The dome that crowns Florence’s great cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore—the Duomo—is a towering masterpiece of Renaissance ingenuity and an enduring source of mystery. Still the largest masonry dome on earth after more than six centuries, it is taller than the Statue of Liberty and weighs as much as an average cruise ship.

Who or what killed hundreds of people hidden in a burial chamber nearly 2,000 years ago?

In the rolling hills of Ireland's County Tipperary, a laborer harvesting peat from a dried-up bog spots the remnants of a corpse and stops his machine just in time, revealing a headless torso almost perfectly preserved and stained dark brown by the bog. Archeologists recognize the corpse as one of Europe's rare bog bodies.

Sloths may be cute, but they’re covered in a surprising number of creepy crawlies.

It was the strongest cyclone to hit land in recorded history. On November 8, 2013, Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines, whipping the low-lying and densely-populated islands with 200 mph winds and sending a two-story-high storm surge flooding into homes, schools, and hospitals. It wiped villages off the map and devastated cities, including the hard-hit provincial capital Tacloban.

In the early days of World War I, Germany, determined to bring its British enemies to their knees, launched a new kind of terror campaign: bombing civilians from the sky. But the aircraft delivering the lethal payloads weren't planes. They were Zeppelins, enormous airships, some the length of two football fields. NOVA investigates the secrets behind these deadly war machines.

It’s a golden age for planet hunters: NASA's Kepler mission has identified more than 3,500 potential planets orbiting stars beyond our Sun. Some of them, like a planet called Kepler-22b, might even be able to harbor life. How did we come upon this distant planet?

Explore an 18th century windmill with a modern day Dutch miller.

Planting trees in front of dikes is one way to keep large waves from flooding the shore.

To rebuild the coastline, engineers are pumping sand onto New York’s Coney Island beach.

Disaster risk management expert Klaus Jacob speaks candidly about the effects of climate change and sea level rise on New York City. He says we need to think ahead to what New York will look like 400 years from now in order to plan effectively.

What happened to the mysterious "first bullet" from JFK's assassination?

Can scientists unravel the mysterious phenomena that lurk between Earth and space? Airing November 20 at 8 pm on PBS

A company called Alcor freezes dead people, hoping to restore them to health one day.

A new high speed camera can capture light in motion and see around corners.

Could shellfish beds protect New York from flooding?

A project called DETER allows researchers to practice fighting cyber crimes.

A new drone doesn't fly like an airplane or helicopter—it flaps its wings like a bird.

Host David Pogue travels the globe to explore new technologies inspired by Nature.

Can modern forensic science uncover fresh clues about the assassination of JFK? Airing November 13 at 9 pm on PBS