As entertaining as it is informative, NOVA explores headline-grabbing innovations and discoveries, mystifying science and technology along the way while also highlighting the human side of the people "who make science happen." NOVA programs have defined science television for the world, helping us to understand the way things work, while also exploring the social implications of these scientific findings that affect our past, present, and future. Ranging in topics covering everything from galaxies to atoms, the series opens viewers' imaginations to cutting-edge technology that is constantly pushing the limits of the real and possible.