The mission seemed impossible, the odds astronomical, but the results were spectacular. NOVA present...

On August 21, a total solar eclipse crosses the continental U.S. for the first time in 99 years. Sci...

Follow the diabetes epidemic in the U.S. Diabetes and pre-diabetes affect over 100 million people in...

CRISPR gene-editing technology is advancing quickly. What can it do now and in the future?

Why does a widely used internet search engine deliver results that can be blatantly racist and sexis...

A filmmaker with a rare type of multiple sclerosis explores the mysterious causes of MS.

Discover the Gulf of Maine and how its bounty was forever changed by a global appetite for fish. Now...

Dive into Cashes Ledge with scientists as they race to discover if this remote and relatively pristi...

Now at a crossroads for the future of the Gulf of Maine and our oceans, Indigenous peoples and schol...

Investigate medical algorithms in which the patient’s race drives decisions.

NOVA premieres on public television with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Ox...

NOVA explores the mighty Colorado River which today has become the life-blood of the Southwest, prov...

NOVA explores the impact of whaling and the goods it produces for the industry, verses the grace and...

Does life exist outside this planet? The Viking lander will set down on Mars in July 1976 to try to...

How does a primitive nomadic tribe of the Amazon basin cope with the encroachment of Western settler...

Medicine was transformed in the 19th century by the discovery of anesthesia; surgery, until then has...

In 1054 AD, the Chinese recorded the explosion of a star so bright that it lit the sky for three wee...

Birds migrate in search of perpetual summer, sometimes traveling as much as 20,000 miles every year....

The advance of medicine depends inevitably on the testing of experimental procedures on human volunt...

Washoe is a chimp more like a person: she talks with her hands. NOVA visits with Washoe and her teac...

When Paul Kammerer committed suicide in 1926, it was taken by most of his fellow biologists as a tac...

Nuclear fusion offers the promises of an unlimited, clean source of energy. But achieving fusion has...

Who were the people that built the first cities -- complete with apartment blocks -- in North Americ...

NOVA travels to forests and marshes to discover why birds sing and finds surprising parallels with t...

Many insects and some mammals use smell as a primary means of communication. NOVA explains how, for...

Smashing matter into ever smaller pieces in an attempt to find its fundamental building blocks has p...

Most of us spend one-third of our lives in a state of which we understand remarkably little—some peo...

NOVA joins a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists on a mission to find out just how San Francis...

Just why did Cro-Magnon man living in France's Dordogne Valley some 15,000 years ago take time out f...

NOVA joins a group of English biologists living literally on a platform in the middle of the Red Sea...

Have you ever sensed that your body reacts differently at different times of the day? NOVA examines...

Has the case against DDT been proven? A strange question, perhaps, to be asking one year after the U...

NOVA profiles two very different scientists: Richard Feynman, a theoretical physicist, at the pinnac...

NOVA explores T.D. Lynsenko's rise to power in the Soviet Union in the early 20th century, and how i...

High in the Hoggar Mountains, in the exact center of the Sahara desert, lives Sidi Mohammed and his...

How likely is it that a terrorist group will steal plutonium intended for nuclear reactor fuel and p...

Since the Industrial Revolution, bigger has been better. NOVA profiles E.F. Schumacher, the author o...

For over a thousand years the Mayan civilization grew and flourished in the rain forests of Central...

Fish is an excellent source of protein; it could help ease the growing international food shortage....

It is now possible to predict earthquakes. At least two successful predictions have already been mad...

NOVA takes viewers into the world of Joey Deacon, 54 years old and a spastic since birth. Joey has l...

What do singer Peggy Lee, New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath and Congressman Richard Nolas have in...

The last fourteen years have been a revolution in our understanding of our place in the stars, the S...

NOVA explores the mysterious ecosystem of the desert: a snowstorm; a lashing summer monsoon; and the...

Every year, some 5,000 babies are born in the US with spina bifida, a congenital abnormality of the...

There's one place on earth where no one will ever catch a cold. And the freezing waters are so bitte...

Author Isaac Asimov joins NOVA in the retelling of the remarkable story of the discovery of the stru...

Each Sunday edition of the New York Times consumes 153 acres of trees. The paper packs, napkins, pap...

NOVA joins chief archaeologist, Ivor Noel Hume, of Colonial Williamsburg, VA, for a fascinating glim...

Today we take antibiotics for granted, and by doing so are steadily eroding their medical value. NOV...

Dr. Norman Shumway of Stanford University has performed more heart transplants than any other heart...

NOVA explores life underground, from foxes and badgers through moles and worms down to the myriad of...

NOVA shows the Netsilik eskimoes of Pelly Bay and their traditional way of life and what happens whe...

Benjamin is a healthy, normal baby, whom we meet at birth and whose first year of life provides the...

Margaret Sanger was responsible almost single-handedly for changing the whole attitude of the male-d...

