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.
1. In the Event of Catastrophe
Aired: Jan 4, 1978Can a nuclear war be survived? Some members of the defense community say yes....
2. Blueprints in the Bloodstream
Aired: Jan 11, 1978Botany is a neglected science and plants are all around us, but unfamiliar. N...
Aired: Jan 18, 1978 It has been known since the turn of the century that there are four human blo...
Aired: Jan 25, 1978 Part one of a two-part series on the subject of man in space, NOVA examines t...
5. BaMiki BaNdula: Children of the Forest
Aired: Feb 1, 1978Second of the two-part series on space programs, NOVA looks ahead to the futu...
Aired: Feb 15, 1978 In the rain forests of Zaire, in the heart of Africa, live the Mbuti Pygmies....
Aired: Feb 22, 1978 The century old tradition of folding two-dimensional paper into three-dimensi...
8. The Case of the Ancient Astronauts
Aired: Mar 1, 1978A science-based revolution in the making of wine is underway. NOVA traces the...
Aired: Mar 8, 1978 NOVA investigates the theories of von Daniken and others that the Earth has b...
Aired: Mar 22, 1978 Today's scientists may be creating their own successors. Work being done in A...
Aired: Mar 29, 1978 In the summer of 1977 Paul MacCready, a California scientist and businessman,...
Aired: Apr 12, 1978 NOVA shows a year in the life of a beaver pond and includes almost every life...
Aired: Apr 19, 1978 Documentary about the life of American industrialist Henry Ford. Using Newsre...
Aired: May 3, 1978 Henry Ford, a great friend of Edison, was a film enthusiast who amassed some ...
Aired: May 10, 1978 When first invented 18 years ago, lasers were called "a solution looking for ...
Aired: May 24, 1978 In a world that each year loses up to 40 percent of its crops to insects, som...
Aired: May 31, 1978 For thousands of years people have managed to live in deserts all over the wo...
Aired: Jun 7, 1978 NOVA explores Bovine sleeping sickness. Spread by a fly, it is a deadly disea...
Aired: Jun 14, 1978 Traditionally zoos were designed neither for people nor animals; barred cages...
20. Alaska: The Closing Frontier
Aired: Jun 21, 1978In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two radio astronomers at Bell Teleph...
21. Alaska: The Closing Frontier
Aired: Jun 28, 1978Congress is currently considering a proposal that would double the size of Am...
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