NOVA - Season 48
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Secrets in Our DNA
Season 48 - Episode 1
The value of DNA testing and the risks of entrusting this private data to commercial enterprises and online databases.
Beyond the Elements: Reactions
Season 48 - Episode 2
Just about every solid, liquid, or gas in the world as we know it begins with reactions between individual atoms and molecules. Host David P...
Beyond the Elements: Indestructible
Season 48 - Episode 3
Women make up less than a quarter of STEM professionals in the United States, and numbers are even lower for women of color. But a growing g...
Beyond the Elements: Life
Season 48 - Episode 4
Without the chemistry of photosynthesis, ozone, and a molecule called Rubisco, none of us would be here. So how did we get so lucky? To find...
Looking for Life on Mars
Season 48 - Episode 5
NASA launches its most ambitious hunt for traces of life on Mars, landing a car-sized rover in a rocky, ancient river delta. The rover will ...
Picture a Scientist/ Search Engine Breakdown
Season 48 - Episode 6
Women make up less than a quarter of STEM professionals in the United States, and numbers are even lower for women of color. But a growing g...
Reef Rescue
Season 48 - Episode 7
Coral reefs are not just beautiful, they are also home to over a quarter of all marine life and are crucial to human societies around the gl...
Fighting for Fertility
Season 48 - Episode 8
What causes infertility, and how can assisted reproductive technologies help? Follow the journeys of people navigating fertility challenges ...
Hindenburg: The New Evidence
Season 48 - Episode 9
80 years after the world’s largest airship ignited in a giant fireball, newly discovered footage sparks a reinvestigation of what exactly ca...
Great Electric Airplane Race
Season 48 - Episode 10
Can new emission-free electric planes replace our polluting airliners and revolutionize personal transportation in our cities? NOVA takes yo...
Ship That Changed the World
Season 48 - Episode 11
Five centuries ago, the Age of Exploration and Europe’s imperial colonization of far-off lands was launched by a revolution in ship design t...
Bat Superpowers
Season 48 - Episode 12
Bats have been implicated in deadly epidemics such as COVID-19 and Ebola, yet scientists are discovering evidence that they may hold a key t...
The Cannabis Question
Season 48 - Episode 13
As state-legalized cannabis spreads, NOVA investigates the latest scientific evidence for its potential benefits and risks, and how criminal...
Particles Unknown
Season 48 - Episode 14
Outnumbering atoms a billion to one, neutrinos are the universe’s most common yet most elusive and baffling particle. NOVA joins an internat...
Arctic Drift
Season 48 - Episode 15
Join scientists on the most ambitious Arctic research expedition of all time. Experts from over twenty different nations join the voyage of ...
Edible Insects
Season 48 - Episode 16
From crunchy crickets to nutty fly grubs, NOVA takes a tasty look at insect foods and how they could benefit our health and our warming plan...
NOVA Universe Revealed: Age of Stars
Season 48 - Episode 17
The sun is our life-giving source of light, heat, and energy, and new discoveries are unraveling its epic history. Join NOVA on a spectacula...
NOVA Universe Revealed: Milky Way
Season 48 - Episode 18
Straddling the night sky, the Milky Way reminds us of our place in the galaxy we call home. But what shaped this giant spiral of stars and w...
NOVA Universe Revealed: Alien Worlds
Season 48 - Episode 19
It’s an age-old question: are we alone? Or do other lifeforms and intelligences thrive on worlds far beyond our own? Ultra-sensitive telesco...
NOVA Universe Revealed: Black Holes
Season 48 - Episode 20
Take a seat on the ultimate thrill ride to explore nature’s strangest and most powerful objects. Black holes can reshape entire galaxies, wa...
NOVA Universe Revealed: Big Bang
Season 48 - Episode 21
The Big Bang is when many think the universe started and time itself began. But what clues can we discover about this ultimate genesis of ev...
High-Risk High-Rise
Season 48 - Episode 22
Gleaming symbols of prestige, skyscrapers are an ingenious way to save space in dense urban areas. But even as we devise ways to defend them...
Butterfly Blueprints
Season 48 - Episode 23
The hidden scientific secrets of butterflies reveal them to be more inventive and resilient than we ever imagined. Follow their extraordinar...
Alaskan Dinosaurs
Season 48 - Episode 24
A team of intrepid paleontologists discovers that dinosaurs thrived in the unlikeliest of places—the cold and dark of winter in the Arctic C...
Ancient Maya Metropolis
Season 48 - Episode 25
The ancient ancestors of today’s Maya people thrived in large sophisticated cities across Central America for centuries. Why, around 750 CE,...