The BEST episodes of NOVA season 44
Every episode of NOVA season 44, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of NOVA season 44!
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#1 - The Origami Revolution
Season 44 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/15/2017
The art of origami reshapes the world, affecting drug development and future NASA space missions.
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#2 - Killer Volcanoes
Season 44 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/25/2017
The hunt for a volcanic mega-eruption that plunged medieval Earth into a deep freeze includes geologic evidence from Greenland to Antarctica.
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#3 - Bird Brain
Season 44 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/20/2017
Scientists test avian aptitude with brainteasers that reveal acute intelligence.
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#4 - Secrets of the Shining Knight
Season 44 - Episode 13 - Aired 10/4/2017
A re-engineering of Greenwich armor to get a sense of what it was like to be a knight and how the armor was manufactured in medieval times.
#5 - Death Dive to Saturn
Season 44 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/13/2017
The Cassini space probe attempts to dive between the innermost ring and top of Saturn's atmosphere.
#6 - Ghosts of Stonehenge
Season 44 - Episode 14 - Aired 10/11/2017
Archaeological digs reveal new clues as to who built Stonehenge and why.
#7 - Poisoned Water
Season 44 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/31/2017
The water crisis in Flint, Mich., brings awareness to the vulnerabilities of water systems across the U.S.
#8 - Secrets of the Forbidden City
Season 44 - Episode 15 - Aired 10/18/2017
The architectural design of Beijing's ancient complex of palaces and temples enabled it to survive centuries of earthquake shocks.
#9 - Why Trains Crash
Season 44 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/22/2017
Investigators study wreckage of train accidents; safety experts test crash prevention designs.
#10 - Killer Hurricanes
Season 44 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/1/2017
Researching the Great Hurricane of 1780, which blasted its way across the Caribbean, why it was so dangerous and the potential for more mega-storms in the future.
#11 - Search for the Super Battery
Season 44 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/1/2017
David Pogue investigates how batteries work and what the future may hold for technical innovation.
#12 - The Nuclear Option
Season 44 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/2017
Scientists and engineers work to control a nuclear renaissance five years after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
#13 - Secrets of the Sky Tombs
Season 44 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/2017
The towering Himalayas were among the last places on Earth that humanity settled. Scaling sheer cliff sides, a team of daring scientists hunts for clues to how ancient people found their way into this forbidding landscape and adapted to survive the high altitude. They discover rock-cut tombs filled with human bones and enigmatic artifacts, including gold masks and Chinese silk dating back thousands of years, and piece together evidence of strange rituals and beliefs designed to ward off the restless spirits of the dead.
#14 - Ultimate Cruise Ship
Season 44 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/8/2017
Shipbuilders in Italy work around the clock to build the Seven Seas Explorer, the world's largest and most luxurious cruise ship.
#15 - Day the Dinosaurs Died
Season 44 - Episode 21 - Aired 12/27/2017
Scientists discover new clues as to the catastrophe that ended the reign of the dinosaurs on Earth.
#16 - Eclipse Over America
Season 44 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/21/2017
The history of eclipse science and research into the solar corona.
#17 - Chinese Chariot Revealed
Season 44 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/17/2017
Design secrets that made chariots a war machine for hundreds of years; how they were used and how they helped unify China.
#18 - Extreme Animal Weapons
Season 44 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/22/2017
Why some animals have extreme armaments, including claws, horns, fangs and stings.
#19 - Killer Floods
Season 44 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/8/2017
Efforts to uncover the geologic footprints of colossal megafloods in Iceland and on the seabed of the English Channel.
#20 - Holocaust Escape Tunnel
Season 44 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/19/2017
Archaeologists discover a tunnel near Vilnius, Lithuania, which served as an escape route for Jews fleeing the Nazis during World War II.
#21 - Building Chernobyl's MegaTomb
Season 44 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/26/2017
Engineers build a dome to contain the crumbling remains of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.