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 5 Episodes
Can a nuclear war be survived? Some members of the defense community say yes. NOVA explores the possibility.
Botany is a neglected science and plants are all around us, but unfamiliar. NOVA examines our state of knowledge of how …
It has been known since the turn of the century that there are four human blood groups, based on different red cells and…
Part one of a two-part series on the subject of man in space, NOVA examines the history of NASA—from the origin of the s…
Second of the two-part series on space programs, NOVA looks ahead to the future, post-Apollo and the role that man in sp…
In the rain forests of Zaire, in the heart of Africa, live the Mbuti Pygmies. The Pygmy way of life has always been extr…
In a dramatic docudrama, NOVA reconstructs the controversial lawsuit raised against renowned heart surgeon Dr. Denton Co…
A science-based revolution in the making of wine is underway. NOVA traces the secrets of the aging process and science's…
NOVA investigates the theories of von Daniken and others that the Earth has been visited by intelligent beings from oute…
Today's scientists may be creating their own successors. Work being done in Artificial Intelligence (AI), a branch of co…
In the summer of 1977 Paul MacCready, a California scientist and businessman, won the coveted Kremer Prize. His achievem…
NOVA shows a year in the life of a beaver pond and includes almost every life form that exists in, on, under, around and…
The fortified plateau above Athens known as the Acropolis is the site of some of the most remarkable architecture in the…
Henry Ford, a great friend of Edison, was a film enthusiast who amassed some one and a half million feet of film during …
When first invented 18 years ago, lasers were called "a solution looking for a problem;" nobody could think what to do w…
In a world that each year loses up to 40 percent of its crops to insects, some form of pest control is desperately neede…
For thousands of years people have managed to live in deserts all over the world. But in recent years, a growing populat…
NOVA explores Bovine sleeping sickness. Spread by a fly, it is a deadly disease that poses a threat to Africa's cattle.
Traditionally zoos were designed neither for people nor animals; barred cages taught people more about their separation …
In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two radio astronomers at Bell Telephone Laboratories, discovered faint, but eve…
Congress is currently considering a proposal that would double the size of America's national park system by designating…
