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Fecha de estreno: 19 de enero, 1988
Episodios: 22
Duración de temporada: 20 horas
Última emisión: 30 de abril, 2025
Valoración media Palomitacas: ★ (6/10)
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Episodios

Capítulo 1: Episodio 1
Fecha de estreno: 19 de enero del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: Today's sophisticated fighter jets can almost fly themselves, but well-trained pilots are still needed to win air battles. NOVA looks at how planes and pilots are adapting to high technology.

Capítulo 2: Episodio 2
Fecha de estreno: 26 de enero del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: Julia Child introduces NOVA's behind-the-scenes look at how science aids in the creation of snack foods.

Capítulo 3: Episodio 3
Fecha de estreno: 02 de febrero del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: Scientists investigate the frozen remains of members of the 19th century Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic and ask why all perished.

Capítulo 4: Episodio 4
Fecha de estreno: 09 de febrero del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: Airplane fires are often deadly. NOVA looks at efforts to make fires aboard planes less likely and more survivable.

Capítulo 5: Episodio 5
Fecha de estreno: 23 de febrero del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: 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 liv...

Capítulo 6: Episodio 6
Fecha de estreno: 01 de marzo del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: 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...

Capítulo 7: Episodio 7
Fecha de estreno: 08 de marzo del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: 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.

Capítulo 8: Episodio 8
Fecha de estreno: 15 de marzo del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: It was a blustery day in December 1986, and the New England Coast was in the midst of a winter storm, accompanied by strong on-shore gales and an unusually high tide—conditions perfect for strandin...

Capítulo 9: Episodio 9
Fecha de estreno: 22 de marzo del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: 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.

Capítulo 10: Episodio 10
Fecha de estreno: 29 de marzo del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: 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.

Capítulo 11: Episodio 11
Fecha de estreno: 05 de abril del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: 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.

Capítulo 12: Episodio 12
Fecha de estreno: 06 de septiembre del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: 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.

Capítulo 13: Episodio 13
Fecha de estreno: 13 de septiembre del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: Once unthinkable, open-heart surgery is now an everyday miracle. NOVA looks at the brave doctors and patients who make it possible.

Capítulo 14: Episodio 14
Fecha de estreno: 20 de septiembre del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: From kidneys to hearts, NOVA examines the daring attempts to replace diseased organs with transplanted ones.

Capítulo 15: Episodio 15
Fecha de estreno: 27 de septiembre del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: 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 operation...

Capítulo 16: Episodio 16
Fecha de estreno: 04 de octubre del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: Science meets art in the controversial effort to restore Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel frescoes.

Capítulo 17: Episodio 17
Fecha de estreno: 11 de octubre del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: Thirty years after Sputnik, the United States space program is mired in uncertainty, while the Russians, Europeans, Japanese and others sprint onward and upward.

Capítulo 18: Episodio 18
Fecha de estreno: 18 de octubre del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: NOVA examines the troubling question of scientific fraud: How prevalent is it? Who commits it? And what happens when the perpetrators are caught?

Capítulo 19: Episodio 19
Fecha de estreno: 15 de noviembre del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: Using previously unavailable technology, NOVA probes the available evidence surrounding the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Capítulo 20: Episodio 20
Fecha de estreno: 22 de noviembre del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: Reliving a Greek myth takes an effort of mythic proportions, as NOVA reveals in its behind-the-scenes report of a human powered-flight across the Aegean Sea, a journey that symbolically recreated t...

Capítulo 21: Episodio 21
Fecha de estreno: 06 de diciembre del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: 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.

Capítulo 22: Episodio 22
Fecha de estreno: 13 de diciembre del 1988 55 min
Sinopsis: 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...
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