1ei9ZJ15Bj4pbs-eons-the-arms-race-that-made-insects-take-flightPBS Eons | The Arms Race That Made Insects Take FlightSpiders and their ancestors have been driving an arms race that began before either stepped foot onto land and resulted in the first powered flight on Earth.
din1J2mZmc4pbs-eons-the-graveyard-at-the-center-of-the-earth-2025PBS Eons | The Graveyard at The Center of the Earth (2025)Scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of why plate tectonics works the way it does for over a hundred years. And they might have just uncovered a key to cracking it.
R9tJ4TkG0fUpbs-space-time-will-the-big-bang-happen-again-and-againPBS Space Time | Will The Big Bang Happen Again and Again?How did the universe begin? How can something come from nothing?
y4ouRg_RbVYpbs-eons-did-asteroids-spark-life-2025PBS Eons | Did Asteroids Spark Life? (2025)We may have planet-shattering asteroids to thank for the origin of life on Earth.
BByfsocqDU4pbs-america-the-last-artifact-full-specialPBS America | The Last Artifact | Full SpecialThe Last Artifact follows the high-stakes race to redefine the world's base unit to measure weight and reveals the untold story of one of the most important objects on the planet.
V3554BmwV1Efireship-the-plan-to-break-apart-google-rip-chromeFireship | The Plan to Break Apart Google... RIP ChromeThe US Dept of Justice wants to break apart Google's search engine monopoly by forcing it to sell its Chrome browser. Let's look into the implications this would have on big tech in the future.
XMjLwmgipsApbs-eons-when-earth-ate-a-planet-2024PBS Eons | When Earth Ate A Planet (2024)Where did our unique moon come from? It turns out that lunar rocks brought back by Apollo astronauts are a clue, pointing to the origin of our closest cosmic companion, an origin even stranger than you might imagine…
26ZmKqLNSZ8pbs-space-time-can-a-particle-be-neither-matter-nor-forcePBS Space Time | Can a Particle Be Neither Matter Nor Force?All particles belong to two large groups: fermions like protons and electrons make everything we consider "matter", while bosons like photons and gluons transmit the fundamental forces.
WqcoMOxGWfspbs-eons-theres-no-single-cradle-of-humankind-2024PBS Eons | There's No Single Cradle of Humankind (2024)It would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind," and realize that maybe they’d been asking the wrong question all along.
JK1BfPw7lnQpbs-terra-how-big-business-broke-recycling-and-blamed-youPBS Terra | How Big Business broke Recycling and Blamed YouRecycling has been the gold standard for fighting pollution for decades. But most plastics can’t be recycled and the companies that push for recycling are the ones often generating the most emissions and waste in the first place.
ZJqmyLCfA-Ipbs-eons-the-hazy-evolution-of-cannabis-2024PBS Eons | The Hazy Evolution of Cannabis (2024)How did such a strange plant like cannabis come to be in the first place? When and where did we first domesticate it? And why oh why does it get us high?
mH2aE0lk2XMpbs-terra-why-its-time-to-stop-saving-the-planetPBS Terra | Why It's Time to Stop Saving the PlanetWe care about the planet. But what if it's time to stop "saving it"?
kauDsIeIMxspbs-eons-when-did-we-start-practicing-medicine-2024PBS Eons | When Did We Start Practicing Medicine? (2024)When did practicing medicine - in its varied, complex forms (from sharing medicinal plants to the earliest surgeries) - become something that we actually started doing?
uMItdDUYAeApbs-eons-animals-might-be-much-older-than-we-thoughtPBS Eons | Animals Might Be Much Older Than We ThoughtWhat are animal-like fossils doing in rocks a billion years old, and what does that mean for our understanding of their evolution and geologic time itself?
HE2MmAGUgnwpbs-eons-our-most-mysterious-extinct-cousins-2024PBS Eons | Our Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins (2024)There was a group of hominins, those creatures more closely related to us than to chimpanzees, that did take a different, parallel journey from our ancestors.
ALmS9E87LCgpbs-space-time-does-antimatter-create-anti-gravityPBS Space Time | Does Antimatter Create Anti-Gravity?From hoverboards to flying cars to cloud cities, anti-gravity is a staple of science fiction and our dream of a less Earth-bound future. But in the real universe gravity appears to be a purely attractive force.
viTE77xIji0pbs-eons-beans-and-bees-not-bats-gave-us-butterflies-2023PBS Eons | Beans and Bees, Not Bats, Gave Us Butterflies (2023)Turns out, instead of having bats to thank for the existence of butterflies, the groups we should actually be thanking are…bees and beans.
CleBC18qoyApbs-eons-the-huge-extinctions-we-are-just-now-discoveringPBS Eons | The Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now DiscoveringWhat graptolites tell us is a story of incredible changes in the ocean, of periods where the oceans became poisonous and suffocating before eventually clearing up again.
opg6RO9cYnkpbs-eons-when-did-we-stop-being-naked-2023PBS Eons | When Did We Stop Being Naked? (2023)Of course, the ancient Egyptians were probably not the first people to ever wear clothing, but we haven’t found any clothes older than the Tarkhan Dress. So how can we figure out when we first started wearing clothes?
e4-ruUSBe8Upbs-special-edgar-allan-poe-buried-alivePBS Special | Edgar Allan Poe | Buried AliveEdgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive draws on the rich palette of Poe's evocative imagery and sharply drawn plots to tell the real story of the notorious author.
uM51_Vui9tApbs-eons-are-giant-animals-inevitable-2023PBS Eons | Are Giant Animals Inevitable? (2023)The journey the thunder beasts took to reach such mega proportions from such humble beginnings forces us to ask an important question, one that paleontologists have been asking for more than a century: from an evolutionary perspective, is bigger always better?
ZLrMwDD8u_Qpbs-space-time-the-farthest-star-ever-seenPBS Space Time | The Farthest Star Ever Seen!To understand where we came from, how earth, the solar system, the galaxy became what they are today, we need to understand the beginning of time.
PNGs-CLgBfkpbs-eons-that-time-the-ocean-lost-almost-all-its-oxygenPBS Eons | That Time The Ocean Lost Almost All its OxygenThis is the story of how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period, at the cost of essentially suffocating the oceans for half-a-million years.
H5XVxKNzhjQpbs-eons-did-a-tsunami-swallow-part-of-europe-2023PBS Eons | Did a Tsunami Swallow Part of Europe? (2023)What happened to the piece of prime prehistoric real estate known as Doggerland?
aYH-KYdgXagpbs-eons-we-helped-make-mosquitoes-a-problemPBS Eons | We Helped Make Mosquitoes A ProblemAround 6,000 years ago, in the Sahel region of Africa, a lone female mosquito buzzed through the lush, green savannah.
ng1hVUozyuQpbs-eons-how-the-giraffe-got-its-neck-2023PBS Eons | How The Giraffe Got Its Neck (2023)How and why the giraffe's neck emerged in the first place has been a mystery that generations of biologists have argued over – one that has made us reconsider our understanding of how evolution actually works over and over again.
70Qi4Nk3aJcpbs-eons-a-natural-history-of-mars-2023PBS Eons | A Natural History of Mars (2023)While Earth’s natural history has been playing out over the last few billion years, another epic planetary saga has also been unfolding right next door.