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NOVA Presents — 94 episodes
Full Interview: Anxiety Hacking
Your Brain Needs Friends
Neuroscience of Exercise
Good Anxiety
Full Interview: T. rex to Birds
Real World vs “Jurassic World"
How Birds Survived the Asteroid
T. rex Family Secrets
Full Interview: Dark Matter = Black Holes?
Hunt for Mini Black Holes
Are Black Holes Dark Matter?
Why Dark Matter Matters
Battle to Beat Malaria
How Many Leaves Are on a Tree? | Kirk Johnson
Decoding the Great Pyramid
The Air You Breathe Is Bacteria Poop | Peter Girguis
The Fish That Could Walk | Sean B. Carrol
When Whales Could Walk
How Close Can You Safely Get to a Black Hole? | Janna Levin
A New Law of Nature? | Robert Hazen & Michael Wong
Arctic Sinkholes
AI Is Coming for Blue Collar Jobs | Hany Farid
What Species Can We De-Extinct? | Beth Shapiro
Einstein’s Quantum Riddle
Were Dinosaurs Able to Sing? | Erich Jarvis
Space-Time Expansion, Explained | Adam Riess
Black Hole Apocalypse
Your Brain’s Peak Performance Mode | Heather Berlin
Black Hole Geometry Will Warp Your Brain | Janna Levin
Your Brain: Perception and Control
What Exactly Is a Law of Nature? | Robert Hazen & Michael Wong
How Many Microbes Live on Earth? | Peter Girguis
Hunt for the Oldest DNA
Why Tropical Trees Don’t Have Rings | Kirk Johnson
How Weight Loss Drugs Were Inspired by Gila Monsters | Sean B. Carroll
Introducing NOVA Remix
De-Extincted” Dire Wolf Pups Are Growing Up | Beth Shapiro
How AI Is Taking “Future-Proof” Jobs | Hany Farid
Discovering Dark Energy and the Hubble Tension with Adam Riess
Hubble Tension, Explained | Adam Riess
Einstein’s “Biggest Blunder” | Adam Riess
How Fame Affects the Brain | Heather Berlin
How Fossils Form and How to Find Them | Kirk Johnson
Why Only Some Species Can Talk—and Dance | Erich Jarvis
Evolution of New Species, Venom, Wings, and More with Sean B. Carroll
How the Fruit Fly Revolutionized Biology | Sean B. Carroll
The Evolution of Venom & Antivenom | Sean B. Carroll
A Black Hole Is a Place, Not a Thing | Janna Levin
How To Recognize Alien Life | Peter Girguis
Can We Make Animals Talk? | Erich Jarvis
De-Extinction, Dire Wolves, and Jurassic Park with Beth Shapiro
De-Extinction: A How-To Guide | Beth Shapiro
How AI Deepfakes Are Really Made | Hany Farid
What's My Brain Doing? Goosebumps & Other Strange Phenomena | Heather Berlin
When Black Holes Collide | Janna Levin
Leopard Spots on Mars? NASA’s Big Discovery, Explained | Peter Girguis
Sinkholes in Florida Reveal Amazing Fossils | Kirk Johnson
How to Detect Deepfakes: Recognizing AI-Generated Content | Hany Farid
Extremophiles, the Deep Sea, and Alien Life with Peter Girguis
Bird Song and the Evolution of Language with Erich Jarvis
Neuroscience of Consciousness, Personality, and Creativity with Heather Berlin
A Missing Law of Nature with Bob Hazen and Mike Wong
Black Holes and Quantum Weirdness with Janna Levin
Deepfake Detection and the Future of AI with Hany Farid
Fossil Hunting, Sinkholes, and Paleobotany with Kirk Johnson
Introducing Particles of Thought
The Big Bang: started from inflation, now we’re here
Black holes: to the event horizon and beyond
The hitchhiker’s guide to exoplanets and alien life
How to make a Milky Way: the ultimate galactic recipe
Fusion: Can we recreate the renewable power of stars down on Earth?
This is NOVA Now Universe Revealed
Would you eat insects to help the planet?
Cryptocurrency: the future of money in a digital world?
Cannabis: Discovering its effects on the body and brain
The case of hurricanes and climate change
Back to school during a pandemic: experts weigh in
Electric vehicles: infrastructural needs and environmental effects
Covid Vaccines & Variants: What will it take to get out of this pandemic?
The science of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Using technology to cope with drought
The science of exercise—and getting back in the game
Welcome to NOVA Now season 2!
The science of positive motivation for the New Year
How the future of satellites might affect life on Earth
Covid vaccines are coming: What’s inside, and how and when you’ll get one
The future of food
The statistical science behind polling
The science of fear
Science in the courtroom
Rising health risks from West Coast wildfires
COVID meets CRISPR
The hidden science of mail-in voting
Welcome to NOVA Now season 1!