Introducing the 2024 NOVA Science Studio student producers who reported on local data-related impacts and solutions

Meet the 2023 – 2024 NOVA Science Studio student-producers who covered a wide variety of big data science stories

The Eiffel Tower is an engineering icon that changed the face of the modern world.

Learn how some of the great structures of the world—the Eiffel Tower, the Great Pyramids, and more—were built.

Stories of brilliant innovations and inventions by the world’s greatest minds.

Why sleepwalkers can paint, eat, or even drive when part of their brain is asleep.

Ancient Maya had a rich history and complex culture that is only now being fully appreciated.

How did our solar system form? And when did Earth come to be?

Meet Europe’s five-thousand-year-old murder victim.

Practical tips for creating a strong password and keeping your data safe online.

Enjoy these NOVA staff favorites.

How addiction works in the brain, and why opioids are so dangerously addictive.

How pheromones and emotional contagion can make fear spread through a group–for better or worse.

To combat climate change, scientists are working to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Explore the outreach toolkit, sign up to receive an engineering activity kit, and tune in to upcoming virtual field trips and events this fall!

Records show how the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid more than 4500 years ago.

We have updated our sample digital signage presentation ideas for schools and colleges, both in landscape and portrait format.

We have updated our sample presentation ideas for using Repeat Signage software in care homes and nursing homes. Staff handover time can be reduced by displaying important messages on screens in the nurses station, ensuring excellent communication and that nothing important is missed.

A Malaysian security department needed a system that their programmers could incorporate Q management control with digital signage software. They display Repeat Signage on their screens to show live TV, the counter and announcements, in this case study.

Minerallac Company, an electrical construction hardware manufacturer, find Repeat Signage software a useful tool for keeping staff updated on events and information. Staff is their satellite office, 2000 miles away, now feel more connected since digital signage was utilised.

StarBoard Solution EU, has collaborated with Repeat Software, a UK software developer of Repeat Signage software, to provide a digital signage solution for StarBoard users.

We have added presentation sample design ideas for you to use in businesses and corporate offices including display graphs for a e-commerce warehouse distribution and electrical distribution companies.

To complement our digital signage design idea solutions we have published brief recorded MP4 videos of digital signage presentations for multiple applications

To help you get started with Repeat Signage software, we have created a walk-through of screenshots to show you how to create a simple dynamic digital signage presentation.

We have updated our digital signage brochure to give you ideas and sample presentations for dynamic presentations to engage with your audience on display screens.

You can keep up-to-date with the latest digital signage blog, Repeat Signage news and information.

Two minute video looks at the differences between Repeat Signage Standard edition and the Standalone edition. The former has full features and is ideal for displaying engaging content on any display screen anywhere in the world, whilst the latter is ideal for any application where the Internet is not possible, for example, military, army manoevers, evacuation, outdoor events, etc.

Repeat Signage software celebrates 12 years with the launch of Version 5 and a new licencing model. Repeat Signage V5 (Version 5), which supports Windows 10 and 11, has new and improved features including the ability to link with a user’s eBay account to display eBay auctions on screen.

7-minute video shows you how to filter and display data in a datagrid as part of your digital signage software presentations for display on any screen, anywhere. This feature is available in Repeat Signage Corporate or Media Wall editions and is ideal for corporate offices to help keep staff updated on relevant information

7-minute video shows how you can a single line of text from either a .txt file or a database, for example, displaying name of duty manager. The ability to display database information is available in the Corporate and Media Wall editions of Repeat Signage digital signage software. Ideal for displaying company information on any screen anywhere.

The spreadsheet control within Repeat Signage software allows you to display existing Microsoft Excel .xlsx files and allows you to use the built in editor to create spreadsheets within your presentations. You can also create and display spreadsheet graphs from your information. This gives you an easy way to display formatted information in grids and you also have the ability to insert pictures as well.

Repeat Signage software has a number of free tools including the Batch PDF splitter. This shows you how to add your PDF to a folder and create an empty output folder. Then click run and in seconds, individual PDF pages appear in your output folder, leaving the original PDF as it was.

7-minute video shows you how to use the Repeat Signage designer screen to insert controls, e.g. picture control, to create flexible, dynamic, digital signage presentations for display screens.

The renowned arranger, composer and producer worked with countless artists, including Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson. Jones died Nov. 3. Originally broadcast in 2001.

Ronan credits her parents and the filmmakers she worked with as a child for keeping acting fun. She stars as a woman struggling with addiction in The Outrun and as a World War II mother in Blitz.

Netflix's film is based on a 1955 novel about a man who goes in search of the father he’d never met — only to discover that his father is dead, and the village he inhabited is haunted by ghosts.

With 23 short essays on creatures ranging from the wombat to the spider, Katherine Rundell's new book is essential reading for anyone whose wonder could use a jumpstart.

In Savings and Trust, historian Justene Hill Edwards tells the story of the Freedman's Bank. Created for formerly enslaved people following the Civil War, its collapse cost depositors millions.

The comic can pick up on the "micro bad mood" of whoever she's talking to. She writes about pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood in a new book of essays, Lifeform. Originally broadcast March 12, 2024.

Essayist Phil Klay says Trump tried to use the military to push his partisan agenda before, and may further erode norms around the military as he looks for those willing to "go with his whims."

Here are the honorable mentions from the 2024 Student Podcast Challenge. Congratulations!

College students often use posters to help spruce up their dorm. At the University of Chicago, they get a chance to borrow works by prominent artists for a year.

After-school activities will still be suspended Monday and Tuesday.

The absolute number of Black men enrolled at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is the lowest it's been since 1976.

The number of Black men enrolled at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is the lowest it’s been since 1976.

Kids at a tribal school in Arizona are preparing for their own election to determine their favorite school lunch: pizza or chicken nuggets? And they're learning about democracy along the way.

In Louisiana, more than 100,000 students are using an AI tutor that is helping to raise reading scores.

At an Arizona tribal school, it's a fierce campaign to pick the top school lunch, as students learn about making their voice count

An NPR listener is graduating soon with her MBA. She wants to know if it's OK celebrate her achievement by asking loved ones to buy her gifts from a registry, similar to what people do for weddings.

With Donald Trump's re-election, millions of federal student loan borrowers are left to wonder if this is the end of the road for President Biden's promises of loan relief.