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 49 Episodes
E1
In the Arctic, enormous releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, threaten the climate.
E2
Scott Burnett is “Scatman”—an Australian ecologist on the trail of the secrets of poop. By identifying and analyzing ani…
E3
Sir David Attenborough investigates a unique site in southern England where amateur fossil hunters uncovered giant mammo…
E4
Follow the dramatic personal journey of Hugh Herr, a biophysicist working to create brain-controlled robotic limbs. At a…
E5
Follow three women at risk of developing Alzheimer’s as they join a groundbreaking study to try to prevent the disease –…
E6
In the Badlands of North Dakota, a team of scientists think they might have found the fossilized remains of animals kill…
E7
In the second episode of this two-part series, the search continues for signs of what happened on the day the dinosaurs …
E8
When the bow of the colossal Ever Given container ship plowed into the bank of the Suez Canal on March 23, 2021, interna…
E9
Thousands of ancient footprints stretch for miles across New Mexico’s White Sands National Park, capturing moments when …
E10
How did NASA engineers build and launch the most ambitious telescope of all time? Follow the dramatic story of the James…
E11
Rising seas and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Can the city’s new hi-tech flood barrier save it? Discover the …
E12
Almost 40 years after the discovery of HIV, could we be on the verge of ending the AIDS epidemic in America? How did sci…
E13
In police departments and courts across the country, artificial intelligence is being used to help decide who is policed…
E14
Hallucinogenic drugs—popularly called psychedelics—have been used by human societies for thousands of years. Today, scie…
E15
Lionfish–long prized in home aquariums–have invaded the Atlantic, and are now one of the ocean’s most successful invasiv…
E16
One of the world’s greatest ancient enigmas, the Nazca lines are a dense network of criss-crossing lines, geometric shap…
E17
From Bitcoin to NFTs, crypto is making headlines. But what exactly is it, and how does it work? Experts go beyond the hy…
E18
Discover how the concepts of zero and infinity revolutionized mathematics.
E19
In April 2019, the world watched as a devastating fire almost destroyed Paris’s iconic Notre Dame Cathedral. Go behind t…
