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PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.
Episode 22 : Can We Make a Better Doctor?
December. 13,1988
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 freshman year at Harvard Medical School under a revolutionary program emphasizing early clinical contact with patients.
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Episode 21 : The All-American Bear
December. 06,1988
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.
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Episode 19 : Who Shot President Kennedy?
November. 15,1988
Using previously unavailable technology, NOVA probes the available evidence surrounding the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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Episode 18 : Do Scientists Cheat?
October. 18,1988
NOVA examines the troubling question of scientific fraud: How prevalent is it? Who commits it? And what happens when the perpetrators are caught?
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Episode 17 : Can the Next President Win the Space Race?
October. 11,1988
Thirty years after Sputnik, the United States space program is mired in uncertainty, while the Russians, Europeans, Japanese and others sprint onward and upward.
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Episode 16 : Can the Vatican Save the Sistine Chapel?
October. 04,1988
Science meets art in the controversial effort to restore Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel frescoes.
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Episode 15 : Pioneers of Surgery: Beyond the Knife
September. 27,1988
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.
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Episode 14 : Pioneers of Surgery: New Organs for Old
September. 20,1988
From kidneys to hearts, NOVA examines the daring attempts to replace diseased organs with transplanted ones.
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Episode 13 : Pioneers of Surgery: Into the Heart
September. 13,1988
Once unthinkable, open-heart surgery is now an everyday miracle. NOVA looks at the brave doctors and patients who make it possible.
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Episode 12 : Pioneers of Surgery: The Brutal Craft
September. 06,1988
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 antisceptics and patients usually died.
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Episode 11 : Can You Still Get Polio?
April. 05,1988
Most cases of polio in this country are caused by the vaccine designed to prevent it. NOVA examines the controvery surrounding the nation's vaccine policy.
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Episode 10 : Race for the Superconductor
March. 29,1988
NOVA charts an electronics revolution in the making as Japan and the United States race to develop a material that will conduct electricity at room temperature with zero resistance.
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Episode 9 : The Man Who Loved Numbers
March. 22,1988
NOVA explores the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a poor clerk from India who astounded mathematicians in the 1910s with his brilliant insight into the world of numbers.
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Episode 7 : The Mystery of the Master Builders
March. 08,1988
Princeton professor and author Robert Mark tracks down the engineering secrets of some of the beautiful buildings in the world including Notre Dame in Paris, St. Paul in London and the Roman Pantheon.
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Episode 6 : Battles in the War on Cancer: Turning the Tide
March. 01,1988
Breast cancer claims the lives of four American women every hour. Jane Pauley of NBC News hosts and narrates this NOVA report on stepped-up efforts to reduce the death rate from this all-too-common killer.
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Episode 5 : Battles in the War on Cancer: A Wonder Drug on Trial
February. 23,1988
In part one of a two-part special presentation, NOVA reports on the trials to determine whether the new drug Interleukin-2—the first to make use of the body's own disease-fighting strategy—will live up to its promise as a pivotal cancer breakthrough. Jane Pauley of NBC News hosts and narrates.
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Episode 4 : Why Planes Burn
February. 09,1988
Airplane fires are often deadly. NOVA looks at efforts to make fires aboard planes less likely and more survivable.
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Episode 3 : Buried in Ice
February. 02,1988
Scientists investigate the frozen remains of members of the 19th century Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic and ask why all perished.
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Episode 2 : How to Create a Junk Food
January. 26,1988
Julia Child introduces NOVA's behind-the-scenes look at how science aids in the creation of snack foods.
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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.