NOVA - Season 51
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
PBS18 Episodes
When Whales Could Walk
Season 51 - Episode 1
In Egypt’s Sahara Desert, massive skeletons with strange skulls and gigantic teeth jut out from the sandy ground. This fossil graveyard, mil...
Easter Island Origins
Season 51 - Episode 2
How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui–also known as Easter Island–carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arrived on this remote Pa...
Building the Eiffel Tower
Season 51 - Episode 3
Explore the revolutionary engineering behind Paris’s iconic landmark. Completed in just over two years for the 1889 World’s Fair, the iron t...
Hunt for the Oldest DNA
Season 51 - Episode 4
For decades, scientists have tried to unlock the secrets of ancient DNA. Follow the dramatic quest to recover DNA millions of years old and ...
A.I. Revolution
Season 51 - Episode 5
A.I. tools like ChatGPT seem to think, speak, and create like humans. But what are they really doing? From cancer cures to Terminator-style ...
Great American Eclipse
Season 51 - Episode 6
Explore the spectacular cosmic phenomenon of a total solar eclipse. In April 2024, the Moon's shadow is sweeping from Texas to Maine, as the...
Secrets in Your Data
Season 51 - Episode 7
Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. Find out where your data is ...
Decoding the Universe: Cosmos
Season 51 - Episode 8
How big is the universe? Will it ever end? Why is so much of it made of mysterious dark matter and energy? See how mind-bending discoveries ...
Solar System: Storm Worlds
Season 51 - Episode 9
Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid methane, and lightning 10 times strong...
Solar System: Strange Worlds
Season 51 - Episode 10
From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest, to the spectacular rings of Sat...
Solar System: Volcano Worlds
Season 51 - Episode 11
All around our solar system, volcanoes are powerful shapers of worlds. Next door on Mars is Olympus Mons, a giant volcanic mountain more tha...
Solar System: Icy Worlds
Season 51 - Episode 12
Ice might seem familiar to us on Earth, but out in the solar system, it can get quite exotic. From Uranus’s ultra hot superionic ice, to gla...
Solar System: Wandering Worlds
Season 51 - Episode 13
The classic view of our solar system contains eight orderly planets, some with moons in neat orbits – but when we look closer, we discover a...
Decoding the Universe: Quantum
Season 51 - Episode 14
When we look at the world at the tiniest scales in the subatomic realm, things get weird – very weird. Welcome to the quantum universe, wher...
Building Stuff: Boost It!
Season 51 - Episode 15
Around the world, engineers are finding ingenious ways to amplify our abilities and senses – allowing us to access and shape the world way b...
Building Stuff: Reach It!
Season 51 - Episode 16
From the time our species first evolved, we’ve been on the move. Not content to stay in one place, we’ve imagined and invented and built our...
Building Stuff: Change It!
Season 51 - Episode 17
Thousands of years of human innovation have allowed us to shape the environment to improve lives. The consequences of our activities are not...
Lost Tombs of Notre Dame
Season 51 - Episode 18
After the devastating 2019 fire at Notre Dame, two mysterious sarcophaguses were discovered under the cathedral’s stone floor. Who is buried...