Episode guide
NOVA: Season 37
18 episodes · premiered Oct 6, 2009
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- Episode 1: Darwin's Darkest Hour Oct 6, 2009 · 55m This two-hour scripted drama tells the remarkable story behind the unveiling of the most influential scientific theory of all time, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural…
- Episode 2: Hubble's Amazing Rescue Oct 13, 2009 · 55m The best-known scientific instrument in history was dying. After nearly 20 years in space and hundreds of thousands of spectacular images, the Hubble Space Telescope's gyroscopes and…
- Episode 3: Lizard Kings Oct 20, 2009 · 55m Though they may look like dragons and inspire stories of man-eating, fire-spitting monsters with long claws, razor-sharp teeth and muscular, whip-like tails, these creatures are actually…
- Episode 4: Becoming Human: First Steps Nov 3, 2009 · 55m The first hour examines the factors that caused the split from the apes. The film explores the fossil of “Selam,” also known as “Lucy’s Child” — an amazing, nearly complete child fossil…
- Episode 5: Becoming Human: Birth of Humanity Nov 10, 2009 · 55m In gripping forensic detail, the second program in “Becoming Human” investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us — “Turkana Boy” — an astonishingly complete specimen of Homo…
- Episode 6: Becoming Human: Last Human Standing Nov 17, 2009 · 55m The final program examines the roots of our own species, Homo sapiens, which new evidence pinpoints to southern Africa some 200,000 years ago. New discoveries are upending old ideas and…
- Episode 7: What Are Dreams? Nov 24, 2009 · 55m What are dreams and why do we have them? Are they a window into a hidden realm within us? Science is only just beginning to understand. NOVA joins the leading dream researchers and…
- Episode 8: What Darwin Never Knew Dec 29, 2009 · 55m NOVA takes viewers on a journey from the Galapagos Islands to the Arctic, and from the Cambrian explosion of animal forms half a billion years ago to the research labs of today. Here…
- Episode 9: Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor Jan 5, 2010 · 55m NOVA dives beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor to trace provocative new clues to one of the most tragic events of World War II -- the sinking of the USS Arizona.
- Episode 10: Building Pharaoh's Ship Jan 12, 2010 · 55m A magnificent trading vessel embarks on a royal expedition to a mysterious, treasure-laden land called Punt. Is this journey, intricately depicted on the wall of one of Egypt's most…
- Episode 11: Riddles of the Sphinx Jan 19, 2010 · 55m A team of archeologists carries out experiments that reveal the techniques and labor invested in the carving of the Sphinx. The team also unearths new discoveries about the people who…
- Episode 12: Ghosts of Machu Picchu Feb 2, 2010 · 55m NOVA joins a new generation of archeologists as they probe areas of Machu Picchu that haven’t been touched since the time of the Incas.
- Episode 13: Extreme Cave Diving Feb 9, 2010 · 55m "Extreme Cave Diving" follows a fearless team of scientists as they venture into blue holes—underwater caves that formed during the last ice age, when sea level was nearly 400 feet below…
- Episode 14: The Pluto Files Mar 2, 2010 · 55m When the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium stopped calling Pluto a planet, director Neil deGrasse Tyson found himself at the center of a firestorm led by angry…
- Episode 15: Hunting the Edge of Space: The Mystery of the Milky Way Apr 6, 2010 · 55m In a two-hour special, NOVA examines how a simple instrument, the telescope, has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the universe.
- Episode 16: Hunting the Edge of Space: The Ever Expanding Universe Apr 13, 2010 · 55m In a two-hour special, NOVA examines how a simple instrument, the telescope, has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the universe.
- Episode 17: Mind Over Money Apr 27, 2010 · 55m Exposes the mysterious and surprising nature of the two most powerful forces on the planet: the human mind and money. Using analysis and experiment, this film explores why economists…
- Episode 18: Mt. St. Helens Back From the Dead May 4, 2010 · 55m For 27 years, biologist Charlie Crisafulli has been documenting the dramatic return of plant and animal life to Mt. St. Helens after the 1980 eruption. / When Mount St. Helens erupted in…