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 4 Episodes
EP 1
NOVA traces the development of Hitler's V-2 rocket through rare footage obtained from the National Archives—some never broadcast before on …
EP 2
If you were a dinosaur scientist, what would you do with a pile of fossil bones? How would you even start to put the giant jigsaw puzzle to…
EP 3
What is the price we are prepared to pay for coal? NOVA looks at the environmental and health safety issues raised by the government, indus…
EP 4
NOVA explores the research on the 1976 drought in the western United States which led some solar scientists to discover the link between we…
EP 5
NOVA follows the lives of three boys who have combined immuned deficiency—a disease that leaves its victims with no immune system.
EP 6
NOVA recreates March 1975 at Brown's Ferry, an Alabama nuclear power plant—the largest in the world—that suffered a seven-hour fire which c…
EP 7
NOVA looks at blackbirds, their winter habit of nesting in the millions, and the destruction they do to crops.
EP 8
NOVA profiles chemist Russell Marker who made the birth control pill possible by discovering a synthetic substitute for the hormone progest…
EP 9
NOVA explores the history of genetic engineering and the possible risks and benefits of this area of research
EP 10
NOVA investigates the controversial theory of Harvard University biologist E.O. Wilson, that many aspects of human behavior are genetically…
EP 11
In the winter of 1976-77, 80 percent of the wolf population in Northwest Alaska was the target of aerial hunts. Although the area is roamed…
EP 12
Solar energy is increasingly popular as a home heating source. But only recently has it been seriously considered as a source of industrial…
EP 13
NOVA explores the huge international illegal trade in animals, penetrates the thriving underworld of smugglers and assesses the effects on …
EP 14
NOVA traces 300 years of speculation, investigation and discovery that have centered on Mars—particularly the theory that the planet could …
EP 15
In part one of this two-part exploration of the diversity of world languages, NOVA examines how and why the bewildering confusion of langua…
EP 16
In part two of this two-part series on the diversity of language, NOVA explores how man has coped with the confusion of language and asks i…
EP 17
NOVA profiles Linus Pauling—the only person to have received two unshared Nobel Prizes for his work in nuclear weapons.
EP 18
NOVA explores the different means by which hearing-impaired people have learned to penetrate the world of the hearing by visiting with Kitt…
EP 19
NOVA explores the delibitating diseases that are often caused by poverty and follows two paths to health care in Tanzania and the United St…