As late as 1967, smallpox struck as many as 15 million people in 43 countries and killed an estimate...

The "Jaws" phenomenon has given sharks a bad name. But is the shark really such a barbarian? NOVA lo...

Recent scientific developments have made it possible to detect a wide variety of defects in unborn b...

Since 1945, hundreds of ships and planes and thousands of people have mysteriously disappeared in an...

NOVA traces the development of Hitler's V-2 rocket through rare footage obtained from the National A...

If you were a dinosaur scientist, what would you do with a pile of fossil bones? How would you even...

What is the price we are prepared to pay for coal? NOVA looks at the environmental and health safety...

NOVA explores the research on the 1976 drought in the western United States which led some solar sci...

NOVA follows the lives of three boys who have combined immuned deficiency—a disease that leaves its...

NOVA recreates March 1975 at Brown's Ferry, an Alabama nuclear power plant—the largest in the world—...

NOVA looks at blackbirds, their winter habit of nesting in the millions, and the destruction they do...

NOVA profiles chemist Russell Marker who made the birth control pill possible by discovering a synth...

NOVA explores the history of genetic engineering and the possible risks and benefits of this area of...

NOVA investigates the controversial theory of Harvard University biologist E.O. Wilson, that many as...

In the winter of 1976-77, 80 percent of the wolf population in Northwest Alaska was the target of ae...

Solar energy is increasingly popular as a home heating source. But only recently has it been serious...

NOVA explores the huge international illegal trade in animals, penetrates the thriving underworld of...

NOVA traces 300 years of speculation, investigation and discovery that have centered on Mars—particu...

In part one of this two-part exploration of the diversity of world languages, NOVA examines how and...

In part two of this two-part series on the diversity of language, NOVA explores how man has coped wi...

NOVA profiles Linus Pauling—the only person to have received two unshared Nobel Prizes for his work...

NOVA explores the different means by which hearing-impaired people have learned to penetrate the wor...

NOVA explores the delibitating diseases that are often caused by poverty and follows two paths to he...

Can a nuclear war be survived? Some members of the defense community say yes. NOVA explores the poss...

Botany is a neglected science and plants are all around us, but unfamiliar. NOVA examines our state...

It has been known since the turn of the century that there are four human blood groups, based on dif...

Part one of a two-part series on the subject of man in space, NOVA examines the history of NASA—from...

Second of the two-part series on space programs, NOVA looks ahead to the future, post-Apollo and the...

In the rain forests of Zaire, in the heart of Africa, live the Mbuti Pygmies. The Pygmy way of life...

In a dramatic docudrama, NOVA reconstructs the controversial lawsuit raised against renowned heart s...

A science-based revolution in the making of wine is underway. NOVA traces the secrets of the aging p...

NOVA investigates the theories of von Daniken and others that the Earth has been visited by intellig...

Today's scientists may be creating their own successors. Work being done in Artificial Intelligence...

In the summer of 1977 Paul MacCready, a California scientist and businessman, won the coveted Kremer...

NOVA shows a year in the life of a beaver pond and includes almost every life form that exists in, o...

The fortified plateau above Athens known as the Acropolis is the site of some of the most remarkable...

Henry Ford, a great friend of Edison, was a film enthusiast who amassed some one and a half million...

When first invented 18 years ago, lasers were called "a solution looking for a problem;" nobody coul...

In a world that each year loses up to 40 percent of its crops to insects, some form of pest control...

For thousands of years people have managed to live in deserts all over the world. But in recent year...

NOVA explores Bovine sleeping sickness. Spread by a fly, it is a deadly disease that poses a threat...

Traditionally zoos were designed neither for people nor animals; barred cages taught people more abo...

In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two radio astronomers at Bell Telephone Laboratories, disco...

Congress is currently considering a proposal that would double the size of America's national park s...

On the morning of March 16, 1978, the US owned, Liberian registered supertanker, the Amoco Cadiz, we...

As a child, Fred Young hunted birds and wild animals with primitive weapons, spoke only the Indian l...

In 1945, B.F. Skinner shocked the world by putting his 13 month-old daughter, Deborah, into a "box."...

The bed of the northeast Pacific Ocean is covered with a "carpet" estimated to be worth a staggering...

Below the snow-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes, the Q'eros Indians live a life patterned on that...

Some day hydrogen may replace the gasoline that we are now using up so rapidly. NOVA looks at the po...

Is nuclear fusion the solution to the energy crisis? NOVA examines the promise—and problems—of fusio...

Health care is the third largest industry in the US. As a result of billions of dollars spent for me...

One hundred years after his birth, Albert Einstein remains an enigma to most Americans. NOVA present...

Some powerful and complex painkilling drugs have just been discovered—in a place where you would lea...

Is the chemical industry a boom to modern civilization, or a major threat to our health and that of...

Sinister, sometimes even deadly, spiders have little popular appeal; yet their silken webs are among...

