Nova

Season 2 Episode 3: The Hunting of the Quark

51 Seasons Nov 17, 1974 TV-PG 55m 8.7

Smashing matter into ever smaller pieces in an attempt to find its fundamental building blocks has produced a confused nightmare of particles. NOVA looks at this on-again, off-again story—one of sciences's most mysterious—and, one of the most expensive, involving some of the biggest machines in the world.

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Season 2 Episodes:

Episode 1 Why Do Birds Sing?

1. Why Do Birds Sing?

Aired: Nov 3, 1974

NOVA travels to forests and marshes to discover why birds sing and finds surp...

Episode 4 The Secrets of Sleep

4. The Secrets of Sleep

Aired: Nov 24, 1974

Most of us spend one-third of our lives in a state of which we understand rem...

Episode 7 Red Sea Coral

7. Red Sea Coral

Aired: Dec 15, 1974

NOVA joins a group of English biologists living literally on a platform in th...

Episode 12 The Lysenko Affair

12. The Lysenko Affair

Aired: Feb 9, 1975

NOVA explores T.D. Lynsenko's rise to power in the Soviet Union in the early ...

Episode 13 The Tuaregs

13. The Tuaregs

Aired: Feb 16, 1975

High in the Hoggar Mountains, in the exact center of the Sahara desert, lives...

Episode 15 The Other Way

15. The Other Way

Aired: Mar 16, 1975

Since the Industrial Revolution, bigger has been better. NOVA profiles E.F. S...

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Info about Nova

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Production Country: United States

Genres: Documentary