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 ...

Researchers visit an ancient pyramid in Peru in NOVA's Ancient Builders of the Amazon. Image Credit: Federico Pardo for NOVA/GBH For 50 years, NOVA has taken viewers on adventures through time and ...

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 ...

The Claude "Bud" Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant near San Diego uses reverse osmosis filtration to provide 50 million gallons of desalinated seawater per day. Image Credit: Reed Kaestner, Getty ...

These are just a few of the geoglyphs in southern Peru, known as the Nazca lines, thought to be at least 2,000 years old. Spread out over 200 square miles of the Peruvian desert lies a treasure of the ...

Building a city on a lagoon has its challenges. Here's how the citizens of Venice accomplished this task centuries ago.

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 ...

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted under the waters of the Pacific Ocean on January 15, its roar was heard nearly 6,000 miles away in Alaska. Satellites captured not only huge clouds ...

RUBISCO, which helps make photosynthesis happen, is the most plentiful enzyme on the planet. But it's not the most efficient. Can a team of researchers give it a boost?