NOVA views the history of sugar—from its scientific, religious and political history to its medical...

At the 1976 Olympics, East German athletes walked off with 40 of the coveted gold medals, though the...

Thousands of amateur athletes are hurt every year, and many professional athletes suffer injuries th...

Most of India lives by the same rhythm, the same tools, as in centuries past. But there is another I...

The Iron Bridge across the River Severn in Telford, England is two centuries old this year. It remai...

Dr. Philip Morrison, Institute Professor and professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Tech...

For many people the idea of life without vision is as fearful as death. NOVA looks at five people st...

Aborigines in Australia, woodchucks in Pennsylvania, the Nobel Prize in Stockholm and the gay commun...

NOVA profiles Dr. Edward Teller, the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb," an acclaimed scientific genius a...

NOVA explores the science of natural engineering and asks the basic questions: what makes a good des...

More than 40 million Americans are afflicted by cardiovascular disease. NOVA examines the new inform...

Whaling is an integral part of Eskimo life, and a major source of food; even so, conservationists ar...

Recent aircraft accidents have raised the question of just how safe modern commercial aviation reall...

Every year, millions of tourists converge on the Mediterranean's sunny coasts, lured by the prospect...

NOVA explores the amazing Jari project of the Amazon basin. Eleven years ago, 3.5 million acres of v...

NOVA explores the shaping and molding of the male and female personality. From infancy through child...

In one of the first films ever to come out of modern China, NOVA sifts through clues that Chinese sc...

One year in the intricate life of a coastal lagoon unfolds in an hour's time when NOVA documents the...

Locked in the shale of the Western Rocky Mountains is more oil than in the Middle East—more than eno...

Is interferon—known as IF in medical shorthand—the wonder drug and cure for cancer that some doctors...

On Wednesday, 12 November 1980, Voyager 1 is expected to arrive at Saturn for a first time ever exte...

Thomas Edison is the quintessential American hero, the Wizard whose inventions revolutionized modern...

Water, water everywhere...but just how useful is it? NOVA travels to the Adirondack Mountains where...

NOVA tells the story of still and cine photography in science—from the extraordinary work of the pio...

The exquisite sensitivity of touch cells in the human skin makes it possible for us to discriminate...

The cuddly image of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer has become an integral part of the jollity of the...

Time—a concept which has baffled scientists and philosophers since time immemorial. Actor Dudley Moo...

Is the fagara root a match for the stethoscope? This program looks at the contributions of both trad...

This program explores clues gathered from ancient rocks and Meteorites in an attempt to piece togeth...

NOVA examines the Dead Sea. The lowest place on Earth, at 1400 feet below sea level, it is jointly o...

When Mount St. Helens erupted earlier this year, it focused the attention of the whole world on the...

NOVA investigates what science can do in helping to solve murder—in understanding why it occurs, and...

Health care is no longer two Aspirins and some chicken soup—it is a huge enterprise capable of amazi...

Sophisticated instruments used by astronomers enable earthlings to see beyond what was once the clou...

For 150 million years, non-avian dinosaurs dominated the Earth. Then, 65 million years ago, they sud...

The beauty, endurance, and raw power of animals in the wild are captured on film as NOVA juxtaposes...

It's over 300 years since Galileo turned his new telescope on Saturn and first saw its spectacular r...

NOVA reports on the potential danger of modern Computers that gather "routine" information about our...

More people die in fires in the US than in any other industrialized country. In an alarming report t...

A great secret lies locked inside the master Violins created by Italian craftsmen like Antonio Strad...

A NOVA showing the extraordinary discoveries of X-ray astronomy. This new science has revealed that...

Called the "teeth of the wind" by those who have battled them for centuries, locusts continue to pla...

The controversy which exploded a century ago when Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species" i...

Many were delighted by the extraordinary special effects in movies like "2001" and "Star Wars," but...

You are not alone! Like it or not, every human being and virtually every living creature is, in a se...

William H. Whyte's insightful and humorous look at city parks, plazas and Streets, and the people wh...

Ever thought what it's like having your mirror image talk back to you? It can be an everyday occurre...

NOVA captures the breathtaking power and determination of these amazing creatures and examines how b...

NOVA presents a dramatic, exclusive film of the first "test-tube" baby born in America, Elizabeth Jo...

NOVA takes an intimate look at Roger Tory Peterson, the man whose best-selling guide books to ornith...

One of the biggest investigations in medical history began when a mysterious killer disease broke ou...

What is it like not to be able to communicate with others? NOVA explores the severest of speech disa...

NOVA explores the past, present, and future of American television including the potential of cable,...

NOVA shows how scientists go about creating new forms of life, and investigates the impact of the ge...

NOVA visits San Francisco's Exploratorium—part laboratory, part school, part three-ring circus—run b...

In this vivid study of mimicry and camouflage NOVA shows dramatically how snakes, butterflies, fish,...

