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Watch the surreal world of string theory spring to life on the screen, with physicist Brian Greene.
Get the final update on the seven doctors NOVA documented for 21 years.
NOVA presents a comprehensive three-part, three-hour special, investigating explosive new discoveries that are transforming the picture of how we became human.
This groundbreaking series focuses on the personal qualities that underlie the process of invention — the visionary talent, sheer luck and dogged determination that turn a wild idea into a cutting-edge material.
Accompany physicist and acclaimed author Brian Greene on a mind-bending reality check and journey to the frontiers of physics.
Return to Ground Zero to witness the final chapter in an epic story of engineering and innovation.
Join David Pogue to explore how technology makes stuff faster, colder, safer and wilder.
Explore breakthroughs in the science of animal cognition.
NOVA pulls back the curtain on a top-secret world to examine a chilling new reality of global cyber warfare.
NOVA probes the realities and public health policy implications of a terrorist attack on a major city using a radioactive "dirty bomb."
NOVA investigates an all-consuming passion that for some people is more precious than life itself.
In January 1993, six scientists and three hikers were scalded and crushed to death when they ventured into the smoking mouth of the active volcano Galeras in Colombia, confident that no eruption was imminent. NOVA tells the gripping story of this controversial field trip.
With moving personal stories from India, Japan, Kenya and China, this two-hour special provides an up-to-date global snapshot of today's human family, now numbering 6.3 billion and likely to increase to nearly 9 billion by 2050.
NOVA follows an adventure to try to retrieve an almost intact B-29 from the Arctic Circle.
NOVA records the frantic scramble to recover the glory of the ancienct city of Zeugma.
A new generation of pilotless planes fly, spy and bomb in places too risky for human pilots.
NOVA "Ancient Creature of the Deep" explores changing views about the coelacanth, which was once considered the missing link between fish and four-legged creatures.
A scientific detective story to uncover the unique nature of a "super-algae."
NOVA investigates Rosalind Franklin's life and her unsung contribution to one of science's greatest discoveries: DNA
On April 21, 1918, the "Red Baron" took off on patrol over the Somme Valley. What happened next has divided historians and air buffs for decades.
Learn how string theory resolves the conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics.
See the serendipitous steps that led from a forgotten mathematical formula to the first glimmerings of strings.
Learn about the cryptically named “M-theory,” a development that requires a total of 11 dimensions.
NOVA presents the definitive documentary on the invention of the airplane. May 2006( check local listings)
The most serious power grid failure in American history was caused by a magnetic storm in the earth's upper atmosphere, itself triggered by the eruption of a huge flare from the surface of the sun.
Could Africa’s fabled Mount Kilimanjaro be heading for a cataclysm?
During Earth month January 2004, a strange sight unfolded on the planet Mars.
This spectacular wildlife film documents a remote refuge in the far north of Madagascar: the lost world of Ankarana.
Mont Blanc is one of the world's most popular destinations for Alpine climbers and scientists. NOVA follows a team of daring "glacionauts" as they descend into a labyrinth of unexplored ice caves to find trapped flood water that menaces the populated valleys below.
On September 2, 1998, Swissair Flight 111 plummeted into the sea off Nova Scotia.
NOVA's team spent weeks living day and night with the doctors, surgeons and military staff of the 21st Combat Support Hospital in Iraq.
Take a safe front-row seat to the risky and thrilling art of chasing twisters.
America's high-tech weapons won big battles in Afghanistan and Iraq; now the U.S. is betting that even higher technology can win the war on terror.
NOVA presents startling new findings on how Earth, life and the universe began in this four-part special hosted by popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
NOVA explores the legacy of one of history's most infamous disease carriers: Mary Mallon, aka "Typhoid Mary."
A Stone Age detective story reveals that the peopling of the Americas is a far more tantalizing riddle than anyone had ever suspected.
NOVA excavates the site of World War II's most daring prison break to learn how Allied POWs pulled it off.
NOVA explores the last refuge of one group of Jewish patriot Shimon Bar Kokhba's followers with a historian whose bold theories have rocked the world of biblical archaeology. September 2007( check local listings)
Despite great variation, all domestic dogs, as well as their common ancestor, the gray wolf, have virtually identical genes. How can science explain their incredible diversity?
Set in a monochromatic landscape of white ice and snow, this film brings the audience face to face with ice.
NOVA looks back affectionately over the 30-year story of the development of the world's fist operational supersonic airliner, the Concorde.
An insider's look at the extraordinary engineering efforts that are safeguarding the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. September 2007( check local listings)
A chronology of the December 26, 2004, tsunami.
