(Program not available for streaming.) NOVA returns to Ground Zero to witness the final chapter in an epic story of engineering, innovation, and the perseverance of the human spirit. "Ground Zero ...
"A slow-moving Category 3 hurricane or larger will flood the city. There will be between 17 and 20 feet of standing water, and New Orleans as we now know it will no longer exist." —Ivor van Heerden, ...
As schools across the country close due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NOVA is committed to providing free STEM resources so that student learning can continue at home. For more than 40 years, NOVA has ...
Once you’ve seen a slime mold—its gooey, delicately branching structure oozing in a vaguely unsettling way along a log or leaf—you’re unlikely to forget it. They’re unmistakable because there’s ...
In southern New Mexico lies the Tularosa Basin, an oblong bowl that’s home to a natural sandbox: White Sands National Park. In 2005, David Bustos came to White Sands to work as a National Park Service ...
The Chinese admiral Zheng He must have made quite the impression when the 300 ships under his command arrived at a new destination. The biggest vessels, known as “treasure ships,” were by some ...
Red hot chili peppers, and other hot peppers within the Capsicum genus, get their heat from the chemical capsaicin. Image credit: Austin Kirk, Flickr Share A few months after competing in the 2008 ...
(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, ...
The recent explosion in cheap computing power, development in algorithms, and the increase of available data are making new classroom learning tools possible. Photo credit: Getty images Share ...
A false-color image of Saturn based on near-infrared data from the Cassini spacecraft, which orbited the planet for 13 years. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI ...
If a tree falls in the forest, but someone sticks around to replant it, does it still make an impact in the fight against climate change? That kind of change doesn’t come easy, or fast. The ...
It’s never been faster, easier, or cheaper to sequence a human genome. An individual’s entire genetic code can be unraveled in as little as an hour, allowing researchers to scour its billions of base ...
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