Nova

1. Top Gun and Beyond

Today's sophisticated fighter jets can almost fly themselves, but well-traine...

2. How to Create a Junk Food

Julia Child introduces NOVA's behind-the-scenes look at how science aids in t...

3. Buried in Ice

Scientists investigate the frozen remains of members of the 19th century Fran...

4. Why Planes Burn

Airplane fires are often deadly. NOVA looks at efforts to make fires aboard p...

5. Battles in the War on Cancer: A Wonder Drug on Trial

In part one of a two-part special presentation, NOVA reports on the trials to...

6. Battles in the War on Cancer: Breast Cancer - Turning the Tide

Breast cancer claims the lives of four American women every hour. Jane Pauley...

7. The Mystery of the Master Builders

Princeton professor and author Robert Mark tracks down the engineering secret...

8. Whale Rescue

It was a blustery day in December 1986, and the New England Coast was in the ...

9. The Man Who Loved Numbers

NOVA explores the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a poor clerk from India who as...

10. Race for the Superconductor

NOVA charts an electronics revolution in the making as Japan and the United S...

12. Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft (1)

Part one of a four-part series on the pioneers of modern surgery relives the ...

13. Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart (2)

Once unthinkable, open-heart surgery is now an everyday miracle. NOVA looks a...

14. Pioneers of Surgery: New Organs for Old (3)

From kidneys to hearts, NOVA examines the daring attempts to replace diseased...

15. Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife (4)

Surgeons have always been eager to help patients, even at the risk of killing...

16. Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel?

Science meets art in the controversial effort to restore Michelangelo's famou...

17. Can the Next President Win the Space Race?

Thirty years after Sputnik, the United States space program is mired in uncer...

18. Do Scientists Cheat?

NOVA examines the troubling question of scientific fraud: How prevalent is it...

19. Who Shot President Kennedy?

Using previously unavailable technology, NOVA probes the available evidence s...

20. The Light Stuff

Reliving a Greek myth takes an effort of mythic proportions, as NOVA reveals ...

21. The All-American Bear

The life of the shy, intelligent black bear in the wild-foraging, mating, pla...

22. Can We Make a Better Doctor?

NOVA embarks on a 10-year project to profile—in its entirety—the education of...