Episode guide
NOVA: Season 29
17 episodes · premiered Oct 2, 2001
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- Episode 1: Search for a Safe Cigarette Oct 2, 2001 · 55m The program chronicles the tobacco industry's decades long effort to create a "safer" cigarette.
- Episode 2: 18 Ways to Make a Baby Oct 9, 2001 · 55m The program investigates the brave new world of assisted reproduction.
- Episode 3: Secrets of the Mind Oct 23, 2001 · 55m This NOVA program delves into the mind-tingling efforts of neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran to discover how the brain works.
- Episode 4: Sex: Unknown Oct 30, 2001 · 55m The film investigates the complicated world of gender identity.
- Episode 5: Russia's Nuclear Warriors Nov 6, 2001 · 55m NOVA takes an intimate look at the men who are in control of Russia's nuclear missiles, standing just a heartbeat from the top Russian politicians and Armageddon. Hosted by Vladimir…
- Episode 6: Bioterror Nov 13, 2001 · 55m The film follows three New York Times reporters as they delve into the murky past of bioweapons research and grapple with the current threat of anthrax and other attacks.
- Episode 7: Life's Greatest Miracle Nov 20, 2001 · 55m A sequel to the most popular NOVA of all time, "Miracle of Life," the program once again uses the extraordinary microimagery of Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson to track human…
- Episode 8: Methuselah Tree Dec 11, 2001 · 55m Marked by striking imagery and a poetic style, the film dramatizes the life cycle of the world's oldest living thing, the bristlecone pine of California's White Mountains.
- Episode 9: Flying Casanovas Dec 25, 2001 · 55m The program, with Sir David Attenborough narrating, celebrates the extraordinary antics male bowerbirds get up to when courting a female.
- Episode 10: Death Star Jan 8, 2002 · 55m The program probes the deep mysteries of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful celestial explosions since the big bang.
- Episode 11: Neanderthals on Trial Jan 22, 2002 · 55m The film probes the enigma of our Neanderthal cousins and the roots of our own ancestry.
- Episode 12: Fireworks Jan 29, 2002 · 55m
- Episode 13: Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies Feb 5, 2002 · 55m The program chronicles the lives and covert activities of the so-called "atom spies" in the 1940's, including the big one that got away, Theodore Alvin Hall.
- Episode 14: The Missing Link Feb 26, 2002 · 55m A paleontological tour-de-force and suspenseful scientific detective story, the program documents the search for the ancestor of all four-limbed animals, including humans.
- Episode 15: Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance Mar 26, 2002 · 55m In October and November 1999, NOVA journeyed into ice-choked Antarctic waters and onto the shores of rugged Elephant and South Georgia Islands as we followed in the footsteps of Sir Ernest…
- Episode 16: Why the Towers Fell Apr 30, 2002 · 55m Can lessons learned from the Twin Towers' collapse make new buildings safer?
- Episode 17: Fire Wars May 7, 2002 · 55m In the program, NOVA accompanies the men and women of a wildland firefighting crew known as the Arrowhead Hotshots as they battle one of the most destructive wildfire seasons ever, the…