National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the NOVA Science Trust, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS viewers. Where did ...

Discover how deepfakes are detected and what the future holds for truth in the digital age. In a world flooded with fake images, manipulated videos, and AI-generated voices, how do we know what’s real ...

Dive into deep time to discover how fossils form, the ocean's surprising origins, and more. What do fossilized leaves, an asteroid, and Florida sinkholes have in common? Dr. Kirk Johnson is Sant ...

Were ancient Egyptians obsessed with death? That common misconception hides the true relationship between life and death in ancient Egypt. Discover how they thought about death, why they invested so ...

Area 51’s UFO myths became a cover for secret testing of cutting-edge military technology. For decades, rumors of alien spacecraft at Area 51 have captivated the public imagination. In what is now ...

Mysterious bodies are found under one of the world’s most famous cathedrals. After the Notre Dame fire in 2019, two mysterious coffins were found buried beneath its floor. Where did they come from and ...

Is engineering humanity’s superpower? See how we can amplify our natural abilities in amazing ways. How are leading innovators supercharging our natural abilities? From slingshots that can throw ...

iNaturalist is an app that quickly tells us what plants and animals we see. It's a handy tool for identifying weeds in the garden or critters in the forest. But when we make iNaturalist observations, ...

Phobos, one of Mars' moons, has an uncertain origin, but its surface grooves show that tidal forces are pulling it apart. In time, Mars' gravity will shatter it entirely, creating a ring of debris ...

Worlds that exist close to the warmth of the sun, like the rocky worlds of Mars, Earth and our moon, have relatively little ice, because they lie inside what is known as the ice line. National ...

For 100-million Americans living in coastal communities, more destructive storms are an increasing worry. Some are starting to confront the possibility of losing their land entirely. National ...

Hurricanes are getting more intense, faster. Scientists predict that our increasingly warmer atmosphere and oceans will feed these hurricanes — we may not see more of them that we used to, but the ...