Discovery

About 5,700 years ago, on a small, isolated island off the coast of Alaska, a herd of woolly mammoths crossed a treeless tundra. But these weren’t just any mammoths.

This video explores the discovery of Inca children preserved in ice for over 500 years. Scientists reveal their last meals, health, and the sacred capacocha ritual that led to their deaths, uncovering powerful insights into Inca culture, religion, and soc...

Discover Cahokia, the massive pre-Columbian Native American city near St. Louis that once rivaled the great urban centers of the ancient world.

Luke O’Sullivan explores the history and ongoing conservation of the 17th-century Swedish warship, Vasa. After sinking during its maiden voyage, the remarkably intact wreckage faced unique preservation challenges. Discover the innovative structural engine...

Three women find out what it means to be a modern witch. From cults, to Wiccan to alters; they explore the large and fast-growing popularity of witchcraft.

Overshadowed by the rise of the Roman Empire, the Etruscan civilization — and their exquisite art, progressive society, and advanced engineering — was largely forgotten by history. This film reclaims their story, revealing how Etruscan innovations and cus...

A deadly—and growing—global weather phenomenon mystifies scientists.

In 1942, an Indian forest ranger discovered a remote lake, high in the Himalayas, with something strange visible in its clear water. The lake was full of human skeletons.

America’s most toxic lake may also be one of its most overlooked resources. At the Berkeley Pit Superfund Site, scientists are extracting clean energy materials from a century of mining waste.

Is Earth’s core a solid or a liquid? Yes. The mysteries of our own planet’s interior have, in many ways, been harder to crack than those of the rest of the cosmos.

Some islands are strange because of how they formed. Others because of what lives on them or what humans did to them.

Right in the center of the island nation of Madagascar there’s a strange, almost perfectly circular geological structure. It covers a bigger area than the city of Paris — and at first glance, it looks completely empty. But right in the center of that stru...

The tepuis of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana are billion-year-old "islands in the sky", each one carrying an ecosystem unique to their summit. In this video we discuss, the geography, geology, ecosystems and the human connection of these unique and beautif...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone represents a profound disaster in the making. Running hundreds of miles along the Pacific Northwest coast, it's overdue for a catastrophic magnitude 9 earthquake. In fact, scientists estimate there's a 37% chance it will strik...

Have you ever wondered how far humans are willing to go to build a home? Around the world, there are breathtaking places where people have built entire communities in locations that seem completely impossible.

Cultures from North America to Australia share legends of a missing star in the Pleiades. Could this global myth preserve a real astronomical event?