It's Elemental

A professor from one of the CERN teams explains what this experimental result means for the future of physics.

Marine geochemist Catherine Jeandel has bottled the world’s oceans to decipher their past—and future.

Think you know the periodic table? See how quickly you can name the mystery elements we describe.

How do scientists use mathematics to define reality? And why?

Columbia's Brian Greene explains why history’s greatest scientific thinkers, from Newton to Feynman, became his heroes.

Go behind the scenes at CERN for exclusive interviews with lead scientists on the historic July 4 announcement.

Learn how Peter Higgs' ideas about matter transformed our understanding of space.

Explore an interactive periodic table, combine elements to make real stuff, and watch the two-hour NOVA program.

A two-hour special from the producers of "Making Stuff"

Watch David Pogue's hilarious out-takes from NOVA's "Hunting the Elements."

Try your hand at NOVA’s first crossword puzzle. It’s fast, physics-based, and fun.

Join Albert Einstein on a high-speed cab ride to see why space and time are truly in the eye of the beholder.

In this interactive periodic table, explore the elements and their properties and abundances.

See if you can build a cathedral arch without it collapsing, and learn more about the forces at work.

Explore the infinite detail of a Mandelbrot set as you zoom to a magnification of 250,000,000x.

Physicist Jim Gates says that even if you took all the matter out of the universe, space still wouldn’t be empty.

Physicist Alan Guth says that the concept of “space” is more complicated than you might think.

Physicist Leonard Susskind says that Einstein’s equations show that space exists, but they don’t explain what it is.

The concept of “space” is a tough one to explain, even for a Nobel prize-winning physicist.

Physicist Peter Galison says that humans sense time as moving constantly forward, but it doesn’t really work that way.