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 20 Episodes
E1
In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually buildin…
E2
The Gulf War was fought in 38 days of non-stop bombing and four days of swift ground action. Did bombing win it? NOVA lo…
For four decades, 400 African American men from Macon, Alabama were unwitting participants in a government study of untr…
NOVA tells the story of the German scientists abducted to the Soviet Union after World War II to help build an atomic bo…
NOVA covers scientists on the brink of a sputtering, shaking, impatient volcano, trying to forecast when it will go off.…
Athletes are training smarter, running faster, jumping higher and generally outperforming their predecessors—thanks to h…
These days, piracy on the high seas often involves sonar, magnometers, metal detectors and other high-tech equipment for…
Wherever we shed our body cells, we leave an indisputable identity card: our DNA. NOVA investigates the new science of D…
NOVA covers both sides of the stormy controversy over the Tasaday tribe. When these isolated cave dwellers were discover…
NOVA fans from around the country match wits in a fast-paced contest of general science knowledge celebrating NOVA's 20t…
Forensic sleuth Clyde Snow and a posse of experts travel to Bolivia in search of the remains of Butch Cassidy and the Su…
Secrets of the Psychics was a PBS NOVA episode following James Randi's work. Also appearing in stock footage are Peter P…
NOVA covers the tense vigil of three people with terminal lung disease as they await the most complex of all organ trans…
NOVA soars with the condor, an extraordinary bird that lives a tenuous existence in the California mountains and the And…
With help from director Steven Spielberg, author Michael Crichton and a host of scientific experts , NOVA investigates w…
E16
NOVA takes viewers on the ride of their lives as it explores the science of roller coasters, where physics and psycholog…
US federal investigators are called in to determine the cause of a mysterious jetliner crash in Panama. Nothing about th…
Bill Cosby guides viewers through the most exciting footage from two decades of NOVA in a 20th anniversary salute. Real-…
A profile of the late Richard Feynman—atomic bomb pioneer, Nobel prize-winning physicist, acclaimed teacher and all-arou…
NOVA explores the nature of human perception through the puzzling condition called visual agnosia, the inability to reco…
