NOVA has stood for science since 1974, bringing remarkable discoveries to TV and beyond.

Fear may be able to spread from person to person—just like a virus.

Weighing 54,000 gross tons and stretching over two football fields, the Seven Seas Explorer is no ordinary boat. Join pioneering shipbuilders as they endeavor to build the ultimate cruise ship. It will be decked with the finest gold, marble, and crystal and designed to offer guests the roomiest accommodations of any commercial cruise ship. But engineering opulence is no easy feat.

Here's everything you didn't want to know about snot.

Every country wants to consume as much energy as the US. Where will that energy come from?

A new way of making supercapacitors may help them store more energy than normal batteries.

A scientist must explain the Big Bang and dark energy so two comedians can understand it.

An astrophysicist must explain her work on black holes so two comedians can understand it.

We live in an age when technological innovation seems to be limitlessly soaring. But for all the satisfying speed with which our gadgets have improved, many of them share a frustrating weakness: the batteries. Though they have improved in last century, batteries remain finicky, bulky, expensive, toxic, and maddeningly short-lived.

Science is facing what many consider a reproducibility crisis, and the stakes are high.

Join the scientists who saw Zika coming as they trace the origins of this devastating virus.

Alt School, located in Palo Alto, California, is an experiment in customized learning environments.

Vampire bats will sometimes share a blood meal—but only with friends and family.

You can make your vote incredibly secure on Election Day—all thanks to quantum mechanics.

A high school experienced several suicides so meditation was used to lower student stress.

When you send a text, how does your message make the journey to your friend’s phone?

A unique method to fight erosion saved the Montauk Point Lighthouse from disaster.

Certain gene forms increase your risk of developing Alzheimer's.

The proteins that make fish fluoresce could help scientists map the human brain.