NOVA - Season 14
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1987
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Countdown to the Invisible Universe
Season 14 - Episode 1
NOVA scans the universe with the infrared eye of IRAS—the Infrared Astronomical Satellite—and discovers never-before-seen comets, stars, gal...
Children of Eve
Season 14 - Episode 2
NOVA examines a controversial theory that traces our ancestry to a small group of women living in Africa 300,000 years ago.
Why Planes Crash
Season 14 - Episode 3
Between 60 and 80 percent of all commercial airplane accidents are attributable to pilot error. NOVA looks at some shocking instances of pil...
Orangutans of the Rain Forest
Season 14 - Episode 4
NOVA cameras travel to Borneo, one of the last habitats of the wild orangutans, where scientists study the endangered ape. Who is observing ...
Freud Under Analysis
Season 14 - Episode 5
Fifty years after his death, the creator of psychoanalysis is still the subject of intense debate. Was Freud right or wrong? NOVA profiles t...
The Hole in the Sky
Season 14 - Episode 6
NOVA travels to Antarctica with an emergency scientific expedition to study a baffling "hole" in the Earth's protective ozone layer.
Confessions of a Weaponeer
Season 14 - Episode 7
Harvard chemist George Kistiakowsky was an anti-Bolshevik soldier in 1919 Russia, an atomic bomb scientist at Los Alamos, a presidential adv...
Great Moments from NOVA
Season 14 - Episode 8
NOVA presents two hours of the best from its 14 seasons of exciting science coverage. A "talking" chimp, an exploding volcano and a sight-an...
Will the World Starve?
Season 14 - Episode 9
All over the world, farmers are taking more from the soil than they return. NOVA reports on the soil crisis in world agriculture—a plight th...
The Desert Doesn't Bloom Here Anymore
Season 14 - Episode 10
In rich and poor countries alike, once-productive farms are turning to desert because of mismanagement of water resources. NOVA examines the...
Rocky Road to Jupiter
Season 14 - Episode 11
In a case study of the strengths and weaknesses of the United States space program, NOVA chronicles the ambitious and long-delayed Galileo m...
Death of a Star
Season 14 - Episode 12
Why do stars explode and how is the energy generated? What is the effect of all those little “aftermath” particles floating through space? N...
Spy Machines
Season 14 - Episode 13
On the 25th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, NOVA investigates the spy planes and satellites that played a critical role in history ...
Hidden Power of Plants
Season 14 - Episode 14
Plants produce some of the world's most potent chemicals in the fight against disease. NOVA follows the urgent efforts to track down new med...
Japan's American Genius
Season 14 - Episode 15
Is Detroit inventor Stanford Ovshinsky the new Thomas Edison? Japanese industries are betting that the genius behind amorphous materials-a s...
A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama
Season 14 - Episode 16
The Panama Canal opened in 1914 after a 30-year effort that dwarfed the building of the pyramids. Historian David McCullough navigates throu...
Volcano!
Season 14 - Episode 17
Millions live in the shadows of nature's ticking time-bombs—volcanos. NOVA accompanies scientists who are developing new techniques to predi...
How Good is Soviet Science?
Season 14 - Episode 18
Princeton professor and author Robert Mark tracks down the engineering secrets of some of the beautiful buildings in the world including Not...
Ancient Treasures from the Deep
Season 14 - Episode 19
NOVA joins underwater archaeologists as they explore the oldest shipwreck ever excavated, a richly-laden merchant vessel dating from the tim...
Riddle of the Joints
Season 14 - Episode 20
A trail of evidence leading from a medieval abbey to a small town in Connecticut sheds new light on rheumatoid arthritis, a crippling inflam...
Secrets of the Lost Red Paint People
Season 14 - Episode 21
NOVA follows archaeologists as they unearth clues, some 7,000 years old, about an unknown, mysterious and advanced sea-faring people who liv...