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How do you study an animal you can't even get close to? Camera and drone technologies are allowing scientists to watch animals more closely than ever before, without disturbing them. Capturing...

Nova: Animal Mummies DVD

Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of how the first mission to the moon, Apollo 8, pioneered groundbreaking technologies that would pave the way to land a man on the moon and win...

Journey to the top of the world with scientists as they embark on the most ambitious Arctic research expedition of all time. The Arctic-much of it a vast frozen ocean, shrouded in darkness for half...

In Augmented, Hugh Herr, an inventor of bionic limbs, teams up with an injured climber and a leading surgeon to test a new amputation technique that allows prosthetic limbs to move and feel like the...

On the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, NOVA looks ahead to the dawn of a new age in lunar exploration. Join the next generation of engineers that aim to take us to the Moon...

Nothing is more fascinating to US than well us. Where did we come from? What makes US human? Nova's groundbreaking investigation explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earliest...

David Pogue began his quest to uncover the molecules and chemical transformations that created civilization and life in the NOVA special Hunting the Elements. Now he continues that mission which...

Join astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin on a mind-blowing voyage to the frontiers of black hole science, which is shining new light on the most powerful and mysterious objects in the universe...

NOVA: Building Chernobyl's Mega Tomb In 1986, in the heart of the Ukraine, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded, releasing 400 times more radiation than the Hiroshima Bomb. It was the world's worst...

Take a dazzling architectural journey inside those majestic marvels of Gothic architecture, the great cathedrals of Chartres, Beauvais and other European cities. Carved from 100 million pounds of...

In Building Wonders, NOVA presents three ground- breaking shows that investigate engineering mysteries of the ancient world with the help of dramatic hands-on experiments. Modern architects use...