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Meteor killed dinosaurs with dust, not wildfires, study finds
New research shows that the great dinosaur die-off was caused by airborne particles ejected directly from the crater made by the Chicxulub meteor
Journey to the Microcosmos
Foraminifera: Hard on The Outside, Squishy on the Inside
We're going fossil hunting for Foraminifera! From beaches, to the ocean floor, to the foundation of the Egyptian pyramids, Forams are everywhere!
Next Animation Studio
A bubbling mud pool threatens infrastructure in California
The pool of boiling mud has already damaged local railroads and may damage pipelines, fiber-optic communication cables and highways in its path.
EarthEcho International
STEMExplore: Volcanologist
Alexa Van Eaton is a research geologist with the United States Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory. She uses techniques to directly observe volcanic eruptions and study the layers they leave behind, providing important clues...
Michigan Radio
China Owns Most Rare Earth Elements Used in Electronics
Rare earth minerals are very important to today's electronics. Your iPod, laptop, and television use them. They make electronics light so they don't need much power. But the Chinese have a lock on the production of rare earth elements...
NASA
Gravity Assist: The Bright Spot of the Asteroid Belt, with Britney Schmidt
Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is a mysterious dwarf planet called Ceres. Its surface is dark and muddy, but has hundreds of patches of bright material.
NASA
NASA Explores Earth's Magnetic 'Dent'
Earth’s magnetic field acts like a protective shield around the planet, repelling and trapping charged particles from the Sun. But over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean, an unusually weak spot in the field – called the South...
NASA
NASA | Lynn Carter, Planetary Scientist
From a distance, the dry, ancient surfaces of the Moon, Venus, and Mars look nothing like the dynamic planet we live on. But the same forces that shape our world -- volcanoes, plate tectonics, and impact craters -- have also driven the...
Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
The Rise of the Dinosaurs
Human beings have a long-standing fascination with dinosaurs that dates back to the discovery of the first fossils. To this day, people of all ages visit museums and fossil sites to study and learn more about these prehistoric creatures....
Weatherthings
Kilauea 2018: Hawaii's Most Active Volcano
Kilauea is an active volcano in Hawaii that erupts every 10 to 20 years. In 2018, Kilauea eruptions on a rift zone destroyed more than 700 hundred homes, forced evacuations, and sent lava downhill to cover 14 square miles of land in...
Mazz Media
Earth's Landforms
With HD footage from all over the world, this program shows students all the various types of landforms found on our planet. Animation segments demonstrate how land formations are created by movement of the earth's plates, volcanoes,...
Physics Girl
This phenomenon only happens in Hawaii . . . and Cuba & Nigeria & Indonesia & Peru & Sudan & Laos &…
There are apparently no shadows in these images. But they were taken during the brightest part of the day. There are only certain parts of the year and certain times of day when you can experience the subsolar point or Lahaina noon....
Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
Candy Mountain: Using Sweets to Study the Earth
Landscapes evolve very slowly, over thousands of years, which makes them both fascinating and a little difficult to study. Mathematicians have looked at landscape features, including mountains and big rock formations, and wondered where...
NASA
NASA | Desert RATS
Desert Research and Technology Studies (Desert RATS) tests procedures and equipment that could one day be a part of human space flight missions to the moon and Mars.
NASA
Mars Gravity Map
A new map of Mars' gravity made with three NASA spacecraft is the most detailed to date, providing a revealing glimpse into the hidden interior of the Red Planet. Satellites always orbit a planet’s center of mass, but can be pulled...
NASA
Tour of Asteroid Bennu
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, its close-up images confirmed what mission planners had predicted nearly two decades before: Bennu is made of loose material weakly clumped together by...
NASA
Gravity Assist: Mars with Bruce Jakosky and Michael Meyer
With Jim Green today is the “man about Mars,” Bruce Jakosky from the University of Colorado. Bruce is the principal investigator of NASA's MAVEN mission. Joining them is Michael Meyer the lead Mars scientist at NASA Headquarters.
Professor Dave Explains
Carbonates, Sulfates, and Phosphates
What common minerals are included in the carbonate, sulfate, and phospate classes? What geological and weather conditions are conducive to the formation of these mineral rocks? And what is a mineraloid? The 8 Classes of Minerals part 2
NASA
Tracking Ocean Heat With Magnetic Fields
As Earth warms, much of the extra heat is stored in the planet’s ocean – but monitoring the magnitude of that heat content is a difficult task. A surprising feature of the tides could help, however. Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space...
TMW Media
The Everglades Ecosystem: Plantlife in the everglades
How was the land for farmers south of the lake? What is good and bad about peat soil? How does other plant life help the everglades? The Everglades Ecosystem, Part 3
NASA
Designing Lucy’s Path to the Trojan Asteroids
Lucy is the first mission to explore the Jupiter Trojans – two swarms of asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit, leading and trailing the giant planet by sixty degrees. These primitive bodies are thought to be the “fossils” of planet...
Next Animation Studio
Trigger for major volcanic eruptions found
Scientists say they have found the "trigger" that causes some of Earth's most powerful volcanic eruptions, such as the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland that disrupted flights and stranded millions of passengers worldwide,...
Professor Dave Explains
Pillow Lava, Dikes, Gabbro, and Peridotite
Magma from the Earth's crust routinely bubbles up, forming various types of volcanic rock on the ocean floor. What types of lava rocks can be found in the ocean? How are the formed and what happens to them over time? Plus, learn where...