The universe would be a pretty boring place without stars. Without them, the universe would remain a diffuse plasma of mostly hydrogen and helium from the big bang.
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To better understand stellar evolution, a...

Halloween is scarier with Hubble! What looks like two glowing eyes and a crooked carved smile is a snapshot of the early stages of a collision between two galaxies. The entire view is nearly 109,000 light-years...

I want you to imagine what being LGBTQ+ would be like in the 1920s or 30’s. How about the 1860s? If you’re like many today, you likely imagine the concept of the closet and assume society forced LGBTQ+ people to conform to the sexual...

This video explains drawing pie charts.
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This clip is from the chapter "Advanced Visualizations Using Business Applications" of the series "Data Analytics Using Python Visualizations".This section explains advanced...

This video was so dang fun to research, which, of course, I feel super guilty about because, like, real people died. But, after watching the HBO miniseries, I knew there was more to the science of this. I've also heard a lot of stuff...

It is very unlikely that you will go up in flames if you toss a cigarette butt in a pool of gasoline. Cigarettes tend to burn at a much lower temperature than gasoline, and the fumes from the gasoline are the main burning agent, not...

How an 8000V electromagnet can be used to shrink a quarter. The interplay between electric and magnetic forces leads to the Lorentz Force and Faraday’s law of induction which can be used to shrink a quarter, or any other type of metal coin.

This is a story about how humans in 1054 AD witnessed the supernova that created the crab nebula.

Learn the basics about this landmark piece of legislation so you can walk around not looking dumb.

It explains combustion, explosion and ignition temperature. It explains how to control fire.

How and why are crimes committed by powerful social actors different from other types of crime? David Whyte explains and examines some of the problems sociologists face in defining and researching the crimes of the powerful.

Usually produced in small pallets, ammonium nitrate is capable of self-combustion in sufficiently high temperatures.

An important review highlighting differences between the equations for Conservation of Momentum, Impact Force and Impulse.

How strong is Oobleck?

In this video, a government mapping team in Indonesia is on a mission to find and register the country's missing islands. With the help of a drone, they discover three undocumented islands, but face challenges in confirming their...

An unusual eruption on the Sun may offer clues to understanding our star’s mysterious explosions. The new research studied an event named the “Rosetta Stone'' of solar eruptions. Just as the Rosetta Stone was the key to...

Astronomers from Villanova University recently published an article noting that Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion has been significantly dimmer in recent months, leading some to speculate it could go supernova. <br/>

A meteor weighing 10,000 metric tons exploded only 23km above the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia on February 15, 2013. Unlike previous such events, this time scientists had the highly sensitive OMPS instrument on NPP to deliver...

It explains electric field at a point due to system of charges using superposition principle,physical significance of electric field.

This live-action video program is about the word crater. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word crater through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...

If any of these energy bombs hit Earth, humanity’s satellites, internet and electrical systems will fry and burn out.

Demonstrations of and Introduction to Conservation of Momentum

In 1954, the US Government conducted a series of secret nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands. The idyllic coral island Bikini Atoll became the epicentre of the largest nuclear test disaster in US history. The affects of radiation...

This video explores the issue of forest fires caused by the palm oil industry in Indonesia. It examines the different perspectives on who is responsible for these fires, with the focus on small-scale farmers who resort to slash and burn...