NOVA - Season 8
Run Time: 55 mins
Air Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1981
Average Rating: ⭐ 7 (133 votes)
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Doctors of Nigeria
Season 8 - Episode 1
Is the fagara root a match for the stethoscope? This program looks at the contributions of both traditional herbal medicine and western orth...
Message in the Rocks
Season 8 - Episode 2
This program explores clues gathered from ancient rocks and Meteorites in an attempt to piece together how our planet formed, what happened ...
The Dead Sea Lives
Season 8 - Episode 3
NOVA examines the Dead Sea. The lowest place on Earth, at 1400 feet below sea level, it is jointly owned by Israel and Jordan. If used prope...
Anatomy of a Volcano
Season 8 - Episode 4
When Mount St. Helens erupted earlier this year, it focused the attention of the whole world on the almost incredible destructive forces tha...
The Science of Murder
Season 8 - Episode 5
NOVA investigates what science can do in helping to solve murder—in understanding why it occurs, and how the rate might be reduced—and explo...
The Malady of Health Care
Season 8 - Episode 6
Health care is no longer two Aspirins and some chicken soup—it is a huge enterprise capable of amazing feats and costing billions of dollars...
Beyond the Milky Way
Season 8 - Episode 7
Sophisticated instruments used by astronomers enable earthlings to see beyond what was once the cloudy barrier of the Milky Way, to a univer...
The Asteroid and the Dinosaur
Season 8 - Episode 8
For 150 million years, non-avian dinosaurs dominated the Earth. Then, 65 million years ago, they suddenly vanished, along with a great deal ...
Animal Olympians
Season 8 - Episode 9
The beauty, endurance, and raw power of animals in the wild are captured on film as NOVA juxtaposes Olympic athletes performing feats which ...
Resolution on Saturn
Season 8 - Episode 10
It's over 300 years since Galileo turned his new telescope on Saturn and first saw its spectacular rings. NOVA shows the beauty and new myst...
Computers, Spies and Private Lives
Season 8 - Episode 11
NOVA reports on the potential danger of modern Computers that gather "routine" information about our daily lives as we buy things, go to the...
Why America Burns
Season 8 - Episode 12
More people die in fires in the US than in any other industrialized country. In an alarming report that challenges the complacency of the US...
The Great Violin Mystery
Season 8 - Episode 13
A great secret lies locked inside the master Violins created by Italian craftsmen like Antonio Stradivari in the 17th and 18th centuries. No...
Cosmic Fire
Season 8 - Episode 14
A NOVA showing the extraordinary discoveries of X-ray astronomy. This new science has revealed that our universe is much stranger and more v...
Locusts: War Without End
Season 8 - Episode 15
Called the "teeth of the wind" by those who have battled them for centuries, locusts continue to plague hundreds of millions of people. Rare...
Did Darwin Get It Wrong?
Season 8 - Episode 16
The controversy which exploded a century ago when Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species" is erupting again with new facts and emot...
Artists in the Lab
Season 8 - Episode 17
Many were delighted by the extraordinary special effects in movies like "2001" and "Star Wars," but few realized how their magic relied on t...
Notes of a Biology Watcher: A Film with Lewis Thomas
Season 8 - Episode 18
You are not alone! Like it or not, every human being and virtually every living creature is, in a sense, owned and operated by legions of pr...
City Spaces, Human Places
Season 8 - Episode 19
William H. Whyte's insightful and humorous look at city parks, plazas and Streets, and the people who use them. Whyte shows the remarkable r...
Twins
Season 8 - Episode 20
Ever thought what it's like having your mirror image talk back to you? It can be an everyday occurrence for identical Twins. NOVA tells the ...