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 5 Episodes
EP 1
Can a nuclear war be survived? Some members of the defense community say yes. NOVA explores the possibility.
EP 2
Botany is a neglected science and plants are all around us, but unfamiliar. NOVA examines our state of knowledge of how plants work: growth…
EP 3
It has been known since the turn of the century that there are four human blood groups, based on different red cells and serum characterist…
EP 4
Part one of a two-part series on the subject of man in space, NOVA examines the history of NASA—from the origin of the space race through t…
EP 5
Second of the two-part series on space programs, NOVA looks ahead to the future, post-Apollo and the role that man in space will play, incl…
EP 6
In the rain forests of Zaire, in the heart of Africa, live the Mbuti Pygmies. The Pygmy way of life has always been extraordinarily difficu…
EP 7
In a dramatic docudrama, NOVA reconstructs the controversial lawsuit raised against renowned heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley when one of hi…
EP 8
A science-based revolution in the making of wine is underway. NOVA traces the secrets of the aging process and science's involvement with t…
EP 9
NOVA investigates the theories of von Daniken and others that the Earth has been visited by intelligent beings from outer space. Among clai…
EP 10
Today's scientists may be creating their own successors. Work being done in Artificial Intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science, onl…
EP 11
In the summer of 1977 Paul MacCready, a California scientist and businessman, won the coveted Kremer Prize. His achievement was to design a…
EP 12
NOVA shows a year in the life of a beaver pond and includes almost every life form that exists in, on, under, around and above the water, f…
EP 13
The fortified plateau above Athens known as the Acropolis is the site of some of the most remarkable architecture in the world: its marble …
EP 14
Henry Ford, a great friend of Edison, was a film enthusiast who amassed some one and a half million feet of film during his lifetime. Depos…
EP 15
When first invented 18 years ago, lasers were called "a solution looking for a problem;" nobody could think what to do with them. But in fa…
EP 16
In a world that each year loses up to 40 percent of its crops to insects, some form of pest control is desperately needed. But chemical pes…
EP 17
For thousands of years people have managed to live in deserts all over the world. But in recent years, a growing population and the demands…
EP 18
NOVA explores Bovine sleeping sickness. Spread by a fly, it is a deadly disease that poses a threat to Africa's cattle.
EP 19
Traditionally zoos were designed neither for people nor animals; barred cages taught people more about their separation from nature than ab…
EP 20
In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two radio astronomers at Bell Telephone Laboratories, discovered faint, but ever-present, microwav…
EP 21
Congress is currently considering a proposal that would double the size of America's national park system by designating a sizeable chunk o…
