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 30 Episodes
EP 1
Doctors combat the deadliest for of meningitis which strikes young people out of the blue.
EP 2
Toxic caverns teaming with strange life-forms spark a brand new theory about how caves form.
EP 3
Experts rescue pricess mosaics from an ancient city that is about to disapear beneath a resivoir.
EP 4
In this two-hour special, NOVA celebrates the story of the father of modern science and his struggle to get Church authorities to accept th…
EP 5
In January 1993, six scientists and three hikers were scalded and crushed to death when they ventured into the smoking mouth of the active …
EP 6
Experts struggle to save the City of Canals before it vanishes beneath the waves.
EP 7
For nine months in 2000, Tom Hart Dyke was a captive of guerrillas who seized him while he was collecting wild orchids in the Colombian rai…
EP 8
The air war in Afghanistan showed that sometimes the hottest pilots are sitting on the ground operating the remote controls of UAVs—or unma…
EP 9
On March 25, 1944, a U.S. Navy bomber disappeared into the fog over the Bering Sea heading for a Japanese target. Fifty-five years later it…
EP 10
NOVA chronicles the discovery of a "living fossil," a fish called the coelacanth that has remained relatively unchanged since prehistoric t…
EP 11
A behind the scenes look at the competition to build the Joint Strike Fighter. Cameras follow engineering teams from Boeing and Lockheed Ma…
EP 12
In this high-altitude adventure, Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air, world-class mountaineer Conrad Anker, and their team of climbers, s…
EP 13
Before Leonardo da Vinci painted "The Last Supper," Tibetan craftsmen were creating stunning artistry of their deities in the remote Himala…
EP 14
"Dirty Bomb" probes the realities and implications for public health policy of a disaster that many consider to be all but inevitable: a te…
EP 15
In 1989 marine biologist Alexandre Meinesz went diving off southern France and was stunned by what he saw: a dense blanket of waving green …
EP 16
On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, the molecu…
