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 50 Episodes
E1
Thousands of engineers, technicians and workers race to build Europe’s biggest construction project–London’s new railroa…
E2
A NASA spacecraft named Lucy blasts off from Cape Canaveral on a mission to the Trojans, a group of asteroids over 400 m…
E3
Recent discoveries in archaeology are exploding the myth of the Amazon as a primeval wilderness, revealing traces of anc…
E4
Join scientists as they use NASA’s brand new James Webb Space Telescope to peer deep in time to hunt for the first stars…
E5
It’s hard not to notice: our weather is changing. From longer, hotter heat waves, to more intense rainstorms, to megafir…
E6
The U.S. recently set an ambitious climate change goal: zero carbon emissions by 2050. And to achieve that, slash emissi…
E7
North Atlantic right whales are among the planet’s most critically endangered large ocean mammals. With fewer than 350 r…
E8
In January 2022, one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history rocked the Pacific islands of Tonga, se…
E9
Is what you see real? Join neuroscientist Heather Berlin on a quest to understand how your brain shapes your reality, an…
E10
Are you in control, or is your brain controlling you? Dive into the latest research on the subconscious with neuroscient…
E11
Today, Earth is enveloped by a thin veil of gas, a narrow band of atmosphere that protects a world covered in lush green…
E12
700 million years ago, Earth was a giant snowball cloaked in ice from pole to pole—a global deep freeze that held the pl…
E13
For billions of years, life teemed in the oceans of planet Earth while the land was desolate and inhospitable. So how di…
E14
252 million years ago, the most devastating mass extinction of all time abruptly wiped out around 90% of all species on …
E15
The story of Earth can only be told because now, 4.5 billion years into its existence, a technological and self-aware an…
E16
In the span of just a few decades, China has transformed into a science and technology superpower. But how did it get he…
E17
Malaria is one of humanity’s oldest and most devastating plagues. In many parts of the world, it remains an ever-present…
E18
Many descendants of enslaved people have little record of their family's ancestry. Follow one family's quest to discover…
