How “change blindness” prevents you from seeing this 10 of clubs turn into an ace of spades.

A swine virus that appeared in the U.S. in 2013 has proven hard to track. But an algorithm might help researchers predict the next outbreak.

A new analysis of a skull found in Greece decades ago suggests that early humans may have been in Eurasia as early as 210,000 years ago.

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.

Neutron star innards are not your mom’s lasagna.

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

The new material could have applications in robotics and medicine.

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.

PBS leads the list with 47 nominations.

The border collie achieved international fame for her remarkable grasp on vocabulary and sentence structure.

These two genes are all it takes to determine the sex of a kiwifruit.

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.

Two kinds of glow-in-the-dark catsharks convert blue light to green, and now we know how.

A rare iron isotope produced by exploding stars has been found in Antarctic snow.

Both treatments rely on infusing patients with antibodies that latch onto the virus and block it from invading cells.

A computer simulation suggests that a massive collision may have caused Jupiter’s core to shatter into a gassy, borderless cloud.

For Anelosimus studiosus spiders, the storm survival checklist apparently includes a combative personality.

The LIGO and Virgo observatories appear to have picked up gravitational waves from a first-of-its-kind astronomical observation.

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

But it’s not clear whether elevated cholesterol is bad for birds.

Scientists injected CRISPR gene-editing machinery into unfertilized eggs still developing in female lizards’ ovaries.

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.

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.

Lava descending into Hawai‘i’s ocean drove an upward surge of deep sea nutrients, cultivating life at the surface.

The breakthrough could mean that fewer organs go to waste before they make it into a transplant recipient.

That earns this fish, Electrophorus voltai, the title of the strongest known living source of electricity.

Scientists say the planet, called K2-18b, is “the best candidate for habitability” beyond our solar system.

The gargantuan structures hint at a massive explosion in our galaxy’s past.

It’s almost too dense to exist. Almost.

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.

They’re not as aloof as some think.

Light from nearby galaxies illuminated the web’s ‘threads,’ making them directly visible to telescopes on Earth.

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.

In a new study, brain-like organoids made from human cells were slower to mature than their chimpanzee and macaque counterparts.

Saharan silver ants don’t have the longest limbs. But they make up for it with a sprightly combination of fast pacing, light-footedness, and synchronized stepping that effectively turns their six legs into two.

Nearly half a billion years ago, marine arthropods called trilobites lined up single-file before meeting a tragic end.

If validated, Google’s new technology may bring us closer to a future of ultra-efficient computing.

The algorithm was based on the faulty assumption that health care spending is a good proxy for wellbeing. But there seems to be a quick fix.

The relationships these winged mammals forge in captivity are strong enough to survive the jarring transition back into the wild.

In addition to causing disease itself, the virus destroys immune cells trained to respond to other pathogens the body has encountered before.

New research quantifies the fire risks of eight species of invasive grass.

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.

Scientists are using artificial cervices and 3D models of the uterus to better understand pregnancy and childbirth.