SciShow
The Oldest Shipwreck in the World
Marine archeologists accidentally found the world’s oldest known intact shipwreck, and their work scanning, diving, and exploring has given us some very cool insights into more than just our history sailing the oceans.
SciShow
Future Space News of 2019
2019 will be a big year for the moon! Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, but our closest neighbor is receiving a bunch of new visitors this year.
Professor Dave Explains
Archeological Surveys
Before archeologists can excavate a site, they need to know where to dig. Surveys are the techniques used to find these places. What are the techniques used in archeological survey, as well as the technologies? What is LiDAR and how is...
Veritasium
Five Firsts for Mars InSight
Mars InSight will be the first to detect seismic activity on Mars’ surface, first to measure rate of heat transmitted from interior, first to dig nearly 5m down, first to measure magnetic fields on Mars’ surface, and first to use a...
NASA
Exploring Jupiter's Magnetic Field
NASA is sending the Juno spacecraft to Jupiter, to peer beneath its cloudy surface and explore the giant planet's structure and magnetic field. Juno's twin magnetometers, built at Goddard Space Flight Center, will give scientists their...
NASA
Gravity Assist: Set Sail for Europa, with Bob Pappalardo
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will give us the most detailed look yet at Jupiter’s extraordinary moon Europa.
NASA
NASA | Goddard Goes to Mars
The Martian climate remains one of the solar system's biggest mysteries: although cold and dry today, myriad surface features on Mars carved by flowing water attest to a much warmer, wetter past. What caused this dramatic transition?...
NASA
NASA | The Van Allen Probes - Instrument Overview
Dr. David Sibeck explains the instruments on the twin Van Allen Probes (formerly the Radiation Belt Storm Probe, RBSP). The Van Allen Probes will explore the Van Allen Radiation Belts in the Earth's magnetosphere. The charged particles...
NASA
NASA | Magnetometry 101
NASA satellites use very sensitive devices called magnetometers to measure the magnetic fields of planets. Like very sensitive compasses, these devices can measure both direction and strength of planetary magnetic fields. Learn more...
NASA
NASA Set To Launch Shoebox-sized Satellite Studying Earth's Upper Atmosphere
NASA scientists and engineers named their new CubeSat after the mythological Norse god of the dawn. Now, just days from launch, they are confident the shoebox-sized satellite Dellingr will live up to its name and inaugurate a new era for...
NASA
NASA | MAVEN Magnetometer
When you navigate with a compass you can orient yourself thanks to Earth's global magnetic field. But on Mars, if you were to walk around with a compass it would haphazardly point from one anomaly to another, because the Red Planet does...
NASA
NASA | Studying the Solar Wind on Mars
Robert Lin, the late director of the Space Sciences Laboratory, discusses how NASA's MAVEN spacecraft will study the interaction of the Martian atmosphere with the solar wind. MAVEN's findings will reveal how Mars lost its early...
Curated Video
Mer Bleue Bog 'filled with bombs,' according to new drone scans
New ReviewA team of graduate students at Carleton University are counting the number of bombs in Ottawa's Mer Bleue Bog, which was used as a bombing range during the Second World War.
Curated Video
Mer Bleue Bog 'filled with bombs' according to new drone scans
New ReviewA team of graduate students at Carleton University are counting the number of bombs in Ottawa's Mer Bleue Bog, which was used as a bombing range during the Second World War.
Curated Video
What's Next in the Las Vegas Shooting Investigation
Chris Swecker, Former Asst. Director for the FBI's Criminal Division, explains the agency's next steps and the only thing he thinks can help cut down on these kind of attacks.
Curated Video
Science Olympics inspires next generation of engineers
For more than 40 years science enthusiasts from grade 1 through 12 have gathered for the science olympics. Hundreds of curious and creative students have been working on their projects for months, hoping to take home the top prize.
Curated Video
SPACE/USA: SPACE STATION/SPACEWALK
Natural Sound
Officials of the US space agency NASA said Monday's space walk by two members of the Space Shuttle Atlantis crew was flawless.
American Edward Lu and Russian Yuri Malenchenko spent more than six hours working outside the...
Curated Video
SYND 17-2-73 US AIRPORTS TIGHTEN UP HIJACK SECURITY
The United States government's anti-hijacking security programme was fully implemented as 4,500 armed guards were posted at airport boarding gates around the nation.
1. ws exterior of Logan airport
2. vs passengers at airport checkouts...
PBS
Nova Online: A Gallery of Roman Mosaics
The companion site that accompanies the NOVA program on salvaging Zeugma, an ancient Roman town on the banks of the Euphrates. It shows how archaeologists rescued many artifacts from a dam-building project.