See a dramatization of the remarkable story behind the famous equation E=mc2.
Alaska's Mount McKinley, commonly referred to as Denali, is the highest and coldest peak in North America, and one of the deadliest mountains on earth.
In the second hour this two-part special, NOVA dramatizes the successful expedition of innovative explorer Roald Amundsen, a 29-year-old Norwegian who turned to the native Inuit to learn their ancient skills of Arctic survival.
The first hour provides new details about the Franklin expedition, whose fate was one of the great mysteries of the 19th century.
NOVA looks back at the events of 9/11 and reviews the major investigations into the collapse of the World Trade Center.
Watch as NOVA pieces together clues about a volcanic cataclysm and probes questions about human evolution and Earth’s fragile ecosystems.
NOVA presents a gripping investigation of what went wrong when two Boeing 747 airliners collided in thick fog on the runway at a tiny airport in the Canary Islands, killing 583 passengers and crew.
Get up close and personal with cuttlefish, some of the strangest animals on the planet.
Could it be time to take solar energy seriously again?
NOVA reveals the Native-American side of the Jamestown story.
Uncover the untold final chapter of the 16th-century Spanish conquest of the mighty Inca Empire.
Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts this fast-paced science newsmagazine. Segments in this episode include the role of sleep in memory and learning; the attempt by physicists at CERN to find out what the universe if made of; an examination of "emergence"; and a profile of historical archaeologist Julie Schablitsky.
NOVA explores new findings that call into question the long-held belief that all inherited traits are passed on by our genes.
Follow the poignant, sometimes harrowing efforts of family members to learn the fate of pilots missing after dogfights over Korea.
"Absolute Zero" presents the epic story of humanity's struggle to master extreme cold. Part one of two.
"Absolute Zero" presents the epic story of humanity's struggle to master extreme cold. Part two of two.
Find out what separates us from our closest living relatives — the great apes.
NOVA investigates the mysterious feathered dinosaurs that are challenging old ideas about the origin of bird flight.
Tom and Ray Magliozzi of NPR's "Car Talk" take viewers on a roller-coaster ride into the world of cars as NOVA takes a look at the latest and greatest in the automotive industry.
Follow three Ethiopian women, ostracized after childbirth injuries, to a place where they find hope.
A portrait of scientist E.O. Wilson, architect of the controversial discipline called sociobiology and a driving force for worldwide conservation.
With the help of CGI, NOVA breathes life into the polar dinosaurs' lives and environment in vivid detail.
Examine the causes of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy.
Mark Oliver Everett, better known as E, is the lead singer of US cult band the EELS. What most of his fans don’t know is that Mark’s father, Hugh Everett III, was one of America’s top quantum physicists. The film follows the wry and charismatic Mark as he travels across America to learn about the father he never knew.
A revolutionary new branch of math called fractals has changed the way we see the world and opened up a vast new territory to scientific analysis and understanding.
NOVA investigates the furious scientific debate raging over what “Hobbit” bones represent.
This two-hour special breaks exciting new ground in investigating the origins of the ancient Israelites, the evolution of their belief in one God and the creation of the Bible.
San Francisco veterinarian Dr. Frances Gulland is committed to saving sick marine mammals, but she’s also desperately trying to figure out what’s killing them.
The scientific results from the Mars rovers and Phoenixprobe, which are poised to reveal provocative new clues in the tantalizing search for water and life on the Red Planet.
Travel with Monarch butterflies on their annual 2,000-mile flight across North America.
With unprecedented access, NOVA presents the inside story of the Parthenon’s official restoration.
See how the half-century bloom of a bamboo species leads to an explosion in the rat population in Mizoram.
Investigate the mystery of the melting ice sheets that will affect the fate of coastlines around the world.
Through case studies from neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks’ latest book, NOVA investigates the extraordinary impact music can have on the human brain.
Witness Charles Darwin's greatest personal crisis: the anguishing decision over whether to "go public" with his theory of evolution.
NOVA probes the untold story of the elite corps of clandestine astronauts who were never told of the true purpose of their training program.
This program follows monitor lizards, the largest lizards to walk the planet, and looks at what makes these tongued reptiles such unique survivors.
The first episode explores fresh clues about our earliest ancestors in Africa, including the stunningly complete fossil nicknamed “Lucy’s Child.”
The second program tackles the mysteries of how our ancestors managed to survive in a savannah teeming with vicious predators. Part 2 of 3.
In the final program, NOVA probes a wave of dramatic new evidence that reveals new insights into how we became today’s creative and “behaviorally modern” humans. Part 3 of 3.
