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Pbs Learning Media: A Variety of Hummingbirds
Learn about different traits and adaptations in various species of hummingbirds in this video from Nature. [2:50]
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Pbs Learning Media: Fusion Energy Advances
In this report from the NewsHour, correspondent Spencer Michels reports on ongoing efforts to produce fusion energy to help fuel American energy independence. [6:27]
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Pbs Learning Media: Capturing Carbon
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, a scientist, inspired by his daughter's science fair project, develops a synthetic tree to remove excess carbon dioxide from the air. [5:23]
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Pbs Learning Media: Geneticist Pardis Sabeti
In this video profile adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn about geneticist and rock musician Pardis Sabeti, whose innovative insights into natural selection demonstrated how beneficial mutations spread quickly through a population. [5:04]
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Pbs Learning Media: Nature's Kidneys
In this video from WOSU Columbus, learn about the soil and water in wetland ecosystems and the chemical interactions that enable wetlands to cleanse themselves. [0:55]
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Pbs Learning Media: Bubonic Plague
In this video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey, learn about bubonic plague and how city officials in San Francisco tried to contain its spread in the early 1900s. [5:06]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Discovery of Penicillin
This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey tells the story of researcher Sir Alexander Fleming, whose luck and scientific reasoning led to the groundbreaking discovery of penicillin. [4:45]
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Pbs Learning Media: A Nanotube Space Elevator
In this video adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, find out about the discovery of a new building material, the carbon nanotube, whose physical properties could theoretically enable the creation of a 22,000-mile elevator to space. [4:29]
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Pbs Learning Media: Solar Paint Your Roof
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, see how nanotechnology might be used to create a new, cheaper way to produce solar electricity for the home. [3:01]
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Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 4: Arguing the Fourteenth Amendment
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" explores the issue at the heart of Brown v. Board of Education: whether the Fourteenth Amendment applied to segregated schools. [5:50]
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Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 3: The Trial Begins
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" captures the legal issues and opening arguments in Brown v. Board of Education. [6:44]
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Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 2: Social Science Evidence
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" documents Dr. Kenneth Clark's "doll test," which became important social science evidence in Brown case. [5:44]
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Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 1: A Handful of Lawyers
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" profiles Charles Houston's strategy for attacking segregation and how he trained the legal team that eventually argued the Brown case.
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Pbs Learning Media: Simple Justice 5: Marshall's Closing Statement
This segment from American Experience: "Simple Justice" reenacts Thurgood Marshall's closing statement in Brown v. Board of Education. [5:26]
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Pbs Learning Media: The Impact of Technology: Nylon
This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey looks at the invention of nylon. [3:51]
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Pbs Learning Media: Galileo on the Moon
Watch Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott perform Galileo's falling objects experiment on the Moon in this video segment from NASA. [0:47]
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Pbs Learning Media: Density and Buoyancy: Mixing Hot and Cold Water
Watch warm water float on top of cold water in this video segment adapted from ZOOM. [3:22]
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Pbs Learning Media: Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity
What happens when you approach the speed of light? This video segment adapted from NOVA follows one of Albert Einstein's thought experiments and his quest to find the answer. [7:05]
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Pbs Learning Media: Light Particles Acting Like Waves: The Uncertainty Principle
This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey uses a laser beam to demonstrate how light particles act like waves, illustrating Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. [2:07]
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Pbs Learning Media: Melissa Franklin: High Energy Physics
This video segment adapted from Discovering Women profiles Fermilab physicist and Harvard professor Melissa Franklin. [4:08]
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Pbs Learning Media: Frontline: Radon Radiation
The biggest source of environmental radiation might be in your home. Find out more in this video segment adapted from FRONTLINE: "Nuclear Reaction." [1:46]
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Pbs Learning Media: Defy Gravity! Balancing Balls on Air
In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, cast members use a hair dryer to balance a ball in a stream of air, seemingly defying gravity. [3:21]
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Pbs Learning Media: Surface Tension: Making Paper Clips Float
In this video segment, the ZOOM cast relies on the surface tension of water to make paper clips float. [2:20]
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Pbs Learning Media: Density and Buoyancy: Making Eggs Float
Why does an egg float in salt water? Learn about density and buoyancy in this video segment adapted from ZOOM. [3:02]