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Sound Waves In Action
Sound Waves In Action | Waves | Physics | FuseSchool Did you know that birdsong is a disturbance? In this video we will look at how sound waves travel and see them in action: how a Ruben’s tube shows sound waves and how the human ear...
Physics Girl
Are planes safe during COVID?
How likely are you to get sick on an airplane? How safe are airplanes? The science of ventilation and bioaerosol research.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST Unscripted - Ray Simmonds
NIST physicist Ray Simmonds discusses his work in quantum physics and NIST's efforts to create a quantum computer. He also describes a qubit and a quantum bus, along with explaining how he was inspired to become a scientist.
Visual Learning Systems
Our Galaxy and Stars: Our Star the Sun
This captivating series of programs explores many of the amazing features of our universe. Special attention is given to our solar system, distances in space, and stars. Terminology and concepts include: Milky Way Galaxy, light-year,...
NASA
NASA's Curious Universe: Plasma, Plasma, Everywhere!
The night sky is full of planets, satellites, and cosmic objects we can see with our eyes and telescopes. In between all that material there’s a huge amount of invisible matter and the vast majority of it is called plasma. Follow along...
The Economist
Could solar geoengineering counter global warming?
Global warning is probably the biggest threat facing humanity. If all else fails, could climate-controlling technology be the answer?
FuseSchool
Lightning
A flash of lightning, and a rumble of thunder. But what exactly are these spectacular occurrences? In 1752, Benjamin Franklin discovered that lightning was caused by powerful electrical discharges in clouds. He wasn’t the first person to...
NASA
Gravity Assist: A Special Delivery of Life’s Building Blocks, with Jason Dworkin
When Earth was just a baby, meteors and asteroids rained down, delivering all sorts of chemicals to our developing planet. These small objects could have delivered the chemicals needed to spark life on Earth for the first time.
Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Electromagnetic Energy
In this video, we explore the concept of electromagnetic energy and its role in lighting up a bulb. This video highlights the everyday presence and importance of electromagnetic energy in our lives, from powering our devices to the...
Weatherthings
Ship Tracks
Ships leave trails of vapor, called ship tracks, in humid ocean air. You see them here, on satellite.
Curated Video
Understanding Collision Theory and Activation Energy for Chemical Reactions
The video explains collision theory and activation energy in chemistry. It demonstrates the concept of how reacting particles need to collide with sufficient energy to break reactant bonds and form new products. The video also explains...
Next Animation Studio
Polonium suspected in death of Arafat: reports
Tests by a Swiss laboratory have found significant levels of Polonium on the clothing of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The test results will raise doubts about the 2004 death of Arafat, in which poisoning was initially ruled...
Curated Video
Particle Model and Density: Understanding the Three States of Matter
This video is a lecture on the particle model and density. It explains the three states that matter can be in - solid, liquid, and gas - and their particle structures. The video describes how these structures affect their properties,...
Flipping Physics
AP Physics 1: Rotational Dynamics Review
Review of the Rotational Dynamics topics covered in the AP Physics 1 curriculum.
The March of Time
1946: ANIMATED GRAPHICS: Example of Particle Accelerator (cyclotron) showing rapid bombardment of atom. Scientist in lab coat working electric controls. ANIMATED GRAPHICS: Slow particles being deflected off nucleus faster particles split nucleus.
MOT 1946: ANIMATED GRAPHICS: Example of Particle Accelerator (cyclotron) showing rapid bombardment of atom. Scientist in lab coat working electric controls. ANIMATED GRAPHICS: Slow particles being deflected off nucleus faster particles...
Astrum
Why are all the planets on the same orbital plane?
Is it a coincidence? Or is something else at play here?
Next Animation Studio
ESA’s Solar Orbiter to pass through tails of comet ATLAS
The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has been given the rare opportunity to conduct some “bonus science” in a serendipitous rendezvous with the tails of the comet ATLAS during the next few days, the space agency detailed in an...
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...
Rock 'N Learn
Physical Science : Staying Safe In The Lab
Physical Science for Kids is the fun way to learn important facts about physical science and get ready for tests. Take a fascinating journey to the Super Science Station to learn about staying safe in the lab.
Next Animation Studio
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
Visual Learning Systems
Introduction to Atoms
This video is an introduction to the Atoms series. This series helps to make the abstract concept of atoms become understandable. Many of the major scientific breakthroughs contributing to our understanding of atoms are highlighted....
NASA
Gravity Assist: Saturn with Linda Spilker
With me today is Dr. Linda Spilker from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She's the project scientist for our Cassini Mission, which as everyone knows, had a recent spectacular finale at Saturn.
Curated Video
The Relationship between Pressure and Volume of a Gas
This is a lecture video explaining the mathematical relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas when it is at a constant temperature and has a fixed mass. The video discusses how the pressure and volume of a gas are inversely...