The famous desert geoglyphs appear to show birds that occur in Peru’s forests and coastal areas.

In the late 1970s, a harbor seal named Hoover began catcalling passersby at the New England Aquarium in a thick Maine accent. A new study confirms seals’ uncanny ability to copy human speech.

A new study reveals that some European Neanderthals might have displaced their relatives in Siberia, while others mingled with another, still mysterious, ancient human population.

Octopuses “think” with neurons so distributed throughout their bodies that sometimes the left hand literally doesn’t know what the…left hand is doing.

A study finds that close to a trillion trees could potentially be planted on Earth—enough to sequester more than 200 billion tons of carbon. But environmental change on this scale is no easy task.

A chicken-sized raptor relative adds credence to the idea that flight evolved multiple times among ground-faring dinosaurs.

Quantum physics impacts the technology students use every day. Use these resources from NOVA broadcasts, NOVA Digital, and What the Physics!? to introduce quantum concepts to your classroom.

Girls are great at math. But if they’re even better at reading, they might be more motivated to choose a humanities-focused career.

There are a heck of a lot of reasons not to.

Killing red tide cells en masse can unleash their potent toxin. That means researchers need to get creative.

Even while still in their eggs, baby birds can hear their parents’ alarm calls. They then pass the message along to unhatched siblings so the entire clutch emerges aware of the dangers ahead.

Combining two insect-control techniques, researchers largely prevented reproduction in a mosquito species known to carry Zika, dengue, and yellow fever.

Researchers have built a prosthesis that enabled a man who lost his hand to text, pluck grapes from their stems, and stuff a pillow into its case.

The trifecta, discovered by NASA’s TESS, includes a “super-Earth” and two “sub-Neptunes” in a system called TOI-270.

An AI chip designed to mimic certain aspects of the human brain has given a bicycle an unprecedented level of autonomy.

With a goal to empower youth to tell stories about the world in new ways, NOVA Science Studio was able to give students exposure to a wide range of careers in STEM, journalism, and media production.

Researchers are using fluid dynamics to try to improve the study of crime scene blood spatter.

The burnt ruins of a Maya city in what’s now Guatemala hold clues to its untimely demise at the turn of the 7th century.

Researchers eroding clay in water may have uncovered secrets of meteorites’ aerodynamic stability.

The virus simmered quietly in Cuba for about a year before infecting thousands.

The feathery glint startles their rodent prey, making them easier to catch.

These nosy rodents may not speak bird-ese, per se, but they can still use avian chatter as a safety cue.

Some of the storm’s features hint at troubling trends in recent hurricanes.

New findings suggest Neanderthals evolved their unusually broad fingers after they split from Denisovans, just 400,000 years ago.

Two men born without arms showcase the brain’s extraordinary flexibility.

In the largest Arctic expedition yet, researchers will gather as much data as they can on the fading ice—and climate change.

American pikas’ responses to climate are driven by location, location, location.

Gut microbes react differently to raw and cooked versions of the same foods.

Even forests that look green from space can show symptoms of impending decline.

This month, NOVA is hosting three events that will dive into how autonomous vehicles work, how they may change the way we live, and whether we will ever be able to entrust them with our lives.

A new refrigeration technique harnesses the ability of rubber and other materials to cool down when released from a tight twist.

The comet, 2I/Borisov, comes from another planetary system, but bears a remarkable resemblance to local space rocks.

Mathematical modeling and AI can pick out patterns preceding epidemics that human brains can’t readily discern.

The study, originally published in June, contained an error that its authors caught months later.

Researchers have uncovered a new category of giant storm on Saturn’s surface.

Recent breakthroughs in scanning, image processing, and machine learning are helping researchers read historic documents once considered lost to time.

But many questions remain about the true origin of the Homo sapiens species.

The images confirm the species, which has been “lost” to science for 29 years, is alive and well in its native Vietnam.

Leonardo da Vinci dissected some 30 cadavers in his lifetime, leaving behind a trove of beautiful—and accurate—anatomical drawings.

New findings bolster the argument that the two groups of early humans had a lot of behavioral similarities.

As law enforcement agencies deploy AI-powered facial recognition systems, some communities are pushing back, insisting on having a say in how they’re used.

Black holes, gene editing, and quantum computing wowed us—while new climate findings and racial bias in medicine brought renewed urgency.

We’ve counted down our ten most-read articles of 2019 and found that health and medicine, physics—and of course animals—were fan-favorite topics this year.

NOVA Labs Intern Chloe Nosan reflects on her experience working on the platform's newest resource on global climate change: The Polar Lab.

As a professional international downhill mountain biker, and now commentator, Andrew 'Needles' Neethling brings 18 years of experience in all aspects of the cycling industry into podcast form.
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The film will premiere on the 12th of May.
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Another hit of blurry goodness.
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Courts place Mavic into receivership as they try to work out who actually owns the French wheel brand.
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We sat down with the founder and owner of Nicolai Bikes to talk about the past, present, and future.
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