NOVA — Season 34
All 15 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 01
Can lessons learned from the Twin Towers' collapse make new buildings safer?
- 02
Researchers from Indonesia to Greenland unearth clues to the greatest volcanic eruption of the last 100,000 years.
- 03
NOVA investigates the worst aviation accident of all time.
- 04
Does a supermassive black hole lurk at the center of our galaxy?
- 05
The flamboyant rise and tragic death of pioneering aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont.
- 06
The Family That Walks on All Fours
Experts explore the mysterious story of five siblings living in a remote Turkish village.
- 07
Follow one man's quest to engineer a submarine with panoramic views.
- 08
Percy Julian: Forgotten Genius
The grandson of Alabama slaves, Percy Julian met with every possible barrier in a deeply segregated America. He was a man of genius, devotion, and determination. As a black man, he was also an outsider, fighting to make a place for himself in a profession and country divided by bigotry—a man who would eventually find freedom in the laboratory. By the time of his death, Julian had risen to the highest levels of scientific and personal achievement, overcoming countless obstacles to become a world-class scientist, industrialist, a self-made millionaire, humanitarian, and a civil-rights pioneer.
- 09
An expedition into the Congo examines one of our closest living relatives, the peace-loving bonobo.
- 10
Meet the cuttlefish, one of the brainiest, most bizarre animals in the ocean.
- 11
In remote mountains of China, experts find clues to the origins of Earth's most stunning plants.
- 12
Is it time to take solar energy seriously?
- 13
Archeologists uncover the reality behind a great American myth.
- 14
Deep in an Australian cave, paleontologists discover fossils of extinct giant animals.
- 15
Mass graves and forensic evidence reveal a complex truth about how the Inca Empire fell.
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