What can nature teach us about building smarter materials?

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Added: Sun May 29 16:56:10 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Feb 09 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 53:26
Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

Most modern materials are dangerous to the environment, but what about cleaning up our world?

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Added: Sun May 29 16:56:10 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Feb 02 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 53:26
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

How small can we go?

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Added: Sun May 29 16:56:10 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Jan 26 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 53:26
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

What is the strongest material in the world?

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Added: Fri May 27 05:26:10 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Jan 19 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 53:22
Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

Can Antarctica’s climate past offer clues to what may happen to our warming planet?

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Added: Thu Apr 21 05:59:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Tue Dec 28 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 53:03
Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

Join NOVA and National Geographic as they embark on two groundbreaking expeditions to expose new clues buried in the pockmarked desert of Jordan and seek to reveal the source of the great wealth that powered the first mighty Biblical kingdoms.

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Added: Thu Apr 21 05:59:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Tue Nov 23 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 53:24
Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

The story of Stonehenge is being rewritten.

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Added: Mon Mar 28 21:18:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Tue Nov 16 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 53:10
Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

In the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, "Mind Over Money" explores why mainstream economists failed to predict the crash of 2008 and why we so often make irrational financial decisions.

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Added: Tue Nov 30 19:17:08 UTC 2010
Air date: Tue Apr 27 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 53:07
Rating: 3.6 / 5.0

Extreme Cave Diving follows the charismatic Dr. Kenny Broad as he dives into blue holes-underwater caves that formed during the last ice age when sea level was nearly 400 feet below what it is today.

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Added: Tue Jan 11 19:26:09 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Feb 10 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 53:21
Rating: 3.7 / 5.0

NOVA joins a new generation of archeologists as they probe areas of Machu Picchu that haven't been touched since the time of the Incas and unearth burials of the people who built the sacred site.

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Added: Wed Jul 13 21:18:10 UTC 2011
Air date: Tue Feb 02 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 53:07
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

NOVA follows a team of archeologists and boat builders as they reconstruct a vessel depicted on the wall of an ancient Egyptian temple.

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Added: Tue Jan 11 19:26:08 UTC 2011
Air date: Tue Jan 12 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 53:07
Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

NOVA joins an exclusive dive beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor to trace new clues to the sinking of the USS Arizona.

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Added: Tue Jan 11 19:26:09 UTC 2011
Air date: Tue Jan 05 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 53:07
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

Stunning breakthroughs in a new science - nicknamed "evo devo" - are revealing answers to the riddles that Darwin couldn't explain.

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Added: Tue Jan 11 19:26:08 UTC 2011
Air date: Tue Dec 29 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 1:52:28
Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

NOVA probes a wave of dramatic new evidence, based partly on cutting-edge DNA analysis, that reveals new insights into how we became the creative and "behaviorally modern" humans of today.

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Added: Mon Sep 27 16:47:09 UTC 2010
Air date: Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 51:44
Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

This program tackles the mysteries of how our ancestors managed to survive in a savannah teeming with vicious predators, and when and why we first left our African cradle to colonize every corner of the Earth.

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Added: Mon Sep 27 16:47:09 UTC 2010
Air date: Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 51:43
Rating: 3.7 / 5.0

The first program explores fresh clues about our earliest ancestors in Africa, including the stunningly complete fossil nicknamed "Lucy's Child."

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Added: Mon Sep 27 16:47:09 UTC 2010
Air date: Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 51:43
Rating: 3.6 / 5.0

From training to launch, NOVA presents the inside story of the mission and the extraordinary challenges faced by the rescue crew.

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Added: Tue Jan 11 19:26:09 UTC 2011
Air date: Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 52:21
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

A provocative new theory about what killed off America's mammoths at the end of the last Ice Age.

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Added: Tue Jan 11 19:26:09 UTC 2011
Air date: Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 52:25
Rating: 3.8 / 5.0

A photojournalist and a scientific team strive to create a unique photo archive of melting glaciers that could provide a key to understanding their runaway behavior.

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Added: Tue Jan 11 19:26:09 UTC 2011
Air date: Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 53:02
Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

The half-century bloom of a bamboo species leads to an explosion in the rat population in the Indian state of Mizoram.

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Added: Tue Jan 11 19:26:08 UTC 2011
Air date: Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 UTC 2009
Duration: 52:55
Rating: 3.9 / 5.0