Episode guide
NOVA: Season 50
18 episodes · premiered Feb 1, 2023
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- Episode 1: London Super Tunnel Feb 1, 2023 · 54m Thousands of engineers, technicians and workers race to build Europe’s biggest construction project–London’s new railroad, the Elizabeth Line.
- Episode 2: Star Chasers of Senegal Feb 8, 2023 · 54m A NASA spacecraft named Lucy blasts off from Cape Canaveral on a mission to the Trojans, a group of asteroids over 400 million miles from Earth thought to hold important clues about the…
- Episode 3: Ancient Builders of the Amazon Feb 15, 2023 · 54m Recent discoveries in archaeology are exploding the myth of the Amazon as a primeval wilderness, revealing traces of ancient civilizations that flourished for centuries, with populations…
- Episode 4: New Eye on the Universe Feb 22, 2023 · 54m Join scientists as they use NASA’s brand new James Webb Space Telescope to peer deep in time to hunt for the first stars and galaxies in our universe, and try to detect the fingerprints of…
- Episode 5: Weathering the Future Apr 12, 2023 · 54m It’s hard not to notice: our weather is changing. From longer, hotter heat waves, to more intense rainstorms, to megafires and multi-year droughts, the U.S. is experiencing the full range…
- Episode 6: Chasing Carbon Zero Apr 26, 2023 · 54m The U.S. recently set an ambitious climate change goal: zero carbon emissions by 2050. And to achieve that, slash emissions in half by 2030. Is it possible? And what kind of technology…
- Episode 7: Saving the Right Whale May 3, 2023 · 54m North Atlantic right whales are among the planet’s most critically endangered large ocean mammals. With fewer than 350 remaining as of 2023, they could be extinct within 20 years. But…
- Episode 8: Hidden Volcano Abyss May 10, 2023 · 53m In January 2022, one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history rocked the Pacific islands of Tonga, sending shockwaves around the world. Through first-person accounts of…
- Episode 9: Your Brain: Perception Deception (1) May 17, 2023 · 54m Is what you see real? Join neuroscientist Heather Berlin on a quest to understand how your brain shapes your reality, and why you can’t always trust what you perceive. In the first hour of…
- Episode 10: Your Brain: Who's in Control? (2) May 24, 2023 · 54m Are you in control, or is your brain controlling you? Dive into the latest research on the subconscious with neuroscientist Heather Berlin. Sleepwalking, anesthesia, game theory, and more…
- Episode 11: Ancient Earth: Birth of the Sky Oct 4, 2023 · 54m Today, Earth is enveloped by a thin veil of gas, a narrow band of atmosphere that protects a world covered in lush green vegetation, deep blue oceans, and abundant life. But 4.5 billion…
- Episode 12: Ancient Earth: Frozen Oct 11, 2023 · 54m 700 million years ago, Earth was a giant snowball cloaked in ice from pole to pole—a global deep freeze that held the planet in a stranglehold, threatening the survival of the earliest…
- Episode 13: Ancient Earth: Life Rising Oct 18, 2023 · 54m For billions of years, life teemed in the oceans of planet Earth while the land was desolate and inhospitable. So how did life make the leap to land? Scientists explore how some of the…
- Episode 14: Ancient Earth: Inferno Oct 25, 2023 · 54m 252 million years ago, the most devastating mass extinction of all time abruptly wiped out around 90% of all species on Earth. The culprits were the biggest volcanic eruptions the world…
- Episode 15: Ancient Earth: Humans Nov 1, 2023 · 53m The story of Earth can only be told because now, 4.5 billion years into its existence, a technological and self-aware animal species roams its surface, able to study the very planet that…
- Episode 16: Inside China's Tech Boom Nov 8, 2023 · 53m In the span of just a few decades, China has transformed into a science and technology superpower. But how did it get here and where is it headed? Take an insider’s tour of high-profile…
- Episode 17: The Battle to Beat Malaria Nov 15, 2023 · 54m Malaria is one of humanity’s oldest and most devastating plagues. In many parts of the world, it remains an ever-present scourge that sickens or kills millions of people each year. What if…
- Episode 18: Lee and Liza's Family Tree Nov 22, 2023 · 54m Many descendants of enslaved people have little record of their family's ancestry. Follow one family's quest to discover their lost history, and see how science and genealogy can help…