NOVA

(Part 1 of 2) In a two-hour special, NOVA examines how a simple instrument, the telescope, has changed our understanding of our place in the universe.

(Part 2 of 2) In a two-hour special, NOVA examines how a simple instrument, the telescope, has changed our understanding of our place in the universe.

why mainstream economists failed to predict the crash of 2008 and why we so often make irrational financial decisions.

NOVA brings viewers on an inspiring journey of a landscape brought back from the dead.

On this dazzling journey inside the jewels of Gothic architecture, NOVA reveals the hidden formulas, drawn from the pages of the Bible itself, that drove medieval builders ever upward.

In TRAPPED IN AN ELEVATOR, NOVA reveals the secret life of these ubiquitous machines. Once brawny but simple machines, elevators are getting a brainy makeover.

Dogs Decoded reveals the science behind the remarkable bond between humans and their dogs.

Granted exclusive access to the dig site at Bluestonehenge, a prehistoric stone circle monument recently discovered about a mile from Stonehenge, NOVA cameras join a new generation of researchers finding important clues to the enduring mystery of Stonehenge.

Now join NOVA and National Geographic as they embark on two groundbreaking expeditions to expose new clues buried in the pockmarked desert of Jordan and seek to reveal the source of the great wealth that powered the first mighty Biblical kingdoms.

On June 1st, 2009, Flight AF447, an Air France Airbus A330 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all 228 lives.