NOVA | January 2022

Gleaming symbols of prestige, skyscrapers are an ingenious way to save space in dense urban areas. But even as we devise ways to defend them against fires, wind and earthquakes, can we also make them more livable, interactive and eco-friendly?
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Can skyscrapers be made safer, more efficient and more livable in our rapidly growing cities?
Explore how the scientific secrets of butterflies are inspiring technological innovations.
NOVA investigates the hidden scientific secrets of butterflies that reveal them as smarter and more resilient than we ever imagined, and explores how they're inspiring cutting-edge technical innovations.
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Wielding chainsaws to extract fossils frozen into the permafrost and flying drones to map thousands of footprints, intrepid paleontologists discover that dinosaurs thrived in the unlikeliest places – the cold and dark Arctic Circle.
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Around 800 CE, the ancient Maya abandoned the magnificent cities they had lived in for centuries. NOVA investigates dramatic new scientific evidence for droughts that pushed cities already stressed by overpopulation and warfare beyond their limits.