The filmmakers behind When Machines Prescribe — which premiered on the PBS science series NOVA, produced by GBH — are recipients of the 2025 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award in the Video Spot ...

New analysis of pollen grains and radiocarbon dating suggests that climate change played a major role in Ancient Egypt’s downfall. ByTim De Chant Tuesday, October 22, 2013 NOVA NextNOVA Next ...

Here's your chance to crack ciphers similar to those Bletchley Park's codebreakers faced during World War II. Below, we present three ciphers of different levels of difficulty, from easiest to most ...

NOVA Labs: Most of what we know about solar science comes from reading the Sun's light.

An electrical engineer works on Form Energy's 2022 battery module in the company's lab in Berkeley, California. Image courtesy of Form Energy Share Weirton, West Virginia has iron in its blood. The ...

Giraffes produce "humming" vocalizations at an average frequency of 92 Hertz. Share Until now, giraffe caretakers had reason to believe that their long-necked vegetarian friends were strictly silent ...

They haven't got no noses, The fallen sons of Eve; Even the smell of roses Is not what they supposes; But more than mind discloses And more than men believe. —from "The Song of the Quoodle," G.K.

To the nervous system, memories and chronic pain are strikingly similar. Can we use the same technique to erase them? ByEleanor Nelson Wednesday, August 13, 2014 NOVA NextNOVA Next Nerve cells, like ...

The planet looks blue from space, but new research shows that most of Earth's water may actually be deep underground. Share Earth is a jewel of the solar system, painted blue by the vast oceans that ...

What if the fundamental “stuff” of the universe isn’t matter or energy, but information? That’s the idea some theorists are pursuing as they search for ever-more elegant and concise descriptions of ...

(This program is no longer streaming). Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs in a fiery global catastrophe. But we know little about how their successors, the mammals, ...

Kaden Bowen is a smiley 12-year-old who loves music and riding in fast cars. He also can’t walk or talk, is legally blind, and can only use the pinky finger on his left hand. Kaden has cerebral palsy, ...