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NOVA brings you short audio stories from the world of science--anything from hurricanes to mummies to neutrinos. For more science programming online and on air, visit NOVA's Web site at pbs.org/nova, or watch NOVA broadcasts Tuesday nights on PBS. Primary Format : Science Language : English Also Listed as: City : Boston State/Province : MA Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of NOVA Podcasts Methings.com listings of NOVA Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

The Big Deal with CERN: Stephon Alexander Cosmologist Stephon Alexander says he'd be surprised if we didn't find the Higgs particle. Podcast produced by David Levin and Rima Chaddha, with audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. For more science stories, visit our website at pbs.org/nova Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space and Time Explained: Leonard Susskind Physicist Leonard Susskind says that Einstein radically changed the way we think about space, but his equations can’t explain exactly what it is. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. For more science stories, visit our website at pbs.org/nova Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space and Time Explained: Alan Guth Physicist Alan Guth says that the concept of “space” is more complicated than you might think. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. For more science stories, visit our website at pbs.org/nova Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space and Time Explained: Max Tegmark Physicist Max Tegmark says that researchers still don’t fully understand what time is. It’s one of the biggest mysteries in physics. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. For more science stories, visit our website at pbs.org/nova Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space and Time Explained: Steven Weinberg The concept of “Space,” is a tough one to explain--even for a Nobel prize-winnig physicist like Steven Weinberg. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. For more science stories, visit our website at pbs.org/nova Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space and Time Explained: Jana Levin Physicist Janna Levin says that Einstein and Newton had very different ideas about what space and time really were. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. For more science stories, visit our website at pbs.org/nova Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space and Time Explained: Peter Galison Peter Gallison is a physicist and historian of science. He says that although humans may sense time as moving constantly forward, it doesn’t really work that way. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. For more science stories, visit our website at pbs.org/nova Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space and Time Explained: Jim Gates Physicist Jim Gates says that even after you take all the matter out of the universe, space still wouldn’t be empty. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. For more science stories, visit our website at pbs.org/nova Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space and Time Explained: Sean Carroll To most of us, time seems like a one-way street, moving from past to future. But physicists like Sean Carroll have a different way of thinking about it. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. For more science stories, visit our website at pbs.org/nova Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 architecture critic Paul Goldberger, there was only one choice: rebuild. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. For more science stories, visit our website at pbs.org/n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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's a good chance we'll see evidence of ancient microbes if we just follow the ice. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Anna Lee Strachan. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. F ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shaping Skulls For thousands of years, people around the world have modified their bodies with tattoos and piercings. But some cultures, like the ancient Inca in Peru, took that practice beyond skin deep. They sometimes used ropes and boards to slowly change the shape of human skulls. It’s a process called "cranial modification." In this podcast, bioarcheologist Valerie Andrushko explains. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Melissa Salpietra. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Fund ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hiding in Plain Sight In this podcast, marine biologist Roger Hanlon explains why octopuses are masters of camouflage. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Susan Lewis. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Learn more about the remarkable camouflage of octopuses--and their cousins, cuttlefish--on pbs.org/nova/camo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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, giving play-by-play radio commentary as the craft flew into orbit. Nesbitt spoke to us about his experience as the public voice of NASA the early days of the Shuttle program, and gave his thoughts on its retirement. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cooperative Apes In this podcast, learn why studying the emotions of our close primate relatives--chimpanzees and bonobos--might shed light on the evolution of human culture. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. You can learn more about bonobos, chimps, and what makes us human on pbs.org/nova/sciencenow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 as that of his colleague, Tony Cicoria. In 1994, Cicoria was struck by lightning, and developed a sudden, inexplicable passion for playing and writing piano music. In this podcast, hear Sacks describe Cicoria's transformation. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Dempsey Rice/Daughter One productions. Music by The New You. NOVA is prod ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Reichmuth describes the many ways a walrus can communicate using sound. Produced by David Levin. Original interview by Doug Hamilton. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Learn more at pbs.org/nova ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Original interview by Gary Glassman. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Learn more about the history of the Parthenon at pbs.org/nova/parthenon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 podcast, Lehner describes how he found evidence of a “lost city” on the Giza plateau. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Peter Tyson. Music courtesy Pharaoh's Daughter (freemusicarchive.org/music/Pharaohs_Daughter/), Selva de Mar (freemusicarchive.org/music/Selva_de_Mar/), and APMmusic. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wireless Electricity WiTricity, a small startup based outside of Boston, is creating a system that can transmit electricity wirelessly. It’ll make charging electric cars easy, eliminating the need for bulky cables. What impact might this have on the electric vehicle market? Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 animals, and turned hundreds of miles of forest into barren wasteland. In this podcast, hear from ecologist Charlie Crisafulli on the slow recovery of the Mt. St. Helens ecosystem, and learn how the timing of the eruption actually spared some plant and animal life. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Kristine Allington. NOVA is produc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 power, like wind and solar. He says that although they’re essential to fight climate change, that’s only one reason we should adopt them in the United States. Another reason is purely economic—there’s a lot of money to be made in the clean energy market. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Doug Hamilton. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Bos ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 called Asherah. This podcast was produced by David Levin and Susan Lewis. Interview by Gary Glassman. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for "The Bible's Buried Secrets" is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Improving Maternal Health In the year 2000, the United Nations set out to make basic maternal healthcare a universal right within 15 years. How far have we come worldwide? In this podcast, we talked to Adrienne Germain, president of the International Women's Health Coalition. They're a group that works closely with the U.N. to improve the health and rights of women worldwide. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Training for a Nuclear Crisis Are workers at U.S. nuclear power plants fully prepared to deal with emergencies triggered by natural disasters? To find out, we visited the training center for Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. Pilgrim is on the Atlantic coast near Plymouth, Massachussets, about an hour's drive south of Boston. It's one of 23 nuclear plants in the U.S. that use the same nuclear reactor design as the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Galileo and the Telescope Galileo has been called the "father of modern science". His observations of the night sky in the early 1600s confirmed a new model of the universe, where the Earth orbited the sun—not the other way around. But before he was studying the universe, Galileo was working on practical problems. And his early goals for the telescope weren’t so scientific. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by David Axelrod. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Defining Intelligence: Seth Shostak Astronomer Seth Shostak thinks that if alien intelligence is out there, we'll know it when we see it. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Hear other experts describe what intelligence means to them. Visit us online at pbs.org/nova Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Defining Intelligence: Steven Pinker Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker says that modern human intelligence is the result of thousands of years of accumulated knowledge. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Hear other experts describe what intelligence means to them. Visit us online at pbs.org/nova Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Defining Intelligence: Nicholas Humphrey Theoretical psychologist Nicholas Humphrey explains the concept of social intelligence. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Hear other experts describe what intelligence means to them. Visit us online at pbs.org/nova Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Defining Intelligence: Rodney Brooks In this podcast, roboticist Rodney Brooks describes what "intelligence" means in his field. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Hear other experts describe what intelligence means to them. Visit us online at pbs.org/nova Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: The Interaction of Species NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, naturalist E.O. Wilson describes the challenges of understanding how ecosystems evolve. Produced by David Levin. Original interview by Gail Willumsen. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Learn more at pbs.org/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toward a Smart Electric Grid On August 14, 2003, the biggest blackout in American history struck the Northeast U.S. and parts of Canada. 