An astronaut once observed a great white light shining out from the bottom of our world: Antarctica, the ice-covered continent we are only just beginning to understand. NOVA visits this wilderness of ice, larger than the United States and Mexico combined, whose only warm-blooded residents are seals, skuas, penguins and scientists.
Aired: Jan 17, 1984 In the past decade, a number of researchers have begun systematic laboratory ...
2. Antarctica: Earth's Last Frontier
Aired: Jan 31, 1984An astronaut once observed a great white light shining out from the bottom of...
Aired: Feb 14, 1984 Efforts to control the population explosion are among the burning controversi...
Aired: Feb 28, 1984 Is there a cure for paralyzing spinal injuries? Most neurosurgeons are doubtf...
5. Visions of the Deep: The Underwater World of Al Giddings
Aired: Mar 6, 1984Al Giddings is one of the greatest underwater photographers in the world. In ...
Aired: Mar 20, 1984 Agriculture is America's biggest industry. This productivity, envied around t...
7. Make My People Live: The Crisis in Indian Health Care
Aired: Mar 27, 1984What are America's obligations to its native population? As an important Indi...
8. The World According to Weisskopf
Aired: Apr 3, 1984Victor Weisskopf: physicist, lover of music and citizen of the world. NOVA pr...
Aired: Oct 2, 1984 At a time when scientific exchange between the United States and the Soviet U...
10. The National Science Test I
Aired: Oct 16, 1984NOVA departs from tradition with the first National Science Test. Viewers can...
Aired: Oct 23, 1984 NOVA explores the billion-dollar-plus Mahaweli Irrigation Project in Sri Lank...
12. The Mystery of Yellow Rain
Aired: Oct 30, 1984NOVA explores whether "yellow rain," described by members of the Hmong tribe ...
13. The Nomads of the Rain Forest
Aired: Nov 6, 1984NOVA visits a tribe of Ecuadoran Indians who still maintain traditions that d...
Aired: Nov 13, 1984 NOVA looks at the "blue revolution"—modern advances in the ancient art of rai...
15. Frontiers of Plastic Surgery
Aired: Nov 20, 1984NOVA's sequel to "A Normal Face" examines the merging of technology and art i...
Aired: Nov 27, 1984 They have been part of the United States' space program for more than 20 year...
Aired: Dec 4, 1984 Acclaimed underwater cameraman Al Giddings takes NOVA viewers beneath the wav...
Aired: Dec 11, 1984 The debate over acid rain continues to grow. NOVA travels to West Germany, th...
19. Stephen Jay Gould: This View of Life
Aired: Dec 18, 1984What do dinosaurs, a panda's thumb and a peacock's tail have in common? Dr. S...
Aired: Jan 8, 1985 In this docudrama presentation, NOVA looks at the life, times and work of Gre...
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