What is aging? Why does it happen? Can it be stopped? NOVA presents a startling report on research i...

For the first time on television a rigorous, scientific investigation into the fact, fiction, and ho...

The Himalayas, highest peaks in the world, are crumbling. People are making them crumble, and people...

Of the 70,000 Americans hospitalized annually for severe Burns, one-third are children. NOVA tells t...

NOVA introduces some of the winners of the 1982 Westinghouse Science Talent Search: high school stud...

An investigative report on US dependence on foreign sources of strategic minerals, vital to the aero...

NOVA reports on the staggering water problems of Southern Louisiana—where the mighty Mississippi is...

NOVA follows the great grey whales along their annual marathon migration from the Arctic to the Mexi...

While America's passenger-train service deteriorates, trains in Japan and Europe are speeding ahead...

To celebrate its 10th broadcast season, NOVA repeats the very first NOVA program every aired, a fasc...

This land of fire and beauty is the most isolated island chain in the world. NOVA cameras uncover an...

NOVA captivates a remarkably candid portrait of Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, a man...

A gripping docudrama about a mysterious, highly lethal disease which struck a village in Nigeria in...

NOVA presents the first film ever made of the incredible chain of events which turns a sperm and an...

Every 58 minutes between now and the end of the century, one American will die from asbestos exposur...

NOVA takes a spellbinding voyage through one of the world's most fascinating and colorful ecosystems...

"Why can't I lose weight?" It's a question many Americans ask themselves everyday. NOVA comes up wit...

The accident at Three Mile Island made front page news all over the world and rocked the entire nucl...

The dream of talking with animals has been with us for centuries. NOVA explores the latest research,...

Seattle dentist Barney Clark received the first artificial heart implant in 1982. He died in March 1...

NOVA looks at computers in the classroom through the eyes of MIT's Seymour Papert, father of the Tur...

Remote tribes and exotic islanders have been made known to the world through the lens of anthropolog...

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has become a legend in her lifetime for her work with the dying. For the f...

Can the thoroughbred horse run any faster? NOVA examines the billion-dollar horse racing industry in...

When plastic surgeons repair the shattered face of a soldier or rescue a child from a disfiguring di...

Patients at an Australian institution for the severely handicapped rebel against a pair of over-zeal...

As the American space program celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, NOVA chronicles the effects...

Will nuclear weapons deter World War III or only make it more likely? NOVA explores the military str...

This summer's record temperatures may be one of the signs that the earth's atmosphere is warming up....

NOVA documents a dramatic encounter in international medicine when an American plane lands in China—...

In a culture laced with alcohol, the search for a scientific understanding of alcoholism is as compl...

In the past decade, a number of researchers have begun systematic laboratory research into extrasens...

An astronaut once observed a great white light shining out from the bottom of our world: Antarctica,...

Efforts to control the population explosion are among the burning controversies of our time. NOVA lo...

Is there a cure for paralyzing spinal injuries? Most neurosurgeons are doubtful, pointing to the cen...

Al Giddings is one of the greatest underwater photographers in the world. In a riveting look at the...

Agriculture is America's biggest industry. This productivity, envied around the world, is also deple...

What are America's obligations to its native population? As an important Indian health act comes up...

Victor Weisskopf: physicist, lover of music and citizen of the world. NOVA profiles the internationa...

At a time when scientific exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union is at its lowest s...

NOVA departs from tradition with the first National Science Test. Viewers can match wits with celebr...

NOVA explores the billion-dollar-plus Mahaweli Irrigation Project in Sri Lanka. Will this high-risk...

NOVA explores whether "yellow rain," described by members of the Hmong tribe of Laos, is a form of c...

NOVA visits a tribe of Ecuadoran Indians who still maintain traditions that date back to the Stone A...

NOVA looks at the "blue revolution"—modern advances in the ancient art of raising aquatic animals an...

NOVA's sequel to "A Normal Face" examines the merging of technology and art in modern reconstruction...

They have been part of the United States' space program for more than 20 years. Who are these talent...

Acclaimed underwater cameraman Al Giddings takes NOVA viewers beneath the waves to explore the fact...

The debate over acid rain continues to grow. NOVA travels to West Germany, the mid-Atlantic states a...

What do dinosaurs, a panda's thumb and a peacock's tail have in common? Dr. Stephen Jay Gould, the i...

In this docudrama presentation, NOVA looks at the life, times and work of Gregor Mendel, the 19th ce...

NOVA explores the fascinating world of Dr. Harold Edgerton, electronics wizard and inventor extraord...

NOVA presents an in-depth look at India's attempt to use satellite technology to leapfrog into the e...

NOVA examines the complex world of parasites, parasitic diseases and the exciting work currently bei...

A rare look at the beautiful and desolate Wrangel Island-a Soviet possession 300 miles off the coast...

