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 19 Episodes
NOVA covers the fight to put out Saddam Hussein's bonfire of oil wells in Kuwait, which has created the worst manmade po…
NOVA takes a voyage on the newest of America's doomsday machines—the ballistic missle submarine USS Michigan. The Cold W…
Few people give any thought to wildlife in the midst of a war. During the Gulf War, environmentalist John Walsh did his …
The nose knows. How much is the subject of NOVA's investigation of the mysterious aromas and hidden messages picked up b…
Rating the audience for TV shows is a classic problem in statistical analysis. NOVA finds that ratings are getting more …
Criminals still make money the old-fashioned way—by counterfeiting. NOVA looks at why US currency is so easy to fake and…
NOVA examines the mysterious whale strandings along the beaches of Cape Cod Bay, as the puzzling behavior becomes more c…
NOVA goes behind the scenes to watch the filming of a big-screen Imax/Omnimax space spectacle. Astronauts operate the ca…
The spectacular eclipse of 1991 passed over major observatories on the island of Hawaii. NOVA was there for 6 1/2 minute…
In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually buildin…
Physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard reenact the signing of the 1939 letter that alerted President Franklin Roosev…
NOVA goes behind the scenes to give the real story behind the FBI unit popularized in the Academy Award-winning film, Th…
NOVA follows the trail of America's first inhabitants. Did they migrate across a Bering Sea land bridge at the end of th…
NOVA explores Earth's greatest natural wonder by rafting down the river that created it, repeating the spectacular first…
In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually buildin…
Five thousand years ago, a man perished in a mountain storm. In 1991, his frozen body was found along with artifacts of …
NOVA delves into the deep sea drama of life among the dolphins at research stations in Florida and Australia. Like human…
Two paralyzed drug addicts travel to Sweden to receive a revolutionary treatment for brain disease that is largely unava…
NOVA looks at how Russia and the United States are attacking the intractable problem of alcohol abuse with old and new w…
NOVA examines the high-tech efforts to preserve the world's animal diversity. Noah needed only an ark—but today's conser…
