NOVA - Season 37

NOVA - Season 37

Season 37

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DatesOct 6, 2009 - May 4, 2010
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Episodes

Darwin's Darkest Hour
Season 37Episode 160 min

Darwin's Darkest Hour

A two-hour drama on the crisis that forced Darwin to publish his theory of evolution.
Oct 6, 2009
Hubble's Amazing Rescue
Season 37Episode 260 min

Hubble's Amazing Rescue

The unlikely story of how the world's most beloved telescope was saved.
Oct 13, 2009
Lizard Kings
Season 37Episode 360 min

Lizard Kings

They look like dragons and inspire visions of fire-spitting monsters. But these creatures with their long claws, razor-sharp teeth, and muscular, whip-like tails are actually monitors, the largest lizards now walking the planet. With their acute intelligence, monitors—including the largest of all, the Komodo dragon—are a very different kind of reptile, blurring the line between reptiles and mammals. Thriving on Earth essentially unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, they are a very successful species, versatile at adapting to all kinds of settings. This program looks at what makes these long-tongued reptiles so similar to mammals and what has allowed them to become such unique survivors.

Oct 20, 2009
Becoming Human Part 1: First Steps
Season 37Episode 460 min

Becoming Human Part 1: First Steps

The first hour examines the factors that caused the split from the apes. The film explores the fossil of “Selam,” also known as “Lucy’s Child” — an amazing, nearly complete child fossil that helps shed light on our ancestors’ early development and how we began to depart from that of chimps.
Nov 3, 2009
Becoming Human Part 2: Birth of Humanity
Season 37Episode 560 min

Becoming Human Part 2: Birth of Humanity

In gripping forensic detail, the second program in “Becoming Human” investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us — “Turkana Boy” — an astonishingly complete specimen of Homo erectus found by the famous Leakey team in Kenya.
Nov 10, 2009
Becoming Human Part 3: Last Human Standing
Season 37Episode 660 min

Becoming Human Part 3: Last Human Standing

The final program examines the roots of our own species, Homo sapiens, which new evidence pinpoints to southern Africa some 200,000 years ago. New discoveries are upending old ideas and suggesting that our exodus from Africa was far earlier than previously thought.
Nov 17, 2009
What Are Dreams?
Season 37Episode 760 min

What Are Dreams?

Psychologists and brain scientists have new answers to an age-old question.
Nov 24, 2009
What Darwin Never Knew
Season 37Episode 860 min

What Darwin Never Knew

NOVA takes viewers on a journey from the Galapagos Islands to the Arctic, and from the Cambrian explosion of animal forms half a billion years ago to the research labs of today. Here scientists are finally beginning to crack nature’s biggest secrets at the genetic level. And, as NOVA shows in this absorbing detective story, the results are confirming the brilliance of Darwin’s insights while exposing clues to life’s breathtaking diversity in ways the great naturalist could scarcely have imagined.
Dec 29, 2009
Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor
Season 37Episode 960 min

Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor

Beneath the waves, discover an untold story of a day that lives in infamy.
Jan 5, 2010
Building Pharaoh's Ship
Season 37Episode 1060 min

Building Pharaoh's Ship

Can the legendary ship of an Egyptian queen sail again?
Jan 12, 2010
Riddles of the Sphinx
Season 37Episode 1160 min

Riddles of the Sphinx

A marvel of ancient engineering is vanishing. Can it be saved?
Jan 19, 2010
Ghosts of Machu Picchu
Season 37Episode 1260 min

Ghosts of Machu Picchu

Why did the Incas abandon their city in the clouds?
Feb 2, 2010
Extreme Cave Diving
Season 37Episode 1360 min

Extreme Cave Diving

A team of intrepid scientists journey into one of Earth's most dangerous and beautiful underwater frontiers.
Feb 9, 2010
The Pluto Files
Season 37Episode 1460 min

The Pluto Files

Take a cross-country journey with Neil deGrasse Tyson to explore the rise and fall of America's favorite planet.
Mar 2, 2010
Telescope: Hunting the Edge of Space - The Mystery of the Milky Way
Season 37Episode 1560 min

Telescope: Hunting the Edge of Space - The Mystery of the Milky Way

In a two-hour special, NOVA examines how a simple instrument, the telescope, has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the universe.
Apr 6, 2010
Telescope: Hunting the Edge of Space - The Ever Expanding Universe
Season 37Episode 1660 min

Telescope: Hunting the Edge of Space - The Ever Expanding Universe

In a two-hour special, NOVA examines how a simple instrument, the telescope, has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the universe.
Apr 13, 2010
Mind Over Money
Season 37Episode 1760 min

Mind Over Money

In the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, NOVA presents "Mind Over Money"—an entertaining and penetrating exploration of why mainstream economists failed to predict the crash of 2008 and why we so often make irrational financial decisions. The program reveals how our emotions interfere with our decision-making and explores controversial new arguments about the world of finance. In the face of the recent crash, can a new science that aims to incorporate human psychology into finance—behavioral economics—help us make better financial decisions?
Apr 27, 2010
Mt. St. Helens Back from the Dead
Season 37Episode 1860 min

Mt. St. Helens Back from the Dead

One of the most violent natural disasters of our time, the colossal eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 blasted away an entire mountainside. Over 200 square miles of pristine forest were buried under millions of tons of lava, ash, mud, and avalanche debris. How could life ever return to this barren moonscape? A lone ecologist, Charlie Crisafulli, spent months in the blast zone and was astonished and puzzled by how quickly plants and animals colonized the wasteland. In this program, stunning cinematography and time-lapse photography trace the dramatic story of how Crisafulli witnessed life's return and figured out the puzzle. Now another question arises: How soon could another catastrophic eruption occur?

May 4, 2010

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