Healthcare Triage
Antibody Tests, Lockdowns, and Why Isn't This Working? Coronavirus Q&A 5-2-2020
We're all tired of staying home. You've still got a lot of questions about this pandemic. We've got some answers. You can jump directly to a question by clicking on the time stamps below. 0:13 - Should Officeholders Pass Basic Science...
Healthcare Triage
Lessons from Singapore and Reopening The United States
Singapore had one of the world's most robust and effective responses to coronavirus and COVID19. Despite that, the country still had to enter lockdown and struggled to control the spread of the disease. What can this tell us about how...
Next Animation Studio
X-ray echoes allows scientists to map out black holes: study
Astronomers have found a novel way to explore the regions around a black hole.
NASA
Understanding the Magnetic Sun
NASA GSFC solar scientist Holly Gilbert explains a computer model of the sun’s magnetic field. Grasping what drives that magnetic system is crucial for understanding the nature of space throughout the solar system: The sun's invisible...
Healthcare Triage
How's This Coronavirus Gonna Play Out?
We're still firmly on the "Don't Panic" message with the Coronavirus outbreak. This week we're going to look at a couple of scenarios for how this thing could play out.
Weatherthings
Corona vs. Halo
With a bright moon and the right amount of clouds, you often may see a glow in the clouds around the moon or a ring around the moon. One of those is called a corona, the other is a lunar halo. Each tells you something different about the...
NASA
NASA's Curious Universe: The Star in Our Backyard
Our Sun holds the solar system together and is responsible for life as we know it. Though it may seem calm and unchanging, the Sun is dynamic. Join NASA solar scientists on a trip around the Sun, our lively and mysterious neighborhood star.
The Economist
Covid-19: Why is America’s death toll so high?
America's covid-19 death toll is higher than anywhere else in the world—and is continuing to mount. What’s behind the country’s coronavirus pandemic failings?
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Angel Mejico - Teachers Make a Difference - Dr. Harvey Good
Dr. Angel Mejico was the 2019 California Teacher of the Year and a top fifty finalist for the 2020 Global Teacher prize.A medical student deciding to pursue a career of teaching art may seem like an unusual choice, but for, Dr. Angel...
NASA
NASA | SDO Catches Surf Waves on the Sun
Scientists have spotted the iconic surfer's wave rolling through the atmosphere of the sun. This makes for more than just a nice photo-op: the waves hold clues as to how energy moves through that atmosphere, known as the corona.
Global Health with Greg Martin
The MERS Outbreak
This Week in Global Health covers everything you wanted to know about MERS-CoV and the MERS outbreak. We do the digging and answer your questions; What is MERS? Where is the MERS outbreak happening? How is the MERS-CoV transmitted and...
NASA
NASA | Van Gogh Sun
A crucial, and often underappreciated, facet of science lies in deciding how to turn the raw numbers of data into useful, understandable information -- often through graphs and images. Such visualization techniques are needed for...
NASA
Discovering the Sun's Mysteriously Hot Atmosphere
Something mysterious is going on at the Sun. In defiance of all logic, its atmosphere gets much, much hotter the farther it stretches from the Sun’s blazing surface. Temperatures in the corona — the Sun’s outer atmosphere — spike to 3...
NASA
Why Does NASA Observe the Sun in Different Colors?
The Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, spacecraft was launched on Feb. 11, 2010, and began collecting science data a few months later. With two imaging instruments – the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly and the Helioseismic and Magnetic...
NASA
NASA | Spacecraft Track Solar Storms From Sun To Earth
NASA's STEREO spacecraft and new data processing techniques have succeeded in tracking space weather events from their origin in the Sun's ultrahot corona to impact with the Earth 96 million miles away, resolving a 40-year mystery about...
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...
Healthcare Triage
When Can We Get Back to Normal?
How do we know when to stop social distancing and reopen the world? It's complicated, but there are four major goalposts we should meet before we start getting back to normal.
NASA
SDO: Year 6 Ultra-HD
The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on the entire disk of the sun, with a prime view of the graceful dance of solar material coursing...
NASA
Snapshots from the Edge of the Sun
For the first time, using NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, scientists have imaged the edge of the sun and described that transition – from which the solar wind blows. Defining the details of this boundary helps...
NASA
A New Kind of Explosion on the Sun
Scientists have just seen a new type of magnetic explosion, known as forced or controlled magnetic reconnection. Music credit: Light Hearted Angst by Dewey Dellay Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Genna Duberstein (USRA):...
NASA
NASA | IRIS: The Science of NASA's Newest Solar Explorer
At the end of June 2013, NASA will launch its newest mission to watch the sun: the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS. IRIS will show the lowest levels of the sun's atmosphere, the interface region, in more detail than has...
NASA
A Total Solar Eclipse Revealed Solar Storms 100 Years Before Satellites
Eclipses set the stage for historic science. NASA is taking advantage of the Aug. 21, 2017 eclipse by funding 11 ground-based scientific studies. As our scientists prepare their experiments for next week, we're looking back to an...
NASA
NASA | 2016 Science - Seeing the Inner Corona
Scientists Nelson Reginald and Natchimuthuk Gopalswamy describe the experiment they will do during the 2016 eclipse in Indonesia. As the moon slowly covers the face of the sun on the morning of March 9, 2016, in Indonesia, team of NASA...
NASA
The Faint Young Star Paradox: Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth
Our sun's adolescence was stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been just the key to seeding life as we know it on Earth. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Genna Duberstein on / /