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 | 18 Ways to Make a Baby
Investigate the brave new world of assisted reproduction. |
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 | Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land
Israel's remote Cave of Letters holds clues to a Jewish uprising against the Romans. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Art Authentication
See how clever computer algorithms can distinguish a master fake from a masterpiece. |
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 | Astrospies
An elite corps of secret U.S. astronauts is trained to gather intelligence on the Soviets during the Cold War. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Auto-Tune
Can't carry a tune? Andy Hildebrand's pitch-correction software can help you sing like a star. |
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 | Balloon Race Around the World
Delve into the history and science of ballooning, and follow some of the attempts in the '90s to be the first to circumnavigate the globe. |
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 | Battle Alert in the Gulf
Strategy makers, fighter pilots, Aegis cruiser captains, and fast-attack submarine crews contend with a hostile Iraq. |
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 | Battle of the X-Planes
Two aviation giants, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, compete to build the next-generation fighter jet. |
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 | Battle Plan Under Fire
Can the U.S. military's high-tech weaponry prevail against insurgents? |
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 | Beast of Loch Ness, The
Scientists employ state-of-the-art sonar and cameras in an attempt to locate the elusive Loch Ness Monster. |
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 | Bioterror
Explore germ warfare's chilling past, present, and future. |
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 | Bomb Squad
IRA terrorists and British bomb disposal experts tell insider stories of a deadly cat-and-mouse game. |
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 | Bombing of America
Forensic scientists search for clues hidden within the chaos of crime scenes to help law enforcement find the Unabomber. |
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 | Car of the Future
Join the 'Car Talk' guys as they hit the road in search of a new breed of clean, fuel-efficient vehicles. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: CERN
Beneath the Alps, the mother of all particle accelerators nears completion. |
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 | Cut to the Heart
Ever since World War II, physicians have struggled to find ways to treat heart failure, the biggest killer in the modern world. |
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 | Decoding Nazi Secrets
Allied technologies developed at Britain's Station X helped halt the onslaught of the Third Reich and set the stage for today's computers. |
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 | Diamond Deception
Makeshift labs in China and Russia are turning out synthetic gemstones that rival natural diamonds. |
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 | Dirty Bomb
Radiation experts play out a frightening terrorist scenario—exploding a bomb laden with radioactive materials. |
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 | Electric Heart
Pioneering surgeons test artificial hearts in the hope of saving the lives of people with coronary heart disease. |
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 | Escape!
Engineers learn from past disasters to make fires and car, plane, and ship accidents increasingly survivable. |
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 | Fall of the Leaning Tower
An international committee of engineers and architects race to prevent the toppling of Pisa's famous monument. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Hany Farid
This self-proclaimed "accidental scientist" is a digital detective inventing new ways to tell if photos have been faked. |
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 | Faster than Sound
Top test pilots describe the dangers, mysteries, and thrill of being the first to fly at supersonic speed. |
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 | Fireworks!
Pyrotechnists use hi-tech firing systems and ancient alchemy to create dazzling fireworks displays. |
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 | The Great Robot Race
Driverless vehicles compete in a 130-mile race across the Mojave Desert. |
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 | Harvest of Fear
Genetically modified foods—a wondrous advance or a new threat? Explore the growing controversy. |
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 | Hitler's Lost Sub
A fisherman's net snags off the coast of New Jersey, revealing a missing World War II German U-boat. |
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 | Hunt for the Supertwister
Tornado-chasing scientists with an eye to better forecasting risk their lives to plumb the secrets of nature's most terrifying killer. |
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 | Kaboom!
Explore the science of explosions - from fireworks to building demolitions. |
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 | Killer Disease on Campus
Doctors combat the deadliest form of meningitis, which strikes young people out of the blue. |
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 | Leopards of the Night
NOVA's state-of-the-art camera equipment reveals the nocturnal hunting behavior of leopards in Zambia's Luangua Valley. |
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 | Lincoln's Secret Weapon
The Navy undertakes a risky project to salvage the USS Monitor, an innovative armored combat vessel from the Civil War. |
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 | Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
How the quest for a reliable method to find your way at sea was solved by an 18th-century English clockmaker. |
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 | Lost City of Arabia
Helped by remote sensing, an expedition searches Oman's vast al-Khali desert for the lost city of Ubar. |
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 | MARS Dead or Alive
NASA gambles on two rovers sent to determine if the red planet ever had conditions suitable for life. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Maya
NASA archeologists use satellites to pinpoint ancient ruins buried deep in the jungle. |
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 | Nazi Prison Escape
From 1940 to 1945, Allied prisoners of war engineered spectacular escapes from Colditz Castle, the Nazis' most impregnable prison. |
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 | Odyssey of Life
Lennart Nilsson's extraordinary microphotography reveals a world we've never seen—within and on ourselves. |
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 | Perfect Pearl, The
Once a rare gem produced by an accident of nature, the pearl is now the product of careful human engineering. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Cynthia Breazeal
A daring engineer designs robots to communicate and interact the way people do. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Naomi Halas
Naomi Halas is a pioneering nanotechnologist bent on seeing practical applications for her work—and soon. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Karl Iagnemma
