NOVA
Synopsis
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 17 Episodes
EP 1
NOVA reports on the 100-year-old legacy of pollution from mining that poisons the once-pristine waters of the Rocky Mountain states. Acid R…
EP 2
Using some of the largest machines ever built on earth, American and European physicists race to discover one of the most fundamental and m…
EP 3
Sixty-five years after attempts to ban them, chemical weapons pose more of a threat than ever. NOVA looks at the problem of controlling sub…
EP 4
NOVA examines an alarming nuclear waste problem at the Hanfrod Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washington state, where 45 years of mismanage…
EP 5
Covering last year's Exxon Valdez oil spill from an unexplored angle, NOVA focuses on how technology failed in preventing, containing and c…
EP 6
China in the 13th century was the richest, most powerful, most technologically advanced civilization on earth. NOVA looks at how China achi…
EP 7
NOVA examines the extraordinary transformation that propelled Europe outward into the world from the 15th to 18th centuries, while China re…
EP 8
Ever wonder how junk mail finds you? NOVA investigates the hidden world of direct marketing, pointing out how advertisers know a lot more a…
EP 9
NOVA covers China's long road to economic and technological equality with the West, punctuated by frequent setbacks such as the 1989 massac…
EP 10
This documentary covers the surprising tale of an average systems administrator who stumbled upon a KGB spy operation. Clifford Stoll carri…
EP 11
NOVA visits Neptune, the planet that took Voyager 12 years to reach. Mysteries abound in and around this big, blue world at the outer limit…
EP 12
NOVA chronicles the Voyager space mission—from Earth to the ends of the solar system. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and dozens of moons star in t…
EP 13
Sixty-five years after attempts to ban them, chemical weapons pose more of a threat than ever. NOVA looks at the problem of controlling sub…
EP 14
NOVA examines the troubled past and promising future of blimps, zeppelins, cyclocranes and other species of airships. There's life in the o…
EP 15
NOVA looks at the high-stakes quest to predict earthquakes. Despite past disappointments, geologists still hope to divine the clues that pr…
EP 16
Robotic weapons that seek out and destroy ships, planes, and other targets are the wave of the future. NOVA questions whether their prolife…
EP 17
Is the ivory ban in the elephant's best interest? NOVA looks at the controversial strategies to save the world's largest land animal from e…
EP 18
Ever wonder how junk mail finds you? NOVA investigates the hidden world of direct marketing, pointing out how advertisers know a lot more a…
EP 19
NOVA profiles the llama, alpaca, vicuna and guanaco of South America. At one time nearly extinct, these four members of the camel family ar…
EP 20
NOVA tracks a mysterious disease that suddenly and fatally attacks the children of a small Brazilian town. Researchers from the Centers for…
