The Backyard Scientist
Dropping a red-hot bolt in liquid nitrogen!
Using a 200w induction heater to heat a bolt, then dropping it into liquid nitrogen. The liquid nitrogen starts leaking and science quickly devolves into shenanigans :)
The Viral Fever
Cosmic Journeys: Greenland's Melting Ice
This video explores the significance of Greenland's massive inland ice sheet and how it serves as a laboratory for studying the history of our planet. Scientists are studying the ice sheet to understand how quickly it's melting and how...
Science360
Chemistry pioneer sets her sights on rare earth oxides - Science Nation
Investigating high temperature materials critical to everyday electronics Renowned chemist, geochemist and materials scientist Alexandra Navrotsky has become a pioneer in her field over the last 50 years. She even has a mineral named...
Curated Video
Methods of Extracting Metals from Their Oxides
This video explains different chemical reactions used for extracting metals from their oxides. The video starts with the simple method of reduction with carbon for metals such as iron, where the metal oxide is reduced, and carbon is...
Curated Video
Freezing
This live-action video program is about the word freezing. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word freezing through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
Science360
Alaska mountain glaciers retreating due to climate change
Tighten your seat belt! This runway is made of ice. Welcome to Ruth Glacier, deep inside Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve. Some of the visitors are here for recreational activities, such as backcountry skiing, but this is no...
Next Animation Studio
Thwaites Glacier: Eastern Ice shelf could break up within five years
The Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, which acts as a dam to slow the flow of ice off Antarctica into the ocean, has a series of fractures spanning almost the entire shelf that could break it up within five years.
Curated Video
The Versatile Uses and Toxicity of Lead
This video provides a description of the element lead, including its properties, historical uses, and potential dangers.
Next Animation Studio
Italy covers melting glacier with reflective sheets
Conservationists say about 70 percent of Presena Glacier’s snow is saved over the summer by using protective geotextile sheets.
NASA
NASA's Curious Universe: Earth’s Expanding Oceans
With Earth’s recent record-breaking temperatures, the pace of sea level rise has accelerated. NASA scientists take us on a trip into their research right here on our home planet. Join us as we fly over Antarctic ice sheets and consult...
Learning Mole
Moreno Glacier
This animated geography video lesson is all about Moreno Glacier. Students will love this engaging and interactive video as they learn more about geographical wonders and landforms.
The Viral Fever
Cosmic Journeys: Exploring the Possibilities of Mars and Beyond
This video discusses the history of human fascination with Mars and the imaginative leaps made about the possibility of life on the planet. It also touches on current scientific exploration and search for potential landing spots for...
Next Animation Studio
Massive ‘Doomsday Glacier’ could collapse into ocean
Scientists found that warm water is eating away the foundations under Antarctica’s so-called “Doomsday Glacier” at an alarm
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Mark Hillringhouse - 'Moisture'
Mark Hillringhouse is a published poet, essayist, and photographer whose works have been widely exhibited in area galleries. His photo-essay on the Passaic River was published in the American Poetry Review and his photography and writing...
Next Animation Studio
Ice age cut massive channels under North Sea
A new study shows detailed 3D images of hundreds of channels carved into the bedrock under the North Sea.
Next Animation Studio
Massive melting event strikes Greenland due to heat wave
A ‘massive melting event’ has affected Greenland’s ice sheet during a heat wave that has brought temperatures more than twice as hot as seasonal averages.
NASA
NASA | Earth Science Week: Melting Ice, Rising Seas
"Melting Ice, Rising Seas" is Episode 5 in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009. Sea level rise is an indicator that our planet is warming. Much of the world's...
NASA
Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier Reacts to Changing Ocean Temperatures
NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission uses ships and planes to measure how ocean temperatures affect Greenland's vast icy expanses. Jakobshavn Glacier, known in Greenlandic as Sermeq Kujalle, on Greenland's central western side,...
Next Animation Studio
Permafrost melt releasing stored methane
Researchers from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks (UAF) have identified tens of thousands of methane seeps in areas along the coast of Alaska and Greenland. Some experts believe the escape of large quantities of previously frozen...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Venturing into Visuals – Analysing Visual Techniques and Text (Stage 4, Years/Grades 7-8)
In this second lesson, we’ll venture deeper into visual techniques. Take a closer look at the nitty-gritty of images and how composers arrange visual elements to create certain effects. Build your confidence with important techniques...
Sustainable Business Consulting
Current State of Ice Caps and Sea Levels
Provides insight on the melting of the ice caps and how that is translating into political instability and tension, as well as graphics to illustrate the effects of 3-5 meters of sea level rise on major cities
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...