NOVA
Season 39 Episode 16 - Hunting the Elements
Where do nature’s building blocks, called the elements, come from? They’re the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our bodies to the metals in our smartphones. To unlock their secrets, David Pogue, the lively host of NOVA’s popular "Making Stuff" series and technology correspondent of The New York Times, spins viewers through the world of weird, extreme chemistry: the strongest acids, the deadliest poisons, the universe’s most abundant elements, and the rarest of the rare—substances cooked up in atom smashers that flicker into existence for only fractions of a second.
Episodes in Season 39
Engineering Ground Zero
55 min
Surviving the Tsunami
55 min
Finding Life Beyond Earth: Are We Alone?
55 min
Iceman Murder Mystery
55 min
The Fabric of the Cosmos: What is Space?
55 min
The Fabric of the Cosmos: The Illusion of Time
55 min
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Quantum Leap
55 min
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Universe or Multiverse?
55 min
Deadliest Volcanoes
55 min
Bombing Hitler's Dams
55 min
3D Spies of WWII
55 min
Mystery of a Masterpiece
55 min
Ice Age Death Trap
55 min
Separating Twins
55 min
Cracking Your Genetic Code
55 min
Hunting the Elements
55 min
Deadliest Tornadoes
55 min
Why Ships Sink
55 min
Secrets of the Sun
55 min
