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What causes those beautiful reds, oranges, and pinks at sunset?
Records show how the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid more than 4500 years ago.
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The next generation of wireless communication technology is much more advanced, but it requires a lot of new infrastructure.
To combat climate change, scientists are working to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Earwax reveals more than you might realize, from ancestry to underlying medical conditions.
It’s surprisingly common for dogs to eat poop, a habit called coprophagia.
How pheromones and emotional contagion can make fear spread through a group–for better or worse.
How addiction works in the brain, and why opioids are so dangerously addictive.
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Practical tips for creating a strong password and keeping your data safe online.
Meet Europe’s five-thousand-year-old murder victim.
How did our solar system form? And when did Earth come to be?
Ancient Maya had a rich history and complex culture that is only now being fully appreciated.
Why sleepwalkers can paint, eat, or even drive when part of their brain is asleep.
The ancient history of Earth’s deep blue sea.
Stories of brilliant innovations and inventions by the world’s greatest minds.
Learn how some of the great structures of the world—the Eiffel Tower, the Great Pyramids, and more—were built.
The Eiffel Tower is an engineering icon that changed the face of the modern world.
Meet the 2023 – 2024 NOVA Science Studio student-producers who covered a wide variety of big data science stories
Introducing the 2024 NOVA Science Studio student producers who reported on local data-related impacts and solutions
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Use the Secrets in Your Data Outreach Toolkit to organize screenings and events in your community about personal data privacy and security online.
Celebrate Earth Day with NOVA films about animals, nature, and the wonders of our planet.
No sex? No problem. At least not for Charlotte the stingray.
Find everything you need for the April 8 total solar eclipse here, including eclipse glasses, event registration links, and educational resources.
The evolution of planet Earth over 4.5 billion years.
The familiar sky we see today wasn’t always blue.
Rust Belt cities could be the perfect place to develop this renewable energy solution.
Engage your students with science journalism about issues in their communities with the NOVA Science Studio program!
From Petra to the Amazon to ancient China, NOVA has you covered.
Check out some of NOVA’s best nature documentaries available for streaming.
Meet the 2022—2023 NOVA Science Studio student-producers who covered a wide variety of science stories including invasive species and sea level rise, as well as how farm to table restaurants may reduce carbon emissions.
Introducing the 2023 NOVA Science Studio student producers who reported on local climate change impacts and solutions
Three STEM educators share best practices for tackling climate change in the classroom through project-based learning.
Warming temperatures are causing extreme weather patterns across the country. But communities are pushing back with solutions old and new.
Even the Romans noticed that cities are engineered to be heat islands. But that means we can do something about it.
As wildfires escalate in Western states, authorities are embracing once-outlawed burning practices.
Use this toolkit to organize community screenings which educate the public, provide a space to discuss local impacts, and brainstorm community solutions.
Check out some of NOVA’s best space documentaries available for streaming.
Here’s how a magnetic field can heat up your pans.
The James Webb Space Telescope only captures infrared light, but imaging developers can convert the invisible into something both beautiful and scientifically accurate.
Bolster learning for middle and high school students about the myriad ways our weather is changing, how communities are being impacted, and innovative solutions.
A new study shows just what dolphins get out of cooperating with fishers in Brazil (besides lunch).
Seawater might seem like an obvious solution to water scarcity, but it comes at a cost.
Patterns of lines and dots associated with specific animal species in cave art may point to an early writing system.
Students across the country are participating in NOVA's film production program to make videos about climate change solutions in their local communities.
Explore the cosmos, delve into ancient history, and follow an extreme rescue with NOVA’s most-watched documentaries released in 2022.
NASA nudges an asteroid, weird things emerge from water, and scientists tackle a new epidemic.
The oldest DNA ever retrieved, preserved in sediments in northern Greenland, reveals that Arctic and temperate species once commingled in an ecosystem unlike anything that exists today.
From the ancient origins of zero to the paradox of motion, NOVA’s teaching resources immerse students in the wonder of math.
Can one infinity be bigger than another?
Earth’s natural satellite could be a jumping-off point for future space exploration.
NASA’s massive SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft kick off a series of missions to put humans back on the Moon.
These are just a few of the geoglyphs in southern Peru, known as the Nazca lines, thought to be at least 2,000 years old.
Venomous lionfish are taking over the Caribbean and the Mediterranean Sea, eating everything in their paths. One solution: handbags and belts.
The claustrum seems to act as a switchboard, telling different parts of the brain when to turn on and off. But what happens when the switchboard operator steps away?
We are proud to introduce the 2020—2021 NOVA Science Studio student-producers who covered a wide variety of science stories including fast fashion and sneaker sustainability, as well as the effects of food insecurity and its outsized impact on youth.