50 million people lost power, and the blackout showed how vulnerable and even outdated our electricity system is. To fix that problem, some energy experts think it's time to upgrade to a "smart grid," one that uses digital technology to regulate itself. Vijay Vaitheeswaran is energy correspondent for The Economist magazine. In this interview, he explains why we need to take the power ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Risks of Automated Flight Most passenger jets today fly under computer control, at least to some extent. Usually, those computers make flying safer. But like any machine, they can sometimes break down, leading, in rare cases, to major accidents. In this interview, aviation expert Bill Voss explains why he thinks airlines should put more emphasis on solving computer automation problems during pilot training. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Lightning Strikes Aircraft After the crash of Air France Flight 447 in 2009, widespread debate appeared on the Internet about whether a lightning strike could have brought the plane down. Just how dangerous is lightning to an aircraft in flight? In this podcast, aviation safety expert John Cox and veteran airline pilot Martin Alder weigh in. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interviews by Darlow Smithson productions. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Smart Birds Some parrots can talk-but can they really understand what they're saying? In this podcast, researcher Irene Pepperberg describes her cognitive experiments with African grey parrots, and discusses why the line between human and animal intelligence is sometimes blurry. Produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. M ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dangers of Nanotech In the growing field of nanotechnology, engineers are creating countless new microscopic materials. They're used in thousands of consumer goods, from cell phones to cosmetics and sunscreen. But how safe are they? To find out, we talked to Andrew Maynard, physicist and director of the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan. We talked to him about the potential dangers of nanotech. Produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Suspended Animation Stopping signs of life and starting them again might seem like pure sci-fi—but cell biologist Mark Roth says it's very possible. In this podcast, he explains why. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Learn about other ways that science is extending human life. Go to pbs.org/nova/sciencenow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solar Sails The next generation of spacecraft will travel faster than ever before. But they might not be propelled by rockets. If Dean Alhorn has his way, they’ll be powered by light. Alhorn is an engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight center. He designs solar sails. They’re basically big silver kites in space that are pushed along by the sun’s rays. And Alhorn says they might change spaceflight in the very near future.Produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for N ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: Global Earthquakes NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, geologist Chris Goldfinger describes why earthquakes in one part of the globe might trigger others worldwide.Produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.Learn more at pbs.org/nova Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pearl Harbor Sub Discovered In this podcast hear how a newly identified wreck found outside of the harbor may rewrite the history of the Japanese attack.Produced by David Levin. Original interviews by Kirk Wolfinger. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.Learn more at pbs.org/nova/killersubs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: The 2012 Hoax NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains that despite all the doomsday claims on the Internet, the world will NOT end in 2012.Produced by David Levin. NOVA isproduced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.Learn more at pbs.org/n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: The Language of Science NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, African-American chemistry pioneer Percy Julian gives his take on scientific language.Produced by David Levin and Susan Lewis NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.Learn more at pbs.org/nova/julian Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: Stewards of the Earth NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, Native American geologistAlexandrea Bowman describes her path to science, which led from baby seals to Long Island Sound.Produced by David Levin and Rob Chapman. Original interview by Josh Seftel and Tom Miller. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ethics of Erasing Memory If you could take a drug that could erase your memories, would you do it? It’s not such a hypothetical question—neuroscientists have identified a drug that can wipe out memory in rats. It’s not something that could be used on humans, but its existence raises a lot of big ethical issues. To sort those out, we talked to Art Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.Produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: Whiz Kid NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, biochemist Erika Ebbel describes how a mentor helped her transform into a scientist when she was 11 years old.Produced by David Levin and Rob Chapman. Original interview by Josh Seftel and Tom Miller. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Psychology of Spaceflight In this podcast, NASA psychologist Al Holland discusses some of the the mental challenges astronauts might face during a mission to Mars.Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.Find out how we might make it to Mars, and learn about the dangers we'd face along the way. Visit us at pbs.org/nova/scien ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: The Enormity of Things NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, geologist Adrienne Block explains how she investigates mountains that lie beneath the humongous ice sheets of Antarctica.Produced by David Levin and Rob Chapman. Original interview by Josh Seftel and Tom Miller. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: When I Look Up NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson describes how the universe called him when he was nine years old.Produced by David Levin and Rob Chapman. Original interview by Josh Seftel and Tom Miller. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public tele ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: Doctor's Orders NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, climate scientist Gavin Schmidt explains why the Earth needs to see a doctor… today.Produced by David Levin and Rob Chapman. Original interview by Josh Seftel and Tom Miller. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Astronomy at Stonehenge? In the 1960s, a new theory surfaced that claimed Stonehenge was the work of ancient astronomers, and that its giant stone pillars were used to predict eclipses of the moon and sun. But was there anything to the idea? To find out, we talked to NOVA's senior science editor, Evan Hadingham. He trained as an archeologist and has written two books on Stonehenge.Produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: Big Inventions NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode hear from engineer Colin Angle, cofounder of iRobot, the company that makes the Roomba vacuum cleaner. In this podcast, he explains how small inventions can yield huge results.Produced by David Levin and Rob Chapman. Original interview by Josh Seftel and Tom Miller. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Origin of Dogs New DNA evidence shows that dogs were probably domesticated from wolves in the Middle East about eight thousand years ago. But wolves are generally fierce animals that travel in packs, and they're usually afraid of humans. That's pretty far off from the behavior of today's family pets. So how could that poodle in your backyard have come from a wolf? To find out, we spoke to Clive Wynne, who studies animal behavior at the University of Florida.Podcast produced by David Levin. Original inter ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: Monkey Psychology NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, experimental psychologist Laurie Santos explains how she studies monkeys in order to learn how humans think.Produced by David Levin and Rob Chapman. Original interview by Josh Seftel and Tom Miller. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and pub ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Got Elevator Stories? In this podcast, radio producer Nick Van der Kolk describes how he ran into Al Gore on an elevator in Chicago.Do you have an elevator story of your own? Have you ever been stuck in one? Did you overcome an elevator phobia? Tell us about your experience at pbs.org/nova/tech .Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Lawrence Lanahan and Bruce Wallace. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How the Elevator Changed New York In this podcast, Paul Goldberger, an architecture critic for The New Yorker, describes how the elevator changed the face of New York City.Produced by David Levin. Interview by Joe Seaman. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.Hear the story of one New Yorker who was stuck in an elevator for almost two days. Find it at pbs.org/no ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: To Boldly Go... NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, ethnobotanist Ina Vandebroek explains why her job is like Star Trek. Listen in.Produced by David Levin and Rob Chapman. Original interview by Josh Seftel and Tom Miller. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.Exclus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rescuing the Miners When 33 Chilean miners were trapped in a cave-in this August, rescuers had to dig through more than 2000 feet of solid rock to free them. It was the deepest rescue ever attempted, and it would have to be done fast. but how? To find out, we talked to Greg Hall, owner of Drillers Supply International, a small Texas company that helped drill the rescue shaft in a record 33 days.Produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can Robots Save Miners' Lives? In light of the amazing mine rescue in Chile last week, our partners at PRI’s "The World" asked whether technology could be used to prevent mining accidents in the first place. In this podcast, The World's Lisa Mullins interviews Mark Yim, a mechanical engineer at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.Interview produced by PRI's The World. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corpor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sacred Architecture When designing Gothic cathedrals, some medieval builders drew on sacred measurements laid out in the pages of the Bible. In this podcast, we talked to art historian Stephen Murray from Columbia University to find out why.Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.To learn more about Gothic architectur ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: Music for the Masses NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, game developer Eran Egozy from Harmonix--the video game company that created Rock Band and Guitar Hero--explains how he uses ones and zeros to bring music-making to everyone.Produced by David Levin. Original interview by Josh Seftel and Tom Miller. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: Inventing the Ascender NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, mechanical engineer Nate Ball explains why a spectacular failure helped him learn how to build a life-saving device.Produced by David Levin. Original interview by Josh Seftel and Tom Miller. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public tele ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Original interview by Gary Glassman. