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LEARN HUMAN BODY FOR KIDS | Play Dress Up: Doctor Scientist
Kids can learn what's inside the human body. Bella has a baby in her belly. Discover what's inside with Bella and Beans as they play dress up and become doctor scientists. Using their fabulous x-ray glasses they can see what's inside the...
The Backyard Scientist
Make a Violent fireball and smokebomb with pool shock and brake fluid.!
For more information and reaction mechanisms, look at the link below. PEG is chosen as a hydraulic brake fluid for its very high boiling point. Usually over 400f. So this is a very exothermic reaction! Something I noticed. If the...
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Molten salt teaser video
Molten table salt into water - 5000 fps. First two times nothing happened, just a little splattering. On the third try... BAM! Salt melts at ~1400F, and inexplicably explodes when poured into water! I had to find out whats going on.
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Breaking into a massive 1000lb Safe with a Plasma Cutter
That was way more work than I thought it would be! Total time to get the safe open - 3 hours of labor. hard labor. And I don't even know what to do with it now!
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Researchers find abundant marine life at area once thought to be an "oceanic desert"
Scientists have conducted research as to why the great white sharks gather in the Pacific Ocean during winter and spring, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
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Theoretical Physicist S. James Gates - ScienceLives
A John S. Toll Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, Gates is a member of the President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute...
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Psychology professor Tom Gilovich - ScienceLives
Tom Gilovich, professor of psychology at Cornell University, focuses his research on how our rational and intuitive thinking processes interact, with a particular emphasis on what happens when they lead people in two very different...
NASA
Cassini's Infrared Saturn | Director's Cut
The Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn in 2004, beginning an epic thirteen-year tour of the ringed planet and its many moons. Cassini and its companion probe, Huygens, were an international collaboration between NASA and the...
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NASA in Silicon Valley: Chris McKay Talks About Life in Extreme Places
A conversation with Chris McKay, senior scientist at the Planetary Systems Branch of NASA's Ames Research Center who works on projects from Cassini to Curiosity.
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Fire-Saber and Other Awesome Experiments!
3 mini experiments rolled into 1 nice video! Its been raining all week, so I got to stay in and play with my new camera! I made a Fire-saber, and I recorded cool footage like watching a fire race across the floor, and hitting a water...
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Smart Concrete - Science of Innovation
By adding carbon fiber to concrete mixture, a slab of concrete is able to conduct electricity. "Smart concrete" has many potential applications, including helping structural engineers to identify trouble spots in a concrete structure...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Will we ever be able to eradicate our idea of the unknown?
From Aristotle to Einstein humans have tried to make sense of the world. Yet despite huge advances, a final explanation looks as distant as ever. What makes our lives and the world so puzzling and inexplicable? Is it too soon to give up...
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Science Behind Bars
In the Pacific Northwest, people are stripping moss for the horticultural trade at such an alarming rate that it's now illegal to harvest it. Ecologist Nalini Nadkarni knows that moss is a key component to the eco-system of the region,...
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Dr. France A. Córdova: Passion for science and NSF
NSF's new director shares her passion about science and the National Science Foundation.
NASA
Cassini's Infrared Saturn
The Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn in 2004, beginning an epic thirteen-year tour of the ringed planet and its many moons. Cassini and its companion probe, Huygens, were an international collaboration between NASA and the...
The Backyard Scientist
Salvage High voltage supply from an old photocopier. + other goodies
In this video i salvage an old photo copier for some interesting parts. Their is a nice high voltage transformer, I will be using the high voltage supply for my Marx generator in an upcoming video. I also got some nice mirrors, and a...
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Social psychologist Jennifer Lerner - ScienceLives
Jennifer Lerner’s work helps world leaders and other public officials, including members of NATO, understand the effects of social and emotional factors on judgment and decision making. She is the director of the Harvard Decision Science...
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Claymore Roomba Hide & Seek!
We took the Claymore Roomba meme and brought it into the real world!
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Educational Assessment Tools Embedded in STEM VR Games – Killer Snails
Killer Snails, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation, is using a customized virtual reality (VR) game, BioDive, to develop an educational assessment tool that measures student learning in real-time. BioDive is an...
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Higgs Boson: Mysterious Particle Could Help Unlock Secrets Of The Universe
The search for a mysterious subatomic particle can certainly involve some enormous tools, not to mention a multitude of scientists. The effort to find the elusive ""Higgs boson"" includes over 5,800 scientists from 56 countries! The...
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Science historian Peter Galison - ScienceLives
Peter Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. He is the director of Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, one of the three largest university collections of historical scientific...
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How did you become a scientist?
Have you ever wondered how to become a scientist? Dr. Debra Fischer answers your question in this special “Mysteries of the Cosmos” edition of Ask a Scientist.
NASA
Gravity Assist: Is Our Solar System Weird? With Shawn Domagal-Goldman
We now know there are more planets than stars in the galaxy. Many of them are very different from ours. How would we know if any of them had life? Shawn Domagal-Goldman, astrobiologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, discusses...
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Exploring the Kuiper Belt: Home of Dwarf Planets and Frozen Debris
In this video, the topic of discussion is the Kuiper Belt, a region in our solar system that extends from the orbit of Neptune. It is similar to the asteroid belt but much larger, and is home to three recognized dwarf planets, including...