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, is a deadly disease that has struck down some 2,000 pe...

Sea shells, Crystals, Honeycombs, Eggs and seeds: They are shaped the way they are for a reason. NOV...

It's a mystery just how children acquire language. Does the process begin in the womb? And which com...

Imagine a bottle with no inside or a number bigger than infinity or parallel lines that meet. Welcom...

What do Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the painter Raphael and chess champion Bobby Fischer have in common...

NOVA explores the breeding, migration and survival patterns of the Rocky Mountain elk in a unique fi...

In NOVA's special sequel to 1984's National Science Test, viewers can match wits with celebrity pane...

NOVA examines worldwide efforts of scientists who employ aggressive agricultural technologies to ens...

Albert Einstein did not live to find the answer. NOVA follows a new generation of physicists in thei...

How are the computer and the robot affecting the way we work? NOVA chronicles the new industrial rev...

NOVA cameras go behind-the-scenes to reveal the new art of illusion, Hollywood-style, focusing on th...

NOVA charts the progress of an ambitious worldwide health program established to save the lives of m...

NOVA follows a chase team—a group of scientists who chart deadly Tornadoes—in an effort to learn mor...

NOVA examines current research and its ethical implications as modern medicine confronts the era of...

NOVA examines the intricate world of nature's construction industry and presents rare footage of unu...

NOVA joins the 50th anniversary celebration of the DC-3—the plane that revolutionized commercial air...

NOVA observes worldwide preparations as amateur comet hunters, astronomers and scientists armed with...

Gaia, the Greek word for Earth goddess, also is the name of the controversial hypothesis that life o...

For centuries, the Chinese Kazakh horseman preserved their ancient traditions, refusing to be domina...

NOVA explores the incredibly complex emotional development of infants and examines the current theor...

In July 1982, a 42-year-old addict in a San Jose, California jail became paralyzed—unable to move or...

When a high number of cancer cases struck the suburban community of Woburn, Massachusetts, the town...

NOVA journeys to a remote region of southern Venezuela where the land is alive with spectacular wate...

NOVA follows a conservation success story as environmentalists, scientists and bird-lovers fight to...

When Alexander Fleming discovered the penicillin mold in 1928, he never considered its possible ther...

NOVA examines the medical community's alarm as the spread of antibiotic-resistant infection increase...

NOVA and Frontline combine resources to explore the Strategic Defense Initiative. The two-hour docum...

NOVA joins scientists in Argentina as they help locate kidnapped children and identify thousands of...

The adventures of the Voyager 2 spacecraft continue as it passes the rings of Uranus. Scientists sus...

Scientific breakthroughs now make it possible to reproduce ourselves in ways never before imagined....

What are the prospects for halting or curing the deadliest epidemic ever to challenge modern medicin...

Could there be life beyond Earth? Only recently has it become possible to scan the skies in a system...

Birds do it; bees do it, butterflies, bats and eels do it—all leave one habitat to migrate to anothe...

NOVA dips into the sad plight of our coastal waters, where toxic chemicals, raw sewage and disease-c...

Yankee ingenuity has designs on the America's Cup. NOVA goes behind-the-scenes to look at the engine...

Leprosy, a misunderstood disease that has been curable for 40 years, still afflicts some 12 million...

NOVA explores the ground-breaking experiments that led to the discovery of a tiny sequence of molecu...

NOVA scans the universe with the infrared eye of IRAS—the Infrared Astronomical Satellite—and discov...

NOVA examines a controversial theory that traces our ancestry to a small group of women living in Af...

Between 60 and 80 percent of all commercial airplane accidents are attributable to pilot error. NOVA...

NOVA cameras travel to Borneo, one of the last habitats of the wild orangutans, where scientists stu...

Fifty years after his death, the creator of psychoanalysis is still the subject of intense debate. W...

NOVA travels to Antarctica with an emergency scientific expedition to study a baffling "hole" in the...

Harvard chemist George Kistiakowsky was an anti-Bolshevik soldier in 1919 Russia, an atomic bomb sci...

NOVA presents two hours of the best from its 14 seasons of exciting science coverage. A "talking" ch...

All over the world, farmers are taking more from the soil than they return. NOVA reports on the soil...

In rich and poor countries alike, once-productive farms are turning to desert because of mismanageme...

In a case study of the strengths and weaknesses of the United States space program, NOVA chronicles...

Why do stars explode and how is the energy generated? What is the effect of all those little “afterm...

On the 25th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, NOVA investigates the spy planes and satellites...

Plants produce some of the world's most potent chemicals in the fight against disease. NOVA follows...

Is Detroit inventor Stanford Ovshinsky the new Thomas Edison? Japanese industries are betting that t...

The Panama Canal opened in 1914 after a 30-year effort that dwarfed the building of the pyramids. Hi...

Millions live in the shadows of nature's ticking time-bombs—volcanos. NOVA accompanies scientists wh...

