NOVA — Season 30
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Episode 1: Killer Disease on Campus
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Doctors combat the deadliest for of meningitis which strikes young people out of the blue.
Episode 2: Mysterious Life of Caves
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Toxic caverns teaming with strange life-forms spark a brand new theory about how caves form.
Episode 3: Lost Roman Treasure
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Experts rescue pricess mosaics from an ancient city that is about to disapear beneath a resivoir.
Episode 4: Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
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In this two-hour special, NOVA celebrates the story of the father of modern science and his struggle to get Church authorities to accept the truth of his astonishing discoveries. The program is based on Dava Sobel's bestselling book, Gal…
Episode 5: Volcano's Deadly Warning
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In January 1993, six scientists and three hikers were scalded and crushed to death when they ventured into the smoking mouth of the active volcano Galeras in Colombia, confident that no eruption was imminent. This program tells the gripp…
Episode 6: Sinking City of Venice
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Experts struggle to save the City of Canals before it vanishes beneath the waves.
Episode 7: The Orchid Hunter
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For nine months in 2000, Tom Hart Dyke was a captive of guerrillas who seized him while he was collecting wild orchids in the Colombian rain forest. Now Hart Dyke is at it again in the most orchid-rich and one of the most politically uns…
Episode 8: Spies That Fly
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The air war in Afghanistan showed that sometimes the hottest pilots are sitting on the ground operating the remote controls of UAVs—or unmanned aerial vehicles. In newly declassified footage, "Spies That Fly" reveals the astounding capab…
Episode 9: Last Flight of Bomber 31
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On March 25, 1944, a U.S. Navy bomber disappeared into the fog over the Bering Sea heading for a Japanese target. Fifty-five years later it has suddenly reemerged with a remarkable tale. NOVA travels to the plane's final resting place to…
Episode 10: Ancient Creature of the Deep
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NOVA chronicles the discovery of a "living fossil," a fish called the coelacanth that has remained relatively unchanged since prehistoric times. The program recalls Darwin's prediction that some creatures would have not undergone any maj…
Episode 11: Battle of the X-Planes
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A behind the scenes look at the competition to build the Joint Strike Fighter. Cameras follow engineering teams from Boeing and Lockheed Martin as each makes fateful design decisions.
Episode 12: Mountain of Ice
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In this high-altitude adventure, Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air, world-class mountaineer Conrad Anker, and their team of climbers, scientists, and filmmakers take a trailblazing expedition to the top of Antarctica's tallest peak, …
Episode 13: Lost Treasures of Tibet
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Before Leonardo da Vinci painted "The Last Supper," Tibetan craftsmen were creating stunning artistry of their deities in the remote Himalayan kingdom of Mustang. In "Lost Treasures of Tibet," NOVA goes behind the scenes with the first c…
Episode 14: Dirty Bomb
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"Dirty Bomb" probes the realities and implications for public health policy of a disaster that many consider to be all but inevitable: a terrorist attack on a major city using a radioactive "dirty bomb." The program strives to answer cru…
Episode 15: Deep Sea Invasion
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In 1989 marine biologist Alexandre Meinesz went diving off southern France and was stunned by what he saw: a dense blanket of waving green fronds stretching around him in every direction on the seabed. At first Meinesz had no idea what i…
Episode 16: Secret of Photo 51
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On April 25, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule essential for passing on our genes and the ''secret of life.'' But their crucial breakthrough d…
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