NOVA - Season 12
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 15 Jan 1985
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Edgerton and His Incredible Seeing Machines
Season 12 - Episode 1
NOVA explores the fascinating world of Dr. Harold Edgerton, electronics wizard and inventor extraordinaire, whose invention of the electroni...
Global Village
Season 12 - Episode 2
NOVA presents an in-depth look at India's attempt to use satellite technology to leapfrog into the era of space-age communication and whethe...
Conquest of the Parasites
Season 12 - Episode 3
NOVA examines the complex world of parasites, parasitic diseases and the exciting work currently being done by a new breed of medical resear...
In the Land of the Polar Bears
Season 12 - Episode 4
A rare look at the beautiful and desolate Wrangel Island-a Soviet possession 300 miles off the coast of Alaska-as seen through the eyes of S...
AIDS: Chapter One
Season 12 - Episode 5
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, is a deadly disease that has struck down some 2,000 people in the four years since its discove...
The Shape of Things
Season 12 - Episode 6
Sea shells, Crystals, Honeycombs, Eggs and seeds: They are shaped the way they are for a reason. NOVA takes viewers on a unique journey of d...
Baby Talk
Season 12 - Episode 7
It's a mystery just how children acquire language. Does the process begin in the womb? And which comes first, language or thought? NOVA expl...
The Mathematical Mystery Tour
Season 12 - Episode 8
Imagine a bottle with no inside or a number bigger than infinity or parallel lines that meet. Welcome to the world of pure mathematics. NOVA...
Child's Play: Prodigies and Possibilities
Season 12 - Episode 9
What do Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the painter Raphael and chess champion Bobby Fischer have in common? They were all child prodigies. NOVA ex...
Monarch of the Mountains
Season 12 - Episode 10
NOVA explores the breeding, migration and survival patterns of the Rocky Mountain elk in a unique film, made totally under natural condition...
The National Science Test II
Season 12 - Episode 11
In NOVA's special sequel to 1984's National Science Test, viewers can match wits with celebrity panelists David Attenborough, Michelle Johns...
Seeds of Tomorrow
Season 12 - Episode 12
NOVA examines worldwide efforts of scientists who employ aggressive agricultural technologies to ensure food for the future.
What Einstein Never Knew
Season 12 - Episode 13
Albert Einstein did not live to find the answer. NOVA follows a new generation of physicists in their search to explain the mystery of the u...
The Robot Revolution?
Season 12 - Episode 14
How are the computer and the robot affecting the way we work? NOVA chronicles the new industrial revolution reshaping the American workplace...
The Magic of Special Effects
Season 12 - Episode 15
NOVA cameras go behind-the-scenes to reveal the new art of illusion, Hollywood-style, focusing on three blockbuster films—Return of the Jedi...
Child Survival: The Silent Emergency
Season 12 - Episode 16
NOVA charts the progress of an ambitious worldwide health program established to save the lives of millions of children who continue to die ...
Tornado!
Season 12 - Episode 17
NOVA follows a chase team—a group of scientists who chart deadly Tornadoes—in an effort to learn more about predicting nature's most powerfu...
The Genetic Gamble
Season 12 - Episode 18
NOVA examines current research and its ethical implications as modern medicine confronts the era of human gene therapy.
Animal Architects
Season 12 - Episode 19
NOVA examines the intricate world of nature's construction industry and presents rare footage of unusual habits.
The Plane that Changed the World
Season 12 - Episode 20
NOVA joins the 50th anniversary celebration of the DC-3—the plane that revolutionized commercial air travel, served gallantly in World War I...