Episode guide
NOVA: Season 51
18 episodes · first aired Jan 31, 2024
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- 1 When Whales Could Walk Jan 31, 2024 · 54m In Egypt’s Sahara Desert, massive skeletons with strange skulls and gigantic teeth jut out from the sandy ground. This fossil graveyard, millions of years old, is known as the “Valley of…
- 2 Easter Island Origins Feb 7, 2024 · 53m How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui–also known as Easter Island–carved and raised, and why? Since Europeans arrived on this remote Pacific island over 300 years ago, controversy has…
- 3 Building the Eiffel Tower Feb 14, 2024 · 53m Explore the revolutionary engineering behind Paris’s iconic landmark. Completed in just over two years for the 1889 World’s Fair, the iron tower smashed the record for the tallest…
- 4 Hunt for the Oldest DNA Feb 21, 2024 · 54m For decades, scientists have tried to unlock the secrets of ancient DNA. Follow the dramatic quest to recover DNA millions of years old and reveal a lost world from before the last Ice Age.
- 5 A.I. Revolution Mar 27, 2024 · 54m A.I. tools like ChatGPT seem to think, speak, and create like humans. But what are they really doing? From cancer cures to Terminator-style takeovers, leading experts explore what A.I. can…
- 6 Great American Eclipse Apr 3, 2024 · 54m Explore the spectacular cosmic phenomenon of a total solar eclipse. In April 2024, the Moon's shadow is sweeping from Texas to Maine, as the U.S. witnesses its last total eclipse until…
- 7 Secrets in Your Data May 15, 2024 · 54m Whether you’re on social media or surfing the web, you’re probably sharing more personal data than you realize. Find out where your data is going, who’s selling it, and how you – and a new…
- 8 Decoding the Universe: Cosmos May 22, 2024 · 54m How big is the universe? Will it ever end? Why is so much of it made of mysterious dark matter and energy? See how mind-bending discoveries over the past 50 years have revolutionized our…
- 9 Solar System: Storm Worlds Oct 2, 2024 · 54m Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid methane, and lightning 10 times stronger than here on Earth. Discover the forces…
- 10 Solar System: Strange Worlds Oct 9, 2024 · 54m From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest, to the spectacular rings of Saturn, discover how the effects of gravity produce…
- 11 Solar System: Volcano Worlds Oct 16, 2024 · 54m All around our solar system, volcanoes are powerful shapers of worlds. Next door on Mars is Olympus Mons, a giant volcanic mountain more than twice the size of Mt. Everest. And closer to…
- 12 Solar System: Icy Worlds Oct 23, 2024 · 54m Ice might seem familiar to us on Earth, but out in the solar system, it can get quite exotic. From Uranus’s ultra hot superionic ice, to glaciers of nitrogen ice on Pluto, to carbon…
- 13 Solar System: Wandering Worlds Oct 30, 2024 · 54m The classic view of our solar system contains eight orderly planets, some with moons in neat orbits – but when we look closer, we discover a bunch of stuff missing from this simple…
- 14 Decoding the Universe: Quantum Nov 6, 2024 · 54m When we look at the world at the tiniest scales in the subatomic realm, things get weird – very weird. Welcome to the quantum universe, where particles can spin in two directions at once…
- 15 Building Stuff: Boost It! Nov 13, 2024 · 54m Around the world, engineers are finding ingenious ways to amplify our abilities and senses – allowing us to access and shape the world way beyond our natural gifts. From helping a blind…
- 16 Building Stuff: Reach It! Nov 20, 2024 · 54m From the time our species first evolved, we’ve been on the move. Not content to stay in one place, we’ve imagined and invented and built our way from one place to the next. From deep sea…
- 17 Building Stuff: Change It! Nov 27, 2024 · 54m Thousands of years of human innovation have allowed us to shape the environment to improve lives. The consequences of our activities are not always benign – but there are solutions. From…
- 18 Lost Tombs of Notre Dame Dec 18, 2024 · 54m After the devastating 2019 fire at Notre Dame, two mysterious sarcophaguses were discovered under the cathedral’s stone floor. Who is buried in them, and what secrets will these coffins…