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.Learn more about the history of the Parthenon at pbs.org/nova/parthenon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Mission to Mars? In this podcast, NOVA Online's editor-in-chief, Peter Tyson, interviews former astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Aldrin was the second man to set foot on the moon, and thinks that a human presence on Mars is inevitable in the future. Listen in to find out why.Produced by David Levin. Original interview by Peter Tyson. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public te ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: The Bottom of Things NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, biologist Mark Siddall from the American Museum of Natural History tells us how he found a rare species of leech in the rectum of a hippo.Produced by David Levin. Original interview by Josh Seftel and Tom Miller. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: Becoming the Professor NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, nanoscientist Rich Robinson from Cornell University explains what inspired him to become a professor.Produced by David Levin. Original interview by Josh Seftel. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.Exclusive fundi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: Cliff Tabin NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, geneticist Cliff Tabin from Harvard Medical School explains how limbs form in an embryo.Produced by David Levin. Original interview by John Rubin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.Learn more at pbs.org/nova/ev ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 thisone common genetic toolkit create so many different species? It turns out that it's not the genes you have—it's how you use them.Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interviews by John Rubin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Pub ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Thinkers: If Darwin Were Here We've come a long way toward understanding evolution since the “Origin of Species” was first published 150 years ago. So what would Darwin think if he could see his theory's impact today-both on a scientific and social level? In this podcast, oceanographer Sylvia Earle, historian Jim Moore, and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker offer their best guesses.Podcast produced by David Levin and Susan K. Lewis. Original interviews by Susan K. Lewis and David Espar. NOVA is produced by WGBH in B ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Thinkers: Why Does Evolution Matter? In 1859, Charles Darwin published the “Origin of Species”, a book that changed science forever. But why is it still important to understand his theories today? In this podcast, oceanographer Sylvia Earle, biologist Ken Miller, and the late paleontologist Steven Jay Gould offer their takes on the subject.Podcast produced by David Levin and Susan K. Lewis. Original interviews by Susan K. Lewis and David Espar. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: Jonathan Losos NOVA Minutes are a regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, hear zoologist Jonathan Losos explain why small lizards outlasted the dinosaurs.Produced by David Levin. Original audio courtesy WCAI-FM, Woods Hole, MA. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.Learn more at pbs.org/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chasing Down Dinner Evolving an ability to run long distances might have been key to survival for early humans. In this podcast, we talked to Dan Lieberman, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, to find out why. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Gaia Remerowski. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS viewers. Learn more about human evolution at pbs. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How We Became Human Today, humans are rapidly changing the world's climate-but some anthropologists think climate may have once changed us. In this podcast, Rick Potts, director of the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, explains why a rapidly shifting environment could have shaped early human behavior. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Graham Townsley. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music and Memory Slowly, inevitably, Alzehimer's disease robs a person of their memories. Not just everyday memories--like where to find keys or a wallet--but more profound ones, like the names and faces of loved ones. Right now, there’s no cure. But one pair of researchers thinks music might help mitigate the effects of the disease. Podcast produced by Rebecca Cheung. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Better Forecasts for Aircraft In this podcast, engineer Bruce Carmichael from the National Center for Atmospheric Research describes how new weather forecasting technology could make flights over oceans safer. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. To learn more about aviation safety, go to pbs.org/nova/space Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: E.O. Wilson NOVA Minutes are regular radio features that air three times per week on 89.7 WGBH-FM in Boston. In this episode, hear naturalist E.O. Wilson give his thoughts on the ways humans interact with the natural world. Produced by David Levin. Original interview by Gail Willumsen. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Learn more at ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: Bonnie Bassler In this NOVA Minute, biologist Bonnie Bassler explains how bacteria “talk” to one another. Produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Learn more at pbs.org/nova/sciencenow Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digital Diamonds? Can man-made diamond pave the way for the electronics of the future? It depends who you talk to. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Julia Cort. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by Pfizer, the National Science Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Add ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hiding in Plain Sight In this podcast, marine biologist Roger Hanlon explains why octopuses are masters of camouflage. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Susan Lewis. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Learn more about the remarkable camouflage of octopuses--and their cousins, cuttlefish--on pbs.org/nova/camo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: Neil Herman This July is “flight month” at NOVA. In this podcast, hear pilot Neil Herman from Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome describe what it’s like to fly antique aircraft.Produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.Learn more at pbs.org/nova Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Perfect Hunter In this podcast, biologist Christine Drea explains why social intelligence is the key to hyena’s deadly hunting skills. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Susan K. Lewis. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. You can learn more about animal intelligence on pbs.org/nova/sciencenow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: Chad Wille This July is “flight month” at NOVA. In this podcast, hear pilot Chad Wille from Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome describe what it’s like to fly antique aircraft. Produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Learn more at pbs.org/nova Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: Sam Bowring In this “NOVA Minute”, geologist Sam Bowring from MIT offers his thoughts on mass extinctions. Produced by David Levin. Original interview by Julia Cort. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Learn more at pbs.org/nova/sciencenow Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Warning In this podcast, glaciologist Lonnie Thompson describes why global warming and melting glaciers could impact everything from drinking water supplies to the spread of infectious disease—and even political issues like refugees and terrorism. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Dana Rae Warren. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public telev ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOVA Minute: Mark Lehner In this podcast, hear a taste of what we’re airing on WGBH 89.7 FM in Boston. We call audio tidbits like these “NOVA Minutes”, and air them three time per week during Morning Edition. Since they’re not yet available online, we’ll sprinkle them liberally into the podcast feed over the next few months. Stay tuned! Produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporati ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Learning From Bonobos Vanessa Woods is a science journalist and primate researcher who studies Bonobos, a close relative to chimpanzees. She says that when it comes to emotional intelligence, they put the human world to shame. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Susan K. Lewis. Music by Ja Prawn (freemusicarchive.org/music/Ja_Prawn/). NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 as that of his colleague, Tony Cicoria. In 1994, Cicoria was struck by lightning, and developed a sudden, inexplicable passion for playing and writing piano music. In this podcast, hear Sacks describe Cicoria's transformation. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Dempsey Rice/Daughter One productions. Music by The New You. NOVA is prod ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cooperative Apes In this podcast, learn why studying the emotions of our close primate relatives--chimpanzees and bonobos--might shed light on the evolution of human culture. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. You can learn more about bonobos, chimps, and what makes us human on pbs.org/nova/sciencenow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NASA's Forgotten Tapes In the mid 1960s, NASA launched the first of five lunar orbiters. Each one transmitted hundreds of images of the moon’s surface back to Earth, which NASA recorded onto miles of analog tape. It was state of the art technology for the 1960s. But today, it’s mostly forgotten. For the last 40 years, the tapes from the Lunar Orbiter missions have collected dust in a warehouse, and the computer drives that could read them have gone the way of the dinosaurs. In this podcast, we talked to Denni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 animals, and turned hundreds of miles of forest into barren wasteland. In this podcast, hear from ecologist Charlie Crisafulli on the slow recovery of the Mt. St. Helens ecosystem, and learn how the timing of the eruption actually spared some plant and animal life. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Kristine Allington. NOVA is produc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Deciding Factor For more than 100 years, academic economists have treated the market almost like a force of nature--a vast invisible system that operates independently from human emotions. But on a day-to-day basis, emotion plays a big role in the choices we make. In this podcast, we talked to Jennifer Lerner, a social psychologist at Harvard University, about how our feelings affect our financial decisions. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Malcolm Clark. NOVA is produced by WGBH in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twenty Years of Hubble On Saturday, April 24th, the Hubble Space Telescope will reach its 20th year in orbit. To mark the anniversary, we spoke to Ed Weiler, Chief Scientist for the Hubble mission from 1979 to 1998. He talked to us about the Hubble’s early days--its conception, its first years in space, and its infamous optical problems, which blurred its view until a repair mission replaced faulty cameras in 1993. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provide ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hubble's Legacy On April 24th, NASA celebrates the Hubble Space Telescope's 20th year in orbit. Over the last two decades, it's sent back thousands of stunning images of deep space. For scientists, these pictures have allowed a deeper understanding of the universe. For the public, they've been a source of wonder and inspiration. With the Hubble's anniversary around the corner, we asked Neil deGrasse Tyson to give his take on the telescope's legacy. He's the director the Hayden Planetarium in New York, and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Galileo and the Telescope Galileo has been called the “father of modern science”. His observations of the night sky in the early 1600s confirmed a new model of the universe, where the Earth orbited the sun—not the other way around. But before he was studying the universe, Galileo was working on practical problems. And his early goals for the telescope weren’t so scientific. Podcast produced by David Levin. Origial interview by David Axelrod. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tiny Black Holes The Large Hadron Collider, CERN’s massive particle collider in Geneva, Switzerland, is finally online. It’s the most powerful physics experiment in the world, capable of creating tiny black holes as it smashes sub atomic particles together. Not to worry, though: In this podcast, physicist Dave Wark explains that there’s no way these can destroy the world. This podcast was produced by David Levin. Interview with Dave Wark by Rima Chaddha. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. NOVA is p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Origin of Dogs New DNA evidence shows that dogs were probably domesticated from wolves in the Middle East about eight thousand years ago. But wolves are generally fierce animals that travel in packs, and they’re usually afraid of humans. That’s pretty far off from the behavior of today’s family pets. So how could that poodle in your backyard have come from a wolf? To find out, we spoke to Clive Wynne, who studies animal behavior at the University of Florida. Podcast produced by David Levin. Origin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Archeology in the Deep Brenden Foley hunts ancient shipwrecks for a living. But he’s not after sunken treasure--he’s after information. Foley is a marine archeologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He’s taking a new approach to the field. Instead of just focusing on a handful of shipwrecks, he wants to take a broad look, finding and cataloging wrecks in the Mediterranean that date to a wide timeframe. In this podcast, he talks to us about his work. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is pr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stuck on Mars NASA’s twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have been exploring the surface of Mars for more than six years. It’s an impressive fact, considering they were only designed to last for three months. But despite this longevity, recent mechanical failures have brought the Spirit rover to a standstill. In this podcast, we talked to Bruce Banerdt, the Project Scientist for the Mars rover missions, about the fate of this now-stationary rover. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Littlest Planet In 2006, the International Astronomical Union decided on new definition of a planet--and Pluto didn’t make the grade. It was bumped down to “dwarf planet” status. But it’s not alone. It’s now one of five known dwarf planets in the solar system. One of them, called Ceres, may hold clues to how life formed on Earth. In this podcast, we talked to planetary scientist Mark Sykes about this tiny world. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Susan K. Lewis. NOVA is produ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Prague, the International Astronomical Union adopted a new definition for planethood, leaving the solar system with only eight planets. But not everyone agrees with its decision. In this podcast, planetary scientist Alan Stern talks to us about Pluto’s demotion, and why he thinks it should be back on list of planets. Podcast produced by David Levin. NO ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Photographing Extreme Ice James Balog has been working as a nature photographer for more than 30 years. His latest project, the Extreme Ice Survey, is helping scientists document the rapid melt of glaciers worldwide—something he says is visible evidence of human-caused climate change. In this interview, he discusses his work. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diving Into Danger Scientists are excited about the Bahamas, and it’s not just the tropical vacations that have their interest. It’s what’s underneath the surface of the islands—huge caves systems filled with water. They’re called blue holes, and deep inside of them lie clues to past climate change, new species of invertebrates, even human remains from people who lived on the islands long before Columbus visited. In this podcast, hear from Kenny Broad, a researcher who led a diving expedition into b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shaping Skulls For thousands of years, people around the world have modified their bodies with tattoos and piercings. But some cultures, like the ancient Inca in Peru, took that practice beyond skin deep. They sometimes used ropes and boards to slowly change the shape of human skulls. It’s a process called “cranial modification.” In this podcast, bioarcheologist Valerie Andrushko explains. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Melissa Salpietra. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 podcast, Lehner describes how he found evidence of a “lost city” on the Giza plateau. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Peter Tyson. Music courtesy Pharaoh's Daughter (freemusicarchive.org/music/Pharaohs_Daughter/), Selva de Mar (freemusicarchive.org/music/Selva_de_Mar/), and APMmusic. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Notes from The Pluto Files While filming "The Pluto Files" Neil deGrasse Tyson and NOVA producer Terri Randall took a cross-country journey to trace the history of that distant cosmic body. Along the way, they met with the family of the late Clyde Tombaugh—the man who discovered Pluto in 1930. In this podcast, Neil talks to Terri about his experience on the trip. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Terri Randall. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, Dav ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 this one common genetic toolkit create so many different species? It turns out that it's not the genes you have—it's how you use them. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interviews by John Rubin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Thinkers: If Darwin Were Here We've come a long way toward understanding evolution since the “Origin of Species” was first published 150 years ago. So what would Darwin think if he could see his theory's impact today-both on a scientific and social level? In this podcast, oceanographer Sylvia Earle, historian Jim Moore, and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker offer their best guesses. Podcast produced by David Levin and Susan K. Lewis. Original interviews by Susan K. Lewis and David Espar. NOVA is produced by WGBH in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Thinkers: Why Does Evolution Matter? 150 years ago, Charles Darwin published the “Origin of Species”, a book that changed science forever. But why is it still important to understand his theories today? In this podcast, oceanographer Sylvia Earle, biologist Ken Miller, and the late paleontologist Steven Jay Gould offer their takes on the subject. Podcast produced by David Levin and Susan K. Lewis. Original interviews by Susan K. Lewis and David Espar. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by Exx ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Thinkers: Evolution and God Even though Darwin's theory is the foundation of modern biology, it's still controversial in some religious circles. But was evolution considered a serious threat to religion in Darwin's day? And can devoutly religious people accept evolution today? In this podcast, historian Jim Moore, professor of philosophy Dan Dennett, and Biologist Ken Miller weigh in on the subject. Podcast produced by David Levin and Susan K. Lewis. Original interviews by Susan K. Lewis and David Espar. NOVA is prod ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pearl Harbor Sub Discovered In this podcast, learn how a newly identified wreck found outside Pearl Harbor may rewrite the history of the Japanese attack. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interviews by Kirk Wolfinger. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. To learn more, go to pbs.org/nova/killersubs Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Thinkers: Darwin's Debut 150 years ago today, Charles Darwin published the “Origin of Species,” a book that changed science forever. His ideas still draw some controversy-but how were they received a century ago? In this podcast, hear from biologist Ken Miller, historian Jim Moore, and the late paleontologist Steven Jay Gould on the impact of Darwin's ideas. Podcast produced by David Levin and Susan K. Lewis. Original interviews by Susan K. Lewis and David Espar. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chasing Down Dinner Evolving an ability to run long distances might have been key to survival for early humans. In this podcast, we talked to Dan Lieberman, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, to find out why. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Gaia Remerowski. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. To learn more, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How We Became Human Today, humans are rapidly changing the world's climate-but some anthropologists think climate may have once changed us. In this podcast, Rick Potts, director of the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, explains why a rapidly shifting environment could have shaped early human behavior. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Graham Townsley. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hands on Hubble John Grunsfeld, an astronomer and astronaut, says that fixing the Hubble Space Telescope was be a delicate operation. In this podcast, he explains how astronauts had to literally let their fingers do the walking when working on satellite-and why the gloves of their space suits played a major role in the mission's success. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Rush DeNooyer. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Capturing Darwin's Dilemma In 1862, Charles Darwin faced his greatest dilemma-whether or not to go public with his incendiary theory of evolution. It was a turning point for him, and for science as a whole. Today, scriptwriter John Goldsmith, former head of the British Writer's Guild, has crafted the story into a two-hour special for NOVA. In this interview, he talked to NOVA's Susan Lewis about the challenges of making of the film, and his fascination with the Darwin family. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Portland Science Pub In this podcast, Neil deGrasse Tyson visits Portland, Oregon, to participate in a monthly event called the “Science Pub.” Sponsored by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, the “Pub” invites researchers to talk about their work, answer audience questions, and have a beer. It's a science conversation done Oregon style. The original event lasted over two hours, but we trimmed the Q&A down to about 30 minutes. Podcast edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Fun ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmic Perspective: Looking Up As an astrophysicist, NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson has a unique view of the universe. Hear his “Cosmic Perspective” on looking up at the night sky. