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NOVA Season 17

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17x01 Poison in the Rockies aired Jan 09, 1990

Poison in the Rockies from the show NOVA is an episode focused on the damage that decades of mining operations in the Rockies have inflicted on the local env... read more

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17x02 Race for the Top aired Jan 23, 1990

If you're like most people, you've never heard of a quark. The top quark is likely the fundamental root of all matter. No scientist has ever been able to obs... read more

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17x03 Disguises of War aired Feb 06, 1990

In season 7, episode 13 "Disguises of War," Nova examines the various means of camouflage used in warfare to disguise weaponry and troops. The methods of cam... read more

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17x04 The Bomb's Lethal Legacy aired Feb 13, 1990

NOVA heads to Washington state to examine the Hanfrod Nuclear Reservation, a nuclear waste facility with a lot of problems. The environment and ecology take ... read more

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17x05 The Big Spill aired Feb 27, 1990

The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill takes a center stage when NOVA heads to Alaska to find out how technology contributed to one of the world's largest oil spill... read more

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17x06 The Genius That Was China: Rise of the Dragon (1) aired Mar 20, 1990

In The Genius That Was China: Rise of the Dragon (1) episode of the television program NOVA, the show explores the history of the planet's most populous coun... read more

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17x07 The Genius That Was China: Empires in Collision (2) aired Mar 27, 1990

This episode is part-two of NOVA's instigative report on China and the country's battle in keeping up with western technology. From the fifteenth to the eigh... read more

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17x08 The Genius That Was China: The Threat from Japan (3) aired Apr 03, 1990

This episode is part-three of NOVA's instigative report on China and the country's battle in keeping up with western technology. In the nineteenth century, t... read more

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17x09 The Genius That Was China: Will the Dragon Rise Again? (4) aired Apr 10, 1990

This episode is part-two of NOVA's instigative report on China and the country's battle in keeping up with western technology. The episode focuses on how the... read more

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17x10 The KGB, The Computer and Me aired Oct 02, 1990

This documentary covers the surprising tale of an average systems administrator who stumbled upon a KGB spy operation. Clifford Stoll carried out one of the ... read more

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17x11 Neptune's Cold Fury aired Oct 09, 1990

Neptune's Cold Fury is the second episode for season 18 of the show NOVA. In this episode, NOVA takes a look at the mysteries of this planet and why it took ... read more

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17x12 To Boldly Go... aired Oct 16, 1990

The Voyager program is one of the United State's most ambitious space missions. The two unmanned probes are designed to seek out the boundaries of the known ... read more

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17x13 Poisoned Winds of War aired Oct 23, 1990

NOVA reports on chemical warfare and the cruel effect it has on human beings. In the early 20s, Germany developed an acid bomb, which was used against French... read more

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17x14 The Blimp is Back! aired Oct 30, 1990

Nova looks at the history and future of dirigible airships, from the early rigid, giant zeppelins to the smaller nonrigid blimps taking to the skies, includi... read more

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17x15 Earthquake! aired Nov 06, 1990

Earthquake! is a 1990 episode from the PBS science series NOVA that explores nature's frightening and destructive phenomenon of colliding land plates. Earthq... read more

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17x16 Killing Machines aired Nov 13, 1990

This episode originally aired in 1990. The NOVA team examines the possible future of robotic weaponry, which promises to expand the horizon of warfare in bot... read more

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17x17 Can the Elephant Be Saved? aired Nov 20, 1990

Can the Elephant Be Saved? is a 1990 episode from the PBS series NOVA. The mighty elephant is the world's largest land mammal and also faces extinction. Scie... read more

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17x18 We Know Where You Live aired Nov 27, 1990

This NOVA episode examines direct marketing, a phenomenon that affects thousands of people, yet remains mysterious to most civilians. Advertisers are able to... read more

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17x19 In the Land of the Llamas aired Dec 04, 1990

NOVA profiles the llama, alpaca, vicuna and guanaco of South America. At one time nearly extinct, these four members of the camel family are exceptionally we... read more

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17x20 What's Killing the Children? aired Dec 18, 1990

In a small Brazilian town, terror is all too real. Parents watch their children pass away unexpectedly as a brutal illness sweeps through their formerly peac... read more

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17x21 Hurricane! aired Nov 07, 1989

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