From the PBS science series NOVA, a biweekly podcast digging into the science behind the headlines. Alok Patel takes you behind the scenes with the people—scientists, engineers, technologists, ...

(Program not available for streaming.) The ancient Egyptians preserved their dead with salt. The technique worked so well that bodies thousands of years old still survive today as mummies. Now ...

The entrepreneurs and engineers at LiftPort Group in Bremerton, Washington think space elevators aren't just a wild idea. Indeed, they've staked their corporation on the concept. In this video, join ...

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"The Fabric of the Cosmos," a four-hour series based on the book by renowned physicist and author Brian Greene, takes us to the frontiers of physics to see how scientists are piecing together the most ...

Can we make a robot that really thinks, learns, and acts like us? Replicating the human brain is a lot tougher than it looks; the promise of walking, talking "androids" is still just a fantasy. But ...

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(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) Astronomers are closing in on the proof they've sought for years that one of the most destructive objects in the universe—a supermassive ...

(This video is no longer available for streaming.) We've grown accustomed to heart surgery for dogs, chemotherapy for cats, and other variations on human-quality care of pets, but what about surgery ...

(This video is no longer available for streaming.) Prime numbers—those that can only be divided by themselves and one—bear a mystery. Why do primes tend to pair up? Five and seven, for example, are ...

(This video is no longer available for streaming.) Host Neil deGrasse Tyson joins a team of investigators hot on the trail of a mass murderer—one that knocked off its victims 250 million years ago ...

Building vision into computers has been a greater hurdle than AI experts ever thought it would be, and they haven't cleared it yet. Simply recognizing everyday objects like a shoe or a chair—an ...