The universe is supposed to become easier to understand as our telescopes improve and our measurements become more precise. Yet some discoveries behave in exactly the opposite way. Their first explanation appears convincing. The evidence begins to fit. Then one observation refuses to cooperate—a missing explosion, an invisible force, an […]
A microscopic black hole created at the LHC, with a mass measured in a few teraelectronvolts, would exist for an almost impossibly short amount of time. Current predictions put its lifetime at about ten to the minus twenty-seventh of a second. That number is so small that, in that entire […]
Go to http://buyraycon.com/WHATIFOPEN to get 15% off. Thanks to Raycon for sponsoring! Something extremely big is about to happen to our galaxy. The Milky Way, and our next-door neighbour Andromeda, are heading directly for each other like two galaxy-sized freight trains on the same track. That’s right, we’re about to […]
What is it about the nature of metals that have made them a pillar of human civilization? Airing November 9, 2016 at 9 pm on PBS NOVA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NOVAonline NOVA Twitter: https://twitter.com/novapbs
Every year before the Oscars Guillermo gets a spot on the red carpet where he asks the tough questions with a tank full of tequila. This year he’s done it again with Allison Janney, Saoirse Ronan, Danny Glover, Laura Dern, Helen Mirren, Beanie Feldstein, Donald Sutherland, Ansel Elgort, Mark Hamill, […]
Peer into the universe’s deep unknowns to explore the mysteries of dark matter and energy. Premiering May 30, 2018 at 9/8c on PBS The universe is hiding something. In fact, it is hiding a lot. Everything we experience on Earth, the stars and galaxies we see in the cosmos—all the […]
Among the stars in the night sky wander the eight-plus worlds of our own solar system—each home to truly awe-inspiring sights. Volcanoes three times higher than Everest, geysers erupting with icy plumes, cyclones larger than Earth lasting hundreds of years. Each of our celestial neighbors has a distinct personality and […]
The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where are they? And more importantly, what does this tell us about our own fate in this […]
Satellites, space observatories, and supercomputers have shown astronomers the ingredients needed to form a galaxy. Spoiler: Dark matter is a must. Subscribe for free to get all episodes of NOVA Now on Apple Podcasts at https://apple.co/2U5GyYp When our ancestors looked up into the night sky, they too saw a great, […]
Where are all the aliens? The universe is too big and too old, why have we not met aliens yet? Do they live in computers? Were they wiped out by an ancient super intelligence? Or are we just to primitive to understand their motives? Whatever the answer is, it is […]
