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 21 Episodes
EP 1
NOVA delves into the history of secret communications and the people who wrack their brains to decipher them. The program probes the most c…
EP 2
Velociraptors and primitive birds are among the fabulous fossil finds as NOVA accompanies an American Museum of Natural History expedition …
EP 3
NOVA follows members of the US Aerobatic Team as they prepare for and compete in the 1992 World Aerobatic Championship. The sport, as preci…
EP 4
NOVA explores ice-capped mountains-on the equator. These African giants are magical islands of life towering above the scorched plains. Gia…
EP 5
NOVA covers exciting and controversial research with chimpanzees who have been trained to express themselves with human symbols. Are they s…
EP 6
In the first of a three-part series, noted anthropologist Donald Johanson probes the earliest ancestors of the human species - reaching bac…
EP 7
Anthropologist Donald Johanson looks at how our human ancestors of two million years ago made their living. Contrary to popular myth, scave…
EP 8
At what point did our distant ancestors become anatomically like us? And, more importantly, when did they begin to act like us? Anthropolog…
EP 9
NOVA visits the most cigarette-addicted nation in the world-China. Western advertising and trading practices have exacerbated the fatal rom…
EP 10
NOVA experiences the relentless, round-the-clock life aboard the US Navy aircraft carrier, Independence-where every day is a constant drill…
EP 11
Polly wants a crackdown when it comes to the illegal trade in the world's most beautiful and intelligent birds: parrots. NOVA goes undercov…
EP 12
NOVA profiles "Genie," a girl whose parents kept her imprisoned in near total isolation from infancy. When social workers discoverd her as …
EP 13
NOVA explores the legacy of the great Auk, a magnificent flightless bird that was hunted to extinction over a century ago. In a journey ret…
EP 14
NOVA tackles the long-taboo subject of menopause, profiling new research and examining the medical and ethical controversies that arise whe…
EP 15
NOVA travels deep into the Amazon wilderness in search of a mysterious tribe- a tribe that dismembered and partially ate three prospectors …
EP 16
NOVA probes the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake. Even as the city struggles to repair itself from the tragedy, seismic pressure continues to bu…
EP 17
Ten million years ago, an enormous volcanic eruption buried much of what is now Nebraska in up to 10 feet of ash, preserving countless skel…
EP 18
Hobbled by defective eyesight because of its original, bungled prescription, the Hubble Space Telescope was recently repaired in a dramatic…
EP 19
NOVA travels to Lake Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest lake, containing one-fifth of all the fresh water on Earth. Investigating Baika…
EP 20
NOVA explores the common threads that link the more than 5,000 languages of Earth, including a controversial theory that claims to reconstr…
