Season 30

episodes

1. 1. Killer Disease on Campus 2002-09-03 55 min Doctors combat the deadliest for of meningitis which strikes young people out of the blue.
2. 2. Mysterious Life of Caves 2002-10-01 55 min Toxic caverns teaming with strange life-forms spark a brand new theory about how caves form.
3. 3. Lost Roman Treasure 2002-10-08 55 min Experts rescue pricess mosaics from an ancient city that is about to disapear beneath a resivoir.
4. 4. Galileo's Battle for the Heavens 2002-10-29 55 min 6.5 In this two-hour special, NOVA celebrates the story of the father of modern science and his struggle to get Church authorities to accept the truth of his astonishing discoveries. The program is based...
5. 5. Volcano's Deadly Warning 2002-11-12 55 min 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 i...
6. 6. Sinking City of Venice 2002-11-19 55 min Experts struggle to save the City of Canals before it vanishes beneath the waves.
7. 7. The Orchid Hunter 2002-11-26 55 min For nine months in 2000, Tom Hart Dyke was a captive of guerrillas who seized him while he was collecting wild orchids in the Colombian rain forest. Now Hart Dyke is at it again in the most orchid-ric...
8. 8. Spies That Fly 2003-01-07 55 min The air war in Afghanistan showed that sometimes the hottest pilots are sitting on the ground operating the remote controls of UAVs—or unmanned aerial vehicles. In newly declassified footage, "Spies T...
9. 9. Last Flight of Bomber 31 2003-01-14 55 min On March 25, 1944, a U.S. Navy bomber disappeared into the fog over the Bering Sea heading for a Japanese target. Fifty-five years later it has suddenly reemerged with a remarkable tale. NOVA travels...
10. 10. Ancient Creature of the Deep 2003-01-21 55 min NOVA chronicles the discovery of a "living fossil," a fish called the coelacanth that has remained relatively unchanged since prehistoric times. The program recalls Darwin's prediction that some creat...
11. 11. Battle of the X-Planes 2003-02-04 55 min 8.0 A behind the scenes look at the competition to build the Joint Strike Fighter. Cameras follow engineering teams from Boeing and Lockheed Martin as each makes fateful design decisions.
12. 12. Mountain of Ice 2003-02-11 55 min In this high-altitude adventure, Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air, world-class mountaineer Conrad Anker, and their team of climbers, scientists, and filmmakers take a trailblazing expedition to t...
13. 13. Lost Treasures of Tibet 2003-02-18 55 min Before Leonardo da Vinci painted "The Last Supper," Tibetan craftsmen were creating stunning artistry of their deities in the remote Himalayan kingdom of Mustang. In "Lost Treasures of Tibet," NOVA go...
14. 14. Dirty Bomb 2003-02-25 55 min "Dirty Bomb" probes the realities and implications for public health policy of a disaster that many consider to be all but inevitable: a terrorist attack on a major city using a radioactive "dirty bom...
15. 15. Deep Sea Invasion 2003-04-01 55 min In 1989 marine biologist Alexandre Meinesz went diving off southern France and was stunned by what he saw: a dense blanket of waving green fronds stretching around him in every direction on the seabed...
16. 16. Secret of Photo 51 2003-04-15 55 min 10.0 On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule essential for passing on our genes and the ''secret of lif...