NOVA - Season 50
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2023
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
PBS18 Episodes
London Super Tunnel
Season 50 - Episode 1
Thousands of engineers, technicians and workers race to build Europe’s biggest construction project–London’s new railroad, the Elizabeth Lin...
Star Chasers of Senegal
Season 50 - Episode 2
A NASA spacecraft named Lucy blasts off from Cape Canaveral on a mission to the Trojans, a group of asteroids over 400 million miles from Ea...
Ancient Builders of the Amazon
Season 50 - Episode 3
Recent discoveries in archaeology are exploding the myth of the Amazon as a primeval wilderness, revealing traces of ancient civilizations t...
New Eye on the Universe
Season 50 - Episode 4
Join scientists as they use NASA’s brand new James Webb Space Telescope to peer deep in time to hunt for the first stars and galaxies in our...
Weathering the Future
Season 50 - Episode 5
It’s hard not to notice: our weather is changing. From longer, hotter heat waves, to more intense rainstorms, to megafires and multi-year dr...
Chasing Carbon Zero
Season 50 - Episode 6
The U.S. recently set an ambitious climate change goal: zero carbon emissions by 2050. And to achieve that, slash emissions in half by 2030....
Saving the Right Whale
Season 50 - Episode 7
North Atlantic right whales are among the planet’s most critically endangered large ocean mammals. With fewer than 350 remaining as of 2023,...
Hidden Volcano Abyss
Season 50 - Episode 8
In January 2022, one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history rocked the Pacific islands of Tonga, sending shockwaves aro...
Your Brain: Perception Deception (1)
Season 50 - Episode 9
Is what you see real? Join neuroscientist Heather Berlin on a quest to understand how your brain shapes your reality, and why you can’t alwa...
Your Brain: Who's in Control? (2)
Season 50 - Episode 10
Are you in control, or is your brain controlling you? Dive into the latest research on the subconscious with neuroscientist Heather Berlin. ...
Ancient Earth: Birth of the Sky
Season 50 - Episode 11
Today, Earth is enveloped by a thin veil of gas, a narrow band of atmosphere that protects a world covered in lush green vegetation, deep bl...
Ancient Earth: Frozen
Season 50 - Episode 12
700 million years ago, Earth was a giant snowball cloaked in ice from pole to pole—a global deep freeze that held the planet in a strangleho...
Ancient Earth: Life Rising
Season 50 - Episode 13
For billions of years, life teemed in the oceans of planet Earth while the land was desolate and inhospitable. So how did life make the leap...
Ancient Earth: Inferno
Season 50 - Episode 14
252 million years ago, the most devastating mass extinction of all time abruptly wiped out around 90% of all species on Earth. The culprits ...
Ancient Earth: Humans
Season 50 - Episode 15
The story of Earth can only be told because now, 4.5 billion years into its existence, a technological and self-aware animal species roams i...
Inside China's Tech Boom
Season 50 - Episode 16
In the span of just a few decades, China has transformed into a science and technology superpower. But how did it get here and where is it h...
The Battle to Beat Malaria
Season 50 - Episode 17
Malaria is one of humanity’s oldest and most devastating plagues. In many parts of the world, it remains an ever-present scourge that sicken...
Lee and Liza's Family Tree
Season 50 - Episode 18
Many descendants of enslaved people have little record of their family's ancestry. Follow one family's quest to discover their lost history,...