NOVA - Season 36
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Arctic Dinosaurs
Season 36 - Episode 1
Most people imagine dinosaurs lurking in warm locales with swamps and jungles, dining on vegetation and each other. But "Arctic Dinosaurs" r...
Space Shuttle Disaster
Season 36 - Episode 2
At the end of a nearly flawless 15-day mission in early 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmospher...
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
Season 36 - Episode 3
Join Mark Everett on his quixotic quest to understand his father Hugh, creator of a radical theory of quantum physics.
Hunting The Hidden Dimension
Season 36 - Episode 4
Fractals are more than just pretty pictures. These simple but sophisticated equations describe the world we live in, from forest growth patt...
Alien From Earth
Season 36 - Episode 5
The 2004 discovery of tiny human fossil bones on the island of Flores, Indonesia, raised new—and controversial—speculation about the history...
The Bible's Buried Secrets
Season 36 - Episode 6
An archeological detective story tackling some of the biggest questions in biblical studies: Where did the ancient Israelites come from? Who...
Ocean Animal Emergency
Season 36 - Episode 7
NOVA takes you inside a very special ER to witness the efforts of wildlife veterinarians as they fight to save their animal patients as well...
Is There Life On Mars?
Season 36 - Episode 8
After four decades of fly-by probes, orbiters, landers, and rovers, the quest for life on Mars is as tantalizing as ever. NOVA goes behind t...
The Big Energy Gamble
Season 36 - Episode 9
As Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger launches a dramatic and controversial program to slash carbon dioxide emissions and promote...
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
Season 36 - Episode 10
Orange-and-black wings fill the sky as NOVA charts one of nature's most remarkable phenomena: the epic migration of monarch butterflies acro...
The Spy Factory
Season 36 - Episode 11
In this program, an eye-opening documentary on the National Security Agency by best-selling author James Bamford and Emmy Award-winning prod...
Rat Attack
Season 36 - Episode 12
Once every 48 years, bamboo forests in parts of northeast India go into exuberant flower. Then, like clockwork, the flowering is invariably ...
Extreme Ice
Season 36 - Episode 13
In collaboration with National Geographic, NOVA follows the exploits of acclaimed photojournalist James Balog and a scientific team as they ...
Last Extinction
Season 36 - Episode 14
An examination over whether a comet struck the Great Lakes region 12,900 years ago, and whether it caused the extinction of such mega-creatu...
Doctors' Diaries Pt.1
Season 36 - Episode 15
In 1987, NOVA's cameras began rolling to chronicle the lives of seven young, bright medical students embarking on the longest and most rigor...
Doctors' Diaries Pt.2
Season 36 - Episode 16
In 1987, NOVA's cameras began rolling to chronicle the lives of seven young, bright medical students embarking on the longest and most rigor...
Musical Minds
Season 36 - Episode 17
An exploration of the effect of music on the brain via four case studies from neurologist Oliver Sacks book "Musicopia" and the MRI visualiz...