NOVA - Season 42
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Wed, 10 Sept 2014
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Vaccines Calling the Shots
Season 42 - Episode 1
Diseases that were largely eradicated in the United States a generation ago—whooping cough, measles, mumps—are returning, in part because ne...
Rise of the Hackers
Season 42 - Episode 2
NOVA goes behind the scenes of the fast-paced world of cryptography to meet the scientists battling to keep our data safe. They are experts ...
Why Planes Vanish
Season 42 - Episode 3
NOVA tells the inside story of the search for Flight MH370 and meets the key players, from all corners of the globe, who have spent months s...
Surviving Ebola
Season 42 - Episode 4
As the Ebola epidemic threatens to spiral out of control, NOVA reports from the hot zone, where courageous medical teams struggle to cope wi...
Ben Franklin's Balloons
Season 42 - Episode 5
NOVA re-creates key flights, including the world’s first manned voyage on November 21, 1783. A descendant of the Montgolfier brothers, whose...
First Air War
Season 42 - Episode 6
When World War I began in 1914, the air forces of the opposing nations consisted of handfuls of rickety biplanes from which pilots occasiona...
Bigger Than T. rex
Season 42 - Episode 7
Follow the paleontologists who are reconstructing this terrifying carnivore, a 53-foot-long behemoth with a huge dorsal sail, scimitar-like ...
Emperor’s Ghost Army
Season 42 - Episode 8
To defend himself in the afterlife, the First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, was buried in a vast mausoleum accompanied by around 9,000 li...
Killer Landslides
Season 42 - Episode 9
In less than two minutes in March, a one-square-mile field of debris slammed into the Washington state community of Oso, killing 41 and dest...
First Man on the Moon
Season 42 - Episode 10
When Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, he won instant fame. Yet this accomplished engineer and test pilot was so determined to stay out o...
Big Bang Machine
Season 42 - Episode 11
On July 4, 2012, scientists at the giant atom smashing facility at CERN announced the discovery of a subatomic particle that seems like a ta...
Sunken Ship Rescue
Season 42 - Episode 12
Follow the epic operation to secure, raise, and salvage the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which ran aground and tragically capsized off the c...
Sinkholes—Buried Alive
Season 42 - Episode 13
These geological hazards have swallowed highways, apartment buildings, horses, camels, even golfers, with monster-size holes cracking the ea...
Colosseum: Roman Death Trap
Season 42 - Episode 14
One of the ancient world's most iconic buildings, the Colosseum is a monument to Roman imperial power and cruelty. Its graceful lines and ha...
Petra: Lost City of Stone
Season 42 - Episode 15
In a daring experiment, an archaeologist and sculptors team up to carve an iconic temple-tomb to find out how the ancient people of Petra bu...
Hagia Sophia: Istanbul’s Ancient Mystery
Season 42 - Episode 16
Whether serving as Christian church, Islamic mosque, or secular museum, Hagia Sophia and its saring dome have inspired reverence and awe. Fo...
The Great Math Mystery
Season 42 - Episode 17
Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour—a provocative exploration of math's astonishing power across the centuries. We discover math's sign...
Invisible Universe Revealed
Season 42 - Episode 18
Twenty-five years ago, NASA launched one of the most ambitious experiments in the history of astronomy: the Hubble Space Telescope. In honor...
Nazi Attack on America
Season 42 - Episode 19
Long before 9/11, a far deadlier, little-known attack from the ocean depths struck our shores, lasting three-and-a-half years and claiming 5...
Lethal Seas
Season 42 - Episode 20
Sharply rising carbon emissions are entering Earth's seas at a staggering rate, raising their acidity. Learn how scientists are researching ...
Chasing Pluto
Season 42 - Episode 21
On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft, one of the most advanced ever built, is scheduled to fly by Pluto to take the very first deta...
Nuclear Meltdown Disaster
Season 42 - Episode 22
NOVA reveals the minute-by-minute story of the Fukushima nuclear crisis—the one you know about, and the one you likely don’t: the perilously...