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmic Perspective: Bad News As an astrophysicist, NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson has a unique view of the universe. Hear his “Cosmic Perspective” on bad news. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Ins ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmic Perspective: The Search for Life As an astrophysicist, NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson has a unique view of the universe. Hear his “Cosmic Perspective” on the search for life in the universe. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmic Perspective: Dark Matter As an astrophysicist, NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson has a unique view of the universe. Hear his “Cosmic Perspective” on dark matter. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmic Perspective: Water As an astrophysicist, NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson has a unique view of the universe. Hear his “Cosmic Perspective” on finding water on other planets. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the How ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmic Perspective: Coming To Our Senses As an astrophysicist, NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson has a unique view of the universe. Hear his “Cosmic Perspective” on coming to our senses. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmic Perspective: Northern Lights As an astrophysicist, NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson has a unique view of the universe. Hear his “Cosmic Perspective” on the Northern Lights. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmic Perspective: Finding Planets As an astrophysicist, NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson has a unique view of the universe. Hear his “Cosmic Perspective” on the search for other planets. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmic Perspective: Carbon As an astrophysicist, NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson has a unique view of the universe. Hear his “Cosmic Perspective” on the element carbon. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes M ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 as that of his colleague, Tony Cicoria. In 1994, Cicoria was struck by lightning, and developed a sudden, inexplicable passion for playing and writing piano music. In this podcast, hear Sacks describe Cicoria's transformation. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Dempsey Rice/Daughter One productions. Music by The New You. NOVA is prod ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pitch Perfect Learning to sing like the pros isn't something you can do overnight. Over the last decade, though, recording studios have been fudging things a bit with software called Auto-Tune. It lets engineers change the pitch of sour notes. But can it make even hopeless amateurs sound decent? In this podcast, we enlisted the help of a few brave souls on the NOVA staff to find out. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interviews by David Levin and Vin Liota. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Life in Space For a boy from Costa Rica, being an astronaut must have seemed like a pipe dream. But despite long odds, Franklin Chang-Diaz made the cut. In this podcast, he reflects on hurdles he's cleared on his path to space, and describes the sense of both danger and elation that comes with the job. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Josh Seftel. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporati ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forgotten Genius: Who was my father? Percy Julian was a groundbreaking African-American scientist in the 20th century. Long before the Civil Rights Movement, he pioneered a path in a field that was dominated by whites and plagued by racial prejudice. Yet few people today even know his name. In this podcast, Julian's late son, Percy Jr., describes his father's personality. Podcast produced by David Levin and Susan Lewis. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medica ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forgotten Genius: Percy Julian Percy Julian was a groundbreaking African-American scientist in the 20th century. Long before the Civil Rights Movement, he pioneered a path in a field that was dominated by whites and plagued by racial prejudice. Yet few people today even know his name. In this podcast, hear an excerpt of a speech this forgotten genius gave at Indiana University in 1965. Podcast produced by David Levin and Susan Lewis. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sexual Cannibalism In this podcast, biologist Maydianne Andrade explains that sexual cannibalism-a gruesome mating behavior shown of Redback Spiders-is a prime example of how evolution works. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Josh Seftel. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the Nati ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Insider Who Knew NASA engineer Rodney Rocha, whose warnings and calls for action went unheeded, speaks out about the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster. This podcast was produced by David Levin. Interview by Arun Rath. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. For more on E = mc2, visit www.pbs.org/nova/columbia Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Speaking Ancient Maya Anthropologist Barbara Macleod says that studying the ancient Maya language offers a unique window into the past. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Rima Chaddha. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for "Cracking the Maya Code" is provided by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Hu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Warning In this podcast, glaciologist Lonnie Thompson describes why global warming and melting glaciers could impact everything from drinking water supplies to the spread of infectious disease-and even political issues like refugees and terrorism. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Dana Rae Warren. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public televis ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More Than Games In this podcast, computer scientist Luis Von Ahn describes how tapping into the countless hours people spend playing games can help solve complex problems that stump computers. Podcast produced by David Levin. Inteview by Josh Seftel. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the N ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom and Ray Take Liberties As producer Joe Seamans notes in this podcast, the hundreds of e-mails we've received from our audience for "Car of the Future" have been terrific, with great questions for the experts as well as ideas for alternative vehicles. There also have been a few, well, rather imaginative suggestions. Tom and Ray, naturally, couldn't help having a little fun with them. Listen in. This podcast was produced by Susan Lewis and edited by David Levin. Interview by Joe Seamans. NOVA is produced by WGBH i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Back To the Moon In this podcast, David Morrison, interim director of NASA's Lunar Science Institute, discusses why he thinks it's important for humans to return to the Moon. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Photographing Extreme Ice James Balog has been working as a nature photographer for more than 30 years. His latest project, the Extreme Ice Survey, is helping scientists document the rapid melt of glaciers worldwide--something he says is visible evidence of human-caused climate change. In this interview, he discusses his work. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neil on Hubble In this podcast, our series host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, describes where he'd point the Hubble Space Telescope if he had the chance. He also touches on past debates over whether or not to keep the Hubble program alive. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Art of Running In this podcast, elite athlete Uta Pippig describes her philosophy on running and her experiences as an advisor to 13 novice runners NOVA is following as they embark on their first marathon. Podcast produced and edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. 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Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Voice recognition is just on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Governator In this podcast, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger describes his state's plan to fight global warming. Podcast produced by David Levin and Susan Lewis. Interview by Larry Klein. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. To learn more about California's new green energy policies, visit our website at pbs.org/nova/energy Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digital Diamonds? Can man-made diamond pave the way for the electronics of the future? It depends who you talk to. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Did Bugs Do In the Dinos? Did a massive asteroid kill off the dinosaurs? Maybe not. Entomologist George Poinar thinks something much smaller might have done the job. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interview by Terri Randall. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by Pfizer, the National Science Foundatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Touching the Past For Chief Anne “Little Fawn” Richardson, Pocahontas is more than a legendary historical figure. Richardson can trace her own ancestry back to the 17th century, when her tribe, the Rappahannocks, were part of a vast domain ruled by Pocahontas's father. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dizzying Heights Dr. Peter Hackett is the Executive Director of the Institute for Altitude Medicine in Telluride, Colorado. In this podcast, he discusses the effects that altitude can have on the body. Podcast produced by David Levin. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. To learn more about the dangers of climbing tall peaks and what it takes to survive, visit our Web site at ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Other Earths The Kepler Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in 2009, may help astronomers find other earth-like planets for the first time. Podcast produced by David Levin. Interviews by Julia Cort. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by Pfizer, the National Science Foundation, an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 called Asherah. This podcast was produced by David Levin and Susan Lewis. Interview by Gary Glassman. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for "The Bible's Buried Secrets" is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Insider Who Knew This podcast was produced by David Levin. Interview by Arun Rath. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. For more on Space Shuttle Disaster, visit www.pbs.org/nova/columbia Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Smart Birds Some parrots can talk-but can they really understand what they're saying? In this podcast, researcher Irene Pepperberg describes her cognitive experiments with African grey parrots, and discusses why the line between human and animal intelligence is sometimes blurry. Produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by Pfizer, the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and pu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tiny Black Holes CERN's massive particle collider in Geneva, Switzerland, may create tiny black holes when it goes online-hopefully-in 2008. Not to worry, though: In this podcast, physicist Dave Wark explains that there's no way these can destroy the world. This podcast was produced by David Levin. Interview with Dave Wark by Rima Chaddha. