NOVA - Season 39
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Wed, 7 Sept 2011
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Engineering Ground Zero
Season 39 - Episode 1
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, NOVA presents an epic story of engineering, innovation, and the perseverance of the human spiri...
Surviving the Tsunami
Season 39 - Episode 2
The earthquake that hit the northern coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, was recorded at magnitude 9.0 the worst ever recorded in Japan. It ge...
Finding Life Beyond Earth: Are We Alone?
Season 39 - Episode 3
Take a spectacular trip to distant realms of our solar system to discover where secret forms of life may lie hidden. Combining the latest te...
Iceman Murder Mystery
Season 39 - Episode 4
He’s been dead for more than 5,000 years and poked, prodded, and probed by scientists for the last 20. Yet Ötzi the Iceman, the famous mummi...
The Fabric of the Cosmos: What is Space?
Season 39 - Episode 5
Space. It separates you from me, one galaxy from the next, and atoms from each other. It is everywhere in the universe. But to most of us, s...
The Fabric of the Cosmos: The Illusion of Time
Season 39 - Episode 6
Time. We waste it, save it, kill it, make it. The world runs on it. Yet, ask physicists what time actually is, and the answer might shock yo...
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Quantum Leap
Season 39 - Episode 7
Join Brian Greene on a wild ride into the weird realm of quantum physics, which governs the universe on the tiniest of scales. Brian brings ...
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Universe or Multiverse?
Season 39 - Episode 8
Hard as it is to swallow, cutting-edge theories are suggesting that our universe may not be the only universe. Instead, it may be just one o...
Deadliest Volcanoes
Season 39 - Episode 9
Millions of people around the world live in the shadow of active volcanoes. Under constant threat of massive volcanic eruptions, their homes...
Bombing Hitler's Dams
Season 39 - Episode 10
In 1943 a squadron of Lancaster bombers staged one of the most audacious raids in military history: destroying two gigantic dams in Germany’...
3D Spies of WWII
Season 39 - Episode 11
During World War II, Hitler’s scientists developed terrifying new weapons of mass destruction. Alarmed by rumors of advanced rockets and mis...
Mystery of a Masterpiece
Season 39 - Episode 12
In October 2007, a striking portrait of a young woman in Renaissance dress made world news headlines. Originally sold nine years before for ...
Ice Age Death Trap
Season 39 - Episode 13
In a race against developers in the Rocky Mountains, archeologists uncover a unique fossil site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bon...
Separating Twins
Season 39 - Episode 14
This is the incredible story of Trishna and Krishna, twin girls born joined at the head. Abandoned shortly after birth at an orphanage in Ba...
Cracking Your Genetic Code
Season 39 - Episode 15
What will it mean when most of us can afford to have the information in our DNA—all three billion chemical letters of it—read, stored, and a...
Hunting the Elements
Season 39 - Episode 16
Where do nature’s building blocks, called the elements, come from? They’re the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbo...
Deadliest Tornadoes
Season 39 - Episode 17
In April 2011, the worst tornado outbreak in decades left a trail of destruction across the U.S., killing more than 360 people. Why was ther...
Why Ships Sink
Season 39 - Episode 18
Twenty million passengers embark on cruises each year, vacationing in deluxe "floating cities" that offer everything from swimming pools to ...
Secrets of the Sun
Season 39 - Episode 19
It contains 99.9 percent of all the matter in our solar system and sheds hot plasma at nearly a million miles an hour. The temperature at it...