Instructional Video6:02
Physics Girl

This crystal can split light particles

9th - 12th
How unusual non-linear crystals can entangle particles of light, or photons. Thanks to non-profit edX.org for sponsoring this video. Quantum entanglement involves a special process of splitting photons into two. But it involves a process...
Instructional Video1:35
NASA

Webb Telescope's Houston Highlights Time Lapse

3rd - 11th
With NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's approximately nine-month stay in Texas coming to an end, this time-lapse shows activity in the NASA Johnson Space Center's Chamber A cleanroom from the arrival of the Webb Telescope's optical and...
Instructional Video3:55
Physics Girl

Crazy pool vortex

9th - 12th
This unique phenomenon can be easily reproduced in a pool on a sunny day.
Instructional Video3:42
NASA

NASA | NOAA's GOES-O Ready To Launch

3rd - 11th
This video shows a quick tour and overview of the facilities where the GOES-O satellite was built and tested prior to launch. GOES-O was integrated by Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems in El Segundo, CA and then transported to the...
Instructional Video39:53
Journey to the Microcosmos

The Microscope Upgrades We've Made Along The Way | Compilation

9th - Higher Ed
This channel wouldn’t be what it is if it weren’t for one very key invention: the microscope. Everything we see, we see with the aid of light and lenses, expertly deployed by our master of microscopes, James. And if you’ve been on this...
Instructional Video3:59
NASA

NASA | Webb's Backplane Pathfinder Arrives at NASA JSC for Cryotesting

3rd - 11th
Webb Telescope's Backplane Pathfinder arrives at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston. Engineers will test Pathfinder inside NASA's largest cryogenic vacuum chamber called Chamber A. NASA engineers off-load pathfinder and its...
Instructional Video0:59
Weatherthings

A Rainbow May be a Circle

6th - 8th
A simple demonstration shows how a rainbow can be a full circle, depending on perspective.
Instructional Video8:06
Physics Girl

How rainbows with NO COLOR are possible

9th - 12th
What the heck are spider-web rainbows? What are these rare white rainbows, and how do they form?
Instructional Video4:14
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Screaming Photons

9th - 12th
Students from the Alexander Dawson School in Boulder, Colorado explain the workings of a "dark detector" coated with the one of the world's darkest materials, a forest of carbon nanotubes that reflect almost no light across the visible...
Instructional Video1:09
NASA

NASA | Webb Space Telescope Receives First Mirror Installation

3rd - 11th
NASA has successfully installed the first of 18 flight mirrors onto the James Webb Space Telescope, beginning a critical piece of the observatory’s construction. The full installation of all 18 mirror segments in Webb’s primary mirror is...
Instructional Video1:59
Encyclopaedia Britannica

Bending Light

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Overview of optics and light refraction.
Instructional Video3:31
Physics Girl

Why do mirrors flip horizontally (but not vertically)?

9th - 12th
Why do mirrors appear to flip images horizontally but not vertically?
Instructional Video3:33
Physics Girl

How Rainbows Form

9th - 12th
The physics behind rainbows and surprising facts about rainbows.
Instructional Video9:02
Physics Girl

World’s Largest Camera Lens

9th - 12th
The world's largest digital camera is currently being assembled at a warehouse in California. We caught the short window of time to see the camera's massive lens.
Instructional Video2:01
Encyclopaedia Britannica

Your Eye as an Optical Instrument

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Learn how your eye functions just like a familiar optical instrument: the camera.
Instructional Video5:41
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Weather Beauty

6th - 8th
The atmosphere is dynamic and forever changing to maintain balance. The ingredients of air, sunlight and water allow life to exist on Earth, but they also generate calm scenes like rainbows, as a tornado ends. All storms move moisture,...
Instructional Video1:23
Weatherthings

Cloud Shadows and Crepuscular Rays

6th - 8th
Instead of focusing on the light in the sky, this focuses on the dark bands and streaks and what causes them.
Instructional Video4:33
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Energy

6th - 8th
The atmosphere is dynamic and forever changing to maintain balance. The ingredients of air, sunlight and water allow life to exist on Earth, but they also generate calm scenes like rainbows, as a tornado ends. All storms move moisture,...
Instructional Video1:22
Weatherthings

Iridescence in Clouds

6th - 8th
Iridescence in clouds, also called irisation, is when light is scattered by water droplets, ice crystals, or even tiny particles floating in air like pollen. You can spot blue, pink, red, purple and other colors.
Instructional Video6:15
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Seasons

6th - 8th
The atmosphere is dynamic and forever changing to maintain balance. The ingredients of air, sunlight and water allow life to exist on Earth, but they also generate calm scenes like rainbows, as a tornado ends. All storms move moisture,...
Instructional Video3:13
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Weather Impacts

6th - 8th
The atmosphere is dynamic and forever changing to maintain balance. The ingredients of air, sunlight and water allow life to exist on Earth, but they also generate calm scenes like rainbows, as a tornado ends. All storms move moisture,...
Instructional Video3:18
Mazz Media

Physics

6th - 8th
This live-action video program is about the word Physics. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Physics through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
Instructional Video3:50
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Weather

6th - 8th
The atmosphere is dynamic and forever changing to maintain balance. The ingredients of air, sunlight and water allow life to exist on Earth, but they also generate calm scenes like rainbows, as a tornado ends. All storms move moisture,...
News Clip3:57
Curated Video

SCO Summit 2025: Xi Jinping to Modi: 'Elephant and Dragon Should Dance Together'

9th - Higher Ed
New ReviewPM Modi In China: Chinese President Xi Jinping reached out to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the ‘elephant and dragon must come together.’ The remark signals Beijing’s call for cooperation with India amid ongoing regional tensions...