Scientists have cured a handful of people of HIV by piggybacking on treatments they received for blood cancer. But does that bring a widespread cure any closer?
The mission is a test to see if NASA could knock an Earth-bound asteroid off its path, should we ever need to.
Koalas are the only non-primates with fingerprints. How is that possible—and why?
A parasite that causes the most common form of malaria is evolving to be undetectable by current tests. Some scientists want to zero in on compounds in patients’ breath instead.
Sixty years ago a teenager’s homemade ice cream raised a surprisingly complicated question: Can hot liquids freeze faster than cold ones?
Here’s how hot air can “fry” food.
Here is how oil and heat can form a durable coating.
Will a Patagonian cypress in Chile prove older than California’s most elderly bristlecone pine?
Mushrooms are remarkably forgiving. Here’s the science of why.
How can you identify and overcome biases that hurt you financially? NOVA teamed up with Duke University’s Center for Advanced Hindsight to design the NOVA Financial Lab, a game that breaks down the behavioral science behind financial decision-making.
Images of five targets include the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date.
And why it’s so hard to make blue ones.
Exercise could be a powerful defense against Alzheimer’s disease. Three dementia researchers explain how it works.
Dogs can sniff out disease and analyze new odors even as they exhale. But how?
Footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park challenge scientists’ timeline of when humans first came to North America.
The Event Horizon Telescope team has captured the first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Archaeologists are working to understand how astronauts really use their space on the ISS—and help improve space habitats of the future.
The trails through our public lands weren’t designed for wheelchairs, but new wheelchairs are designed for those trails. National Park Service accessibility specialist Quinn Brett wants parks to catch up with wheelchair technology, increasing access to American wilderness.
Excessive outdoor lighting is deadly to animals and takes a toll on human health and wellbeing, too. But when it comes to large-scale environmental problems, this one may be a relatively easy fix.
In the 1700s, an enslaved man named Onesimus shared a novel way to stave off smallpox during the Boston epidemic. Here’s his little-told story, and how the Atlantic slave trade and Indigenous medicine influenced early modern science.
As Florida’s seagrass beds die off, manatees are starving. Can the seagrass–and the manatees–make a comeback?
Two hours before asteroid 2022 EB5 entered Earth’s atmosphere, scientists knew exactly when and where the space rock would strike.
During a recent study, a group of magpies removed their GPS trackers, astounding their observers. But were the birds actually trying to help each other?
New evidence suggests that the larger system the Gulf Stream is part of is approaching a tipping point that could cause dramatic shifts in global weather patterns.
Explore these NOVA resources to better understand the volcanology behind Tonga’s massive undersea eruption in January.
The underlying cause of multiple sclerosis is not yet known, but Epstein-Barr virus is a possible culprit, Harvard researchers say.
The beloved butterflies had fallen to critical levels in recent years. Experts weigh in on what might be causing their remarkable return.
The debris NASA’s asteroid-touching spacecraft collected could help us learn about the origins of our solar system. But for that to happen, scientists have to protect it from just about everything.
Scientific advancements helped humans push through both the pandemic and the atmosphere this year, and a long-awaited visit from some underground insects set the country abuzz.
High school scientists dazzled us with their innovations—while new studies revealed insights about math mastery and how we can prepare young people for real-world challenges.
Here’s what the largest—and most expensive—infrared space telescope will set its sights on.
Not everything that crosses a supermassive black hole’s accretion disc gets spaghettified, astrophysicists say.
NASA scientists used a neural network called ExoMiner to examine data from Kepler, increasing the total tally of confirmed exoplanets in the universe.
With the upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble era is gradually drawing to a close. Here are some highlights from the countless wonders Hubble has shown us during its 31 years in space.
As the first-ever “full-scale planetary defense test” to deflect a space rock, the DART mission aims to show that protecting Earth from a hazardous asteroid is possible.
An international research team used Hubble, TESS, and other instruments to witness the “Rosetta Stone” of supernovas. Its findings could help astronomers predict when other stars in the universe are about to explode.
Here’s how cannabis use became prohibited—and the science of its biological, psychological, and social effects.
The NOVA Universe Revealed Community Outreach Toolkit contains strategies for organizing events around the content of the five-part series as well as examples of hands-on activities and a wide range of multimedia educational resources aligned to the content of each episode.
The exoplanet candidate is about the size of Saturn and located in a Whirlpool galaxy system 28 million light-years from Earth.
As the country’s civil war decimated elephant populations, the proportion of tuskless females rose dramatically. A new study explains why the tuskless trend continued in peacetime.