Science documentaries about various topics.
A weekly documentary series, each episode providing an in-depth look at a different subject of scientific research. Subjects examined by this show have included the cutting edge of theoretical physics, a return to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, the long-term effects of Amazon deforestation, and the development of life-saving medical techniques.
Aired: Jan 4, 1976 It is now possible to predict earthquakes. At least two successful prediction...
Aired: Jan 11, 1976 NOVA takes viewers into the world of Joey Deacon, 54 years old and a spastic ...
Aired: Jan 18, 1976 What do singer Peggy Lee, New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath and Congressma...
Aired: Jan 25, 1976 The last fourteen years have been a revolution in our understanding of our pl...
Aired: Feb 1, 1976 NOVA explores the mysterious ecosystem of the desert: a snowstorm; a lashing ...
Aired: Feb 8, 1976 Every year, some 5,000 babies are born in the US with spina bifida, a congeni...
Aired: Feb 15, 1976 There's one place on earth where no one will ever catch a cold. And the freez...
8. The Race for the Double Helix
Aired: Mar 7, 1976Author Isaac Asimov joins NOVA in the retelling of the remarkable story of th...
Aired: Mar 7, 1976 Each Sunday edition of the New York Times consumes 153 acres of trees. The pa...
Aired: Mar 14, 1976 NOVA joins chief archaeologist, Ivor Noel Hume, of Colonial Williamsburg, VA,...
Aired: Mar 21, 1976 Today we take antibiotics for granted, and by doing so are steadily eroding t...
Aired: Apr 11, 1976 Dr. Norman Shumway of Stanford University has performed more heart transplant...
Aired: Apr 18, 1976 NOVA explores life underground, from foxes and badgers through moles and worm...
Aired: May 2, 1976 NOVA shows the Netsilik eskimoes of Pelly Bay and their traditional way of li...
Aired: May 9, 1976 Benjamin is a healthy, normal baby, whom we meet at birth and whose first yea...
Aired: May 23, 1976 Margaret Sanger was responsible almost single-handedly for changing the whole...
Aired: Jun 6, 1976 The true story of smallpox and the successful campaign to eradicate the virus...
Aired: Jun 13, 1976 The "Jaws" phenomenon has given sharks a bad name. But is the shark really su...
Aired: Jun 20, 1976 Recent scientific developments have made it possible to detect a wide variety...
20. The Case of the Bermuda Triangle
Aired: Jun 27, 1976Since 1945, hundreds of ships and planes and thousands of people have mysteri...
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