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Martin Karplus, Arieh Warshel and Michael Levit comment on Nobel prize for chemistry win
The three U.S.-based scientists who won this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday talked about how got the news.
Michael Levitt, a British/US citizen, working at Stanford University, said when the phone rang, he thought at first...
Curated Video
Kenyan farmer: locusts have eaten everything
Locusts have been swarming in their millions across farmland in Kenya, in one of the worst outbreaks of the insect in Africa in decades.
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radar to aid viking mars probe
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nasa scientists today announced that radar...
Bozeman Science
Drawing Lewis Dot Diagrams
Viewers get a step-by-step explanation for drawing Lewis Dot Diagrams with a video that includes numerous examples of atoms, simple molecules, and how to represent covalent bonds.
Crash Course
Kinetics: Chemistry's Demolition Derby
Make kinetics interesting with a video that compares kinetics to a demolition derby. The presentation information about collisions, activation energy, writing rate laws, equilibrium expressions, reaction mechanisms, and...
TED-Ed
How to Spot a Counterfeit Bill
Did you know that at any one moment in the United States, millions of dollars in circulation could actually be fake? Build commerce and chemistry acumen, and discover the tools needed to spot counterfeit currency.
TED-Ed
How Polarity Makes Water Behave Strangely
Water is common? Not really! Learn how the polarity of the water molecule gives it tremendous properties that make is quite unique in the universe. Learners will understand surface tension, adhesion, and cohesion, as well as why these...
TED-Ed
What is Chirality and How Did it Get in My Molecules?
Flashy animation, superb narrative, and a touch of bad-hair-day humor explain the nature of chiral molecules in this five-minute feature. Viewers find out how chemist Jacobus Van't Hoff proposed that some saturated carbon molecules are...
Khan Academy
Nucleophilicity vs. Basicity
After introducing basicity in the last video and generalizing it as closely related to nucleophilicity, Sal studies electron donors and the stability of both products and reactants. He compares and defines the two terms.
Khan Academy
Worked Example: Determining an Empirical Formula from Combustion Data
Sal builds on the previous video, which shows students how to calculate the mass composition of a compound from its empirical formula. This problem uses the elements Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur. The process requires a lot of conversions...
Curated OER
Formula from Mass Composition
Students of chemistry are shown how to calculate the empirical formula from a molecule's mass composition. Sal uses a variety of elements from the Periodic Table to demonstrate the process and the calculations involved to arrive at the...
PBS
Science Fundamentals: Compounds!
Hydrogen and oxygen form compounds that are both necessary for life and poisonous. Learn how this is possible in a video presentation all about compounds. The informative lesson describes how compounds form and gives an in-depth analysis...
PBS
Atoms and Elements | UNC-TV Science
It doesn't get any smaller than this. Young scientists learn about the particles that make up elements and how they form new substances by creating molecules. The video tutorial includes animations to illustrate atoms and molecules...
Learning Games Lab
Unavailability of Water in Saline Soils
Viewers of a short video learn about salt and water molecules and how their characteristics determine how they interact with each other. Then, they watch a simulation of how the interaction limits the uptake of water in plant roots and...
NASA
STEMonstrations: Surface Tension
Ever wonder how water bugs walk on water? A lesson in the STEMonstration provides a brief video presentation describing the concept of surface tension from the molecular level. Pupils then complete a hands-on activity measuring the...
Smithsonian Institution
Chemical Reactions in Action
Learn from colleagues by initiating a professional development discussion. An episode from the Good Thinking series analyzes strategies for teaching chemical reactions. Using examples from the classroom, the video discusses the...
TED-Ed
There May Be Extraterrestrial Life in Our Solar System
Statistically speaking, it is more than possible that extraterrestrial life exists in our solar system. An engaging short video examines moons and planets that might support life, although not just life as we know it.
TED-Ed
How Light Technology Is Changing Medicine
Medicine has gone high tech. But how do the new, less invasive diagnostic tools work? An engaging short video sheds light on how integrated photonics is revolutionizing the medical sensor industry.
TED-Ed
The Surprising Reason Our Muscles Get Tired
Does pain really indicate gain when it comes to muscle aches? A short, animated video details the science behind the pain associated with muscle fatigue.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Measuring Circadian Activity in Drosophila
How many hours should be in a day? One species of drosophila naturally prefers a 24.5 hour day, while another strongly prefers a 19-hour day. An animation and graph share data from each of these species when exposed to the typical light...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Mammalian Molecular Clock Model
Animals don't read clocks, so how do they know when it is time for eating, sleeping, and other cyclical needs? Viewers watch an animation of the genes and the molecular clocks inside most mammals. They compare the difference in wild...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Signal Molecules Trigger Transcription Factors
How do transcription factors change the function of a cell? Learn how three similar cells find different functions based on their locations and the number of triggers available. Observe an animation of the process of assigning a trait...