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by The DOW Chemical Company, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Supersized Black Hole Astrophysicist Andrea Ghez of the University of California, Los Angeles describes her discovery of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This podcast was produced by Susan K. Lewis and edited by David Levin. Interview by Susan K. Lewis. Music courtesy www.animalhospitalmusic.com. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public televisio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website E = mc2 | Frank Wilczek Physicist Frank Wilczek of MIT offers his take on Einstein's famous equation. This podcast was produced by David Levin and Lexi Krock. Audio editing by David Levin. Music courtesy www.animalhospitalmusic.com. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. For more on E = mc2, visit www.pbs.org/nova/einstein Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website E = mc2 | Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson from the American Museum of Natural History offers his take on Einstein's famous equation. 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Dr. Leech, says that while searching for the giant Amazonian leech, bloodsucking creatures were the least of his problems. Produced by David Levin. Interview conducted by Peter Tyson. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by Pfizer, the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and public television viewers. This material is based upon work supported by the National S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Engineering Fiction Engineer Karl Iagnemma of MIT talks to NOVA scienceNOW's Susan Lewis about his dual life as a roboticist and award-winning fiction author. Produced by Susan K. Lewis. Audio editing by David Levin. Interview conducted by Susan Lewis. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by Pfizer, the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Alfred P. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Longevity Gene NOVA scienceNOW producer Chad Cohen describes a new study that may link longevity to a gene controlling a certain type of cholesterol. Produced by Chad Cohen and Lexi Krock. Audio editing by David Levin. Interviews conducted by Chad Cohen. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by Pfizer, the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and public television viewers. This material is based upo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bacteria Unite! Bonnie Bassler of Princeton University explains how bacteria can "talk" with one another, and even join together in coordinated efforts. Scientists are beginning to see these microscopic creatures-once thought completely asocial-in a whole new way. Podcast produced by Susan K. Lewis and edited by David Levin. 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Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the ethical issues raised by commercial genetic testing. Podcast produced by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the Pfizer, the National Science Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This material is based upon work supported by the National Scien ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rock Star Geneticist Geneticist Pardis Sabeti does it all -- she finished a PhD while working her way through Harvard Medical School, wrote a computer algorithm that is now widely used for studying evolution, and even finds time to make music with her band, Thousand Days. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Robe Imbriano. Music by Thousand Days. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmic Perspective: Dark Matter and Dark Energy NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson gives his "Cosmic Perspective" on dark matter and dark energy. Podcast produced by David Levin. Music by www.animalhospitalmusic.com. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding is provided by the Alfred P. Slo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Newton's Alchemy In this episode, historian of science Bill Newman explains how while Isaac Newton was busy discovering the universal law of gravitation, he was also searching out hidden meanings in the Bible and pursuing alchemical experiments. Podcast produced by Susan Lewis. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmic Perspective: Bad News and Uncertainty NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson gives his "Cosmic Perspective" on bad news and uncertainty in science. Podcast produced by David Levin. Music by www.animalhospital.com. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding is provided by the Alfred P. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Cosmic Enigma Dark matter is a cosmic enigma. We can't see it or touch it -- so what is it? We asked MIT physicist Max Tegmark about the nature of this strange substance and why it remains so mysterious. Produced by David Levin. Interview by Julia Cort. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dizzying Heights Dr. Peter Hackett is the Executive Director of the Institute for Altitude Medicine in Telluride, Colorado. In this podcast, he discusses the effects that altitude can have on the body. Podcast produced by David Levin. Funding for NOVA is provided by The DOW Chemical Company, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. To learn more about the dangers of climbing tall peaks and what it takes to survive, visit ou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leeches! Mark Siddall, a leech expert at the American Museum of Natural History, wants to change how you think about nature's most notorious blood-suckers. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Julia Cort. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tiny Black Holes CERN's massive particle collider in Geneva, Switzerland, may create tiny black holes when it goes online -- hopefully -- in 2008. Not to worry, though: In this podcast, physicist Dave Wark explains that there's no way these can destroy the world. This podcast was produced by David Levin. Interview with Dave Wark by Rima Chaddha. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Addi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Big Physics: Sheldon Glashow Physicist Sheldon Glashow of Boston University describes what he hopes the Large Hadron Collider will reveal after it becomes operational -- if all goes to plan -- in 2008. NOVA scienceNOW airs five Tuesdays a year on PBS and is available for viewing 365 days a year online. Produced by David Levin. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Journey to the Island of Stability Historian and physicist David Kaiser of MIT talks about the past and future of efforts to make an extraordinary chemical element never seen in nature. NOVA scienceNOW airs five Tuesdays a year on PBS and is available for viewing 365 days a year online. Audio editing by David Levin. Interview with David Kaiser conducted by Vin Liota. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding is provided by t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forging the Inca Empire The Inca Empire of South America lasted just over 100 years. But in that short span, the Incas conquered an area almost as vast as the Roman Empire. In this podcast, Terence D'Altroy of Columbia University describes why the Incas were so successful. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Newton's Alchemy In this episode, historian of science Bill Newman explains how while Isaac Newton was busy discovering the universal law of gravitation, he was also searching out hidden meanings in the Bible and pursuing alchemical experiments. Interview by Susan K. Lewis and audio editing by David Levin. Podcast music courtesy of www.animalhospitalmusic.com. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google. For more on Sir Isaac Newton, visit http://www.pbs.org/nova/newto ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Power from the Sun Vijay Vaitheeswaran, energy and environment correspondent for The Economist magazine, describes how solar power may finally be coming into its own. Podcast produced and edited by David Levin. Interview by Steven Latham. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Art of Running In this podcast, elite athlete Uta Pippig describes her philosophy on running and her experiences as an advisor to 13 novice runners NOVA is following as they embark on their first marathon. Podcast produced and edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. To learn more, visit http://www.pbs.org/nova/marathon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reprogramming Genes Jean-Pierre Issa of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center describes how a field called epigenetics may change the way researchers look at the disease. NOVA scienceNOW is available for viewing 365 days a year online. Produced by David Levin with help from Gaia Remerowski. Audio editing by David Levin. Interview by Sarah Holt. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding is provided by the Alfred P. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmic Perspective: Asteroid Impacts and Extinction As an astrophysicist, NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson has a unique view of the universe. Hear his "Cosmic Perspective" on why asteroid impacts here on Earth aren't necessarily a bad thing. NOVA scienceNOW airs five Tuesdays a year on PBS and is available for viewing 365 days a year online.Audio editing by David Levin. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding is provided by the Alfred ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmic Perspective: Looking Back in Time As an astrophysicist, NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson has a unique view of the universe. Hear his "Cosmic Perspective" on how light can show us the history of the universe. NOVA scienceNOW airs five Tuesdays a year on PBS and is available for viewing 365 days a year online.Audio editing by David Levin. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Founda ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cosmic Perspective: Aging Stars As an astrophysicist, NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson has a unique view of the universe. Hear his "Cosmic Perspective" on aging in the cosmos. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ape Signs: PDF podcast In this PDF podcast, explore lexigram symbols used in Sue Savage-Rumbaugh's primate language studies to see how an ape can communicate on our terms. PDF podcast produced by David Levin. Lexigram images courtesy Sue Savage-Rumbaugh/The Great Ape Trust of Iowa. