NOVA - Season 40
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Secrets of the Viking Sword
Season 40 - Episode 1
The Vikings were among the fiercest warriors of all time. Yet only a select few carried the ultimate weapon of their era: the feared Ulfberh...
Forensics on Trial
Season 40 - Episode 2
There is a startling gap between the glamorous television world of “CSI” and the gritty reality of the forensic crime lab. With few establis...
Mystery of Easter Island
Season 40 - Episode 3
A remote, bleak speck of rock in the middle of the Pacific, Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, has mystified the world ever since the first Europea...
Ultimate Mars Challenge
Season 40 - Episode 4
Why go back to Mars? Far from dead, Mars holds untold potential. Nearly half a century of Mars exploration has yielded tantalizing clues tha...
Inside the Megastorm
Season 40 - Episode 5
Was Hurricane Sandy a freak combination of weather systems? Or are hurricanes increasing in intensity due to a warming climate? How did this...
Doomsday Volcanoes
Season 40 - Episode 6
In April, 2010 the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano turned much of Europe into an ash-strewn no-fly zone, stranding millions o...
Decoding Neanderthals
Season 40 - Episode 7
Examining evidence about Neanderthals that sheds light on the hominids, which died off some 30,000 years ago. Included: geneticist Svante Pä...
Rise of the Drones
Season 40 - Episode 8
Drones. These unmanned flying robots–some as large as jumbo jets, others as small as birds–do things straight out of science fiction. Much o...
Who Killed Lindbergh's Baby?
Season 40 - Episode 9
In the aftermath of his 1927 solo transatlantic flight, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh–the Lone Eagle–became the most famous human being...
Building Pharaoh's Chariot
Season 40 - Episode 10
3,600-year-old reliefs in Egyptian tombs and temples depict pharaohs and warriors proudly riding into battle on horse-drawn chariots. Some h...
Earth From Space
Season 40 - Episode 11
"Earth From Space" is a groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensi...
Mind of a Rampage Killer
Season 40 - Episode 12
What makes a person walk into a theater or a church or a classroom full of students and open fire? What combination of circumstances compels...
Meteor Strike
Season 40 - Episode 13
On February 15, 2013, a 7,000-ton asteroid crashed into the Earth's atmosphere over Russia with the power of 30 Hiroshima bombs. Within days...
Ancient Computer
Season 40 - Episode 14
In 1900, Greek sponge divers discovered a 2,000 year-old shipwreck containing a geared bronze mechanism whose workings have puzzled scientis...
Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Awakening
Season 40 - Episode 15
Hidden in the red hills of western Australia are clues to the mysteries of when the Earth was born, how life first arose, and how it transfo...
Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Life Explodes
Season 40 - Episode 16
How did life storm the beaches and dominate planet Earth? Ancient Australian fossils offer clues in "Life Explodes." Half a billion years ag...
Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Monsters
Season 40 - Episode 17
"Monsters" begins Down Under at the dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs. Host Richard Smith comes face-to-face with the previously unknown reptilia...
Australia's First 4 Billion Years: Strange Creatures
Season 40 - Episode 18
In the wake of the catastrophic asteroid impact believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs, Australia was set adrift on a lonely voyage across...
Manhunt - Boston Bombers
Season 40 - Episode 19
NOVA follows the manhunt for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombers examining the role modern technology played in the case.
Oklahoma's Deadliest Tornadoes
Season 40 - Episode 20
On May 20, 2013, a ferocious EF5 tornado over a mile wide tore through Moore, Oklahoma, inflicting 24 deaths and obliterating entire neighbo...