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Building Stuff

Premieres Wednesdays, November 13 - 27, 2024, 9:00 - 10:00 p.m. ET

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NOVA: Building Stuff

Change It! For as long as humans have been around, we’ve been altering the spaces around us to better suit our needs. From accessing ancient wisdom to build a better water filter to designing a robot that uses acoustics to monitor coral reef health, see how today’s engineers are applying their craft to reshape the natural world and create new human-made environments to enhance our lives in amazing ways.
  • Airdate Wednesday, November 27, 2024 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
  • Original11/27/2024
  • NOVA5117
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NOVA: Building Stuff

Boost It! Around the world, engineers are finding ingenious ways to amplify our abilities and senses – allowing us to access and shape the world way beyond our natural abilities. From helping a blind man see without the use of his eyes to building a sling so powerful it can shoot rockets into space, see why engineering just might be the closest thing to a superpower we humans have.
  • Original11/13/2024
  • NOVA5115

NOVA: Building Stuff

Reach It! From the time our species first evolved, we’ve been on the move. Not content to stay in one place, we’ve schemed and invented and built our way from one place to the next. From affordable deep sea subs to flying taxis to next-gen space habitats, see how today’s engineers are designing and building creative new ways for us to get all around — and even off — our planet.
  • Original11/20/2024
  • NOVA5116

NOVA: Building Stuff

Change It! For as long as humans have been around, we’ve been altering the spaces around us to better suit our needs. From accessing ancient wisdom to build a better water filter to designing a robot that uses acoustics to monitor coral reef health, see how today’s engineers are applying their craft to reshape the natural world and create new human-made environments to enhance our lives in amazing ways.
  • Airdate Wednesday, November 27, 2024 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
  • Original11/27/2024
  • NOVA5117