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 2 Episodes
EP 1
NOVA travels to forests and marshes to discover why birds sing and finds surprising parallels with the acquisition of speech in humans.
EP 2
Many insects and some mammals use smell as a primary means of communication. NOVA explains how, for example, the entire economy of an ant's…
EP 3
Smashing matter into ever smaller pieces in an attempt to find its fundamental building blocks has produced a confused nightmare of particl…
EP 4
Most of us spend one-third of our lives in a state of which we understand remarkably little—some people sleep for only a few minutes a nigh…
EP 5
NOVA joins a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists on a mission to find out just how San Francisco Bay works: its physics, its chemistr…
EP 6
Just why did Cro-Magnon man living in France's Dordogne Valley some 15,000 years ago take time out from the desperate business of survival …
EP 7
NOVA joins a group of English biologists living literally on a platform in the middle of the Red Sea, who for several years have been study…
EP 8
EP 9
Have you ever sensed that your body reacts differently at different times of the day? NOVA examines the best and worsetimes for work, good …
EP 10
Has the case against DDT been proven? A strange question, perhaps, to be asking one year after the US has banned the insecticide, but NOVA …
EP 11
NOVA profiles two very different scientists: Richard Feynman, a theoretical physicist, at the pinnacle of his career—a Nobel prizewinner; a…
EP 12
NOVA explores T.D. Lynsenko's rise to power in the Soviet Union in the early 20th century, and how it affected plant genetic research in th…
EP 13
High in the Hoggar Mountains, in the exact center of the Sahara desert, lives Sidi Mohammed and his family: children, grandchildren, cousin…
EP 14
How likely is it that a terrorist group will steal plutonium intended for nuclear reactor fuel and put together a blackmail weapon of unpre…
EP 15
Since the Industrial Revolution, bigger has been better. NOVA profiles E.F. Schumacher, the author of Small is Beautiful, who thinks that e…
EP 16
For over a thousand years the Mayan civilization grew and flourished in the rain forests of Central America. Discovered and finally destroy…
EP 17
Fish is an excellent source of protein; it could help ease the growing international food shortage. But in 1972 the total world fish catch …
