NOVA - Season 18
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 8 Jan 1991
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Return to Mt. St. Helens
Season 18 - Episode 1
NOVA returns to Mount St. Helens a decade after its cataclysmic eruption to learn how nature is recovering from the disaster.
ConFusion in a Jar
Season 18 - Episode 2
An experiment that could mean limitless supplies of energy sets the scientific world on its head. NOVA covers the cold fusion controversy.
The Hunt for China's Dinosaurs (1)
Season 18 - Episode 3
NOVA covers the most elaborate expedition ever undertaken in the search for dinosaurs—to China's Gobi desert. Paleontologists brave sandstor...
Case of the Flying Dinosaur
Season 18 - Episode 4
Are dinosaurs still among us? NOVA looks at the contentious question of whether present-day birds are dinosaurs. Over the years, new fossil ...
T. rex Exposed
Season 18 - Episode 5
Tyrannosaurus rex, the terrifying kind of the dinos, recently turned up in a nearly complete skeleton in Montana. NOVA follows the dig to ex...
The Russian Right Stuff: The Invisible Spaceman
Season 18 - Episode 6
In the first program of a three-part miniseries on the Soviet space program, NOVA profiles the mysterious genius behind the world's first sa...
The Russian Right Stuff: The Dark Side of the Moon
Season 18 - Episode 7
NOVA reveals the details of Moscow's secret plan to reach the moon ahead of the Americans. Was Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind" alm...
The Russian Right Stuff: The Mission
Season 18 - Episode 8
In an unprecedented insider's look, NOVA covers the training, flight and recovery of a cosmonaut crew that visits the Soviet space station M...
Swimming With Whales
Season 18 - Episode 9
Gregory Peck narrates a scientific voyage around Vancouver Island in search of whales. Humpbacks, Killers, Grays and other whale species mak...
The Chip vs. the Chess Master
Season 18 - Episode 10
Will machines be able to beat us at our own game? The computer chess champ matches wits with the human world titleholder.
Sex, Lies and Toupee Tape
Season 18 - Episode 11
NOVA covers the causes and attempted cures of baldness. Some men take pride in their bald heads; others will go to great lengths to cover up...
So You Want to Be a Doctor?
Season 18 - Episode 12
In a two-hour special, NOVA follows seven aspiring doctors through four years of medical school. The first examination, the anatomy lab, the...
Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Season 18 - Episode 13
Forty years after they were discovered, the Dead Sea Scrolls have yet to be published in their entirety. NOVA looks at the laborious-some sa...
Suicide Mission to Chernobyl
Season 18 - Episode 14
NOVA accompanies Soviet scientists on a deadly mission inside the sarcophagus-the massive structure that entombs the Chernobyl nuclear react...
Taller Than Everest?
Season 18 - Episode 15
The tallest mountain in the world? Think again—cartographers had to when satellite date revealed a peak called "K2" might be the real champ....
Fastest Planes in the Sky
Season 18 - Episode 16
The fastest machines in the sky are going to be slow stuff when the latest speed demons on the drawing board take to the air. NOVA looks at ...
Avoiding the Surgeon's Knife
Season 18 - Episode 17
NOVA follows the efforts of four participants in a celebrated California study to unblock arteries without using drugs or surgery before the...
Skyscraper! A NOVA Special
Season 18 - Episode 18
This 80-minute NOVA pledge special chronicles the building of the Worldwide Plaza, 47-story office tower in midtown Manhattan, from a hole i...
The Fine Art of Faking It
Season 18 - Episode 19
The spectacular eclipse of 1991 passed over major observatories on the island of Hawaii. NOVA was there for 6 1/2 minutes of frenetic resear...