NOVA - Season 35
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Secrets of the Samurai Sword
Season 35 - Episode 1
English archers had their longbows, Old West sheriffs had their six-guns, but Japan’s samurai warriors had the most fearsome weapon of all: ...
Ghost in Your Genes
Season 35 - Episode 2
Experts investigate how a mysterious "second genome" helps determine our biological fates.
Marathon Challenge
Season 35 - Episode 3
Can anyone run a marathon? How do you run 26.2 miles if you have trouble making it around the block? With good coaching, discipline, and lot...
Sputnik Declassified
Season 35 - Episode 4
On October 4, 1957, the Space Age dawned with the red hue of the Communist flag when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellit...
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
Season 35 - Episode 5
Using courtroom reenactments based on transcripts and interviews with those present, NOVA looks at the events of the federal case of Kitzmil...
Master of the Killer Ants
Season 35 - Episode 6
The Mofu people of northern Cameroon have a close relationship with insects, in particular, the red driver ants which they use to combat ter...
Missing in MiG Alley
Season 35 - Episode 7
In the early 1950s, epic battles unfolded in the skies over North Korea as American and Russian fighters faced off in history's first jet wa...
Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold
Season 35 - Episode 8
Our mastery of cold is something we take for granted, whether it s air conditioning and frozen food or the liquefied gases and superconducti...
Absolute Zero: The Race for Absolute Zero
Season 35 - Episode 9
Our mastery of cold is something we take for granted, whether it s air conditioning and frozen food or the liquefied gases and superconducti...
Secrets of the Parthenon
Season 35 - Episode 10
For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, almost destroyed by explosio...
Astrospies
Season 35 - Episode 11
Millions remember the countdowns, launchings, splashdowns, and parades as the U.S. raced the USSR to the moon in the 1960s. But few know tha...
Ape Genius
Season 35 - Episode 12
At a research site in Fongoli, Senegal, a female chimpanzee breaks off a branch, chews the end to make it sharp, and then uses this rudime...
The Four Winged Dinosaur
Season 35 - Episode 13
A look at the 2002 discovery of a four-winged crow-sized dinosaur fossil dubbed Microraptor, which has rekindled the scientific debate over ...
Cracking the Maya Code
Season 35 - Episode 14
The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script, carved on monuments, painted o...
Car of the Future
Season 35 - Episode 15
Tom and Ray Magliozzi of NPR's Car Talk, explore new technologies and ideas for the future of automobiles.
A Walk to Beautiful
Season 35 - Episode 16
In this award-winning documentary, a difficult journey that begins in hopelessness and shame for thousands of women in Ethiopia ends in a pr...
Lord of the Ants
Season 35 - Episode 17
At age 78, E.O. Wilson is still going through his "little savage" phase of boyhood exploration of the natural world. In "Lord of the Ants," ...