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. For more on bonobos and what they might teach us about ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking With Apes In this podcast, hear about about Sue Savage-Rumbaugh's language studies with bonobos, a primate closely related to humans.Interview conducted by Rima Chaddha. Podcast produced and edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forgotten Genius: Christmas Showdown In this third installment of a podcast series about the pioneering African-American scientist Percy Julian, Peter Walton tells a revealing story about asking Julian for a holiday vacation. Walton both worked for Julian and was, in effect, a surrogate son.Interview produced and conducted by Stephen Lyons and Llewellyn Smith. Podcast produced by Susan K. Lewis and edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH inBoston. Funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forgotten Genius: Life with "Doc" Chemist Helen Printy, who worked for Percy Julian for 16 years, reflects back on her hard-driving boss and his distinctive cologne. This is the second in a series of podcasts about the trailblazing African-American scientist.Interview produced and conducted by Stephen Lyons and Llewellyn Smith. Podcast produced by Susan K. Lewis and edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broad ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forgotten Genius: Percy Julian Percy Julian was arguably the most trailblazing African-American scientist of the 20th century. Long before the civil rights movement, he pioneered a path in academic and industrial arenas that were plagued by racial prejudice. In the first of a series of podcasts, hear from the forgotten genius himself. This excerpt was drawn from a speech Percy Julian gave at Indiana University in 1965, when he was at the apex of his career.Podcast produced by Susan K. Lewis and edited by David Levin. NOV ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Northwest Passage Roland Huntford is the author of many critically acclaimed books on polar exploration, including biographies of Robert Scott, Ernest Shackleton, and Fridtjof Nansen. Here, he explains why Norwegian Roald Amundsen was one of the last possible pioneers of terrestrial exploration. This interview was conducted by Louise Osmond. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Passion for the Wild Jon Krakauer, an experienced mountaineer who began climbing at the age of eight, is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including the bestseller "Into Thin Air." In 2001, he joined NOVA on an expedition to an unexplored part of Antarctica. In this audio piece, he reflects on what drives people to test themselves in remote and dangerous realms. This interview was conducted by Liesl Clark. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Polar Cold Benedict Allen is best known for the many arduous expeditions he has undertaken to the most remote corners of the globe, including the frigid poles. He is an explorer, BBC television correspondent, and the author of nine books about his adventures.This interview was conducted by Louise Osmond. Podcast produced by Lexi Krock and David Levin. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Longevity Gene Chad Cohen is a producer and correspondent for NOVA scienceNOW. In this podcast, he profiles the work of Dr. Nir Barzilai, the Director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Dr. Barzilai's research focuses on the basic mechanisms of the biology of aging.This podcast was produced by Lexi Krock and David Levin. Audio editing by David Levin. Interviews with Dr. Barzilai and centenarians by Chad Cohen. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding a Pharaoh Aidan Dodson is a professor of anthropology and archeology at Britain's University of Bristol. His area of expertise is Egyptian funerary equipment and architecture in the second to third Intermediate Periods. He also studies European medieval royal burial practices as well as the history of Egyptology and Egyptian collections.This interview was conducted by Gail Willumsen and edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medica ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bacteria Unite! Bonnie Bassler of Princeton University explains how scientists are beginning to see these tiny organisms -- once thought completely asocial -- in a whole new way.This podcast was produced by Susan K. Lewis and edited by David Levin. Interview by Carla Denley. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding isprovided by the Alfred P. Sloan and Kavli foundations.To ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Mummy's Life Salima Ikram is an Egyptologist at the American University in Cairo. Her areas of specialty are Egyptian archeology, mummification, and cultural resource management, with a focus on museums, experimental archeology, zooarcheology, ethnoarcheology, and aspects of daily life in ancient Egypt.This interview was conducted by Susan K. Lewis and edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Publi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iceland's Clean Machines Jon Bjorn Skulason of Icelandic New Energy discusses hydrogen-powered buses now used in the city of Reykjavik. This podcast was produced and edited by David Levin. Interview by Joe Seamans. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google. Funding for the Car of the Future open production Web site is provided by The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. To learn more, visit http://www.pbs.org/nova/car Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mother of All Extinctions NOVA scienceNOW producer Joe McMaster asks NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson why everyone should know about the Permian extinction. NOVA scienceNOW airs five Tuesdays a year on PBS and is available for viewing 365 days a year online.Produced by Susan K. Lewis. Audio editing by David Levin. Interview conducted by Joe McMaster. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding is provided by the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Extinction Happens NOVA scienceNOW producer Julia Cort talks to MIT geologist Sam Bowring about a mass extinction at the end of the Permian period and discusses whether it could happen again. NOVA scienceNOW airs five Tuesdays a year on PBS and is available for viewing 365 days a year online. Audio editing by David Levin. Produced by Susan K. Lewis. Interview with Sam Bowring conducted by Julia Cort. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Antique Aviation Hear three pilots from Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome and Museum in Rhinebeck, New York describe what it's like to learn to fly pioneer aircraft. This podcast was produced and edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google. To learn more, visit http://www.pbs.org/nova/santos Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Supersized Black Hole Astrophysicist Andrea Ghez of the University of California, Los Angeles describes her discovery of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This podcast was produced by Susan K. Lewis and edited by David Levin. Interview by Susan K. Lewis. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google. Major funding for "Monster of the Milky Way" is provided by the National Science Foundation and by NASA's Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). To ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Black Holes Explained: Kip Thorne Physicist Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology offers a brief explanation of black holes.This podcast was produced by Peter Tyson and edited by David Levin. Interview by Tom Lucas. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google. Major Funding for "Monster of the Milky Way" is provided by the National Science Foundation and by NASA's Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope(GLAST).To learn more, visit http://www.pbs.org/nova/blackhole Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Black Holes Explained: Steve Ritz NASA astrophysicist Steve Ritz offers a brief explanation of black holes. This podcast was produced by Peter Tyson and edited by David Levin. Interview by Tom Lucas. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google. Major Funding for "Monster of the Milky Way" is provided by the National Science Foundation and by NASA's Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). To learn more, visit http://www.pbs.org/nova/blackhole Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Black Holes Explained: Mark Morris Physicist Mark Morris of the University of California, Los Angeles offers a brief explanation of black holes. This podcast was produced by Peter Tyson and edited by David Levin. Interview by Tom Lucas. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google. To learn more, visit http://www.pbs.org/nova/blackhole Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Accident-Proof Runways? Find out how new radar systems under development by the FAA could help prevent collisions on the runway. This podcast was produced and edited by David Levin. Interviews by Chris Schmidt. Music courtesy www.animalhospitalmusic.com. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google. To learn more about flight safety, visit http://www.pbs.org/nova/planecrash Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Since the attacks of 9/11, conspiracy theories about the destruction of the twin towers have flooded the Internet. But what's the real story behind the collapse? In this podcast, Dr. S. Shyam Sunder of the National Institute of Standards and Technology sets the record straight. This podcast was produced and edited by David Levin. Interview by Larry Klein. Music courtesy www.animalhospitalmusic.com. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google. To learn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website E = mc2 | Alan Guth Alan Guth, theoretical physicist, MIT: "It's easiest to explain by how things looked from the point of view of Newton."This podcast was produced by David Levin and Lexi Krock. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google.For more on E = mc2, visit http://www.pbs.org/nova/einstein Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website E = mc2 | Janet Conrad Janet Conrad, experimental physicist, Columbia University: "For me there's a lot more to the equation than E = mc2." This podcast was produced by David Levin and Lexi Krock. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google. For more on E = mc2, visit http://www.pbs.org/nova/einstein Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Safer Tall Tower Leslie Robertson is the structural engineer behind the World Trade Center in New York. In this podcast, he describes the safety features of his latest project, the World Financial Center in Shanghai, China. When the building is finished in 2008, it will be over 1,600 feet tall.This podcast was produced by David Levin and narrated by Larry Klein. Audio editing by David Levin. Music courtesy www.animalhospitalmusic.com. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Proving String Theory Brian Greene is a renowned string theorist, professor of mathematics and physics at Columbia University, and host of the NOVA series "The Elegant Universe". In this podcast, Greene responds to physicist Sheldon Glashow's critique of string theory. This podcast was produced by Lexi Krock and David Levin. Audio editing by David Levin. Music courtesy www.animalhospitalmusic.com. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google. For more on strings and string ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Theory of Everything? Brian Greene is a renowned string theorist, professor of mathematics and physics at Columbia University, and host of the NOVA series "The Elegant Universe". 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tracking Twisters David McLachlan is a radar specialist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Steve Chapman is the Emergency Management Director for the City of Chikasaw, Oklahoma. In this podcast, they discuss a new type of tornado-spotting radar that offers improved weather imaging resolution and coverage. This podcast was produced and edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google and BP. Special funding for NOVA podcasts is provided by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sounds of Titan The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan, jointly developed by NASA and the European Space Agency, transmitted sound to Earth from farther away in the solar system than any space expedition ever had before. In this podcast, hear research scientist and Planetary Society education director Bruce Betts explain how and what Cassini and Huygens recorded. This podcast was produced by David Levin and Lexi Krock. