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 9 Episodes
EP 1
NOVA captures the breathtaking power and determination of these amazing creatures and examines how business and technology are changing the…
EP 2
NOVA presents a dramatic, exclusive film of the first "test-tube" baby born in America, Elizabeth Jordan Carr. NOVA follows the pregnancy f…
EP 3
NOVA takes an intimate look at Roger Tory Peterson, the man whose best-selling guide books to ornithology have played a pivotal role in tur…
EP 4
One of the biggest investigations in medical history began when a mysterious killer disease broke out during independence celebrations in P…
EP 5
What is it like not to be able to communicate with others? NOVA explores the severest of speech disabilities with Dick Boydell—born with ce…
EP 6
NOVA explores the past, present, and future of American television including the potential of cable, the Columbus, Ohio, two-way TV experim…
EP 7
NOVA shows how scientists go about creating new forms of life, and investigates the impact of the gene bonanza on industry, medicine, and t…
EP 8
NOVA visits San Francisco's Exploratorium—part laboratory, part school, part three-ring circus—run by an unlikely collection of physicists …
EP 9
In this vivid study of mimicry and camouflage NOVA shows dramatically how snakes, butterflies, fish, turtles and many other kinds of animal…
EP 10
What is aging? Why does it happen? Can it be stopped? NOVA presents a startling report on research into the processes which make us age and…
EP 11
For the first time on television a rigorous, scientific investigation into the fact, fiction, and hoax of Unidentified flying objects. With…
EP 12
The Himalayas, highest peaks in the world, are crumbling. People are making them crumble, and people are the victims, as NOVA reveals in th…
EP 13
Of the 70,000 Americans hospitalized annually for severe Burns, one-third are children. NOVA tells the story of extraordinary personal resi…
EP 14
NOVA introduces some of the winners of the 1982 Westinghouse Science Talent Search: high school students whose interests range from silkwor…
EP 15
An investigative report on US dependence on foreign sources of strategic minerals, vital to the aerospace and steel industries, which exami…
EP 16
NOVA reports on the staggering water problems of Southern Louisiana—where the mighty Mississippi is threatening to change its course, and w…
EP 17
NOVA follows the great grey whales along their annual marathon migration from the Arctic to the Mexican coast and reveals little known fact…
EP 18
While America's passenger-train service deteriorates, trains in Japan and Europe are speeding ahead at over 150 miles per hour. NOVA report…
EP 19
To celebrate its 10th broadcast season, NOVA repeats the very first NOVA program every aired, a fascinating and delightful program about ho…
