NOVA

From 9/11 to today’s crowd-sourced violence, trace how terrorists’ strategies have evolved.

How the science of learning may change education for all children.

Follow our ancient ancestors’ footsteps out of Africa and into every corner of our planet.

Join engineers as they build a massive new railway deep beneath the streets of London.

Gemstones like diamonds, rubies, opal and jade are the ultimate treasures. Delve into Earth's depths to discover how the…

Gold, bronze, iron, steel... metals are pillars of our civilization, but what makes them so special? Discover their uniq…

Drill down to discover how Earth's natural treasures provide bountiful energy to power our modern world yet are also dri…

The towering Himalayas were among the last places on Earth that humanity settled. Scaling sheer cliff sides, a team of d…

Five years after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the unprecedented trio of meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi …

Explore the hidden world of energy storage and how it holds the keys to a greener future.

Join pioneering shipbuilders as they embark on a feat of maritime engineering.

The centuries-old tradition of folding two-dimensional paper into three-dimensional shapes is inspiring a scientific rev…

From derailments to head-on collisions to drivers killed at road crossings, deadly train accidents claim dozens of lives…

The Lithuanian city of Vilna, known also as the “Jerusalem of the North”, was one of the most important Jewish centers i…

Engineers race to build a massive dome to contain the crumbling remains of the reactor.

For over 1000 years, chariots thundered across China's battlefields - dominating warfare longer than anywhere else on ea…

NOVA investigates what happened in Flint, Michigan when local officials changed the city’s water source to save money, b…

On August 21, 2017, millions of Americans will witness the first total solar eclipse to cross the continental United Sta…

Stonehenge is the grandest and most enigmatic of Europe’s prehistoric monuments, and has inspired countless theories to …

Aiming to skim less than 2000 miles above the cloud tops, no spacecraft has ever gone so close to Saturn, and hopes are …

Once upon a time, knighthood was serious business, and for countless medieval fighters, their armor was what stood betwe…

The Forbidden City is the world’s biggest and most extravagant palace complex ever built. For five centuries, it was the…

NOVA follows a team of volcano sleuths as they embark on a worldwide hunt for an elusive volcanic mega-eruption that plu…

Devastating hurricanes struck the U.S. mainland and Caribbean islands in 2017. But they weren’t the first. The Great Hur…

All over the world, scientists are discovering traces of ancient floods on a scale that dwarfs even the most severe floo…

From lobster claws and dog teeth to bee stings and snake fangs, every creature depends on a weapon. But some are armed t…

Watch astonishing tests of avian aptitude: parrots that can plan for the future, jackdaws that can “read” human faces, a…

66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid collided with Earth, triggering a chain of events that coincide with th…