PBS NOVA: HUMAN: Scientist Ella al-Shamahi on new five-part documentary series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/22/2025
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The five-part documentary series HUMAN, a collaboration between PBS and the BBC, is running Wednesday nights on PBS’s NOVA and is thereafter available on PBS’s on-demand and streaming platforms. HUMAN examines the evolution and lives of the earliest human species – of which, it turns out, there were more than just homo sapiens and Neanderthals. The series is hosted by British paleoanthropologist and evolutionary biologist Ella al-Shamahi, a frequent contributor to science programs. Al-Shamahi gets on a Zoom call to discuss all things HUMAN. First of all, in layman’s terms, just what is a paleoanthropologist and an evolutionary biologist? “I […]Read On »


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NOVA: WHAT ARE UFOS?: Filmmakers and experts deep dive into the phenomenon in the new PBS documentary – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 01/20/2025
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According to a 2022 YouGov poll thirty-four percent of Americans believe that UFOs are proof of extraterrestrials visiting Earth. Others believe that these are flying objects that our government won’t (for security reasons) or can’t identify. Still others don’t know what to think. The NOVA documentary WHAT ARE UFOS?, premiering on PBS Wednesday, January 22, also available for streaming on pbs.org/nova, Nova on YouTube, and the PBS app, investigates all of this. During the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour in Pasadena, California, former U.S. Navy Lieutenant and F/A-18F pilot Ryan Graves, producer/ director / writer Terri Randall, NOVA co-executive […]Read On »


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THE FARTHEST – VOYAGER IN SPACE: Scientists Linda Spilker and Tom Spilker on the new PBS NOVA program – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 09/13/2017
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Planetary scientist Dr. Linda Spilker and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientist Dr. Tom Spilker both worked on the Voyager space exploration project, sending two unmanned spacecraft beyond the boundaries of our solar system, which is examined in PBS NOVA’s THE FARTHEST – VOYAGER IN SPACE. Linda Spilker continues to work on the Cassini mission, exploring Saturn, its moons and its rings, documented in PBS NOVA’s DEATH DIVE TO SATURN. Both programs air on PBS Wednesday, September 13 (check local listings for times). As their surnames suggest, the Doctors Spilker are married to one another. Linda Spilker wears a ring, […]Read On »


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