Gripping personal stories from Japan offer lessons on how to act in the face of a life-threatening disaster. Airs September 28, 2011 on PBS.

Designing and building One World Trade Center and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum Premiering September 7, 2011 at 9pm on PBS

At PBS' recent Annual Meeting, physicist and acclaimed author Brian Greene discusses his return to NOVA with "The Fabric of the Cosmos," coming to PBS Wednesdays, November 2-23, 2011, at 9:00 p.m. ET. The four-part miniseries takes us to the frontiers of physics to see how scientists are piecing together the most complete picture yet of space, time, and the universe.

Are we finally on the brink of a clean energy revolution? Airs April 20, 2011 on PBS

See why an explosion three miles above Earth would act like a hot tornado on the surface.

See neuroscientist Oliver Sacks's brain respond differently to music by Bach & Beethoven.

Explore a new generation of ingenious materials, from clothes that monitor your mood to real-life invisibility cloaks. 8/28/2013

Vision as we know it remains elusive for machines. But as this video short shows, they are starting to get the picture.

Jeopardy! challenges even the best human minds. Can a computer win the game?

Can innovative materials help solve the energy crisis and lead to a sustainable future? David Pogue investigates.

Future technologies will depend on tiny stuff -- from new kinds of silicon chips to micro-robots that probe the human body. 8/21/2013

David Pogue tests his mettle against the world's strongest stuff, from steel and Kevlar to bioengineered silk. 8/21/2013

Technology reporter David Pogue hosts a 4-part special series exploring the materials that will shape our future. Wednesdays starting January 19, 2011

David Pogue visits DuPont to get a closer look at fireproof clothing.

"Absolute Zero" presents the epic story of humanity's struggle to master extreme cold. This NOVA special re-creates groundbreaking discoveries across four centuries that expanded our knowledge of low temperatures and led ultimately to today's cutting edge "cold technologies."

They've transformed our cities and our lives, but how safe are they?

This film chronicles the fate of the 33 miners trapped in a collapsed Chilean gold and copper mine in August 2010 and investigates the many challenges faced by both the miners and those working around the clock to bring them safely to the surface. NOVA was on-site at the San José mine in Chile by early September.

Learn how medieval builders raised Gothic cathedrals to such spectacular heights.

Investigate the universe’s distant past, and dark matter and dark energy — the unsolved mysteries of the cosmos. 12/5/2012

Get up close with today’s most powerful telescopes. 11/28/2012