Can the power of music make the brain come alive? Throughout his career, Dr. Oliver Sacks, a neurologist and acclaimed author whose book "Awakenings" was made into a Oscar-nominated feature film starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, has encount...
Through a mix of crime-lab science, archeology and history, a new NOVA/National Geographic special, "The Great Inca Rebellion," presents stunning new evidence that is changing what we know about the final days of the once-mighty Inca Empire. Airing...
You may not know it, but fractals, like the air you breathe, are all around you. Their irregular, repeating shapes are found in cloud formations and tree limbs, in stalks of broccoli and craggy mountain ranges, and even in the rhythm of the human hea...
In The Spy Factory, an eye-opening documentary on the National Security Agency (NSA) by best-selling author James Bamford and Emmy Award-winning producer Scott Willis, NOVA exposes the ultra-secret intelligence agency's role in the failure to...
On Tuesday, January 20, NOVA takes a look at everything California is doing, from energy conservation and efficiency to the development of new sources of carbon-free power, to find out how the rest of the country can join in the aggressive pursuit of...
On Tuesday, July 1, NOVA explores the science and art of those who play with fire for our delight. The program airs simultaneously at 7 p.m. on KUED-Channel 7 and in HD on KUED 7.2. Stay tuned at 8 p.m. for 3, 2, 1 Fireworks, and take a tour of Was...
At age 78, E.O. Wilson is still going through his "little savage" phase of boyhood exploration of the natural world. NOVA profiles this soft-spoken Southerner and Professor Emeritus at Harvard, who is an acclaimed advocate for ants, biological divers...
Tom Magliozzi has a problem. The wacky co-host of NPR's "Car Talk" needs to replace his beloved 1952 MG roadster. But in today's car market, where should he turn? Is new technology about to transform the way we drive? Tom and his brother Ray hit t...
The ancient Maya civilization of Central America left behind an intricate and mysterious hieroglyphic script, carved on monuments, painted on pottery, and drawn in handmade bark-paper books. For centuries, scholars considered it too complex ever to u...
On the second-year anniversary of the Hurrican Katrina disaster, NOVA presents a minute-by-minute eyewitness exploration of why the flood defenses and disaster relief planning failed to match Katrina’s fury. What made this storm so...
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