that has been curable for 40 years, still afflicts some 12 million people. NOVA looks a…
NOVA explores the ground-breaking experiments that led to the discovery of a tiny sequence of molecules—and more clues t…
