NOVA

NOVA travels to forests and marshes to discover why birds sing and finds surprising parallels with the acquisition of sp…

Many insects and some mammals use smell as a primary means of communication. NOVA explains how, for example, the entire …

Smashing matter into ever smaller pieces in an attempt to find its fundamental building blocks has produced a confused n…

Most of us spend one-third of our lives in a state of which we understand remarkably little—some people sleep for only a…

NOVA joins a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists on a mission to find out just how San Francisco Bay works: its ph…

Just why did Cro-Magnon man living in France's Dordogne Valley some 15,000 years ago take time out from the desperate bu…

NOVA joins a group of English biologists living literally on a platform in the middle of the Red Sea, who for several ye…

Have you ever sensed that your body reacts differently at different times of the day? NOVA examines the best and worseti…

Has the case against DDT been proven? A strange question, perhaps, to be asking one year after the US has banned the ins…

NOVA profiles two very different scientists: Richard Feynman, a theoretical physicist, at the pinnacle of his career—a N…

NOVA explores T.D. Lynsenko's rise to power in the Soviet Union in the early 20th century, and how it affected plant gen…

High in the Hoggar Mountains, in the exact center of the Sahara desert, lives Sidi Mohammed and his family: children, gr…

How likely is it that a terrorist group will steal plutonium intended for nuclear reactor fuel and put together a blackm…

Since the Industrial Revolution, bigger has been better. NOVA profiles E.F. Schumacher, the author of Small is Beautiful…

For over a thousand years the Mayan civilization grew and flourished in the rain forests of Central America. Discovered …

Fish is an excellent source of protein; it could help ease the growing international food shortage. But in 1972 the tota…