Princeton professor and author Robert Mark tracks down the engineering secrets of some of the beauti...

NOVA joins underwater archaeologists as they explore the oldest shipwreck ever excavated, a richly-l...

A trail of evidence leading from a medieval abbey to a small town in Connecticut sheds new light on...

NOVA follows archaeologists as they unearth clues, some 7,000 years old, about an unknown, mysteriou...

Today's sophisticated fighter jets can almost fly themselves, but well-trained pilots are still need...

Julia Child introduces NOVA's behind-the-scenes look at how science aids in the creation of snack fo...

Scientists investigate the frozen remains of members of the 19th century Franklin Expedition to the...

Airplane fires are often deadly. NOVA looks at efforts to make fires aboard planes less likely and m...

In part one of a two-part special presentation, NOVA reports on the trials to determine whether the...

Breast cancer claims the lives of four American women every hour. Jane Pauley of NBC News hosts and...

Princeton professor and author Robert Mark tracks down the engineering secrets of some of the beauti...

It was a blustery day in December 1986, and the New England Coast was in the midst of a winter storm...

NOVA explores the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a poor clerk from India who astounded mathematicians...

NOVA charts an electronics revolution in the making as Japan and the United States race to develop a...

Most cases of polio in this country are caused by the vaccine designed to prevent it. NOVA examines...

Part one of a four-part series on the pioneers of modern surgery relives the early days, when surger...

Once unthinkable, open-heart surgery is now an everyday miracle. NOVA looks at the brave doctors and...

From kidneys to hearts, NOVA examines the daring attempts to replace diseased organs with transplant...

Surgeons have always been eager to help patients, even at the risk of killing them. NOVA looks at so...

Science meets art in the controversial effort to restore Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel fresco...

Thirty years after Sputnik, the United States space program is mired in uncertainty, while the Russi...

NOVA examines the troubling question of scientific fraud: How prevalent is it? Who commits it? And w...

Using previously unavailable technology, NOVA probes the available evidence surrounding the 1963 ass...

Reliving a Greek myth takes an effort of mythic proportions, as NOVA reveals in its behind-the-scene...

The life of the shy, intelligent black bear in the wild—foraging, mating, playing and constantly pre...

NOVA embarks on a 10-year project to profile—in its entirety—the education of a doctor. In the premi...

Was the searing summer of 1988 a taste of things to come? NOVA looks at the greenhouse effect, which...

NOVA looks at the bongo-playing scientist, adventurer, safecracker and yarn-spinner Richard Feynman,...

NOVA explains "chaos," a new science that is making surprising sense out of chaotic phenomena in nat...

NOVA goes to the Soviet Union for an inside investigation of the world's most catastrophic nuclear p...

In an Idaho classroom, teacher Phil Gerrish puts an unorthodox interpretation on the day's biology l...

NOVA explores the importance of the Gulf Stream to ocean life, climate and human history.

In this two-part series, NOVA investigates the mystery of Easter Island in the South Pacific. Who bu...

In the second part of this two-part series, NOVA explores ancient legends hold the clues to the viol...

Scientific detectives test their ingenuity in the effort to find underground oil deposits.

Arlo, Nancy and Janice each have a 50/50 chance of developing a devastating nerve disorder. A labora...

Actor Judd Hirsch narrates this behind-the scenes look at what makes New York City tick. Water, powe...

In this profile of the former Surgeon General, NOVA follows events as they unfold in a unique behind...

Five architects compete for the approval of architecture-obsessed Chicagoans in the contest to build...

The atomic bomb might have ended World War II, but radar was the quiet miracle that won battles. NOV...

Biologists around the world gear up to decode the three-billion-letter genetic message that describe...

NOVA studies hurricanes—the lurking giants waiting to destroy many coastal areas—by flying straight...

Increasingly awash in high water, the romantic city of Venice is counting on high-tech floodgates to...

East and West came into direct conflict over trade and power in the 19th century. The West won. NOVA...

The 1988 Yellowstone fire may have been one of the worst in human memory, but nature has had eons of...

NOVA re-enacts a classic case of classroom detection when English schoolboys track down a secret Sov...

NOVA reports on the 100-year-old legacy of pollution from mining that poisons the once-pristine wate...

Using some of the largest machines ever built on earth, American and European physicists race to dis...

Sixty-five years after attempts to ban them, chemical weapons pose more of a threat than ever. NOVA...

NOVA examines an alarming nuclear waste problem at the Hanfrod Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washin...

Covering last year's Exxon Valdez oil spill from an unexplored angle, NOVA focuses on how technology...

China in the 13th century was the richest, most powerful, most technologically advanced civilization...

NOVA examines the extraordinary transformation that propelled Europe outward into the world from the...

Ever wonder how junk mail finds you? NOVA investigates the hidden world of direct marketing, pointin...

NOVA covers China's long road to economic and technological equality with the West, punctuated by fr...

