(Repeat) NOVA Minute: How to Speak Walrus
Marine biologist Colleen Reichmuth says that few mammals can match the vocal talents of the walrus. Produced by David Levin. Original interv...
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20 of 154 episodes(Repeat) NOVA Minute: Whiz Kid
In this episode, biochemist Erika Ebbel describes how a mentor helped her transform into a scientist when she was 11 years old. Produced by...
Finding a Fake Van Gogh
NOVA scienceNOW's Dean Irwin discusses what he learned about this new computer technology while producing his story on digital art authentic...
Surprises in Your Genes
In order to develop from an embryo, animals as different as fruit flies and humans call on a nearly identical set of genes. But how does thi...
In Defense of Pluto
After Pluto was discovered in 1930, it enjoyed the title of planet for more than 75 years. But in 2006, that all changed. At a meeting in Pr...
Sexual Cannibalism
In this podcast, biologist Maydianne Andrade explains that sexual cannibalism-a gruesome mating behavior shown of Redback Spiders-is a prime...
Rebuilding on Ground Zero
In the months after 9/11, New York City faced a difficult decision. What should it do with the site where the twin towers once stood? For ar...
Life on Ice
Could permafrost under Martian soil be the key to finding life on the red planet? Chris McKay, a planetary scientist for NASA, thinks there'...
Shaping Skulls
For thousands of years, people around the world have modified their bodies with tattoos and piercings. But some cultures, like the ancient I...
Hiding in Plain Sight
In this podcast, marine biologist Roger Hanlon explains why octopuses are masters of camouflage. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview...
Voice of the Space Shuttle
In this podcast, we spoke to former NASA Public Affairs Officer Steve Nesbitt. Nesbitt announced more than a dozen Space Shuttle missions, g...
Cooperative Apes
In this podcast, learn why studying the emotions of our close primate relatives--chimpanzees and bonobos--might shed light on the evolution...
A Bolt From the Blue
Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks has come across plenty of odd stories while studying the human brain, but none are quite as mysterious a...
NOVA Minute: How to Speak Walrus
NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, marine biologist Colleen...
A Trip to the Parthenon
In this podcast, art historian Jeff Hurwitt explains what made the Parthenon the greatest temple of Ancient Greece. Produced by Susan Lewis....
Finding the Lost City
Egyptologist Mark Lehner thinks it took almost 20,000 people to build the Great Pyramids. But where did all those workers live? In this podc...
Wireless Electricity
WiTricity, a small startup based outside of Boston, is creating a system that can transmit electricity wirelessly. It’ll make charging elect...
Life in the Blast Zone
Thirty years ago, a violent eruption ripped through the side of Mt. St. Helens in western Oregon. The blast killed 57 people and countless a...
A Clean Energy Future?
Steven Chu is the U.S. Secretary of Energy under President Obama. He’s a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and a big proponent of renewable pow...
The Many Gods of Israel
Archeologist Bill Dever says that in addition to the Hebrew god Yahweh, ancient Israelites may have worshipped a Canaanite female goddess ca...
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