The breakthrough suggests that bots can navigate complex games involving multiple stakeholders and hidden information—situations that better approximate the real world than two-player board games.

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.

Researchers are developing robots that use AI to read emotions and social cues, making them better at interacting with humans. Are they a solution to labor shortages in fields like health care and education, a threat to human workers, or both?

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

A new fossil find may help pinpoint the origins of mammals’ uber-flexible hyoid bone, which anchors the tongue and gives us our signature swallowing style.

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

A new analysis pinpoints some of the most ancient stars in our galaxy—and tells the story of the Milky Way’s ravenous past.

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

Under extreme conditions, a human can produce more than three gallons of sweat in a single day.

PBS leads the list with 47 nominations.

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

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

Using data from an especially bright population of stars, astronomers have reconstructed the Milky Way’s peaks and valleys like never before.

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

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.

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.

The long-sought molecule could one day power high-energy electronics.

With the right kind of care, plenty of plants actually do just fine in microgravity.

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

Experiments in Chile’s Atacama Desert point to a potential method of transportation for microbes on Mars—whether they exist there already, or we introduce them.

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

The technology is still in its infancy, but could someday aid the development of faster, more energy-efficient electronics.

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.

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

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

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

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

Delays during migration can imperil birds’ chances of a successful breeding season.

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

That spells trouble for the entire planet.

They’re not as aloof as some think.

A pair of physicists think it’s possible that a tiny black hole left over from the universe’s early days lurks in the outer solar system.

A new analysis predicts that 3,196 animals will join the 5,579 already snared in the global wildlife market.

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.

New data from NASA’s Curiosity rover suggests that water vacated Mars in fits and starts.

Astronomers discovered 20 new moons around Saturn, bringing its total to 82.

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.

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.

Researchers aren’t sure how these birds maintain this deafening mating ritual without damaging their hearing.

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