Recent aircraft accidents have raised the question of just how safe modern commercial aviation really is. NOVA looks at some of the problems and experimental efforts underway to deal with them.
Aired: Jan 15, 1980 Aborigines in Australia, woodchucks in Pennsylvania, the Nobel Prize in Stock...
2. A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb
Aired: Jan 22, 1980NOVA profiles Dr. Edward Teller, the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb," an acclai...
Aired: Feb 5, 1980 NOVA explores the science of natural engineering and asks the basic questions...
Aired: Feb 19, 1980 More than 40 million Americans are afflicted by cardiovascular disease. NOVA ...
Aired: Mar 4, 1980 Whaling is an integral part of Eskimo life, and a major source of food; even ...
Aired: Mar 11, 1980 Recent aircraft accidents have raised the question of just how safe modern co...
Aired: Mar 18, 1980 The Mediterranean Sea faces terminal pollution unless action is taken. The ef...
8. Mr. Ludwig's Tropical Dreamland
Aired: Mar 25, 1980NOVA explores the amazing Jari project of the Amazon basin. Eleven years ago,...
Aired: Sep 30, 1980 NOVA explores the shaping and molding of the male and female personality. Fro...
10. The Cancer Detectives of Lin Xian
Aired: Oct 7, 1980In one of the first films ever to come out of modern China, NOVA sifts throug...
Aired: Oct 14, 1980 One year in the intricate life of a coastal lagoon unfolds in an hour's time ...
12. Do We Really Need the Rockies?
Aired: Oct 28, 1980Can the mining of oil shale in the west solve the United States' energy crisis?
Aired: Nov 4, 1980 Is interferon—known as IF in medical shorthand—the wonder drug and cure for c...
Aired: Nov 11, 1980 On Wednesday, 12 November 1980, Voyager 1 is expected to arrive at Saturn for...
15. The Wizard Who Spat on the Floor
Aired: Nov 18, 1980Thomas Edison is the quintessential American hero, the Wizard whose invention...
Aired: Nov 25, 1980 Water, water everywhere...but just how useful is it? NOVA travels to the Adir...
Aired: Dec 2, 1980 NOVA tells the story of still and cine photography in science—from the extrao...
Aired: Dec 9, 1980 The exquisite sensitivity of touch cells in the human skin makes it possible ...
Aired: Dec 23, 1980 The cuddly image of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer has become an integral par...
Aired: Dec 30, 1980 Dudley Moore hosts a lighthearted but deep look at the history of time-- how ...
Current Status: Returning Series
Network: PBS
Production Country: United States
Genres: Documentary
