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 20 Episodes
EP 1
In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyp…
EP 2
The Gulf War was fought in 38 days of non-stop bombing and four days of swift ground action. Did bombing win it? NOVA looks at the history …
EP 3
For four decades, 400 African American men from Macon, Alabama were unwitting participants in a government study of untreated syphilis. NOV…
EP 4
NOVA tells the story of the German scientists abducted to the Soviet Union after World War II to help build an atomic bomb. The success of …
EP 5
NOVA covers scientists on the brink of a sputtering, shaking, impatient volcano, trying to forecast when it will go off. When it does, Mt. …
EP 6
Athletes are training smarter, running faster, jumping higher and generally outperforming their predecessors—thanks to high technology. NOV…
EP 7
These days, piracy on the high seas often involves sonar, magnometers, metal detectors and other high-tech equipment for finding and plunde…
EP 8
Wherever we shed our body cells, we leave an indisputable identity card: our DNA. NOVA investigates the new science of DNA typing which is …
EP 9
NOVA covers both sides of the stormy controversy over the Tasaday tribe. When these isolated cave dwellers were discovered in the Philippin…
EP 10
NOVA fans from around the country match wits in a fast-paced contest of general science knowledge celebrating NOVA's 20th anniversary. Famo…
EP 11
Forensic sleuth Clyde Snow and a posse of experts travel to Bolivia in search of the remains of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They fi…
EP 12
Secrets of the Psychics was a PBS NOVA episode following James Randi's work. Also appearing in stock footage are Peter Popoff, Uri Geller, …
EP 13
NOVA covers the tense vigil of three people with terminal lung disease as they await the most complex of all organ transplants—a new lung. …
EP 14
NOVA soars with the condor, an extraordinary bird that lives a tenuous existence in the California mountains and the Andes of South America…
EP 15
With help from director Steven Spielberg, author Michael Crichton and a host of scientific experts , NOVA investigates what it would take t…
EP 16
NOVA takes viewers on the ride of their lives as it explores the science of roller coasters, where physics and psychology meet. New rides o…
EP 17
US federal investigators are called in to determine the cause of a mysterious jetliner crash in Panama. Nothing about the accident makes se…
EP 18
Bill Cosby guides viewers through the most exciting footage from two decades of NOVA in a 20th anniversary salute. Real-life action, advent…
EP 19
A profile of the late Richard Feynman—atomic bomb pioneer, Nobel prize-winning physicist, acclaimed teacher and all-around eccentric, who h…
EP 20
NOVA explores the nature of human perception through the puzzling condition called visual agnosia, the inability to recognize faces and fam…
