NOVA — Season 36
All 17 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 01
Experts in Alaska investigate how dinosaurs managed to thrive in polar regions.
- 02
An investigation uncovers the human failures and design flaws behind the 2003 Columbia tragedy.
- 03
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
Join Mark Everett on his quixotic quest to understand his father Hugh, creator of a radical theory of quantum physics.
- 04
Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension
Mysteriously beautiful fractals are shaking up the world of mathematics and deepening our understanding of nature.
- 05
Do the remains of a tiny hobbit-like creature found on the island of Flores belong to a new human species?
- 06
An archeological detective story traces the origins of the Hebrew Bible
- 07
Wildlife veterinarians struggle to save injured seals and sea lions on the California coast.
- 08
The decades-long search for life on the Red Planet heats up with the discovery of frozen water.
- 09
Can California's ambitious plan to cut greenhouse gases actually succeed?
- 10
The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
Follow the extraordinary 2,000-mile migration of monarch butterflies to a sanctuary in the highlands of Mexico.
- 11
Examine the high-tech eavesdropping carried out by the National Security Agency and the pitfalls of surveillance in an age of terrorism.
- 12
Why do huge swarms of rats overrun a bamboo forest in India once every half-century?
- 13
An acclaimed photographer teams up with scientists to document the runaway melting of arctic glaciers.
- 14
Last Extinction (Megabeasts' Sudden Death)
Scientists propose a radical new idea of what killed off mammoths and other large animals at the end of the Ice Age.
- 15
Seven doctors, 21 years... Saving lives is only part of the story. Part 1 of 2.
- 16
Seven doctors, 21 years... Saving lives is only part of the story. Part 2 of 2.
- 17
Oliver Sacks explores how the power of music can make the brain come alive.
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