Human is a five-part Nova series, produced by the BBC, that takes a look at the origins and survival of the human race. The host is paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, and she travels to various ...

The two hemispheres of the brain communicate via a bundle of fibers called the corpus callosum. For some people with epilepsy, seizures can quickly spread to the other through this region. But if that ...

Discover how Homo sapiens outlasted Neanderthals – and how they helped make us who we are today. For 400,000 years, Neanderthals thrived across frigid, Ice Age Europe. What happened when Homo sapiens ...

Follow Homo sapiens as they venture out of Africa and spread farther than any other human species. Follow Homo Sapiens as they venture across the world, farther than any other human species. See how ...

Billions of years ago, Mars’ Jezero Crater held a lake fed by rivers that could have carried minerals and maybe even organic matter. On Earth, places like that are teeming with microbial life. NOVA is ...

While hiking through the fossil-rich terrain of North Dakota, three children made a discovery that paleontologists are calling one of the rarest in recent memory — the skeleton of an adolescent ...

Synthetic materials are made from natural resources. Synthetic materials are made by chemically changing the starting substances to create a material with different characteristics. Some examples of ...