A new video podcast from GBH and the producers of NOVA, hosted by Hakeem Oluseyi. Should we bring back extinct species? Are we missing a fundamental law of nature? What can ancient fossils tell us ...

There’s truly nothing like a pretty sunset. As the sun sets, the heavens above are like cotton candy: lighting up with a beautiful display of deep reds, vibrant oranges, and intense pinks. Simply put, ...

An electrical engineer works on Form Energy's 2022 battery module in the company's lab in Berkeley, California. Image courtesy of Form Energy Share Weirton, West Virginia has iron in its blood. The ...

A false-color image of Saturn based on near-infrared data from the Cassini spacecraft, which orbited the planet for 13 years. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI ...

One of the oldest calculus problems, finding the area of a circle, can be visualized using a pizza. By dividing it up into ever smaller slices and laying them out next to one another, eventually you ...

Scientists have cured a handful of people of HIV by piggybacking on treatments they received for blood cancer. But does that bring a widespread cure any closer? ByBenjamin Ryan Wednesday, October 5, ...

The idea that animal fingerprints could disrupt crime scenes had come up even before koalas' prints came to light. In 1975, London police fingerprinted several chimpanzees from local zoos as part of a ...

In recent years, air fryers have exploded in popularity thanks to their promise: You can make crispy, fried food with little to no oil. But what’s really happening inside those countertop machines?

Did you know that dogs can use their cold, wet (and cute!) noses to sense sources of heat and thermal radiation? That discovery, via a 2020 study from Sweden that challenged dogs to choose between a ...

Meet the charismatic slime mold Physarum—which can learn, make decisions, and go through mazes without a brain—and the researchers studying it.

(This program is no longer streaming). Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs in a fiery global catastrophe. But we know little about how their successors, the mammals, ...

Artifacts unearthed in Idaho challenge the idea that the first people to populate the Americas made the journey on foot around the end of the Ice Age. An Oregon State University field school student ...