Video: NOVA
PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA programs demystify science and technology and highlight the people involved in scientific pursuits.
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NOVA | Wright Brothers' Flying Machine | PBS (#3015)
Full Program: Orville and Wilbur Wright were remarkable inventors, mechanics, risk-takers, and visionaries. They designed and built their own wings, steering devices, engines, and wind tunnel. But just how... 54:17
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NOVA | Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land | PBS (#3118)
Full Program: Armed with high-tech equipment and ingeniously improvised devices, NOVA and archaeologist Richard Freund embark on a fascinating detective story that may rewrite Holy Land history. 54:17
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NOVA | Life and Death in the War Zone | PBS (#3106)
Full Program: Treating patients with life-threatening injuries is always a challenge. Now imagine handling a medical emergency at the height of the Iraq War, beset by heat, sand, and frequent enemy attacks. 54:24
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NOVA | Hunt for the Supertwister | PBS (#3107)
Full Program: In seconds, a supertwister can leave immense swaths of death and destruction. But what if technology could help us tame nature's most violent tornadoes? 53:03
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NOVA | The Great Robot Race | PBS (#3308)
Full Program: Twenty-three bizarre looking vehicles line up at the gate of the DARPA Grand Challenge with one thing in common: there's nobody behind the wheel. 52:51
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NOVA | Welcome to Mars | PBS (#3201)
Full Program: Take an astounding look at the red planet in this interplanetary adventure that picks up where the acclaimed film MARS Dead or Alive left off. 54:13
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NOVA | Lost Treasures of Tibet | PBS (#3006)
Full Program: Mustang (moo-stahn), one of the last outposts of Tibetan culture, is so isolated and protected that no Westerner set foot inside its borders for centuries. But in the early 1990s, this untouched... 54:07
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NOVA | Battle of the X-Planes | PBS (#3004)
Full Program: NOVA goes behind the doors of Boeing's Phantom Works and Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works to record classified meetings, flies the most revolutionary planes, and examines the high-stakes battle to... 01:53:44
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NOVA | Extreme Ice | PBS
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/extremei... Remarkable time-lapse footage by James Balog, one of the world’s foremost nature photographers, reveals massive glaciers and ice sheets splitting apart,... 01:29
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NOVA | Astrospies | PBS (#3501)
Full Program: Millions remember the countdowns, launchings, splashdowns and parades as the US raced the USSR to the Moon in the 1960s, but few know that both superpowers also ran parallel covert space programs to... 53:13
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NOVA | Lord of the Ants | PBS (#3510)
Full Program: Every so often a giant emerges on the stage of science, someone who transcends the narrow boundaries of a particular line of research and alters our perspective on the world. EO Wilson is such a man. 52:53
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NOVA | Car of the Future | PBS (#3509)
Full Program: Tom Magliozzi has a problem. The wacky co-host of NPR's Car Talk needs to replace his beloved 1952 MG roadster. But where do you turn to in today's car market? Is new technology about to... 53:23
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NOVA | Cracking the Maya Code | PBS (#3508)
Full Program: The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind a riddle: an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script carved on stone monuments and painted on pottery and bark books. Because the... 52:49
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NOVA | Absolute Zero | PBS (#3504)
Full Program: What is cold? How do you achieve it, and how cold can it get? 01:43:24
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NOVA | Secrets of the Parthenon | PBS (#3503)
Full Program: How did the ancient Greeks design and build their masterpiece so quickly? 53:12
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NOVA | The Four-Winged Dinosaur | PBS (#3502)
Full Program: Long ago in the age of dinosaurs, a volcano in eastern China erupted and buried a host of strange creatures in ash, creating exquisite fossils that preserved a big surprise--many dinosaurs were... 53:19
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NOVA | Marathon Challenge | PBS (#3414)
Full Program: Every year thousands of athletes from across the globe flock to Boston to run the city's marathon, known worldwide as the ultimate test of stamina and endurance. But how do you run 26 miles if... 52:45
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NOVA | Rat Attack! | PBS (#3603)
Once every 48 years, bamboo forests in Northeast India go into flower, and black rats descend upon them, like a plague. 01:14
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NOVA | The Spy Factory | PBS
NOVA exposes the ultra-secret intelligence agency's role in the failure to stop the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent eavesdropping program that listens in without warrant on millions of American... 02:13
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NOVA | Put a Lid on It | PBS
Bill Nye, TV's "Science Guy," conducts a pasta-making experiment that can save you money. 02:39
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