NOVA

NOVA and National Geographic take a dazzling dive to explore how and why so many of the ocean's creatures light up--revealing a hidden undersea world where creatures flash, sparkle, shimmer, or simply glow.

On April 25, 2015 a devastating earthquake rocked Nepal, wiping out villages and leaving thousands dead. Through eyewitness footage, expert interviews, and stunning graphics, NOVA reveals the anatomy of this megaquake while scientists race to answer urgent questions: Is another big one coming?

Join the research ship Polarstern in the vast Antarctic ice pack in search of ice caves and juvenile krill.

NOVA joins mineralogist Robert Hazen as he journeys around the globe. From an ancient Moroccan market to the Australian Outback, he advances a startling and counterintuitive idea—that the rocks beneath our feet were not only essential to jump-starting life, but that microbial life helped give birth to hundreds of minerals we know and depend on today.

During World War I, the Allies devised a devastating attack, planting 600 tons of explosives in secret tunnels driven under the German trenches. NOVA uncovers traces of the operation and why it failed to break the lethal deadlock of trench warfare.

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Einstein's achievement, NOVA tells the inside story of Einstein's masterpiece.

NOVA examines the science and technology behind cyber warfare and asks if we are already in the midst of a deadly new arms race.

A team of historians and expert boat builders investigates a fascinating flood legend.

NOVA is on board as a Canadian team makes a breakthrough discovery of one of Franklin's lost ships.

Get exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil human ancestors.