Like most films that we at DOX Productions make for NOVA, "Dimming the Sun" is a coproduction between a U.K. broadcaster and WGBH, Boston. So we are well used to creating two slightly different ...

That’s one reason scientists have begun using powerful solar telescopes to observe the Sun and find ways to predict these storms. Now, in NOVA’s Sun Lab, you can do it too. The Sun Lab ...

How these particles, at various heights, cause absorption or reflection of the sun's radiation was poorly understood. Yet different groups of modelers came to the same tentative conclusion.

There are countless ways to bring the Sun Lab into your classroom. Each part of the Lab—the Video Library, Research Challenge, and Opportunities Section—can be used as a teaching tool in its ...

National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the NOVA Science Trust, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS viewers.

National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the NOVA Science Trust, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS viewers.

Now the cell is ready for the sun. As sunlight hits the cell, its photons begin "knocking loose" electrons in both silicon layers. These newly freed electrons dart around each layer but are ...

Toxic exhaust from power plants accounts for much of the nation's air pollution. Congress's 1990 Clean Air Act required that all electric generating plants in the U.S. reduce their emissions by ...

NOVA Labs: Most of what we know about solar science comes from reading the Sun's light ... the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS viewers.

In the early 21st century, it's become clear that air pollution can significantly reduce the amount of sunlight reaching Earth, lower temperatures, and mask the warming effects of greenhouse gases.