
PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.
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Air Date: 1974-03-03
NOVA premieres on public television with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Oxford Scientific F...
Air Date: 1974-03-10
NOVA explores the mighty Colorado River which today has become the life-blood of the Southwest, providing water and e...
Air Date: 1974-03-17
NOVA explores the impact of whaling and the goods it produces for the industry, verses the grace and beatury of this ...
Air Date: 1974-03-24
Does life exist outside this planet? The Viking lander will set down on Mars in July 1976 to try to find out just tha...
Air Date: 1974-03-31
How does a primitive nomadic tribe of the Amazon basin cope with the encroachment of Western settlers? NOVA looks at ...
Air Date: 1974-04-07
Medicine was transformed in the 19th century by the discovery of anesthesia; surgery, until then hasty, bloody and co...
Air Date: 1974-04-14
In 1054 AD, the Chinese recorded the explosion of a star so bright that it lit the sky for three weeks, even during t...
Air Date: 1974-04-21
Birds migrate in search of perpetual summer, sometimes traveling as much as 20,000 miles every year. NOVA uses radar ...
Air Date: 1974-04-28
The advance of medicine depends inevitably on the testing of experimental procedures on human volunteers from either ...
Air Date: 1974-05-05
Washoe is a chimp more like a person: she talks with her hands. NOVA visits with Washoe and her teachers—Professor Al...
Air Date: 1974-05-12
When Paul Kammerer committed suicide in 1926, it was taken by most of his fellow biologists as a tacit admission of g...
Air Date: 1974-05-19
Nuclear fusion offers the promises of an unlimited, clean source of energy. But achieving fusion has proved one of th...
Air Date: 1974-05-26
Who were the people that built the first cities -- complete with apartment blocks -- in North America? They were the ...