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Season 45

2018 • 23 Episodes

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Black Hole Apocalypse

S45 E01 • Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018 • Jan 10 • 55m

Astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin talks about black holes and their importance to the universe.

The Impossible Flight

S45 E02 • Wednesday, Jan 31, 2018 • Jan 31 • 55m

For the first time, two intrepid pilots fly a solar-powered airplane around the world.

First Face of America

S45 E03 • Wednesday, Feb 7, 2018 • Feb 7 • 55m

Discover remains of a 13,000 year-old teenager in an underwater cave in Mexico.

Great Escape at Dunkirk

S45 E04 • Wednesday, Feb 14, 2018 • Feb 14 • 55m

How courage and ingenuity saved Allied troops during the epic Dunkirk operation in 1940.

Prediction by the Numbers

S45 E05 • Wednesday, Feb 28, 2018 • Feb 28 • 55m

Discover why some predictions succeed and others fail as experts forecast the future.

Decoding the Weather Machine

S45 E06 • Wednesday, Apr 18, 2018 • Apr 18 • 55m

Disastrous hurricanes. Widespread droughts and wildfires. Withering heat. Extreme rainfall. It is hard not to conclude that something’s up with the weather, and many scientists agree. It’s the result of the weather machine itself—our climate—changing, becoming hotter and more erratic. In this 2-hour documentary, NOVA will cut through the confusion around climate change.

Rise of the Superstorms

S45 E07 • Wednesday, Jun 27, 2018 • Jun 27 • 55m

In just one devastating month, Houston, Florida, and the Caribbean were changed forever. In summer 2017, three monster hurricanes swept in from the Atlantic one after another, shattering storm records and killing hundreds of people. As the planet warms, are these superstorms the new normal? How well can we predict them?

Transplanting Hope

S45 E08 • Wednesday, Sep 26, 2018 • Sep 26 • 55m

NOVA takes you inside the operating room to witness organ transplant teams transferring organs from donors to recipients. Meet families navigating both sides of a transplant, and researchers working to end the organ shortage. Their efforts to understand organ rejection, discover ways to keep organs alive outside the body, and even grow artificial organs with stem cells, could save countless lives.

Operation Bridge Rescue

S45 E09 • Wednesday, Oct 3, 2018 • Oct 3 • 55m

Follow the race to rebuild the Old Blenheim Bridge in New York State, an icon of 19th century American engineering, destroyed by Hurricane Irene in 2011. Watch a team of elite craftsmen faithfully reproduce the massive, intricate wooden structure under grueling time pressure as flooding threatens their worksite.

Volatile Earth: Volcano on Fire

S45 E10 • Wednesday, Oct 10, 2018 • Oct 10 • 55m

Climb with volcano experts to the summit of Nyiragongo, a highly active volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Twice in recent memory it has erupted, devastating Goma, a neighboring city of 1 million people. To investigate when it might erupt next, scientists climb into its crater toward a bubbling lava lake to deploy sensors and monitor the volcano’s activity.

Volatile Earth: Volcano on the Brink

S45 E11 • Wednesday, Oct 10, 2018 • Oct 10 • 55m

Explore Nyamuragira, one of the world’s most active and mysterious volcanoes in Africa. Decades of civil strife have prevented scientists from investigating the volcano, but a brief pause allows an international team of experts to fly by helicopter to the summit to investigate. Discover the volcano’s hidden dangers and probe whether magma pressure is building up to threaten another eruption.

Addiction

S45 E12 • Wednesday, Oct 17, 2018 • Oct 17 • 55m

Hear firsthand from individuals struggling with addiction and follow the cutting-edge work of doctors and scientists as they investigate why addiction is not a moral failing, but a chronic, treatable medical condition. Easy access to drugs like heroin, fentanyl, and even prescription medications like OxyContin has fueled an epidemic of addiction—the deadliest in U.S. history.

Flying Supersonic

S45 E13 • Wednesday, Oct 24, 2018 • Oct 24 • 55m

NOVA takes you inside the historic international race to develop the first supersonic airliner, the Concorde. Hear stories from those inside the choreographed effort to design and build Concorde in two countries at once—and the crew members who flew her. Then, follow Concorde’s legacy to a new generation of innovators reviving the dream of supersonic passenger travel today.

