TV Schedule
 
Series Info & Airtimes
 
Episodes

Lord of the Ants
Every so often a giant emerges on the stage of science, someone who transcends ...

Car of the Future
How will the car of the future be powered? Will it run on hydrogen, batteries, ...

Cracking the Maya Code
The program investigates how a handful of pioneers deciphered the intricate ...

Ape Genius
The great apes - which include chimps, orangutans, gorillas and bonobos ...

Walk to Beautiful
"A Walk to Beautiful," a story of hope and survival in contemporary Ethiopia. ...

Absolute Zero (W.T.) (Part 2)
The new, two-part "Absolute Zero" (w.t.) presents the epic story of humanity's ...

Absolute Zero (W.T.) (Part 1)
The new, two-part "Absolute Zero" (w.t.) presents the epic story of humanity's ...

Secrets of the Parthenon
Erected by the ancient Greeks as a temple to Athena, the Parthenon has ...

The Four-Winged Dinosaur
Imagine a moment from the Age of Dinosaurs frozen in time: primitive birds, ...

Astrospies
While NASA astronauts were captivating the world with the Apollo lunar ...

Nova Sciencenow
New material on DNA and some of NSN's most popular segments make up this ...

Missing in Mig Alley
Russian and American fighters clashed over Korea in one of the fastest ...

Master of the Killer Ants
In the Mandaras Mountains of northern Cameroon live the Mofu - an ancient ...

Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
One of the latest battles in the war over evolution took place in a tiny ...

Sputnik Declassified
The world changed on October 4, 1957, when the U.S. public heard the shocking ...

Marathon
What does it take for the average person to run one of the world's toughest ...

The Ghost in Your Genes
In a provocative report from the frontiers of biology, "Nova" explores ...

Secrets of the Samurai Sword
"Nova" travels deep into Japan's ancient foundries to reveal the art and ...

Nova Sciencenow
Julie Schablitsky profile -Julie Schablitsky is a historical archaeologist ...

Nova Sciencenow
Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts this fourth installment ...

The Great Inca Rebellion
Peruvian archaeologist Guillermo Cock examines dozen of corpses and makes ...

Bone Diggers
Deep beneath the Nullarbor Plain, one of Australia's most hostile and ...

Saved By the Sun
"Nova" examines problems and possible solutions to global warming in the ...

Pocahontas Revealed
On May 13, 1607, three English sailing vessels drop anchor beside a small ...

First Flower
Flowers hold a special place in the plant world as well as in the human ...

The Last Great Ape
Deep in the Congo lives a little-studied group of apes called the bonobos. ...

Forgotten Genius
"Nova" presents the remarkable life story of Percy Julian - not only ...

Kings of Camouflage
Cuttlefish are one of the strangest animals on our planet. These shape-shifting ...

Nova Sciencenow
Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts this third installment ...

Underwater Dream Machine
Building a submarine without the resources of a big shipyard and using ...

Nova Sciencenow - Extinction
The latest installment of "Nova"'s science newsmagazine draws on a range ...

Family That Walks on All Fours
An intense scientific debate has ignited around a quiet but extraordinary ...

Wings of Madness
On October, 19, 1901, the people of Paris turned out by the thousands ...

Monster of the Milky Way
Astronomers are closing in on the proof they've sought for years that ...

Nova Sciencenow - Asteroid
Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who debuts as the new host ...

Mystery of the Megavolcano
A remote lake in Southeast Asia conceals evidence of Earth's greatest ...

Building on Ground Zero
In a follow-up to the Emmy Award-winning documentary "Why The Towers Fell," ...

Dimming Sun
As global warming turns up the heat, researchers are stunned to discover ...

Voyage to the Mystery Moon
"Nova" follows the suspenseful mission of the Cassini/Huygens probe, built ...

The Great Robot Race
The essentials of road racing are clear - a fast car and talented driver, ...

The Ghost Particle
The cosmos has a secret ingredient: a swarm of invisible particles that ...

Jewel of the Earth
In the movie Jurassic Park, Richard Attenborough played the role of an ...

Deadly Ascent
Alaska's Mount McKinley, commonly referred to as Denali, is the highest ...

The Mummy Who Would Be King
It is a tantalizing idea and an outrageous long-shot: a shriveled mummy ...