This documentary covers the surprising tale of an average systems administrator who stumbled upon a...

NOVA visits Neptune, the planet that took Voyager 12 years to reach. Mysteries abound in and around...

NOVA chronicles the Voyager space mission—from Earth to the ends of the solar system. Jupiter, Satur...

Sixty-five years after attempts to ban them, chemical weapons pose more of a threat than ever. NOVA...

NOVA examines the troubled past and promising future of blimps, zeppelins, cyclocranes and other spe...

NOVA looks at the high-stakes quest to predict earthquakes. Despite past disappointments, geologists...

Robotic weapons that seek out and destroy ships, planes, and other targets are the wave of the futur...

Is the ivory ban in the elephant's best interest? NOVA looks at the controversial strategies to save...

Ever wonder how junk mail finds you? NOVA investigates the hidden world of direct marketing, pointin...

NOVA profiles the llama, alpaca, vicuna and guanaco of South America. At one time nearly extinct, th...

NOVA tracks a mysterious disease that suddenly and fatally attacks the children of a small Brazilian...

NOVA returns to Mount St. Helens a decade after its cataclysmic eruption to learn how nature is reco...

An experiment that could mean limitless supplies of energy sets the scientific world on its head. NO...

NOVA covers the most elaborate expedition ever undertaken in the search for dinosaurs—to China's Gob...

Are dinosaurs still among us? NOVA looks at the contentious question of whether present-day birds ar...

Tyrannosaurus rex, the terrifying kind of the dinos, recently turned up in a nearly complete skeleto...

In the first program of a three-part miniseries on the Soviet space program, NOVA profiles the myste...

NOVA reveals the details of Moscow's secret plan to reach the moon ahead of the Americans. Was Neil...

In an unprecedented insider's look, NOVA covers the training, flight and recovery of a cosmonaut cre...

Gregory Peck narrates a scientific voyage around Vancouver Island in search of whales. Humpbacks, Ki...

Will machines be able to beat us at our own game? The computer chess champ matches wits with the hum...

NOVA covers the causes and attempted cures of baldness. Some men take pride in their bald heads; oth...

In a two-hour special, NOVA follows seven aspiring doctors through four years of medical school. The...

Forty years after they were discovered, the Dead Sea Scrolls have yet to be published in their entir...

NOVA accompanies Soviet scientists on a deadly mission inside the sarcophagus-the massive structure...

The tallest mountain in the world? Think again—cartographers had to when satellite date revealed a p...

The fastest machines in the sky are going to be slow stuff when the latest speed demons on the drawi...

NOVA follows the efforts of four participants in a celebrated California study to unblock arteries w...

This 80-minute NOVA pledge special chronicles the building of the Worldwide Plaza, 47-story office t...

The spectacular eclipse of 1991 passed over major observatories on the island of Hawaii. NOVA was th...

NOVA covers the fight to put out Saddam Hussein's bonfire of oil wells in Kuwait, which has created...

NOVA takes a voyage on the newest of America's doomsday machines—the ballistic missle submarine USS...

Few people give any thought to wildlife in the midst of a war. During the Gulf War, environmentalist...

The nose knows. How much is the subject of NOVA's investigation of the mysterious aromas and hidden...

Rating the audience for TV shows is a classic problem in statistical analysis. NOVA finds that ratin...

Criminals still make money the old-fashioned way—by counterfeiting. NOVA looks at why US currency is...

NOVA examines the mysterious whale strandings along the beaches of Cape Cod Bay, as the puzzling beh...

NOVA goes behind the scenes to watch the filming of a big-screen Imax/Omnimax space spectacle. Astro...

The spectacular eclipse of 1991 passed over major observatories on the island of Hawaii. NOVA was th...

In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built...

Physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard reenact the signing of the 1939 letter that alerted Presi...

NOVA goes behind the scenes to give the real story behind the FBI unit popularized in the Academy Aw...

NOVA follows the trail of America's first inhabitants. Did they migrate across a Bering Sea land bri...

NOVA explores Earth's greatest natural wonder by rafting down the river that created it, repeating t...

In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built...

Five thousand years ago, a man perished in a mountain storm. In 1991, his frozen body was found alon...

NOVA delves into the deep sea drama of life among the dolphins at research stations in Florida and A...

Two paralyzed drug addicts travel to Sweden to receive a revolutionary treatment for brain disease t...

NOVA looks at how Russia and the United States are attacking the intractable problem of alcohol abus...

NOVA examines the high-tech efforts to preserve the world's animal diversity. Noah needed only an ar...

In a 90-minute special presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built...

The Gulf War was fought in 38 days of non-stop bombing and four days of swift ground action. Did bom...

For four decades, 400 African American men from Macon, Alabama were unwitting participants in a gove...

NOVA tells the story of the German scientists abducted to the Soviet Union after World War II to hel...

