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 16 Episodes
Was the searing summer of 1988 a taste of things to come? NOVA looks at the greenhouse effect, which portends higher tem…
NOVA looks at the bongo-playing scientist, adventurer, safecracker and yarn-spinner Richard Feynman, most recently famou…
NOVA explains "chaos," a new science that is making surprising sense out of chaotic phenomena in nature, from the weathe…
NOVA goes to the Soviet Union for an inside investigation of the world's most catastrophic nuclear power accident with c…
In an Idaho classroom, teacher Phil Gerrish puts an unorthodox interpretation on the day's biology lesson. As students t…
NOVA explores the importance of the Gulf Stream to ocean life, climate and human history.
In this two-part series, NOVA investigates the mystery of Easter Island in the South Pacific. Who built its celebrated s…
In the second part of this two-part series, NOVA explores ancient legends hold the clues to the violent history of the S…
Scientific detectives test their ingenuity in the effort to find underground oil deposits.
Arlo, Nancy and Janice each have a 50/50 chance of developing a devastating nerve disorder. A laboratory test can tell t…
Actor Judd Hirsch narrates this behind-the scenes look at what makes New York City tick. Water, power and waste are the …
In this profile of the former Surgeon General, NOVA follows events as they unfold in a unique behind-the-scenes account …
Five architects compete for the approval of architecture-obsessed Chicagoans in the contest to build the city's new publ…
The atomic bomb might have ended World War II, but radar was the quiet miracle that won battles. NOVA tells the little-k…
Biologists around the world gear up to decode the three-billion-letter genetic message that describes how humans are mad…
NOVA studies hurricanes—the lurking giants waiting to destroy many coastal areas—by flying straight into one. Scientists…
Increasingly awash in high water, the romantic city of Venice is counting on high-tech floodgates to save it from drowni…
East and West came into direct conflict over trade and power in the 19th century. The West won. NOVA explores how Japan …
The 1988 Yellowstone fire may have been one of the worst in human memory, but nature has had eons of experience with suc…
NOVA re-enacts a classic case of classroom detection when English schoolboys track down a secret Soviet launch site. Doc…
