A new video podcast from GBH and the producers of NOVA, hosted by Hakeem Oluseyi. Should we bring back extinct species? Are we missing a fundamental law of nature? What can ancient fossils tell us ...

Explore the outreach toolkit, view upcoming screening events, and browse support materials for two NOVA films – Critical Condition: Health in Black America and When Machines Prescribe. In Critical ...

Black Americans are nearly twice as likely to have high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease than White Americans, and their life expectancy is about five years shorter. Why? In this special ...

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 ...

Researchers visit an ancient pyramid in Peru in NOVA's Ancient Builders of the Amazon. Image Credit: Federico Pardo for NOVA/GBH For 50 years, NOVA has taken viewers on adventures through time and ...

The Claude "Bud" Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant near San Diego uses reverse osmosis filtration to provide 50 million gallons of desalinated seawater per day. Image Credit: Reed Kaestner, Getty ...

Patterns of lines and dots associated with specific animal species in cave art may point to an early writing system. The four dots painted across the back of this aurochs (wild ox) in the Lascaux cave ...

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? ByBenjamin Ryan Wednesday, October 5, ...

The idea that animal fingerprints could disrupt crime scenes had come up even before koalas' prints came to light. In 1975, London police fingerprinted several chimpanzees from local zoos as part of a ...

In recent years, air fryers have exploded in popularity thanks to their promise: You can make crispy, fried food with little to no oil. But what’s really happening inside those countertop machines?

High on a ridge in California’s Eastern Sierra, a gnarled bristlecone pine known as Methuselah has reigned over almost five millennia’s worth of snowy winters and blazing summers. Methuselah, whose ...

Ahh, cast iron pans. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they’ve been around for hundreds of years. With proper maintenance, they can last long enough to become family heirlooms. A cornerstone of this pan’s upkeep ...