Episode guide
NOVA: Season 36
17 episodes · premiered Oct 7, 2008
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- Episode 1: Arctic Dinosaurs Oct 7, 2008 · 55m Most people imagine dinosaurs lurking in warm locales with swamps and jungles, dining on vegetation and each other. But "Arctic Dinosaurs" reveals that many species also thrived in the…
- Episode 2: Space Shuttle Disaster Oct 14, 2008 · 55m At the end of a nearly flawless 15-day mission in early 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere, killing the crew of seven men and women. In…
- Episode 3: Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives Oct 21, 2008 · 55m Join Mark Everett on his quixotic quest to understand his father Hugh, creator of a radical theory of quantum physics.
- Episode 4: Hunting The Hidden Dimension Oct 28, 2008 · 55m Fractals are more than just pretty pictures. These simple but sophisticated equations describe the world we live in, from forest growth patterns to the beating of a human heart, and they…
- Episode 5: Alien From Earth Nov 11, 2008 · 55m The 2004 discovery of tiny human fossil bones on the island of Flores, Indonesia, raised new—and controversial—speculation about the history of the human race. Ever since, scientists have…
- Episode 6: The Bible's Buried Secrets Nov 18, 2008 · 55m An archeological detective story tackling some of the biggest questions in biblical studies: Where did the ancient Israelites come from? Who wrote the Bible, when, and why? How did the…
- Episode 7: Ocean Animal Emergency Nov 25, 2008 · 55m NOVA takes you inside a very special ER to witness the efforts of wildlife veterinarians as they fight to save their animal patients as well as to uncover the cause of a mysterious…
- Episode 8: Is There Life On Mars? Dec 30, 2008 · 55m After four decades of fly-by probes, orbiters, landers, and rovers, the quest for life on Mars is as tantalizing as ever. NOVA goes behind the scenes of the latest NASA missions to the Red…
- Episode 9: The Big Energy Gamble Jan 20, 2009 · 55m As Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger launches a dramatic and controversial program to slash carbon dioxide emissions and promote energy efficiency. NOVA explores the pros and…
- Episode 10: The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies Jan 27, 2009 · 55m Orange-and-black wings fill the sky as NOVA charts one of nature's most remarkable phenomena: the epic migration of monarch butterflies across North America. To capture a butterfly's point…
- Episode 11: The Spy Factory Feb 3, 2009 · 55m In this program, an eye-opening documentary on the National Security Agency by best-selling author James Bamford and Emmy Award-winning producer Scott Willis, NOVA exposes the ultra-secret…
- Episode 12: Rat Attack Feb 24, 2009 · 55m Once every 48 years, bamboo forests in parts of northeast India go into exuberant flower. Then, like clockwork, the flowering is invariably followed by a plague of black rats that appear…
- Episode 13: Extreme Ice Mar 24, 2009 · 55m In collaboration with National Geographic, NOVA follows the exploits of acclaimed photojournalist James Balog and a scientific team as they deploy time-lapse cameras in risky, remote…
- Episode 14: Last Extinction Mar 31, 2009 · 55m An examination over whether a comet struck the Great Lakes region 12,900 years ago, and whether it caused the extinction of such mega-creatures as the woolly mammoth and the saber-toothed…
- Episode 15: Doctors' Diaries Pt.1 Apr 7, 2009 · 55m In 1987, NOVA's cameras began rolling to chronicle the lives of seven young, bright medical students embarking on the longest and most rigorous endeavor in higher education: the years-long…
- Episode 16: Doctors' Diaries Pt.2 Apr 14, 2009 · 55m In 1987, NOVA's cameras began rolling to chronicle the lives of seven young, bright medical students embarking on the longest and most rigorous endeavor in higher education: the years-long…
- Episode 17: Musical Minds Jun 30, 2009 · 55m An exploration of the effect of music on the brain via four case studies from neurologist Oliver Sacks book "Musicopia" and the MRI visualizations from Sacks' own brain as classical music…