Episodes

What’s behind the death of a tiny creature with an outsized role in the Antarctic?

Can a daring water engineering project revive the Dead Sea without altering its unique chemistry?

New technologies unravel the Dead Sea Scrolls’ mysteries and uncover million-dollar fakes.

NASA launches its most ambitious search yet for traces of ancient life on Mars.

Discover the origins of life and the chemistry that made it all happen.

Have you ever put your little one peacefully to bed only to hear them crying out in distress later in the night? Dreams and nightmares, which occur during REM sleep, are a normal part of human brain activity—and they don’t stop as you get older.

Engineers have created super-strong glass, rubber, and plastic—but at what cost?