An innovative MIT roboticist is also an acclaimed fiction writer. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Yoky Matsuoka
A former tennis prodigy aims to create advanced prosthetic limbs controlled by human thought. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: James McLurkin
James McLurkin of MIT is one of the world's leading designers of robot "swarms"—groups of robots that work together for a greater purpose. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Profile: Luis von Ahn
A computer scientist finds novel ways to stop spammers and harness the brainpower of millions of people. |
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 | Russia's Nuclear Warriors
Go inside Russia's largest missile base, where soldiers still stand at the ready, awaiting orders to push the nuclear button. |
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 | Saved by the Sun
Is it time to take solar energy seriously? |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Saving Hubble
Two teams of spacewalkers take on the risky mission of reviving the ailing Space Telescope. |
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 | Saving the National Treasures
Restorers take on the preservation of the original Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: The Search for ET
Astronomers have their radio telescopes tuned to receive signals from alien worlds. But is anybody out there? |
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 | Search for a Safe Cigarette
The tobacco industry's quest for a "safer" cigarette is filled with promise and pitfalls. |
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 | Secrets of Easter Island
A team attempts to recreate the original islanders' success at moving and erecting giant moai statues. |
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 | Secrets of Lost Empires II: China Bridge
Two teams working from opposite sides of a turbulent river attempt to build a 12th-century Chinese bridge. |
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| Secrets of Lost Empires II: Easter Island
How did the ancient Easter Islanders move and erect giant stone statues? Our team tests one theory. |
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 | Secrets of Lost Empires II: Medieval Siege
Two teams set out to build precise replicas of a fearsome medieval weapon—the trebuchet. |
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 | Secrets of Lost Empires II: Pharaoh's Obelisk
Experts take on the challenge of raising a 40-ton obelisk without using modern technology. |
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 | Secrets of Lost Empires II: Roman Bath
NOVA sets out to create a working Roman bath, complete with hot tubs and underfloor heating. |
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 | Secrets of Making Money
With a radically redesigned bill, the U.S. Treasury fights back against a new breed of counterfeiters. |
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 | Secrets of the Samurai Sword
Examine the thousand-year-old art and science behind the making of a Japanese warrior's key weapon. |
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 | Sinking City of Venice
Experts struggle to save the City of Canals before it vanishes beneath the waves. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Smart Bridges
Can we engineer bridges that tell us what's wrong with them before it's too late? |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Space Elevator
Can we build a 22,000-mile-high cable to transport cargo and people into space? |
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 | Special Effects: Titanic and Beyond
NOVA goes behind the scenes in Hollywood, where the art of illusion meets the science of perception. |
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 | Spies That Fly
A new generation of pilotless planes fly, spy, and bomb in places too risky for human pilots. |
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 | Sputnik Declassified
Top-secret documents rewrite the history of the famous satellite and the early space race. |
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 | The Spy Factory
Examine the high-tech eavesdropping carried out by the National Security Agency and the pitfalls of surveillance in an age of terrorism. |
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 | Stationed in the Stars
NOVA examines the International Space Station, the largest construction project ever undertaken in orbit. |
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 | Submarines, Secrets and Spies
Explorer Robert Ballard, discoverer of the Titanic, investigates the wrecks of two Cold War-era nuclear submarines. |
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 | Super Bridge
Engineers solve a unique set of problems in safety, aesthetics, and cost as they build a bridge over the Mississippi River. |
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 | Supersonic Dream
Engineers, pilots, and others who knew Concorde tell its remarkable story. |
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 | Supersonic Spies
The race to build the world's first supersonic passenger airliner leads to a massive Cold War espionage effort. |
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 | Terror in Space
Russian and American astronauts experience life-threatening problems aboard the aging Mir space station. |
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 | Titanic's Lost Sister
Underwater explorer Robert Ballard uses sonar technology to find the Britannic, a ship lost in the Aegean in World War I. |
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 | To The Moon
Relive the remarkable history of humankind's journeys to the moon. |
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 | Top Gun Over Moscow
Flights in Russia's powerful fighter jets are for sale to foreign travelers. So is the Russian Air Force still in the game? |
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 | Underwater Dream Machine
Follow one man's quest to engineer a submarine with panoramic views. |
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 | Volcano's Deadly Warning
A man obsessed with understanding volcanoes comes up with a radical new way to predict eruptions. |
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 | Wave That Shook the World
Experts reconstruct the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in an effort to prepare for the next big one. |
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 | Welcome to Mars
Two rovers roaming the surface of Mars find proof that it was once awash in water. |
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 | Who Killed the Red Baron?
Forensic experts investigate the most famous aviation mystery of World War I. |
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 | Why the Towers Fell
Forensic engineers investigate the collapse of the World Trade Center. |
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 | NOVA scienceNOW: Wisdom of the Crowds
Ask enough people to estimate something, and the average of their guesses will get you surprisingly close to the right answer. |
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 | Wright Brothers' Flying Machine
Relive the engineering challenges that two obscure bicycle makers overcame to become first in flight. |
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