NOVA - Season 13
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1986
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Halley's Comet: Once in a Lifetime
Season 13 - Episode 1
NOVA observes worldwide preparations as amateur comet hunters, astronomers and scientists armed with specialized cameras, high powered teles...
Goddess of the Earth
Season 13 - Episode 2
Gaia, the Greek word for Earth goddess, also is the name of the controversial hypothesis that life on Earth controls the environment. NOVA e...
Horsemen of China
Season 13 - Episode 3
For centuries, the Chinese Kazakh horseman preserved their ancient traditions, refusing to be dominated by either the Chinese or nearby Russ...
Life's First Feelings
Season 13 - Episode 4
NOVA explores the incredibly complex emotional development of infants and examines the current theory that early childhood psychological int...
The Case of the Frozen Addict
Season 13 - Episode 5
In July 1982, a 42-year-old addict in a San Jose, California jail became paralyzed—unable to move or talk. His symptoms, caused by a bad bat...
Toxic Trials
Season 13 - Episode 6
When a high number of cancer cases struck the suburban community of Woburn, Massachusetts, the town mobilized to investigate why. The result...
Skydive to the Rain Forest
Season 13 - Episode 7
NOVA journeys to a remote region of southern Venezuela where the land is alive with spectacular waterfalls, colored by exotic flowers and in...
Return of the Osprey
Season 13 - Episode 8
NOVA follows a conservation success story as environmentalists, scientists and bird-lovers fight to save the majestic Osprey from extinction...
The Rise of a Wonder Drug
Season 13 - Episode 9
When Alexander Fleming discovered the penicillin mold in 1928, he never considered its possible therapeutic value. NOVA explores the "Flemin...
When Wonder Drugs Don't Work
Season 13 - Episode 10
NOVA examines the medical community's alarm as the spread of antibiotic-resistant infection increases, and studies how one hospital fights i...
Visions of Star Wars
Season 13 - Episode 11
NOVA and Frontline combine resources to explore the Strategic Defense Initiative. The two-hour documentary contains the most comprehensive i...
The Search for the Disappeared
Season 13 - Episode 12
NOVA joins scientists in Argentina as they help locate kidnapped children and identify thousands of dead in the aftermath of a military reig...
The Planet that Got Knocked on its Side
Season 13 - Episode 13
The adventures of the Voyager 2 spacecraft continue as it passes the rings of Uranus. Scientists suspect that violent events in the early hi...
High-Tech Babies
Season 13 - Episode 14
Scientific breakthroughs now make it possible to reproduce ourselves in ways never before imagined. NOVA looks at the medical, legal and mor...
Can AIDS Be Stopped?
Season 13 - Episode 15
What are the prospects for halting or curing the deadliest epidemic ever to challenge modern medicine? NOVA finds cause for both hope and al...
Is Anybody Out There?
Season 13 - Episode 16
Could there be life beyond Earth? Only recently has it become possible to scan the skies in a systematic attempt to find out. NOVA joins the...
Mystery of the Animal Pathfinders
Season 13 - Episode 17
Birds do it; bees do it, butterflies, bats and eels do it—all leave one habitat to migrate to another, often thousands of miles away. NOVA p...
Are You Swimming in a Sewer?
Season 13 - Episode 18
NOVA dips into the sad plight of our coastal waters, where toxic chemicals, raw sewage and disease-carrying microbes are routinely dumped.
Sail Wars!
Season 13 - Episode 19
Yankee ingenuity has designs on the America's Cup. NOVA goes behind-the-scenes to look at the engineering effort to design a technically adv...
Leprosy Can Be Cured!
Season 13 - Episode 20
Leprosy, a misunderstood disease that has been curable for 40 years, still afflicts some 12 million people. NOVA looks at the tragedy of the...
How Babies Get Made
Season 13 - Episode 21
NOVA explores the ground-breaking experiments that led to the discovery of a tiny sequence of molecules—and more clues to the mystery of how...