episodes
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Mystery of the Megaflood
It was the greatest flood of the past two million years, and it posed a giant scientific riddle. A maverick geologist became convinced that thousand-foot-deep floodwaters had scoured out vast areas of...
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Sinking the Supership
The search for the wreck of the Yamato, the largest and mightiest battleship ever floated and the pride of the Japanese Imperial Fleet. Constructed in absolute secrecy and sunk by American planes towa...
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Einstein's Big Idea
Exactly 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary Special Theory of Relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the form...
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Volcano Under the City
A restless mountain threatens a bustling metropolis perched on its flanks.
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Hitler's Sunken Secret
One of the most daring clandestine operations of World War II was the 1944 sinking of the Norwegian ferry Hydro with its cargo of "heavy water" destined for the Nazis' secret atomic bomb project. Alth...
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Newton's Dark Secrets
He was the greatest scientist of his day, perhaps of all time. But while Isaac Newton was busy discovering the universal law of gravitation, he was also searching out hidden meanings in the Bible an...
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Storm That Drowned a City
In less than 12 hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Louisiana coast, leading to more than a thousand deaths and transforming a city of over one million into an uninhabitable swa...
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The Mummy Who Would Be King
Could a mummy found in Niagara Falls be the remains of a long-lost Pharaoh?
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Deadly Ascent
Doctors, rescuers and mountaineers try to determine why people die attempting to climb Mount McKinley.
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The Perfect Corpse
Forensic investigators tease secrets from the well preserved bodies of people buried long ago under peat bogs.
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Jewel of the Earth
David Attenborough probes the mystery of ancient life-forms perfectly preserved in amber.
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The Ghost Particle
A 40-year hunt for solar neutrinos leads to a new understanding of matter itself.
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Arctic Passage
NOVA recreates the expeditions of Sir John Franklin and Roald Amundsen, two Arctic explorers who set out to find the legendary Arctic sea route known as the Northwest Passage.
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The Great Robot Race: Nova
Driverless vehicles compete in a 130-mile race across the Majove Desert.
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Voyage to the Mystery Moon
A mission to Saturn and its enigmatic sattelite, Titan, looks for clues to the origins of life.
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Dimming the Sun
Everyone has heard of global warming, but a lesser-known man-made phenomenon has been nearly as powerful at affecting Earth's climate. A look at global dimming, created by soot and pollution reflectin...
- 17. Wings of Madness Nova reviews the contribution of Alberto Santos Dumont in the early days of aircraft development and his uncanny ability to abandon one line of endeavor for a technology with better long term potentia...
- 18. Family That Walks on All Fours This episode focuses on a scientific debate about five siblings in a Turkish family who walk on all fours. When, in 2005, scientist Uner Tan labeled them "genetic throwbacks," they became part of the...
- 19. ScienceNOW: Extinction The "Nova scienceNOW" magazine delves into a case of mass extinction some 250 million years ago; investigates the 1918 influenza outbreak, which killed as many as 50 million people; details the work o...
- 20. Underwater Dream Machine The story of Peter Robbins, an engineer who---at a cost of $1.5 million---built his own submarine (named Alicia) in order to explore sunken German U-boats. Included: the Alicia's maiden voyage.