NOVA: Season 7
PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA programs demystify science and technology, and highlight the people involved in scientific pursuits.
- Documentary/Bio
- PBS
- TV-PG
Episodes
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01. Deadliest Volcanoes |
240 | ||||
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Millions of people around the world live in the shadow of active volcanoes. Under constant threat of massive volcanic eruptions, their homes and their lives are daily at risk from these sleeping giants.
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53 min | 1/4/2012 | 160 | Buy | |
02. Bombing Hitler's Dams |
240 | ||||
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In 1943 a squadron of Lancaster bombers staged one of the most audacious raids in history, destroying two gigantic dams in Germany’s industrial heartland with a revolutionary bouncing bomb invented by British engineer Barnes Wallis. Now, NOVA re-creates the extreme engineering challenges faced by Wallis and the pilots.
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1 hr 52 min | 1/11/2012 | 160 | Buy | |
03. Mystery of a Masterpiece |
240 | ||||
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NOVA meets a new breed of experts who are approaching "cold case" art mysteries as if they were crime scenes, determined to discover "who committed the art," and follows art sleuths as they deploy new techniques to combat the multi-billion dollar criminal market in stolen and fraudulent art.
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53 min | 1/25/2012 | 160 | Buy | |
04. Ice Age Death Trap |
240 | ||||
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Racing against developers in the Rockies, archaeologists uncover a unique site packed with astonishingly preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons and other giant extinct beasts, opening a window on the vanished world of the Ice Age.
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53 min | 2/1/2012 | 160 | Buy | |
05. Separating Twins |
240 | ||||
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This is the incredible story of Trishna and Krishna, twin girls born joined at the head. Abandoned shortly after birth at an orphanage in Bangladesh, they had little chance of survival until they were saved and taken to Australia by an aid worker. With exclusive access to this extraordinary human and medical drama, NOVA’s cameras were with Trishna and Krishna and their caregivers at each moment of their journey.
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53 min | 2/8/2012 | 160 | Buy | |
06. Cracking Your Genetic Code |
240 | ||||
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What will it mean when most of us can afford to have the information in our DNA—all three billion chemical letters of it—read, stored, and available for analysis? Cracking Your Genetic Code reveals that we stand on the verge of such a revolution.
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53 min | 3/28/2012 | 160 | Buy | |
07. Hunting the Elements |
240 | ||||
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Where do nature’s building blocks, called the elements, come from? They’re the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our bodies to the metals in our smartphones. Watch as David Pogue unlocks their secrets.
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1 hr 53 min | 4/4/2012 | 160 | Buy | |
08. Deadliest Tornadoes |
240 | ||||
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Deadliest Tornado looks at the scientists striving to understand the forces at work behind last year's tornado outbreak. Could their work improve tornado prediction in the future? NOVA also talks to people whose lives have been upended by these extreme weather events in an effort to learn how we all can protect ourselves and our communities for the future.
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52 min | 4/11/2012 | 160 | Buy | |
09. Why Ships Sink |
240 | ||||
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Picking up from this winter's Costa Concordia disaster and looking both back to the Titanic disaster a century ago, and into the future of sea travel, NOVA looks at questions about cruise ship safety and the science of the ships' buoyancy.
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52 min | 4/18/2012 | 160 | Buy | |
10. Secrets of the Sun |
240 | ||||
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Now, with the help of new spacecraft and Earth-based telescopes, scientists are seeing the Sun as they never have before and even re-creating what happens at the very center of the Sun. Their work will help us understand aspects of the sun that have puzzled scientists for decades. Secrets of the Sun reveals a bright new dawn in our understanding of our nearest star, one that might help keep our planet from going dark.
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53 min | 4/25/2012 | 160 | Buy | |