NOVA - Season 30
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 3 Sept 2002
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Killer Disease on Campus
Season 30 - Episode 1
Doctors combat the deadliest for of meningitis which strikes young people out of the blue.
Mysterious Life of Caves
Season 30 - Episode 2
Toxic caverns teaming with strange life-forms spark a brand new theory about how caves form.
Lost Roman Treasure
Season 30 - Episode 3
Experts rescue pricess mosaics from an ancient city that is about to disapear beneath a resivoir.
Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
Season 30 - Episode 4
In this two-hour special, NOVA celebrates the story of the father of modern science and his struggle to get Church authorities to accept the...
Volcano's Deadly Warning
Season 30 - Episode 5
In January 1993, six scientists and three hikers were scalded and crushed to death when they ventured into the smoking mouth of the active v...
Sinking City of Venice
Season 30 - Episode 6
Experts struggle to save the City of Canals before it vanishes beneath the waves.
The Orchid Hunter
Season 30 - Episode 7
For nine months in 2000, Tom Hart Dyke was a captive of guerrillas who seized him while he was collecting wild orchids in the Colombian rain...
Spies That Fly
Season 30 - Episode 8
The air war in Afghanistan showed that sometimes the hottest pilots are sitting on the ground operating the remote controls of UAVs—or unman...
Last Flight of Bomber 31
Season 30 - Episode 9
On March 25, 1944, a U.S. Navy bomber disappeared into the fog over the Bering Sea heading for a Japanese target. Fifty-five years later it ...
Ancient Creature of the Deep
Season 30 - Episode 10
NOVA chronicles the discovery of a "living fossil," a fish called the coelacanth that has remained relatively unchanged since prehistoric ti...
Battle of the X-Planes
Season 30 - Episode 11
A behind the scenes look at the competition to build the Joint Strike Fighter. Cameras follow engineering teams from Boeing and Lockheed Mar...
Mountain of Ice
Season 30 - Episode 12
In this high-altitude adventure, Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air, world-class mountaineer Conrad Anker, and their team of climbers, sc...
Lost Treasures of Tibet
Season 30 - Episode 13
Before Leonardo da Vinci painted "The Last Supper," Tibetan craftsmen were creating stunning artistry of their deities in the remote Himalay...
Dirty Bomb
Season 30 - Episode 14
"Dirty Bomb" probes the realities and implications for public health policy of a disaster that many consider to be all but inevitable: a ter...
Deep Sea Invasion
Season 30 - Episode 15
In 1989 marine biologist Alexandre Meinesz went diving off southern France and was stunned by what he saw: a dense blanket of waving green f...
Secret of Photo 51
Season 30 - Episode 16
On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, the molecul...