Storm That Drowned a City
No description available

Newton's Dark Secrets
Besides Einstein, no single scientist ever transformed the outlook and ...

Hitler's Sunken Secret
It was one of the most audacious exploits of the Norwegian resistance ...

Sinking the Supership
In April 1945, the largest battleship ever built set out on the ultimate ...

Mystery of the Megaflood
It was the greatest flood of the past two million years, and it posed ...

Nova Sciencenow
In the second installment of this in"Nova"tive science magazine show, ...

Wave That Shook the World
On December 26, 2004, a series of tidal waves killed hundreds of thousands ...

Saving the National Treasures
Every year, more than a million people visit the Rotunda at the National ...

The Viking Deception
There are few more tantalizing or notorious historical documents than ...

Supersonic Dream
"Nova" looks back affectionately over the 30-year story of the development ...

Welcome to Mars
On January 3, 2004, a tiny rover named Spirit crash-landed on the dusty ...

Great Escape
The movie "The Great Escape," starring Steve McQueen, was based on fact ...

America's Stone Age Explorers
Who were the first Americans and where did they come from? The conventional ...

The Most Dangerous Woman in America
Interweaving biography and social history, this episode tells the extraordinary ...

Origins: How Life Began
This episode highlights the most radical transformation in the history ...

Origins: Earth Is Born/How Life Began
This episode shows that ancient cataclysms made our planet what it is ...

Battle Plan Under Fire
An unmanned spy plane spots a group of terrorists driving a car and fires ...

World in the Balance - China Revs Up
"Nova" takes the pulse of China's hyperactive economy, the fastest-growing ...

Hunt for the Supertwister
A powerful tornado is a terrifying phenomenon that continues to defy decades ...

Crash of Flight 111
On September 2, 1998, Swissair Flight 111 plummeted into the sea off "Nova" ...

Volcano Above the Clouds
Just 200 miles south of the equator, Kilimanjaro has both equatorial and ...

The Perfect Pearl
Pearls are back in fashion - in a big way. For thousands of years, humans ...

Treasures of the Sunken City
Few traces remain of Alexandria, once the capital of Egypt, which for ...

 
Tuesday, May 13
6 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Tuesday, May 13
7 p.m. (Analog)

(60 mins)  NEW! LTR DVI
 
Tuesday, May 13
9 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Thursday, May 15
8 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Thursday, May 15
11 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Sunday, May 18
4 a.m. (Analog)

(60 mins)  LTR DVI
 
Tuesday, May 20
6 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Tuesday, May 20
7 p.m. (Analog)

(60 mins)  LTR DVI
 
Tuesday, May 20
8 p.m. (Analog)

(60 mins)  LTR DVI
 
Tuesday, May 20
9 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Sunday, May 25
3 a.m. (Analog)

(60 mins)  LTR DVI
 
Sunday, May 25
4 a.m. (Analog)

(60 mins)  LTR DVI
 
Tuesday, May 27
6 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Tuesday, May 27
7 p.m. (Analog)

(60 mins)  LTR DVI
 
Tuesday, May 27
8 p.m. (Analog)

(60 mins)  NEW! LTR DVI
 
Tuesday, May 27
9 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Tuesday, June 3
6 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Tuesday, June 3
7 p.m. (Analog)

(60 mins)  LTR DVI
 
Tuesday, June 3
9 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Saturday, June 7
6 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Saturday, June 7
9 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Tuesday, June 10
6 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Tuesday, June 10
7 p.m. (Analog)

(90 mins) 
 
Tuesday, June 10
9 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Saturday, June 14
6 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Saturday, June 14
9 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Tuesday, June 17
6 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Tuesday, June 17
7 p.m. (Analog)

(60 mins)  LTR DVI
 
Tuesday, June 17
9 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Saturday, June 21
6 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Saturday, June 21
9 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Tuesday, June 24
6 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Tuesday, June 24
7 p.m. (Analog)

(60 mins)  LTR DVI
 
Tuesday, June 24
9:30 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Saturday, June 28
6 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
Saturday, June 28
9 p.m. (Digital)

(60 mins)  16:9 DVI
 
 
CC - Closed Caption
HD - High Definition
16:9 - Anamorphic Widescreen
LTR - Letterbox
DVI - Descriptive Video Information for the visually impaired