NOVA: Season 24
Season 24 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of NOVA Season 23.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 24 Progress Shield
Einstein Revealed
Oct 1, 1996 · 55 min
This two-hour program chronicles Albert Einstein's life and scientific achievements from his birth in 1879 to his death in 1955. The first hour follows Einstein in his quest to und
Lost City of Arabia
Oct 8, 1996 · 55 min
Helped by remote sensing, an expedition searches Oman's vast al-Khali desert for the lost city of Ubar.
Three Men and a Balloon
Oct 15, 1996 · 55 min
One of the final aeronautics challenges left in the world today does not involve the use of a plane, a rocket, or even an engine. No one has yet been able to circumnavigate the ear
Secrets of Making Money
Oct 22, 1996 · 55 min
With a radically redesigned bill, the U.S. Treasury fights back against a new breed of counterfeiters.
Top Gun Over Moscow
Nov 12, 1996 · 55 min
Flights in Russia's powerful fighter jets are for sale to foreign travelers. So is the Russian Air Force still in the game?
Shark Attack
Nov 19, 1996 · 55 min
Sharks are known as the "perfect predators," but sometimes they slip up and attack the wrong prey—people.
Odyssey of Life: The Ultimate Journey (1)
Nov 24, 1996 · 55 min
NOVA explores the links between our individual development and the evolution of life itself.
Odyssey of Life: The Unknown World (2)
Nov 25, 1996 · 55 min
This program reveals some of the billions of practically invisible organisms that live on, in, and around us.
Cracking the Ice Age
Dec 31, 1996 · 55 min
Did the crash of continents that produced the Himalayan Mountains also trigger the Ice Age?
Kaboom!
Jan 14, 1997 · 55 min
An in-depth and heart stopping look at the ultimate chemical reaction - the explosion. Using high speed photography and dramatic reconstruction, the film will chart the tarnished h
Titanic's Lost Sister
Jan 28, 1997 · 55 min
In a 90-minuite presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyptologist, Mark Lehner, and a professional stonem
Secrets Of Lost Empires (1): Pyramid
Feb 4, 1997 · 55 min
In a 90-minuite presentation, NOVA reveals the ancient secrets of how the pyramids were built by actually building one. A noted Egyptologist, Mark Lehner, and a professional stonem
Secrets of Lost Empires: Stonehenge (1)
Feb 11, 1997 · 55 min
A distinctive feature of this stone site are the trilithons, which consist of two upright stones topped by a horizontal lintel stone. In this program, the NOVA team considers how t
Secrets of Lost Empires: Inca (2)
Feb 11, 1997 · 55 min
Even without such technological advances as wheels, arches, draft animals, iron tools, or a system of writing, the Inca—utilizing a tradition of shared labor—achieved a number of e
Secrets of Lost Empires: Obelisk (3)
Feb 12, 1997 · 55 min
Pharaohs who built magnificent temples to preserve their names for eternity often graced temple gates with pairs of obelisks, four-sided shafts of granite that taper gently upward
Secrets of Lost Empires: Colosseum (4)
Feb 12, 1997 · 55 min
Citizens of Rome came to the Colosseum to behold free entertainment that usually came in the form of violent war games and bloody battles between humans and animals. This structure
Hunt for Alien Worlds
Feb 18, 1997 · 55 min
Astronomers discover planets beyond our solar system. But is there life on them?
Curse of T.rex
Feb 25, 1997 · 55 min
How do paleontologists and commercial fossil hunters know where to look for rare and priceless dinosaur bones?
Cut to the Heart
Apr 8, 1997 · 55 min
Ever since World War II, physicians have struggled to find ways to treat heart failure, the biggest killer in the modern world.
Kingdom of the Seahorse
Apr 15, 1997 · 55 min
The world's leading sea horse biologist journeys to Australia and the Philippines to explore the secret lives of these extraordinary fish.