Note: The following explanations take into account only basic astronomical influences. They ignore geographical influences, ...

While they have no telephone, they get news and images of a wider world through two radios and the family's most prized possession, a television. In the future, they hope to get one with a 30-inch ...

Huygens' Descent Ride along on the outside of Huygens as it parachutes through Titan's atmosphere at nearly 200 miles per hour. "Titanized" Sound Bruce Betts's voice would sound dramatically ...

It's true. If you could harness its power—that is, turn every one of its atoms into pure energy—the paper clip would yield about 18 kilotons of TNT. That's roughly the size of the bomb that destroyed ...

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Once a death sentence, cystic fibrosis now has a life-saving treatment. Follow the decades-long scientific quest, fueled by ...

The official website for NOVA. NOVA is the most-watched prime time science series on American television, reaching an average of five million viewers weekly.

Zero and infinity. These seemingly opposite, obvious, and indispensable concepts are relatively recent human inventions. Discover the surprising story of how these key concepts that revolutionized ...

Close up view of brain patterns. Eyes glazed and hands outstretched, some sleepwalkers look like they came straight out of a zombie movie. Other sleepwalkers can paint, eat, or even drive—often ...

Stonehenge is the grandest and most enigmatic of Europe’s prehistoric monuments, and it has inspired countless theories to explain who built it and why. Was it an ancient cathedral or burial place or ...