NOVA covers scientists on the brink of a sputtering, shaking, impatient volcano, trying to forecast...

Athletes are training smarter, running faster, jumping higher and generally outperforming their pred...

These days, piracy on the high seas often involves sonar, magnometers, metal detectors and other hig...

Wherever we shed our body cells, we leave an indisputable identity card: our DNA. NOVA investigates...

NOVA covers both sides of the stormy controversy over the Tasaday tribe. When these isolated cave dw...

NOVA fans from around the country match wits in a fast-paced contest of general science knowledge ce...

Forensic sleuth Clyde Snow and a posse of experts travel to Bolivia in search of the remains of Butc...

Secrets of the Psychics was a PBS NOVA episode following James Randi's work. Also appearing in stock...

NOVA covers the tense vigil of three people with terminal lung disease as they await the most comple...

NOVA soars with the condor, an extraordinary bird that lives a tenuous existence in the California m...

With help from director Steven Spielberg, author Michael Crichton and a host of scientific experts ,...

NOVA takes viewers on the ride of their lives as it explores the science of roller coasters, where p...

US federal investigators are called in to determine the cause of a mysterious jetliner crash in Pana...

Bill Cosby guides viewers through the most exciting footage from two decades of NOVA in a 20th anniv...

A profile of the late Richard Feynman—atomic bomb pioneer, Nobel prize-winning physicist, acclaimed...

NOVA explores the nature of human perception through the puzzling condition called visual agnosia, t...

NOVA delves into the history of secret communications and the people who wrack their brains to decip...

Velociraptors and primitive birds are among the fabulous fossil finds as NOVA accompanies an America...

NOVA follows members of the US Aerobatic Team as they prepare for and compete in the 1992 World Aero...

NOVA explores ice-capped mountains-on the equator. These African giants are magical islands of life...

NOVA covers exciting and controversial research with chimpanzees who have been trained to express th...

In the first of a three-part series, noted anthropologist Donald Johanson probes the earliest ancest...

Anthropologist Donald Johanson looks at how our human ancestors of two million years ago made their...

At what point did our distant ancestors become anatomically like us? And, more importantly, when did...

NOVA visits the most cigarette-addicted nation in the world-China. Western advertising and trading p...

NOVA experiences the relentless, round-the-clock life aboard the US Navy aircraft carrier, Independe...

Polly wants a crackdown when it comes to the illegal trade in the world's most beautiful and intelli...

NOVA profiles "Genie," a girl whose parents kept her imprisoned in near total isolation from infancy...

NOVA explores the legacy of the great Auk, a magnificent flightless bird that was hunted to extincti...

NOVA tackles the long-taboo subject of menopause, profiling new research and examining the medical a...

NOVA travels deep into the Amazon wilderness in search of a mysterious tribe- a tribe that dismember...

NOVA probes the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake. Even as the city struggles to repair itself from the tr...

Ten million years ago, an enormous volcanic eruption buried much of what is now Nebraska in up to 10...

Hobbled by defective eyesight because of its original, bungled prescription, the Hubble Space Telesc...

NOVA travels to Lake Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest lake, containing one-fifth of all the fr...

NOVA explores the common threads that link the more than 5,000 languages of Earth, including a contr...

The subjects of Stone Age cave paintings thunder onto the screen as NOVA explores Woolly Mammoths. R...

NOVA investigates the myth and reality of the first known Europeans to reach North America -Vikings....

NOVA looks at the most successful life forms on the face of the planet in Ants: Little Creatures Who...

NOVA uses recently discovered documents to uncover the complicity of German architects and engineers...

Born joined at the pelvis, Siamese twins Dao and Duan were brought to the United States from Thailan...

Shortly after midnight on 17 July 19l8, at a house in the town of Ekaterinburg in the Ural mountains...

NOVA unravels baffling cases of bad air in buildings all over the world. Even hospitals are on the "...

What amazing processes go on inside super-athletes and couch potatoes alike? NOVA uses the latest me...

In the third installment of a 10-year project, NOVA checks up on a group of aspiring doctors who've...

What does it take to win at Indy? NOVA follows champion race driver Bobby Rahal and a team of engine...

Investigate the massacre of Tsar Nicholas and his family, and evaluate whether modern science has re...

Venus reveals its true face, recorded in detail for the first time by the radar spacecraft Magellan....

From their blistering beginnings as molten rock, the Hawiian islands have grown into a verdant parad...

Is there an asteroid or comet out there with our name on it? NOVA scans the skies and the geological...

In the spring of 1991, a rash of suspicious store fires in Los Angeles set fire investigators on the...

Recording sights that will astonish even experienced divers, NOVA documents an extraordinary day in...

A search for the causes of Sick Building Syndrome. Experts look at various problem buildings, inspec...

Travel on a perilous mission to repair and refly a rare B-29 bomber stranded on a Greenland icecap f...