Nova

- Season 30

(2003)

Nova recounts the history of the development of military unmanned aerial vehicles along with the opportunities and challenges they present.

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Nova takes an inside look at a competition between Boeing and Lockheed Martin to develop the next generation of American fighter aircraft.

An expedition to Mount Vinson, in Antarctica, one of the highest peaks of the World, offers a real awareness of the increasing fragility of the best preserved places far from our daily life.

Nova follows a group of art conservationists to the ancient Buddhist Temples of the Mustang. There they attempt to restore artwork that has been slowly deteriorating with time.

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This Nova special tells the story of Roselynne Franklin, concentrating on her breakthrough discovery of the structure of DNA, and how her discoveries were used without her permission by Watson, Crick, and Wilkens.

An ancient Archimedes Manuscript is discovered over written by a medieval prayer book. Program follows the effort to recover the lost text an the implications of its loss to history.

In the midst of World War I's aerial combat arms race emerges Germany's ace of aces, Manfred von Richthofen. The factors that made him devastatingly effective, and kept him alive when all around him were falling from the skies are described culminating in the best guesses of experts on what caused his death.

From Newton to String Theory Nova chronicles the progress toward a unified theory of everything.

In order to solve some of the deepest mysteries of the universe, the rules that govern large objects like galaxies must be combined with the rules that govern small objects like subatomic particles.

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Nova looks at how the Wright brothers made their first powered flight through the efforts of enthusiasts to replicate the Wright's early gliders and airplanes.

In this PBS "Nova" documentary, scientists discuss the bewildering causes and effects of the Earth's magnetic field, including the fact that the field appears to have weakened during the last few decades. A group of experts, including physicists and geologists, examine the individual elements that make up the field - from the molten core to the far reaches of space - in search of answers to these perplexing questions.

An expedition to Mount Kilimandjaro, in Africa, one of the highest peaks of the World, offers a real awareness of the increasing fragility of the best preserved places far from our daily life.