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 51 Episodes
E1
In Egypt’s Sahara Desert, massive skeletons with strange skulls and gigantic teeth jut out from the sandy ground. This f…
E2
How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui–also known as Easter Island–carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arriv…
E3
Explore the revolutionary engineering behind Paris’s iconic landmark. Completed in just over two years for the 1889 Worl…
E4
For decades, scientists have tried to unlock the secrets of ancient DNA. Follow the dramatic quest to recover DNA millio…
E5
A.I. tools like ChatGPT seem to think, speak, and create like humans. But what are they really doing? From cancer cures …
E6
Explore the spectacular cosmic phenomenon of a total solar eclipse. In April 2024, the Moon's shadow is sweeping from Te…
E7
Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. Find out…
E8
How big is the universe? Will it ever end? Why is so much of it made of mysterious dark matter and energy? See how mind-…
E9
Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid methane, and light…
E10
From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest, to the spec…
E11
All around our solar system, volcanoes are powerful shapers of worlds. Next door on Mars is Olympus Mons, a giant volcan…
E12
Ice might seem familiar to us on Earth, but out in the solar system, it can get quite exotic. From Uranus’s ultra hot su…
E13
The classic view of our solar system contains eight orderly planets, some with moons in neat orbits – but when we look c…
E14
When we look at the world at the tiniest scales in the subatomic realm, things get weird – very weird. Welcome to the qu…
E15
Around the world, engineers are finding ingenious ways to amplify our abilities and senses – allowing us to access and s…
E16
From the time our species first evolved, we’ve been on the move. Not content to stay in one place, we’ve imagined and in…
E17
Thousands of years of human innovation have allowed us to shape the environment to improve lives. The consequences of ou…
E18
After the devastating 2019 fire at Notre Dame, two mysterious sarcophaguses were discovered under the cathedral’s stone …
