A dedicated team of eye doctors are on a mission to rid the world of preventable blindness, one incision at a time.
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5min
November 14, 2021
2. Interstellar Message Design
Astrobiologists study the protocol for first contact as they try to determine how they go about speaking with alien races.
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6min
November 14, 2021
3. World's Most-Advanced Clock
Time may be a human construct, but that hasn't stopped these physicists from perfecting it.
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7min
November 14, 2021
4. Photography and Motion
Using photography, one man opens up a hidden world of motion in everything from every day objects to the unique physics happening inside a nuclear bomb.
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7min
November 14, 2021
5. Capturing a Black Hole
The MIT Haystack Observatory reveals where the Event Horizon Telescope is at with the world's first photo of a black hole.
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8min
November 14, 2021
6. Thawing the Nuclear City
Scientists and engineers investigate tons of nuclear waste from a secret military operation hiding underneath Greenland's ice sheet.
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8min
November 14, 2021
7. Race to the Universe's Edge
In the middle of a billion-dollar telescope-building boom, new ground-based observatories are racing to see first light in the 2020s.
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7min
November 14, 2021
8. Mars Thruster
The X3, a new type of propulsion engine that's smashing records, is made possible thanks to a collaboration among NASA, Aerojet Rocketdyne, the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Michigan.
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6min
November 14, 2021
9. Your Invisible Exposome Cloud
Microscopic bits can hitch a ride on your clothes, find their way into your body and impact your personal health. They're part of your exposome, and everyone has one.
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7min
November 14, 2021
10. Secret to Fighting Emissions
Seaweed is on the menu! This superfood plucked from the ocean is being fed to lucky cows in California to curb their methane production, and the resulting research could save the planet.
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7min
November 14, 2021
11. Locking Away Weed in a Vault
Marijuana is causing a buzz over its therapeutic potential, but scientists are still struggling to study it.
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10min
November 14, 2021
12. NASA's New Nuclear Engine
From returning to the Moon to establishing outposts on Mars, NASA has the need for more power than ever before. Nuclear fission could just be the solution they've been searching for.
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7min
November 14, 2021
13. Solar Storm War Mystery
Declassified Vietnam War files show researchers the unpredictable nature of the Sun and help them work towards predicting the next big solar storm.
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10min
November 14, 2021
14. The Science Quest and Einstein
Two intrepid astronomers embark on a scientific quest to photograph a solar eclipse and turned Albert Einstein into an international celebrity.
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9min
November 14, 2021
15. The World's Glacier Librarians
An international team of scientists embark on a continent-hopping expedition to build a future climate ice vault before the world's glaciers vanish forever.