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 29 Episodes
E1
The program chronicles the tobacco industry's decades long effort to create a "safer" cigarette.
E2
The program investigates the brave new world of assisted reproduction.
E3
This NOVA program delves into the mind-tingling efforts of neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran to discover how the brain wo…
E4
The film investigates the complicated world of gender identity.
E5
NOVA takes an intimate look at the men who are in control of Russia's nuclear missiles, standing just a heartbeat from t…
E6
The film follows three New York Times reporters as they delve into the murky past of bioweapons research and grapple wit…
E7
A sequel to the most popular NOVA of all time, "Miracle of Life," the program once again uses the extraordinary microima…
E8
Marked by striking imagery and a poetic style, the film dramatizes the life cycle of the world's oldest living thing, th…
E9
The program, with Sir David Attenborough narrating, celebrates the extraordinary antics male bowerbirds get up to when c…
E10
The program probes the deep mysteries of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful celestial explosions since the big bang.
E11
The film probes the enigma of our Neanderthal cousins and the roots of our own ancestry.
E13
The program chronicles the lives and covert activities of the so-called "atom spies" in the 1940's, including the big on…
E14
A paleontological tour-de-force and suspenseful scientific detective story, the program documents the search for the anc…
E15
In October and November 1999, NOVA journeyed into ice-choked Antarctic waters and onto the shores of rugged Elephant and…
E16
Can lessons learned from the Twin Towers' collapse make new buildings safer?
E17
In the program, NOVA accompanies the men and women of a wildland firefighting crew known as the Arrowhead Hotshots as th…