Most of us can name a NOVA science film that radically changed our way of thinking. For two Texas middle school students, Forgotten Genius was the one. Featuring the accomplishments and perseverance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Civil War veteran Henry Pickett, an inventor from Akron, and his family are buried in unmarked graves near this spot in Glendale ...

In 1998, buoyed by the success of the 1996 broadcast of "Einstein Revealed," a two-hour biography that explored Einstein's personal life as well as his science, NOVA set out to launch a bigger project ...

Add to the list of amazing people we don't know about one Percy Julian, who was the grandson of slaves and a top organic research chemist. By Irv Letofsky, The Associated Press 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6 ...

As work continues to encourage the field of science to become more diverse and inclusionary and more anti-racist, PBS is giving viewers a history lesson on one of the Chicago area’s own — chemist ...

Centuries before black holes became accepted science, a fat little man in 1780s Yorkshire imagined stars so massive that even light could not escape. He predicted black holes. This is the incredible ...

Tony-winning actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson discusses the PBS documentary Forgotten Genius with Tony Cox. The actor portrays Percy Julian, in re-enactments of the life of the accomplished 20th century ...

Next week NOVA presents a fascinating and largely unknown story of scientific triumph and racial inequality. The two-hour special, "Forgotten Genius," explores the compelling story of 20th-century ...