Nova

1. Why Do Birds Sing?

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

2. How Much Do You Smell?

Many insects and some mammals use smell as a primary means of communication. ...

3. The Hunting of the Quark

Smashing matter into ever smaller pieces in an attempt to find its fundamenta...

4. The Secrets of Sleep

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

5. Inside the Golden Gate

NOVA joins a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists on a mission to find o...

6. The Men Who Painted Caves

Just why did Cro-Magnon man living in France's Dordogne Valley some 15,000 ye...

7. Red Sea Coral

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

8. War from the Air

10. The Rise and Fall of DDT

Has the case against DDT been proven? A strange question, perhaps, to be aski...

11. Take the World from Another Point of View

NOVA profiles two very different scientists: Richard Feynman, a theoretical p...

12. The Lysenko Affair

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

13. The Tuaregs

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

14. The Plutonium Connection

How likely is it that a terrorist group will steal plutonium intended for nuc...

15. The Other Way

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

16. The Lost World of the Maya

For over a thousand years the Mayan civilization grew and flourished in the r...

17. Will the Fishing Have to Stop?

Fish is an excellent source of protein; it could help ease the growing intern...