Find out what scientists know about dreams: what they are and why we have them.
Discover stunning breakthroughs in a new science — nicknamed “evo devo” — that are revealing answers to the riddles that Darwin couldn’t explain.
Join an exclusive dive beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor to trace new clues to the sinking of the USS Arizona.
Follow a team of archeologists and boat builders as they reconstruct a vessel depicted on the wall of an ancient Egyptian temple.
See the eye-opening experiments that reveal the techniques and labor invested in carving the Great Sphinx.
Probe areas of Machu Picchu that haven’t been touched since the time of the Incas.
Dive with Dr. Kenny Broad into blue holes — underwater caves that formed during the last ice age.
What is it about cold, distant Pluto that captures so many hearts? Join Neil deGrasse Tyson on his quest to find out.
Get up close with today’s most powerful telescopes.
Investigate the universe’s distant past, and dark matter and dark energy — the unsolved mysteries of the cosmos.
Discover the mysterious and surprising nature of the two most powerful forces on the planet: the human mind and money.
View the return of wildlife to Mount St. Helens — and the threat of another eruption.
Learn how medieval builders raised Gothic cathedrals to such spectacular heights.
With special access to the site of the San José, Chile, mine, the mining engineers and the miners’ families, NOVA chronicles the miners’ 69-day ordeal and the work of a global team of engineers who struggled tirelessly around the clock in a desperate bid to bring the trapped miners safely to the surface.
Across North America, elevators move 325 million passengers every day. NOVA reveals the secret life of these ubiquitous machines and investigates personal stories of those who have been caught inside when they fail.
Decipher genetic information that illuminates the origin of dogs — with implications for human culture.
Join a new generation of researchers finding important clues to the enduring mystery of Stonehenge.
Embark on field investigations that illuminate the legend of Solomon and reveal the source of wealth that powered the first biblical kingdoms.
Find out if Antarctica’s climate past can offer clues to what may happen to our warming planet.
Follow investigations that may lead to a breakthrough in predicting earthquakes.
What is the world’s strongest material? David Pogue hosts.
Here in the information age, smaller is better: transistors, microchips and the laptops and cell phone that they power are triumphs of tiny. Now, host David Pogue takes us to an even smaller world.
Host David Pogue is on a quest to clean up, using new green materials to build and power the devices of the future.
Host David Pogue looks into the growing number of smart materials that can respond, change and even learn.
Investigate the world of artificial intelligence and the IBM supercomputer named “Watson.”
Find out how an airliner with elaborate safety and navigation features could simply vanish.
Find out how nature’s deadliest cocktails could be medicine’s brightest new hope.
Get a unique look at the science behind Japan’s catastrophic 2011 earthquake.
Find out if emerging technology can defeat global warming.
Program follows the five-year construction of One World Trade Center (1 WTC) and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
Watch amateur and professional video of the tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.
Immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of alien worlds as scientists try to answer one of life’s greatest questions: Are we alone in the universe?
Join NOVA to defrost the ultimate time capsule — the 5,000-year-old corpse pulled from an Alpine glacier.
See space as a dynamic fabric that can stretch, twist, warp and ripple under the influence of gravity.
Take the ultimate time-travel adventure, hurtling 50 years into the future before stepping into a wormhole to travel back to the past.
Join Brian Greene on a wild ride into the weird realm of quantum physics, governing the universe on the tiniest of scales.
Learn about a brave new theory at the frontier of physics: that our universe may not be the only one.
Travel with scientists trying to determine the likelihood of eruptions and how deadly they could be.
Learn about the revolutionary bouncing bomb and the bombers who destroyed two gigantic dams in Germany’s industrial heartland during WWII.
Hear the untold story of air photo intelligence that played a vital role in defeating Hitler.
Follow a new breed of experts who approach “art mysteries” as if they were crime scenes.
Visit a unique site packed with astonishingly preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons and other giant extinct beasts.
Witness the extraordinary surgery that will allow twin girls, born joined at the head, to live separate lives.
Discover why new era of personalized, gene-based medicine is both ominous and promising — and relevant.
David Pogue spins viewers through the world of weird, extreme chemistry on a quest to unlock the secrets of the elements.
In the wake of tornado outbreaks, learn how we can protect ourselves and our communities.
Find out if modern cruise ships are really safe — or if we're on the brink of a 21st century Titanic.
Gain a greater understanding of our nearest star — one that might help keep our planet from going dark.
Learn how Viking sword makers designed and built the Ulfberht sword and uncover its role in history.
Learn how modern forensics can send innocent men and women to prison — and sometimes even to death row.
