NOVA - Season 38
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Building the Great Cathedrals
Season 38 - Episode 1
Take a dazzling architectural journey inside those majestic marvels of Gothic architecture, the great cathedrals of Chartres, Beauvais and o...
Emergency Mine Rescue
Season 38 - Episode 2
This one-hour film chronicles the fate of the 33 miners trapped in a collapsed Chilean gold and copper mine in August 2010 and investigates ...
Trapped in an Elevator
Season 38 - Episode 3
A documentary examining the ubiquitous transportation device as used in modern day and features a recounting of a real-life horror story of ...
Dogs Decoded
Season 38 - Episode 4
"Dogs Decoded" reveals the science behind the remarkable bond between humans and their dogs and investigates new discoveries in genetics tha...
Secrets of Stonehenge
Season 38 - Episode 5
Dated to the late Stone Age, Stonehenge may be the best-known and most mysterious relic of prehistory. Every year, a million visitors are dr...
Quest for Solomon's Mines
Season 38 - Episode 6
Countless treasure-seekers have set off in search of King Solomon's mines, trekking through burning deserts and scaling the forbidding mount...
Secrets Beneath the Ice
Season 38 - Episode 7
Almost three miles of ice buries most of Antarctica, cloaking a continent half again as large as the United States. But when an Antarctic ic...
Deadliest Earthquakes
Season 38 - Episode 8
In 2010, several epic earthquakes delivered one of the worst annual death tolls ever recorded. The deadliest strike, in Haiti, killed more t...
Making Stuff: Stronger
Season 38 - Episode 9
What is the strongest material in the world? Is it steel, Kevlar, carbon nanotubes, or something entirely new? NOVA kicks off the four-part ...
Making Stuff: Smaller
Season 38 - Episode 10
How small can we go? Could we one day have robots taking "fantastic voyages" in our bodies to kill rogue cells? The triumphs of tiny are see...
Making Stuff: Cleaner
Season 38 - Episode 11
Can innovations in materials science help clean up our world? In "Making Stuff: Cleaner," David Pogue explores the rapidly developing scienc...
Making Stuff: Smarter
Season 38 - Episode 12
"Making Stuff: Smarter" looks at materials that respond to their environments and even learn, such as an airplane wing that changes shape as...
Smartest Machine on Earth
Season 38 - Episode 13
Augmenting human intelligence is a lot tougher than it looks, and the promise of "Hal" from 2001: A Space Odyssey is still just a fantasy. B...
Crash of Flight 447
Season 38 - Episode 14
On June 1, 2009, Flight AF447, an Air France Airbus A330 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean with the l...
Venom: Nature's Killer
Season 38 - Episode 15
Over the millennia, thousands of creatures have developed that most sophisticated of biological and chemical weapons: venom. These complex c...
Japan's Killer Quake
Season 38 - Episode 16
In its worst crisis since World War II, Japan faces disaster on an epic scale: a death toll likely in the tens of thousands, massive destruc...
Power Surge
Season 38 - Episode 17
Can emerging technology defeat global warming? The United States has invested tens of billions of dollars in clean energy projects as our le...
How Smart Are Animals?
Season 38 - Episode 18
Would you care to match wits with a dog, an octopus, a dolphin, or a parrot? You may think twice after watching the segments in this NOVA sc...