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 9 Episodes
NOVA captures the breathtaking power and determination of these amazing creatures and examines how business and technolo…
NOVA presents a dramatic, exclusive film of the first "test-tube" baby born in America, Elizabeth Jordan Carr. NOVA foll…
NOVA takes an intimate look at Roger Tory Peterson, the man whose best-selling guide books to ornithology have played a …
One of the biggest investigations in medical history began when a mysterious killer disease broke out during independenc…
What is it like not to be able to communicate with others? NOVA explores the severest of speech disabilities with Dick B…
NOVA explores the past, present, and future of American television including the potential of cable, the Columbus, Ohio,…
NOVA shows how scientists go about creating new forms of life, and investigates the impact of the gene bonanza on indust…
NOVA visits San Francisco's Exploratorium—part laboratory, part school, part three-ring circus—run by an unlikely collec…
In this vivid study of mimicry and camouflage NOVA shows dramatically how snakes, butterflies, fish, turtles and many ot…
What is aging? Why does it happen? Can it be stopped? NOVA presents a startling report on research into the processes wh…
For the first time on television a rigorous, scientific investigation into the fact, fiction, and hoax of Unidentified f…
The Himalayas, highest peaks in the world, are crumbling. People are making them crumble, and people are the victims, as…
Of the 70,000 Americans hospitalized annually for severe Burns, one-third are children. NOVA tells the story of extraord…
NOVA introduces some of the winners of the 1982 Westinghouse Science Talent Search: high school students whose interests…
An investigative report on US dependence on foreign sources of strategic minerals, vital to the aerospace and steel indu…
NOVA reports on the staggering water problems of Southern Louisiana—where the mighty Mississippi is threatening to chang…
NOVA follows the great grey whales along their annual marathon migration from the Arctic to the Mexican coast and reveal…
While America's passenger-train service deteriorates, trains in Japan and Europe are speeding ahead at over 150 miles pe…
To celebrate its 10th broadcast season, NOVA repeats the very first NOVA program every aired, a fascinating and delightf…