NOVA - Season 41
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Wed, 11 Sept 2013
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Ground Zero Supertower
Season 41 - Episode 1
NOVA kicks off the fall season with a return to Ground Zero to witness the final chapter in an epic story of engineering, innovation, and th...
Megastorm Aftermath
Season 41 - Episode 2
In October 2012, superstorm Sandy cut a path of devastation across the Caribbean and the East Coast, killing hundreds and doing tens of bill...
Making Stuff Faster
Season 41 - Episode 3
Ever since humans stood on two feet we have had the basic urge to go faster. But are there physical limits to how fast we can go? David Pogu...
Making Stuff Wilder
Season 41 - Episode 4
What happens when scientists open up nature's toolbox? In "Making Stuff Wilder," David Pogue explores bold new innovations inspired by the E...
Making Stuff Colder
Season 41 - Episode 5
Cold is the new hot in this brave new world. For centuries we've fought it, shunned it, and huddled against it. Cold has always been the ene...
Making Stuff Safer
Season 41 - Episode 6
The world has always been a dangerous place, so how do we increase our odds of survival? In "Making Stuff Safer," David Pogue explores the c...
Cold Case JFK
Season 41 - Episode 7
For decades, the assassination of John F. Kennedy has fueled dark rumors of conspiracies and mishandled evidence. Now, fifty years later, NO...
At the Edge of Space
Season 41 - Episode 8
Between the blue sky above and the infinite blackness beyond lies a frontier that scientists have only just begun to investigate. In "At the...
Asteroid: Doomsday or Payday?
Season 41 - Episode 9
The asteroid that exploded over Siberia—injuring more than 1,000 and damaging buildings in six cities—was a shocking reminder that Earth is ...
Alien Planets Revealed
Season 41 - Episode 10
It’s a golden age for planet hunters: NASA's Kepler mission has identified more than 3,500 potential planets orbiting stars beyond our Sun. ...
Zeppelin Terror Attack
Season 41 - Episode 11
NOVA investigates the technology behind the World War One Zeppelin bombing campaigns, both the airships themselves and the weapons used to t...
Killer Typhoon
Season 41 - Episode 12
It was the strongest cyclone to hit land in recorded history. On November 8, 2013, Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines, whipping the...
Ghosts of Murdered Kings
Season 41 - Episode 13
In the rolling hills of Ireland's County Tipperary, a laborer harvesting peat from a dried-up bog spots the remnants of a corpse and stops h...
Roman Catacomb Mystery
Season 41 - Episode 14
Beneath the streets of Rome lies a city of the dead known as the Catacombs—a labyrinth of tunnels, hundreds of miles long, lined with the ne...
Great Cathedral Mystery
Season 41 - Episode 15
The dome that crowns Florence’s great cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore—the Duomo—is a towering masterpiece of Renaissance ingenuity and an...
Wild Predator Invasion
Season 41 - Episode 16
Over the last few centuries we have shot, trapped, and skinned the predators that formerly thrived at the top of the food chain in the wild....
Inside Animal Minds: Bird Genius
Season 41 - Episode 17
When it comes to intelligence, we humans are clearly the most gifted animals around. But what make us so special? Is it our ability to make ...
Inside Animal Minds: Dogs & Super Senses
Season 41 - Episode 18
What is it like to be a dog, a shark, or a bird? Long the subject of human daydreams, this question is now getting serious attention from sc...
Inside Animal Minds: Who's the Smartest?
Season 41 - Episode 19
What makes an animal smart? What forces of evolution drive brains to become more complex? Many scientists believe the secret lies in our rel...
Why Sharks Attack
Season 41 - Episode 20
In recent years, an unusual spate of deadly shark attacks has gripped Australia, resulting in five deaths in ten months. At the same time, g...
Escape From Nazi Alcatraz
Season 41 - Episode 21
Colditz Castle, a notorious prisoner of war camp in Nazi Germany, was supposed to be escape-proof. But in the dark days at the end of World ...
D-Day's Sunken Secrets
Season 41 - Episode 22
On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched the biggest armada in history to invade the Normandy beaches and liberate Europe from the Nazis. In les...