Curated Video
Exploring the Wonders of Aurora
In this video, we explore the fascinating natural phenomenon of auroras, where swirling lights appear in the sky. We learn about the science behind auroras, how they are formed near the Earth's polar regions, and the interaction between...
NASA
NASA | Imported Dust in American Skies
NASA and university scientists have made the first measurement-based estimate of the amount and composition of tiny airborne particles that arrive in the air over North America each year. With a 3D view of the atmosphere now possible...
NASA
NASA | Glory: The Cloud Makers
This segment provides an introduction to aerosols- their varied sources, brief lifetimes, and erratic behavior. Glory's APS will help researchers determine the global distribution of aerosol particles. This unique instrument will unravel...
Looking Glass Universe
Bohmian Mechanics - An Alternative to Quantum
I explain the basic idea of Bohmian Mechanics and how it gives the same results as Quantum Mechanics with out saying things like "a particle is in more than one place at a time"
Curated Video
The Relationship Between Temperature and Gas Pressure in a Container
The video discusses how gas exerts pressure on the walls of its container and how changes in temperature affect that pressure. The video goes on to explain that increasing the temperature of a gas increases the kinetic energy and speed...
NASA
ATom Postcard - Palmdale to Kona
Principal Investigator Steven Wofsy of Harvard University and atmospheric scientist Paul Newman of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center sent back a video postcard of the first two legs of the Atmospheric Tomography, or ATom mission. The...
NASA
NASA | Five Years of Great Discoveries for NASA's IBEX
Launched on Oct. 19, 2008, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft, is unique to NASA's heliophysics fleet: it images the outer boundary of the heliosphere, a boundary at the furthest edges of the solar system, far past...
NASA
Getting SET - The Mission to Protect Satellites from Radiation
Summer 2019, NASA's Space Environment Testbeds, or SET, will launch on its mission to study how to better protect satellites in space. SET studies the very nature of space itself -- which isn't completely empty, but brimming with...
Englishing
English Vocabulary Lesson on TO and FOR - (read TO be informed - read FOR the pleasure)
This video is about the difference between the prepositions "to" and "for". They can be easily confused by students. This video will show you all their differences using examples. It features two amazing diagrams for you to copy and...
Physics Girl
This thing is -270°C and is EVERYWHERE
The universe is microwaving itself. A mystery signal discovered in the 1960s led to a Nobel prize. In this video, Dianna explores one of the most mysterious discoveries in physics - a constant microwave signal that seemed to be coming...
NASA
NASA | Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes Create Antimatter
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected beams of antimatter launched by thunderstorms. Acting like enormous particle accelerators, the storms can emit gamma-ray flashes, called TGFs, and high-energy electrons and positrons....
NASA
NASA | Ship Tracks Reveal Pollution's Effects on Clouds
NASA's MODIS satellite instrument reveals how air pollution may alter clouds, affecting global temperatures. This narrated visualization illustrates the effect by showing how ship exhaust leaves brights cloud trails in clean ocean air....
NASA
Is ‘Oumuamua an Interstellar Asteroid or Comet?
Observatories including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope found that the interstellar object named ‘Oumuamua gained an extra boost of speed, which likely comes from comet-like jets of gas.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina...
Curated Video
System of particles & Rotational motion particles
This nugget introduced the system of particles, rigid bodies about the kind of motion of rigid body.
Brian McLogan
Learn how to find when a particle is changing direction from a velocity graph
👉 Learn how to solve particle motion problems. Particle motion problems are usually modeled using functions. Now, when the function modeling the position of the particle is given with respect to the time, we find the speed function of...
Science360
Ask a Scientist – Nano expert: Karen Wooley
You sent us your nano questions, and we answered! In this Ask a Scientist – Nano Edition, we join nano expert Karen Wooley, from Texas A&M University. See more nano videos and check out our Generation Nano: Small Science, Superheroes...
NASA
Magnetic Bubbles on the Moon Reveal Evidence of "Sunburn"
Every object, planet or person traveling through space has to contend with the Sun's damaging radiation -- and the Moon has the scars to prove it. Research using data from NASA's ARTEMIS mission — short for Acceleration, Reconnection,...
NASA
5 New Discoveries from NASA's Parker Solar Probe
NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission has returned unprecedented data from near the Sun, culminating in new discoveries published on Dec. 4, 2019, in the journal Nature. Among the findings are new understandings of how the Sun's constant...
Brian McLogan
Given a table of velocity determine when a particles speed is increasing
👉 Learn how to solve particle motion problems. Particle motion problems are usually modeled using functions. Now, when the function modeling the position of the particle is given with respect to the time, we find the speed function of...
Visual Learning Systems
Forces Shaping the Earth: Wind
Gravity and erosion are major factors in changing the shape of the surface of Earth. The different types of erosion, and the major types of mass movements caused by gravity are discussed in this video. Other terminology includes:...
Visual Learning Systems
Particles and Matter: Introduction
Everything we see and touch is made up of millions of tiny particles. This program is full of colorful examples showing the ways that matter is composed of particles. Vivid animations illustrate how matter consists of different types of...
Next Animation Studio
China air pollution: Air Quality Index explained
Air quality in Beijing has risen above hazardous levels in the last few days, reaching 755 on an index that measures particulate matter in the air with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5). A measurement above 100 is considered...
NASA
NASA | Scientists Link Earlier Melting Of Snow To Dark Aerosols
Tiny particles suspended in the air, known as aerosols, can darken snow and ice causing it to absorb more of the sun’s energy. But until recently, scientists rarely considered the effect of all three major types of light-absorbing...