PBS NOVA Podcasts & Documentaries

NOVA brings you short audio stories from the world of science -- anything from hurricanes to mummies to neutrinos.

To celebrate the centennial of Einstein's E = mc2, NOVA asked 10 top physicists--two Nobel Prize winners among them--how they would describe the equation to curious non-physicists.

NOVA brings you short video stories from the world of science, including excerpts from our television programs, video dispatches from producers and correspondents in the field, animations, and much more.

Our podcast with series host Robert Krulwich and other correspondents covers intriguing stories and personalities in science and technology today.

Einstein's Dream: Eleven dimensions, parallel universes, and a world made out of strings. It's not science fiction, it's string theory.

Is our universe unique, or could it be just one in an endless "multiverse"?

Mustang (moo-stahn), one of the last outposts of Tibetan culture, is so isolated and protected that no Westerner set foot inside its borders for centuries.

Orville and Wilbur Wright were remarkable inventors, mechanics, risk-takers, and visionaries. They designed and built their own wings, steering devices, engines, and wind tunnel. But just how did they construct such an impressive flying machine?

In an ancient Mayan arena, enemies of notorious King Yax Kouk Mo square off in a ball game that appears much like modern soccer. But in this fateful contest, winners live and losers lose their heads.

Millions remember the countdowns, launchings, splashdowns and parades as the U.S. raced the USSR to the Moon in the 1960s, but few know that both superpowers also ran parallel covert space programs to launch military astronauts on spying missions.