NOVA - Season 16

NOVA - Season 16

Season 16

Network
Datessept. 6, 1988 - mars 28, 1989
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Episodes

Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft
Season 16Episode 160 min

Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft

Part one of a four-part series on the pioneers of modern surgery relives the early days, when surgery was practiced without the benefit of anaesthesia or antiseptics and patients usually died.
sept. 6, 1988
Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart
Season 16Episode 260 min

Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart

Once unthinkable, open-heart surgery is now an everyday miracle. NOVA looks at the brave doctors and patients who make it possible.
sept. 13, 1988
Pioneers of Surgery: New Organs for Old
Season 16Episode 360 min

Pioneers of Surgery: New Organs for Old

From kidneys to Hearts, NOVA examines the daring attempts to replace diseased organs with transplanted ones.
sept. 20, 1988
Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife
Season 16Episode 460 min

Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife

Surgeons have always been eager to help patients, even at the risk of killing them. NOVA looks at some of the excesses of surgery, and at how new drugs and technologies are rendering some operations obsolete.
sept. 27, 1988
Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel?
Season 16Episode 560 min

Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel?

Science meets art in the controversial effort to restore Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel frescoes.
oct. 4, 1988
Can the Next President Win the Space Race?
Season 16Episode 660 min

Can the Next President Win the Space Race?

Thirty years after Sputnik, the United States space program is mired in uncertainty, while the Russians, Europeans, Japanese and others sprint onward and upward.
oct. 11, 1988
Do Scientists Cheat?
Season 16Episode 760 min

Do Scientists Cheat?

NOVA examines the troubling question of scientific fraud: How prevalent is it? Who commits it? And what happens when the perpetrators are caught?
oct. 25, 1988
Who Shot President Kennedy?
Season 16Episode 860 min

Who Shot President Kennedy?

Using previously unavailable technology, NOVA probes the available evidence surrounding the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.
nov. 15, 1988
The Light Stuff
Season 16Episode 960 min

The Light Stuff

Reliving a Greek myth takes an effort of mythic proportions, as NOVA reveals in its behind-the-scenes report of a human powered-flight across the Aegean Sea, a journey that symbolically recreated the mythical flight of Daedalus. NOVA follows the epic journey of the human-powered plane Daedalus 88 from the early prototypes to its dramatic landing in the surf after a 74-mile flight from the island of Crete to Santorini.
nov. 22, 1988
The All-American Bear
Season 16Episode 1060 min

The All-American Bear

The life of the shy, intelligent black bear in the wild—foraging, mating, playing and constantly preparing for its remarkable hibernation—is captured for the first time on film by NOVA.
déc. 6, 1988
Can We Make a Better Doctor?
Season 16Episode 1160 min

Can We Make a Better Doctor?

NOVA embarks on a 10-year project to profile—in its entirety—the education of a doctor. In the premiere episode, we follow a handful of students as they start their first year at Harvard Medical School under a revolutionary program emphasizing early clinical contact with patients. Part one of a ten-year study. See also "So You Want to Be a Doctor?", "Making of a Doctor", and "Doctors' Diaries".
déc. 13, 1988
Hot Enough for You?
Season 16Episode 1260 min

Hot Enough for You?

Was the searing summer of 1988 a taste of things to come? NOVA looks at the greenhouse effect, which portends higher temperatures, rising sea levels and other environmental disasters.
janv. 17, 1989
The Last Journey of a Genius
Season 16Episode 1360 min

The Last Journey of a Genius

NOVA looks at the bongo-playing scientist, adventurer, safecracker and yarn-spinner Richard Feynman, most recently famous for his role as gadfly of the Presidential Commission investigating the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
janv. 24, 1989
The Strange New Science of Chaos
Season 16Episode 1460 min

The Strange New Science of Chaos

NOVA explains "chaos," a new science that is making surprising sense out of chaotic phenomena in nature, from the weather to brain waves.
janv. 31, 1989
Back to Chernobyl
Season 16Episode 1560 min

Back to Chernobyl

NOVA goes to the Soviet Union for an inside investigation of the world's most catastrophic nuclear power accident with correspondent Bill Kurtis.
févr. 14, 1989
God, Darwin and the Dinosaurs
Season 16Episode 1660 min

God, Darwin and the Dinosaurs

In an Idaho classroom, teacher Phil Gerrish puts an unorthodox interpretation on the day's biology lesson. As students take notes, he explains that creationism is a valid scientific explanation for the origin on life. Once relying solely on the literal word of the Bible to make their case, creationists now argue that the scientific evidence is on their side. NOVA reports on this new twist in the long-running battle between creationism and evolution.
févr. 21, 1989
Adrift on the Gulf Stream
Season 16Episode 1760 min

Adrift on the Gulf Stream

NOVA explores the importance of the Gulf Stream to ocean life, climate and human history.
févr. 28, 1989
Secrets of Easter Island (1)
Season 16Episode 1860 min

Secrets of Easter Island (1)

A team attempts to recreate the original islanders' success at moving and erecting giant moai statues. (Part 1 of 2)
mars 7, 1989
Legends of Easter Island (2)
Season 16Episode 1960 min

Legends of Easter Island (2)

A team attempts to recreate the original islanders' success at moving and erecting giant moai statues. (Part 2 of 2)
mars 7, 1989
The World Is Full of Oil!
Season 16Episode 2060 min

The World Is Full of Oil!

Scientific detectives test their ingenuity in the effort to find underground oil deposits.
mars 21, 1989
Confronting the Killer Gene
Season 16Episode 2160 min

Confronting the Killer Gene

Arlo, Nancy and Janice each have a 50/50 chance of developing a devastating nerve disorder. A laboratory test can tell them if in fact they will fall victim. In their shoes, would you take the test? Thousands of others face a similar choice: to know, or not know, if they will carry the genetic time bomb of Huntington's disease. NOVA looks at this incurable disease which affects 20,000 people in the US and threatens tens of thousands of others.
mars 28, 1989

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