See a fresh investigation of this remote speck of rock that has mystified the world for centuries.
Witness the exhilarating moments of Curiosity’s Mars landing — and the spectacular discoveries afterward.
Gain insight into Hurricane Sandy, its impact and the future of storm protection.
Find out what can we do to prepare for the inevitable disaster following a volcanic eruption in Iceland.
Find out what happened when the first modern humans encountered Neanderthals 60,000 years ago.
Discover the technologies that make drones so powerful, propelling us toward a new chapter in aviation history.
Follow investigators’ efforts to determine what really happened to Lindbergh’s baby — and why.
Follow scientists who are returning predators to their natural environments to restore ecosystem balance.
Follow a team of experts who build and test two accurate replicas of Egyptian royal chariots.
Witness a groundbreaking special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of Earth.
Follow the ingenious sleuthing that decoded a 2,000-year-old Greek computer.
Learn how much science can tell us about a brain at risk for violence.
Investigate the meteor strike that awed the world when it roared across Russian skies in 2013.
Travel with Richard Smith to meet the cast in the first scenes of the great drama of life on earth.
See how life stormed the beaches and came to dominate planet Earth.
Come face-to-face with the previously unknown reptilian rulers of prehistoric Australia.
Travel this walkabout continent to uncover how it became the strange island it is today.
Follow the manhunt, step-by-step, for the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Survey new information about the deadly tornado that tore through Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20, 2013.
See a fresh investigation of the critical questions raised by the historic storm, Hurricane Sandy.
Find out how much we can tweak physiology and engineering to move humans and machines faster.
Explore bold innovations inspired by the Earth’s greatest inventor, life itself.
See if cold holds the key to a new generation of science and technology that will improve our lives.
Explore the extent to which science and technology can protect us from natural and man-made dangers.
See what science can tell us about the Kennedy assassination — and the investigations that followed.
Probe the earth-space boundary zone, home to some of nature’s most puzzling and alluring phenomena.
Examine whether asteroids could be our economic salvation — or instruments of extinction.
Join a mind-bending exploration of strange worlds and the creatures that might exist there.
Discover how the British created artillery that could take down enormous Zeppelins during WWI.
Learn why Typhoon Haiyan and its aftermath were so highly destructive to the Philippines.
Hunt for clues to the identity and death circumstances of victims unearthed in Ireland’s bogs.
Gain insights into the daily life and health of Roman citizens during the Roman Empire’s heyday.
Watch a team of bricklayers build an experimental “mini-Duomo” using Renaissance techniques.
Follow scientists who are returning apex predators to their natural environments — and learn why.
Search for the secrets of problem-solving bird brains.
Find out what it’s like to be a dog, a shark or a bird.
Investigate the social lives of some of the smartest animals on the planet.
Uncover the science behind the hunting instincts of the great white shark.
Examine an ingenious plan to escape from Colditz Castle, a prisoner of war camp in Nazi Germany.
Examine one of the largest underwater archaeological sites, the seabed bordering the D-Day beaches.
Examine the science behind vaccinations, the return of preventable diseases and the risks of opting out.
Meet the new global geek squad racing to stay one step ahead of the hackers.
Get the inside story of the search for Flight MH370 and meet those who looked for the lost plane.
Hear reports from the Ebola hot zone and from labs where scientists are racing to find a cure.
Watch the re-creation of an 18th-century hot air balloon, using period tools and materials.
Uncover secrets of some colorful and deadly early flying machines and explore their role in WWI.
Follow the paleontologists who are reconstructing a terrifying carnivore dubbed Spinosaurus.
Investigate how and why life-sized terracotta statues were made for Emperor Qin Shi Huang of China.
Learn what triggered the deadliest U.S. landslide in decades.
View an intimate portrait of Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the moon.
Watch as CERN scientists prepare to restart the history-making Large Hadron Collider.
Follow the epic operation to secure, raise and salvage the Costa Concordia cruise ship.
Investigate what it’s like to have your world vanish beneath your feet.
Watch a team re-create a lifting machine and trap-door system to release a wolf into the Colosseum.
Follow an archaeologist and sculptors to learn how the people of Petra built their city of stone.
Examine Hagia Sophia’s seismic secrets, which have insured its survival through a dozen earthquakes.
Take a mathematical mystery tour with Dr. Mario Livio.
NOVA leads viewers on a mathematical mystery tour — a provocative exploration of math’s power across the centuries. Math was essential to everything from the first wireless radio transmissions to the prediction and discovery of the Higgs boson and the successful landing of rovers on Mars. But where does math get its power? Astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio follows math from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond, leading to the ultimate riddle: Is math an invention or a discovery, humankind’s clever trick or the language of the universe?
