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 14 Episodes
EP 1
NOVA scans the universe with the infrared eye of IRAS—the Infrared Astronomical Satellite—and discovers never-before-seen comets, stars, ga…
EP 2
NOVA examines a controversial theory that traces our ancestry to a small group of women living in Africa 300,000 years ago.
EP 3
Between 60 and 80 percent of all commercial airplane accidents are attributable to pilot error. NOVA looks at some shocking instances of pi…
EP 4
NOVA cameras travel to Borneo, one of the last habitats of the wild orangutans, where scientists study the endangered ape. Who is observing…
EP 5
Fifty years after his death, the creator of psychoanalysis is still the subject of intense debate. Was Freud right or wrong? NOVA profiles …
EP 6
NOVA travels to Antarctica with an emergency scientific expedition to study a baffling "hole" in the Earth's protective ozone layer.
EP 7
Harvard chemist George Kistiakowsky was an anti-Bolshevik soldier in 1919 Russia, an atomic bomb scientist at Los Alamos, a presidential ad…
EP 8
NOVA presents two hours of the best from its 14 seasons of exciting science coverage. A "talking" chimp, an exploding volcano and a sight-a…
EP 9
All over the world, farmers are taking more from the soil than they return. NOVA reports on the soil crisis in world agriculture—a plight t…
EP 10
In rich and poor countries alike, once-productive farms are turning to desert because of mismanagement of water resources. NOVA examines th…
EP 11
In a case study of the strengths and weaknesses of the United States space program, NOVA chronicles the ambitious and long-delayed Galileo …
EP 12
Why do stars explode and how is the energy generated? What is the effect of all those little “aftermath” particles floating through space? …
EP 13
On the 25th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, NOVA investigates the spy planes and satellites that played a critical role in history…
EP 14
Plants produce some of the world's most potent chemicals in the fight against disease. NOVA follows the urgent efforts to track down new me…
EP 15
Is Detroit inventor Stanford Ovshinsky the new Thomas Edison? Japanese industries are betting that the genius behind amorphous materials-a …
EP 16
The Panama Canal opened in 1914 after a 30-year effort that dwarfed the building of the pyramids. Historian David McCullough navigates thro…
EP 17
Millions live in the shadows of nature's ticking time-bombs—volcanos. NOVA accompanies scientists who are developing new techniques to pred…
EP 18
Princeton professor and author Robert Mark tracks down the engineering secrets of some of the beautiful buildings in the world including No…
EP 19
NOVA joins underwater archaeologists as they explore the oldest shipwreck ever excavated, a richly-laden merchant vessel dating from the ti…
EP 20
A trail of evidence leading from a medieval abbey to a small town in Connecticut sheds new light on rheumatoid arthritis, a crippling infla…
EP 21
NOVA follows archaeologists as they unearth clues, some 7,000 years old, about an unknown, mysterious and advanced sea-faring people who li…
