NOVA — Season 29
All 17 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 01
The tobacco industry's quest for a "safer" cigarette is filled with promise and pitfalls.
- 02
Investigate the brave new world of assisted reproduction.
- 03
Secrets of the Mind (aka Phantoms in the Brain)
Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran's intimate encounters with his patients reveal a novel picture of the brain.
- 04
What makes a person male or female? Can you be both? Explore the complex world of gender identity.
- 05
Go inside Russia's largest missile base, where soldiers still stand at the ready, awaiting orders to push the nuclear button
- 06
Explore germ warfare's chilling past, present, and future.
- 07
A sequel to one of the most popular NOVAs of all time, "Miracle of Life," this Emmy Award-winning program tracks human development from embryo to newborn using the extraordinary microimagery of Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson.
- 08
NOVA examines the fascinating life cycle of the world's oldest living thing, a 4,600-year-old bristlecone pine in California's White Mountains.
- 09
The male bowerbird of Australia exhibits extraordinary courting antics.
- 10
Astronomers investigate gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful celestial explosions since the big bang.
- 11
Are Neanderthals our ancestors or an evolutionary dead end?
- 12
Pyrotechnists use hi-tech firing systems and ancient alchemy to create dazzling fireworks displays.
- 13
Secrets, Lies and Atomic Spies
NOVA looks back to the 1940s, when American spies passed their country's deepest scientific secrets to the Soviets.
- 14
Paleontologists studying the Devonian Period (408-360 million years ago) discover a tiny fossil of colossal importance.
- 15
Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance
Beginning in 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton and 27 men survive a year and a half lost in the Antarctic.
- 16
Can lessons learned from the Twin Towers' collapse make new buildings safer? Forensic engineers investigate the collapse of the World Trade Center.
- 17
Wildland firefighters battle one of the most destructive fire seasons in U.S. history.
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