NOVA scienceNOW is a News magazine version of the long-running and venerable PBS science program Nova. Premiering on January 25, 2005, the series was originally hosted by Robert Krulwich, who described it as an experiment in coverage of "breaking science, science that's right out of the lab, science that sometimes bumps up against politics, art, culture". At the beginning of season two, Neil deGrasse Tyson replaced Krulwich as the show's host. Tyson announced he would leave the show and was replaced by David Pogue beginning season 6.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 (5 Episodes) ▼
E1: Mirror Neurons, Hurricanes, Sand Dunes▶ PLAY
E2: 3-Foot Humans, T. Rex, Stem Cells▶ PLAY
E3: Hydrogen Cars, Petunias, Glaciers▶ PLAY
E4: Life in the Lab, Lightning, Fish Surgery▶ PLAY
E5: Tenth Planet, Twin Primes, Bird Flu▶ PLAY
Season 2 (5 Episodes) ▼
E1: Asteroid▶ PLAY
E2: Mass Extinction▶ PLAY
E3: Aging▶ PLAY
E4: Sleep▶ PLAY
E5: Dino Blood?▶ PLAY
Season 3 (10 Episodes) ▼
E1: Dark Matter, Mice, Crowd Wisdom▶ PLAY
E2: Personal Genome; Digital Art Authentication; Carbon Sequestration; Pardis Sabeti Profile▶ PLAY
E3: Saving Hubble, First Primates, Iraqibacter▶ PLAY
E4: Bird Brains, Space Storms, Smart Bridges▶ PLAY
E5: Leeches; SETI; Stem Cells; Edith Widder▶ PLAY
E6: Phoenix; Mammoth Mystery; Judah Folkman Tribute▶ PLAY
E7: Aging, Space Elevator, Maya from Space▶ PLAY
E8: Mass Extinction, 1918 Flu, Papyrus▶ PLAY
E9: Asteroid, Island of Stability, Karl Iagnemma▶ PLAY
E10: T-Rex Blood, Epigenetics, Kryptos▶ PLAY
Season 4 (8 Episodes) ▼
E1: Diamond Factory / Anthrax Investigation / Auto-Tune / Luis Von Ahn▶ PLAY
E2: Hunt for Alien Earths / Art Authentication / Maydianne Andrade / Autism Genes▶ PLAY
E3: Marathon Mouse/Dinosaur Plague/Franklin Chang-Díaz/Space Storms▶ PLAY
E4: Picky Eaters/Capturing Carbon/Sea Lions and Walruses/Sangeeta Bhatia▶ PLAY
E5: Moon Smasher/Secrets in the Salt/Bird Brains/Lonnie Thompson▶ PLAY
E6: Public Genomes/Algae Fuel/Arctic Ocean Seafloor/Yoky Matsuoka▶ PLAY
E7: Saving Hubble Update/Gangster Birds/Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa/How Memory Works▶ PLAY
E8: Earthquakes in the Midwest/Sleep/Sang-Mook Lee/First Primates▶ PLAY