Episode guide
NOVA: Season 30
16 episodes · premiered Sep 3, 2002
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- Episode 1: Killer Disease on Campus Sep 3, 2002 · 55m Doctors combat the deadliest for of meningitis which strikes young people out of the blue.
- Episode 2: Mysterious Life of Caves Oct 1, 2002 · 55m Toxic caverns teaming with strange life-forms spark a brand new theory about how caves form.
- Episode 3: Lost Roman Treasure Oct 8, 2002 · 55m Experts rescue pricess mosaics from an ancient city that is about to disapear beneath a resivoir.
- Episode 4: Galileo's Battle for the Heavens Oct 29, 2002 · 55m 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…
- Episode 5: Volcano's Deadly Warning Nov 12, 2002 · 55m 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…
- Episode 6: Sinking City of Venice Nov 19, 2002 · 55m Experts struggle to save the City of Canals before it vanishes beneath the waves.
- Episode 7: The Orchid Hunter Nov 26, 2002 · 55m 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…
- Episode 8: Spies That Fly Jan 7, 2003 · 55m 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…
- Episode 9: Last Flight of Bomber 31 Jan 14, 2003 · 55m 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…
- Episode 10: Ancient Creature of the Deep Jan 21, 2003 · 55m 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…
- Episode 11: Battle of the X-Planes Feb 4, 2003 · 55m 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.
- Episode 12: Mountain of Ice Feb 11, 2003 · 55m 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…
- Episode 13: Lost Treasures of Tibet Feb 18, 2003 · 55m 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…
- Episode 14: Dirty Bomb Feb 25, 2003 · 55m "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…
- Episode 15: Deep Sea Invasion Apr 1, 2003 · 55m 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…
- Episode 16: Secret of Photo 51 Apr 15, 2003 · 55m 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…