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Can a nuclear war be survived? Some members of the defense community say yes. NOVA explores the possibility.

Botany is a neglected science and plants are all around us, but unfamiliar. NOVA examines our state of knowledge of how plants work: growth hormones,...

It has been known since the turn of the century that there are four human blood groups, based on different red cells and serum characteristics. NOVA...

Part one of a two-part series on the subject of man in space, NOVA examines the history of NASA—from the origin of the space race through the...

Second of the two-part series on space programs, NOVA looks ahead to the future, post-Apollo and the role that man in space will play, including the...

In the rain forests of Zaire, in the heart of Africa, live the Mbuti Pygmies. The Pygmy way of life has always been extraordinarily difficult to...

In a dramatic docudrama, NOVA reconstructs the controversial lawsuit raised against renowned heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley when one of his patients...

A science-based revolution in the making of wine is underway. NOVA traces the secrets of the aging process and science's involvement with the...

NOVA investigates the theories of von Daniken and others that the Earth has been visited by intelligent beings from outer space. Among claims...

Today's scientists may be creating their own successors. Work being done in Artificial Intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science, only suggest...

In the summer of 1977 Paul MacCready, a California scientist and businessman, won the coveted Kremer Prize. His achievement was to design and build...

NOVA shows a year in the life of a beaver pond and includes almost every life form that exists in, on, under, around and above the water, from the...

The fortified plateau above Athens known as the Acropolis is the site of some of the most remarkable architecture in the world: its marble structures...

Henry Ford, a great friend of Edison, was a film enthusiast who amassed some one and a half million feet of film during his lifetime. Deposited in...

When first invented 18 years ago, lasers were called "a solution looking for a problem;" nobody could think what to do with them. But in fact...

In a world that each year loses up to 40 percent of its crops to insects, some form of pest control is desperately needed. But chemical pesticides...

For thousands of years people have managed to live in deserts all over the world. But in recent years, a growing population and the demands of the...

NOVA explores Bovine sleeping sickness. Spread by a fly, it is a deadly disease that poses a threat to Africa's cattle.

Traditionally zoos were designed neither for people nor animals; barred cages taught people more about their separation from nature than about an...

In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two radio astronomers at Bell Telephone Laboratories, discovered faint, but ever-present, microwave signals...

Congress is currently considering a proposal that would double the size of America's national park system by designating a sizeable chunk of Alaska...

From quirky coastal cubbyholes to half-a-million-pound hideaways, craftsman Jay Blades and interior design expert Laura Jackson go in search of...

Follow the fortunes of the world's most formidable apex predators, including lions, cheetahs, and crocodiles as they pit themselves against fearsome...

The long and unique tale of The Grateful Dead.The tale of the Grateful Dead is inspiring, complicated, and downright messy. A tribe of contrarians,...

Revealing what actually happened during the Great Fire of London of 1666, hour by hour, and street by street.

Featuring battles between some of the biggest and baddest fighters of the animal kingdom and some of the most surprising, revealing the extraordinary...