Last B-24

S45 E14 • Wednesday, Nov 7, 2018 • Nov 7 • 55m

Dive to the bottom of the Adriatic Sea in search of the Tulsamerican, a B-24 bomber that crashed off the coast of Croatia during World War II. In 2010, divers located the plane. Now the Department of Defense, aided by the Croatian Navy and some of the world’s leading underwater archaeologists, sets to work investigating the wreckage.

Thai Cave Rescue

S45 E15 • Wednesday, Nov 14, 2018 • Nov 14 • 55m

In July 2018, the world held its breath as an international team of cave divers endeavored to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach stranded deep in a flooded cave in Thailand. Follow the harrowing operation and discover the scientific ingenuity that made the rescue possible.

World's Fastest Animal

S45 E16 • Wednesday, Nov 21, 2018 • Nov 21 • 55m

See the world through the eyes of nature’s fastest animal: the peregrine falcon. Though once perilously endangered in the U.S., this spectacular predator is now thriving again in American cities and on every continent but Antarctica. What is the secret to its predatory prowess? Join expert falconer Lloyd Buck as he trains a captive peregrine and puts its hunting skills to the test.

Apollo's Daring Mission

S45 E17 • Wednesday, Dec 26, 2018 • Dec 26 • 55m

Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon. The U.S. space program suffered a bitter setback when Apollo 1 ended in a deadly fire during a pre-launch run-through. In disarray, and threatened by the prospect of a Soviet Union victory in the space race, NASA decided upon a radical and risky change of plan: turn Apollo 8 from an earth-orbit mission into a daring sprint to the moon while relying on untried new technologies. Fifty years after the historic mission, the Apollo 8 astronauts and engineers recount the feats of engineering that paved the way to the moon.

NOVA Wonders What Are Animals Saying?

S45 E101 • Wednesday, Apr 25, 2018 • Apr 25 • 55m

From singing whales and squeaking bats to thumping spiders and clicking dolphins, the world is filled with the exotic sounds of our fellow creatures. What are they saying? Can we decode their own communications? NOVA Wonders follows researchers around the globe who are deciphering an amazing array of clues that reveal how animals share information critical to their survival.

NOVA Wonders What's Living in You?

S45 E102 • Wednesday, May 2, 2018 • May 2 • 55m

Whether they make you fat, fart, or freak out, microbes play a central role in your life. Right beneath your nose—on your face, in your gut, and everywhere in between—trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi are so abundant in your body, they outnumber your human cells. But these aren’t just nasty hitch-hikers. Many are crucial to your survival.

NOVA Wonders Are We Alone?

S45 E103 • Wednesday, May 9, 2018 • May 9 • 55m

The search for extraterrestrial life is an age-old quest. But recent breakthroughs make today an era unlike any in the history of astronomy. From the exhilarating probing of our own solar system and the Kepler mission’s astounding discovery of thousands of extrasolar planets, to the next-generation telescopes under development, the prospects for finding life beyond Earth have never been stronger.

NOVA Wonders Can We Build a Brain?

S45 E104 • Wednesday, May 16, 2018 • May 16 • 55m

Artificially intelligent machines are taking over. They’re influencing our everyday lives in profound and often invisible ways. They can read handwriting, interpret emotions, play games, and even act as personal assistants. They are in our phones, our cars, our doctors’ offices, our banks, our web searches…the list goes on and is rapidly growing ever longer.

NOVA Wonders Can We Make Life?

S45 E105 • Wednesday, May 23, 2018 • May 23 • 55m

"It's alive!" Since Dr. Frankenstein spoke those famous words, we've been alternately enthralled and terrified by the idea of creating life in the lab. Now, a revolution in genetic engineering and thrilling innovations in synthetic biology are bringing that dream—or nightmare, as the case may be—closer to reality. New tools allow researchers to use cells to create their own DNA.

NOVA Wonders What's the Universe Made Of?

S45 E106 • Wednesday, May 30, 2018 • May 30 • 55m

The universe is hiding something. In fact, it is hiding a lot. Everything we experience on Earth, the stars and galaxies we see in the cosmos—all the “normal” matter and energy that we understand—make up only 5% of the known universe. Find out how scientists are discovering new secrets about the history of the universe, and why they’re predicting a shocking future.

NOVA

Season 45

2018 • 23 Episodes