12-th episode of 33-th season "NOVA"

What "NOVA" 12-th episode about

Scientists' efforts to identify and understand neutrinos, unseen building blocks of the universe, are chronicled, beginning in 1930 with Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli's observations about a decaying radioactive atomic nucleus. Included are comments from astrophysicist John Bahcall, who calculated the sun's theoretical neutrino output during the 1960s; and Nobel Prize winner Raymond Davis Jr., who built a neutrino trap in a South Dakota gold mine.

Episode number: 12

Episode name: "The Ghost Particle"

Episode release date: 22 february 2006 at 02:00

Status: aired