Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Subatomic Particles
This video provides a brief overview of the structure of atoms and the three main subatomic particles: protons, neutrons, and electrons. It explains how these particles are arranged within the atom and their respective charges. Atoms...
Let's Tute
Introduction to Atoms and Subatomic Particles
In this video, we learn about atoms and their subatomic particles - protons, neutrons, and electrons. We also explore how these particles combine to form different elements and how the periodic table is structured. The video provides a...
SciShow
The Particle So Extreme Scientists Called it OMG
In 1991, a subatomic particle smashed into Earth's atmosphere traveling faster than anything humans can replicate. It's the most energetic particle detected to date, and maybe even the fastest (except light itself). Astronomers call it...
Curated Video
How Cosmic Rays and Balloons Started Particle Physics
Today, cosmic rays are used to understand things like supernovas, but in the early 1900s, they helped us discover brand-new subatomic particles long before the first accelerators.
Curated Video
The Oh My God Particle
In 1991 a single atomic nucleus slammed into our atmosphere with the intensity of a macroscopic object. It's been named The Oh-My-God particle.
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring the Building Blocks of Matter: Inside the Atom
Upon viewing the Exploring the Building Blocks of Matter video series, students will be able to do the following: Understand that the quest to better understand the building blocks of matter has transpired over the past several thousand...
Science360
Higgs Boson: Mysterious Particle Could Help Unlock Secrets Of The Universe
The search for a mysterious subatomic particle can certainly involve some enormous tools, not to mention a multitude of scientists. The effort to find the elusive ""Higgs boson"" includes over 5,800 scientists from 56 countries! The...
Science360
Higgs Boson Mysterious Particle Could Help Unlock Secrets Of The Universe
The search for a mysterious subatomic particle can certainly involve some enormous tools, not to mention a multitude of scientists. The effort to find the elusive ""Higgs boson"" includes over 5,800 scientists from 56 countries! The...
Science360
Spreading the Fever - Particle Fever filmmakers visit NSF's Google Hangout
Join NSF for a discussion with David Kaplan and Monica Dunford, the respective producer and featured physicist of the documentary, Particle Fever, being released in theaters around the United States this month. High school science...
Curated Video
What Is The Smallest Particle We Know?
We have built beautiful particle accelerators in the search for particles that are even more elementary than electrons, protons, and neutrons. The accelerators smash subatomic particles at enormous speeds, which causes them to shatter...
Curated Video
This Tank of Water Could Change Physics Forever
No one has ever conclusively seen a proton turn into other, lighter particles, but fifty million liters of water in Japan might change that and our ideas about subatomic particles forever.
TED Talks
Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object
Physicists are used to the idea that subatomic particles behave according to the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics, completely different to human-scale objects. In a breakthrough experiment, Aaron O'Connell has blurred that distinction...
Next Animation Studio
CERN scientists close in on confirming Higgs boson
Scientists at the CERN research center have said it is now almost certain they found the Higgs boson, or "God Particle," so named because it gives other subatomic particles their mass. Extensive analysis of findings from July last year...
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Atoms: The Building Blocks of Life
This video explains the concept of atoms as the building blocks of cells and matter. It introduces the three subatomic particles - protons, neutrons, and electrons - and their roles within an atom. It also highlights how atoms in...
Seeker
New Subatomic Particles Are Shifting the Standard Model of Physics
The Large Hadron Collider just discovered a new pentaquark, but how does it fit in our current understanding of the Standard Model? Could Everything We Know About String Theory Be Wrong? - https://youtu.be/gVcwcaI_viQ Read More: LHCb...
TED Talks
TED: An 8-dimensional model of the universe | Garrett Lisi
Physicist and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a controversial new model of the universe that -- just maybe -- answers all the big questions. If nothing else, it's the most beautiful 8-dimensional model of elementary particles and forces...
Curated Video
How to See Time Travel!!!
Build your own cloud chamber particle detector and test relativity at home!
Bozeman Science
Systems and Objects
In this video Paul Andersen explains the differences between a system and an object. Depending on the scale it often times easies to view a system as an object if the constituent parts aren't relevant to the question being asked. He also...
SciShow
Meet CERN's New Particle: A Double-Charm Baryon!
This week, CERN announced a new particle that will help further understanding of the fundamental forces, and a simulation of ancient creatures may give us a clue as to how life grew beyond the microscopic.
Next Animation Studio
Scientists find evidence for Higgs boson
Scientists at the CERN research center believe they have found the so-called "God Particle," the Higgs boson, so named because it gives other subatomic particle their mass. The Higgs boson has been theorized for decades but never...
Visual Learning Systems
Forming Bonds: Atoms and Bonding
Upon viewing the Forming Bonds video series, students will be able to do the following: Understand that matter is made up of tiny particles called atoms. Explain that atoms consist of many different types of subatomic particles including...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring the Building Blocks of Matter: Comparing Different Types of Atoms
Upon viewing the Exploring the Building Blocks of Matter video series, students will be able to do the following: Understand that the quest to better understand the building blocks of matter has transpired over the past several thousand...
Seeker
The International Hunt for the Ghost Particle
This mega science experiment wants to solve one of the biggest mysteries in science today: what happened after the Big Bang? This Is The Only Place Antimatter Can Survive In The Universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD8Q3Mb1Q4I&t=107s...
Mazz Media
What Is Matter
This video program will help students to understand that matter is composed of atoms that are made up of subatomic particles that interact with each other. Viewers will learn that matter can exists as a solid, as a liquid, a gas or as a...