NOVA brings you short video stories from the world of science, including excerpts from our television programs, video dispatches from producers and correspondents in the field, animations, and much more. Funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.
Art Authentication
Posted: January 2012Vincent van Gogh has inspired several talented artists to turn their hands to forgery. Can computers be used to identify which works are really his? To find out, NOVA science NOW, working in cooperation with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, commissioned an expert in art reconstruction to make a meticulous copy of a van Gogh painting. Then, we challenged three different computer teams—from Princeton, Penn State, and Maastricht universities—to see if they could spot the imitation in a group that included five genuine van Goghs.
A video podcast in the MP4 format.Put a Lid on It
Posted: January 2012Bill Nye, TV's "Science Guy," conducts a pasta-making experiment that can save you money.
A video podcast in the MP4 format.Blocking Bitter Taste
Posted: January 2012In this video, Neil deGrasse Tyson meets a genetically modified mouse that can't sense bitter.
A video podcast in the MP4 format.Obesity
Posted: January 2012Examine the biology behind the compulsion to eat.
A video podcast in the MP4 format.Profile: Bonnie Bassler
Posted: December 2011Her insight into how bacteria "talk" has launched a revolution in biological and medical research.
A video podcast in the MP4 format.The Weather on Mars
Posted: December 2011Is the weather on Mars anything like the weather on Earth? NOVA asked Vicky Hipkin from the Canadian Space Agency, who was part of the recent Phoenix Mission to explore conditions on the Red Planet.
A video podcast in the MP4 format.Evolution in Action
Posted: December 2011NOVA visits David Wake, a renowned evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, as he explains why members of the same species of California salamander look and behave so differently. It's a case study of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, and an example, Wake says, that Darwin himself would have loved.
A video podcast in the MP4 format.A Magical Migration
Posted: December 2011In this excerpt from NOVA's “The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies,” see just how astounding the monarch butterfly's sense of navigation is, and learn how monarchs are tracked across North America.
A video podcast in the MP4 format.The Amazing Atomic Clock
Posted: November 2011Dr. Steve Jefferts of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado is an expert on how we measure time. In fact, he uses one of the world's most accurate atomic clocks to calibrate time in the United States. But why do we need such accuracy? Learn why atomic clocks are so important in our everyday lives.
A video podcast in the MP4 format.The Making of the Quantum Club
Posted: November 2011It took hundreds of hours to shoot and animate a scene in the so-called Quantum Club, from “The Fabric of the Cosmos” with Brian Greene. NOVA's Julia Cort, one of the producers of the show, explains how she and her colleagues created the scene to make the quantum world come alive.
A video podcast in the MP4 format.Quantum Confidential
Posted: November 2011If you were a spy, how could you ensure that an encrypted message got safely to your allies? Send it using entangled particles! Here, watch how a technique called quantum cryptography could save a state secret from falling into enemy hands.
A video podcast in the MP4 format.Heisenberg Humor
Posted: November 2011According to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, you can’t know both the location and momentum of a particle at the same time. You might not think this could be funny, but watch this video and you might think again.
A video podcast in the MP4 format.
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Saturday, 4th February 2012
