Nova Season 33 Episodes

Episode 1

The Mummy Who Would Be King

Tue, Jan 3, 2006

Episode 2

Nova scienceNOW

Tue, Jan 10, 2006

Episode 3

Deadly Ascent

Tue, Jan 17, 2006

Episode 4

The Perfect Corpse

Tue, Feb 7, 2006

Episode 5

Jewel of the Earth

Tue, Feb 14, 2006

This program examines and the many subtle secrets that scientists have teased out of insects trapped in amber.

Episode 6

The Ghost Particle

Tue, Feb 21, 2006

New theories explain the beginnings of creation.

Episode 7

Arctic Passage: Ice Survivors

Tue, Feb 28, 2006

Episode 8

Arctic Passage: Prisoners of the Ice

Tue, Feb 28, 200660 mins

Episode 9

The Great Robot Race

Tue, Mar 28, 200655 mins

Nova follows a group of teams as they construct driverless vehicles for a 130-mile race across the Mojave Desert.

Episode 10

Voyage to the Mystery Moon

Tue, Apr 4, 2006

Nova follows the Cassini probe on it's voyage to Saturn's moon Titan. Along the way it examines a variety of other wonders of the solar system before attempting to land and photograph the surface of Titan.

Episode 11

Dimming the Sun

Tue, Apr 18, 2006

The scientific community took some time to accept the evidence that the level of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface had declined in recent decades because, from a narrow minded perspective, it seemed to contradict the phenomenon of global warming. Nova follows the scientists working to find the cause of global dimming but the emphasis of the program is a stern warning about global worming.

Episode 12

Building on Ground Zero

Tue, Sep 5, 200660 mins

Episode 13

Mystery of the Megavolcano

Tue, Sep 26, 2006

An eruption of a megavolcano may be the most likely cataclysmic event the earth faces in the present day. Four scientists independently uncover evidence of such an eruption just 75,000 years ago that radically altered the global climate for a millennium and probably disrupted human colonization of the earth.

Episode 14

Nova scienceNOW

Tue, Nov 21, 2006

Episode 15

The Deadliest Plane Crash

Tue, Oct 17, 2006

Episode 16

Monster of the Milky Way

Tue, Oct 31, 200654 mins

Episode 17

Wings of Madness

Tue, Nov 7, 2006

Nova reviews the contribution of Alberto Santos Dumont in the early days of aircraft development and his uncanny ability to abandon one line of endeavor for a technology with better long term potential.

Episode 18

Family That Walks on All Fours

Tue, Nov 14, 2006

Episode 19

NOVA ScienceNOW: Extinction

Tue, Oct 3, 2006

Episode 20

Underwater Dream Machine

Tue, Dec 26, 2006