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Forensic science is put to the test after the first-ever staged multi-vehicle pileup.
A first-of-its-kind experiment aims to stage a multi-vehicle pileup to gain new data on car safety.
After centuries of pseudoscience, researchers examine the causes of racial health disparities.
Follow scientists in a quest to understand how complex forest ecosystems can help cool our planet.
Explore key military technologies in the American colonies’ fight for freedom.
Follow the investigation into the deadly container ship collision that closed the Port of Baltimore.
Archaeologists uncover new truths about Pompeii, a wealthy Roman playground with dark secrets.
A long-lost ancient cemetery opens the door to a unique period in Egyptian history.
Fossils reveal how birds survived the killer asteroid and became today’s only living dinosaurs.
Follow the race to build a world-class airport on the site of one of America’s busiest flying hubs.
Mysterious bodies are found under one of the world’s most famous cathedrals.
From electric flight to artificial noses, engineers are finding new ways to preserve our planet.
Humans are born to roam. See how engineers are inventing new ways to explore and extend our range.
Is engineering humanity’s superpower? See how we can amplify our natural abilities in amazing ways.
Dive into the universe at the tiniest – and weirdest – of scales.
Meet the surprising, oddball worlds moving around our solar system.
Visit strange, frozen worlds to discover the bizarre ice that forms beyond Earth.
Discover the powerful volcanic eruptions that have shaped worlds across our solar system.
What are the weirdest worlds in our solar system, and how did they come to be?
Discover the dramatic forces creating spectacular weather on neighboring planets and moons.
Explore big discoveries that have revolutionized our understanding of the universe.
Follow the quest to recover DNA millions of years old for the very first time.
Explore the engineering behind Paris’s iconic landmark, the tallest structure of its time.
New evidence reveals the real story of Easter Island and the builders of its stone heads.
Giant fossils uncovered in the Sahara Desert reveal new secrets of how whales evolved.
A family turns to science in their struggle to rediscover a history obscured by slavery.
Specials
Fósiles gigantes en el Sahara revelan nuevos secretos sobre la evolución de las ballenas.
Investigate medical algorithms in which the patient’s race drives decisions.
Follow the quest to recover DNA millions of years old for the very first time.
Reintroducing the hogan, an earthen Navajo structure that stays cool in the summers without AC.
Following a local Unangax̂ hunter, hear the realities of food access in the changing Arctic.
Ak-chin farming makes desert agriculture possible, and now, those practices help communities today.
In Northern California, Marine science is guided by Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation’s community and culture.
Using photo archives and ancestral knowledge, witness coastal erosion in Bristol Bay, Alaska.
The Southwest is in a megadrought, but Native Americans have survived them before.
Meet the people leading new efforts to shape the future of the Gulf of Maine and our oceans.
Explore Cashes Ledge - part of the Gulf of Maine that helps power the Gulf’s more than 3,000 species
Discover the lasting impact of how international trade forever changed the Gulf of Maine’s bounty.
Discover the fascinating chemistry that makes our world and everything in it—including us.
Discover the fascinating chemistry that makes our world and everything in it—including us.
Discover the fascinating chemistry that makes our world and everything in it—including us.
Evidence discovered in the world’s highest tombs reveals ancient rituals and beliefs.
This rock is what remains from one of the biggest volcanic eruptions ever.
It would take dramatic transformations to turn volcanic islands into the first continents.
These are the North Dakota Badlands
thousands of square miles of arid gullies and buttes.
When the sand is swept away the stromatolites are vulnerable to the seaweeds.
Tyler Lyson is a paleontologist who’s been digging up dinosaur fossils in these badlands.
Extras
A massive earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could sink parts of the Pacific Northwest.
They paid only $27.50 for it from a London bookseller in 1946.
Go behind the scenes as NOVA visits the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile.
You probably won’t win big playing the Lottery but your brain may want to keep trying.
Forensic science is put to the test after the first-ever staged multi-vehicle pileup.
A first-of-its-kind experiment aims to stage a multi-vehicle pileup to gain new data on car safety.
After centuries of pseudoscience, researchers examine the causes of racial health disparities.
Two students created glasses that can identify people on the street, without them knowing.
Follow scientists in a quest to understand how complex forest ecosystems can help cool our planet.
Could restoring lost forests help slow climate change?
Explore key military technologies in the American colonies’ fight for freedom.
A team of experts put an 18th-century musket to the test — revealing how deadly it really was.
Space elevators? Nuclear rockets? The future of space travel could look radically different.
If the universe as we know it started with the Big Bang, will it also have an end?
The Drake Equation helps scientists estimate the odds of finding intelligent alien civilizations.
Scientists have discovered the building blocks of life in samples retrieved from a distant asteroid.
Follow the investigation into the deadly container ship collision that closed the Port of Baltimore.
The container ship Dali lost power causing it to crash into Baltimore’s Key Bridge.
Engineers explain how a vulnerability made the bridge open to catastrophe.
An asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, possibly making impact in 2032.
Archaeologists uncover new truths about Pompeii, a wealthy Roman playground with dark secrets.
In a recently discovered tomb in Pompeii, archeologists made a startling discovery.
At a gladiator match in ancient Pompeii, tensions exploded and spectators became fighters in a riot.
Discover why the ancient Egyptians invested so much in life after death.
Archaeologists remove the mud brick seal of an unopened Egyptian tomb.
Discover a time in Ancient Egypt when women held a role with extraordinary power.
A nearly 3,000-year-old canopic jar is discovered in an Egyptian tomb.
A long lost ancient cemetery opens the door to a unique period in Egyptian history.
Fossils reveal how birds survived the killer asteroid and became today’s only living dinosaurs.