PBS's NOVA Announces January 2015 Premieres

Below, check out information on premiering episodes of NOVA on PBS in January 2015.

NOVA: "Big Bang Machine"
Premieres January 14, 2015 at 9pm ET/8c on PBS

On July 4, 2012, scientists at the giant atom smashing facility at CERN announced the discovery of a subatomic particle that seems like a tantalizingly close match to the elusive Higgs Boson, thought to be responsible for giving all the stuff in the universe its mass. Since it was first proposed nearly fifty years ago, the Higgs has been the holy grail of particle physicists: finding it completes the ?standard model? that underlies all of modern particle physics. Now CERN?s scientists are preparing for the Large Hadron Collider's second act, when they restart the history-making collider, running at higher energy -- hoping to find the next great discovery that will change what we know about the particles and forces that make up our universe.

NOVA: "Sunken Ship Rescue"
Premieres January 21, 2015 at 9pm ET/8c on PBS

NOVA follows the epic operation to secure, raise and salvage the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which ran aground and tragically capsized off the coast of Italy on January 13th 2012, killing 32 people. The wreck stretches the length of three football fields, weighs 45,000 tons, and lies half submerged on the site of a protected reef, with a 160-foot-long hole in its hull. Moving it from its precarious perch on the edge of an underwater cliff will be a huge technical and logistical challenge. Now, NOVA joins a team of more than 500 divers and engineers working around the clock as they attempt the biggest ship recovery project in history.

NOVA: "Sinkholes ? Buried Alive"
Premieres January 28, 2015 at 9pm ET/8c on PBS

In Tampa, Florida, on February 2013, a giant hole opened up under the bedroom floor of Jeffrey Bush, swallowing the 36 year-old as he slept. His body was never found. Bush was a victim of a sinkhole ? a growing worldwide hazard that lurks wherever limestone and other water-soluble rocks underpin the soil. When carbon dioxide in the air dissolves in rainwater, it forms a weak acid that attacks the soft rocks, riddling them with holes like Swiss cheese. Sinkholes can occur gradually when the surface subsides into bowl shaped depressions; or suddenly, when the ground gives way ? often catastrophically. Sinkholes have swallowed highways, apartment buildings, horses, camels, even golfers, with monster-size holes cracking the earth from SIBERIA to Louisiana. Filled with compelling eyewitness video of dramatic collapses, and following scientists as they explore the underlying forces behind these natural disasters, NOVA travels the globe to investigate what it?s like to have your world vanish beneath your feet.