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major fundin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Polar Cold Benedict Allen is best known for the many arduous expeditions he has undertaken to the most remote corners of the globe, including the frigid poles. He is an explorer, BBC television correspondent, and the author of nine books about his adventures. This interview was conducted by Louise Osmond. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google and BP. Special funding for NOVA podcasts is provided by the MacArthur Foundation. For ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Polar Cold Benedict Allen is best known for the many arduous expeditions he has undertaken to the most remote corners of the globe, including the frigid poles. He is an explorer, BBC television correspondent, and the author of nine books about his adventures.This interview was conducted by Louise Osmond. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google andBP. Special funding for NOVA podcasts is provided by the MacArthur Foundation.For more ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Northwest Passage Roland Huntford is the author of many critically acclaimed books on polar exploration, including biographies of Robert Scott, Ernest Shackleton, and Fridtjof Nansen. This interview was conducted by Louise Osmond. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google and BP. Special funding for NOVA podcasts is provided by the MacArthur Foundation. For more on arctic exploration, visit http://www.pbs.org/nova/arctic Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Northwest Passage Roland Huntford is the author of many critically acclaimed books on polar exploration, including biographies of Robert Scott, Ernest Shackleton, and Fridtjof Nansen. This interview was conducted by Louise Osmond. Audio editing by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google and BP. Special funding for NOVA podcasts is provided by the MacArthur Foundation. For more on arctic exploration, visit http://www.pbs.org/nova/arctic Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Passion for the Wild Jon Krakauer, an experienced mountaineer who began climbing at the age of eight, is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including the bestseller "Into Thin Air." His most recent book, "Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith," is about Mormon fundamentalism.This interview was conducted by Liesl Clark. Audio editing is by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google and BP. Special funding for NOVA podcasts is provided ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Passion for the Wild Jon Krakauer, an experienced mountaineer who began climbing at the age of eight, is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including the bestseller "Into Thin Air." His most recent book, "Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith," is about Mormon fundamentalism. This interview was conducted by Liesl Clark. Audio editing is by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google and BP. Special funding for NOVA podcasts is provid ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeking Supernovae Kate Scholberg is a physicist at Duke University. Her research interests include experimental elementary particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. Her research involves the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector in Japan, and the T2K (Tokaito Kamioka) long baseline neutrino beam experiment. She is also involved in the supernova early alert network, SNEWS. This interview was conducted and edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Googl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seeking Supernovae Kate Scholberg is a physicist at MIT. Her research interests include experimental elementary particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Since the fall of 2000 she has worked with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) collaboration in its search for antimatter and dark matter in space. She is also involved in neutrino physics and the supernova early alert network, SNEWS. This interview was conducted and edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hunting Neutrinos David Wark is an experimental particle physicist at the University of Sussex's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Imperial College London. He is currently working on an experiment called the Neutrino Factory, which would go into operation by 2016 firing neutrinos from the UK to a laboratory in Japan some 5,300 miles away. The multinational Neutrino Factory team hopes to understand the mechanisms of the Big Bang. This interview was conducted by David Sington and edited by David Levin. NOVA ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hunting Neutrinos David Wark is an experimental particle physicist at the University of Sussex's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Imperial College London. He is currently working on an experiment called the Neutrino Factory, which would go into operation by 2016 firing neutrinos from the UK to a laboratory in Japan some 5,300 miles away. The multinational Neutrino Factory team hopes to understand the mechanisms of the Big Bang. This interview was conducted by David Sington and edited by David Levin. NOVA ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sun's Ignition Janet Conrad is an experimental particle physicist at Columbia University. Since 1997, her research has centered on the MiniBooNE neutrino detector at the Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. The MiniBooNE experiment's goal is to find neutrinos and expand physicists' understanding of how the universe has evolved since its birth. This interview was conducted by David Sington and edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Sun's Ignition Janet Conrad is an experimental particle physicist at Columbia University. Since 1997, her research has centered on the MiniBooNE neutrino detector at the Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. The MiniBooNE experiment's goal is to find neutrinos and expand physicists' understanding of how the universe has evolved since its birth. This interview was conducted by David Sington and edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Return to Egypt Peter Lacovara is Senior Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art at Emory University's Carlos Museum in Atlanta. In 1999, Lacovara initiated the Carlos Museum's acquisition of a large collection of Egyptian art and artifacts from the Niagara Falls Museum in Canada. The cache included the mummy Lacovara and others now believe to be the missing pharaoh Rameses I. This interview was conducted by Gail Willumsen and edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. M ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Return to Egypt Peter Lacovara is Senior Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art at Emory University's Carlos Museum in Atlanta. In 1999, Lacovara initiated the Carlos Museum's acquisition of a large collection of Egyptian art and artifacts from the Niagara Falls Museum in Canada. The cache included the mummy Lacovara and others now believe to be the missing pharaoh Rameses I. This interview was conducted by Gail Willumsen and edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. M ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mummy DNA Gayle Gibson is the president of Canada's Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities and a teacher of Egyptian history at the Royal Ontario Museum. Beginning in the early 1980s she visited the unidentified mummy in Niagara Falls many times and suspected early on that he was a pharaoh. She was one of the first Egyptologists to assert that the mummy's facial structure and mummification style identified it as someone in the Rameses line. This interview was conducted by Gail Willumsen and e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mummy DNA Gayle Gibson is the president of Canada's Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities and a teacher of Egyptian history at the Royal Ontario Museum. Beginning in the early 1980s she visited the unidentified mummy in Niagara Falls many times and suspected early on that he was a pharaoh. She was one of the first Egyptologists to assert that the mummy's facial structure and mummification style identified it as someone in the Rameses line. This interview was conducted by Gail Willumsen and e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding a Pharoah Aidan Dodson is a professor of anthropology and archeology at Britain's University of Bristol. His area of expertise is in Egyptian funerary equipment and architecture in the second to third Intermediate Periods. He also studies European medieval royal burial practices as well as the history of Egyptology and Egyptian collections.This interview was conducted by Gail Willumsen and edited and narratedby David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Goo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding a Pharaoh Aidan Dodson is a professor of anthropology and archeology at Britain's University of Bristol. His area of expertise is in Egyptian funerary equipment and architecture in the second to third Intermediate Periods. He also studies European medieval royal burial practices as well as the history of Egyptology and Egyptian collections. This interview was conducted by Gail Willumsen and edited and narrated by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Mummy's Life Salima Ikram is an Egyptologist at the American University in Cairo. Her areas of specialty are Egyptian archeology, mummification, and cultural resource management with a focus on museums, experimental archaeology, zooarcheology, ethnoarcheology, and aspects of daily life in ancient Egypt. Dr. Ikram has also worked in Greece, Turkey, and Sudan. This podcast interview was produced by Susan K. Lewis and edited and narrated by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Mummy's Life Salima Ikram is an Egyptologist at the American University in Cairo. Her areas of specialty are Egyptian archeology, mummification, and cultural resource management with a focus on museums, experimental archaeology, zooarcheology, ethnoarcheology, and aspects of daily life in ancient Egypt. Dr. Ikram has also worked in Greece, Turkey, and Sudan.This podcast interview was produced by Susan K. Lewis and edited and narrated by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Next Disaster? Lucy Jones is Scientist-in-Charge for USGS earthquake activities in southern California. She leads the Pasadena office of the USGS, serves on the National Earthquake Program Council, and coordinates all earthquake research funded by the USGS in southern California. This podcast was produced, edited, and narrated by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google. Additional funding is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corpor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wetland Restoration Biologist Noel Kinler of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and environmental scientist Bill Mitsch of Ohio State University say that Louisiana's wetlands can and must be restored in order to protect New Orleans and the Gulf Coast from hurricanes. This podcast was produced and narrated by Lexi Krock, researched by Jonah Lehrer, and edited by David Levin. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Major funding for NOVA is provided by Google. Additional funding is provided by the H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hurricane Generation Jeff Halverson has traveled the world studying how hurricanes form and intensify. He is a geography professor at the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology at the University of Maryland and a hurricane researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. 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