Learn the story of the telescope that changed our understanding of the cosmos and our place in it.
Learn about a little-known attack from the ocean depths that claimed 5,000 American lives.
Follow scientists who seek solutions to rising ocean acidity and see their breakthrough discoveries.
View New Horizon’s historic capture of the first-ever detailed images of Pluto’s icy world.
Follow the minute-by-minute story of the Fukushima nuclear crisis and its aftermath.
Deep in a South African cave, an astounding fossil discovery reveals clues to what made us human.
Unravel the greatest mystery in Arctic exploration: the fate of the Franklin Expedition.
Witness a new investigation of the Biblical flood story, leading to the reconstruction of an ark.
Delve into the chilling new reality of cyberwar in startling, previously unreported detail.
Join archaeologists to investigate WWI’s most damaging, ultra-secret tunneling operation.
Inspect hi-tech images that reveal the strange role animal mummies played in ancient Egyptian beliefs.
NOVA tells the story of this chilling disaster and unwraps the science behind earth’s deadly quakes.
This unprecedented, 3-part series presents a bold and sweeping biography of our homeland.
Journey into the deep past to discover the mighty forces that shaped our continent.
Explore the story of life and land, from origins to dinosaurs to an ancient primate invasion.
Discover the human story of vast wealth—and lethal risks—hidden in North America’s landscape.
Retrace Einstein’s thought experiments to discover how he reshaped our understanding of gravity.
Join archaeologists who reveal traces of WWI’s most devastating, ultra-secret tunneling operation.
Discover how the rocks beneath our feet were essential to jump-starting life on earth.
Dive under the Antarctic ice to investigate what is destroying the polar food web.
Investigate the devastating quake that rocked Nepal, from Mt. Everest to the streets of Kathmandu.
Dive in with deep-sea scientists as they explore the undersea world of glowing creatures.
Explore the secrets of the mind to discover how memories can be implanted, changed and even erased.
New revelations about the ancient ice mummy, Otzi, shed light on the dawn of civilization in Europe.
Join the race to build the most advanced humanoid robots as they battle real-world challenges.
Search for the truth behind the legends of the Vikings and their epic journey to the Americas.
Join investigators as they untangle the cause of Alzheimer’s and race to develop a cure.
Explore how newly established wildlife corridors offer hope to our planet’s endangered species.
Join engineers as they race to rescue a historic Martha’s Vineyard lighthouse from certain doom.
Discover how Allied forces conspired to destroy one of Hitler’s most diabolical weapons.
Discover what happens in the mind of a terrorist and how we may intercede to stop the next attack.
Discover how the science of learning can help us reimagine the future of education for all children.
Follow our ancestors’ footsteps out of Africa along a trail of fresh scientific clues to help unravel the mystery of how we got where we are.
Join engineers as they build a massive new subterranean railway deep beneath the streets of London.
Explore the hidden secrets of gems, from their alluring beauty to their origins deep in the Earth.
Discover how the unique properties of metals have made them a pillar of human civilization.
Drill down to discover the treasures beneath our feet that power our world, today and in the future.
Unearth secrets buried in the world’s highest tombs, tucked in Himalayan caves.
In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, discover the technologies that could prevent future disaster.
Cutting edge researchers hunt for a super battery that can power tomorrow’s high tech world.
Pioneering shipbuilders embark on an epic endeavor to build the ultimate cruise ship.
Discover how the art of origami is sparking a scientific revolution and unlocking nature’s secrets.
Investigate deadly train accidents and join safety experts as they test crash prevention technology.
Engineers race to build a massive dome to contain the crumbling remains of Chernobyl’s reactor.
Archaeological findings guide builders in reconstructing and testing China’s first super-weapon.
NOVA investigates the water disaster in Flint and unravels a disturing truth about the vulnerablilities of water systems across the country.
Observe the first total solar eclipse to traverse the US mainland in more than a generation.
Discover why some predictions succeed and others fail as experts forecast the future.
Join scientists on a quest to better understand the weather and climate machine we call Earth.
Discover how a world of microbes living in and on you can make you sick—and keep you healthy.
Hunt for clues in the universes to answer one of humanity’s biggest questions: Are we alone?
How does today’s artificial intelligence actually work—and is it truly intelligent?
A revolution in gene editing technology enables scientists to create and edit DNA as never before.
Peer into the deep unknowns of the universe to explore the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.
Dive beneath the sea to the wreckage of a WWII bomber. Search for the remains of its fallen crew.
