This chair is my legs -- this chair is my life, says accessibility champion Jane Velkovski, who uses a wheelchair after being diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). With clarity and poise, he shares how his first motorized...

As we wrap up Crash Course Philosophy, we’re using the things we’ve learned to explore big issues like the value of life. Today, we’re discussing abortions in cases of fetal abnormality, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. We will consider...

Nurses put robot prototype through the paces, helping engineers improve design With support from NSF, roboticist Dan Popa and a team of engineers and nurses at the University of Louisville are developing a new generation of assistive...

This lecture compares chatbots, virtual assistants, and personal assistants, delves into the three types of traits, and brings out their advantages and disadvantages at the forefront. This clip is from the chapter "Basics of Chatbots...

New ReviewThis lecture compares chatbots, virtual assistants, and personal assistants; delves into the three types of traits; and brings out their advantages and disadvantages to the forefront.

A slew of controversy surrounds Brazilian model Camilla Araujo's reaction to her assistant’s $54K earnings. Araujo dropped a video interview with her assistant, Julia Filippo, sparking major backlash. In the video, the model, shocked by...

Go behind the scenes at NASA with Chief Scientist Jim Green in the Gravity Assist podcast.

Explore interplanetary space travel with an experiment! The gravity assist or "slingshot" maneuver is often used by engineers to send spacecraft to the outer planets. This video presents a model to simulate a planetary flyby using...

We start our “Gravity Assist” virtual tour of the solar system with – where else – the Sun! Jim is joined by Project Scientist Dr. Nicky Fox of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab to talk about our fascinating star and...

Hi, I'm Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science. I'm excited to tell you about a new podcast series. It's called NASA's Gravity Assist. Please join me as I talk with some of the greatest planetary scientists of our time.

Is there life beyond Earth? How did life get started on Earth anyway? This season of NASA’s Gravity Assist podcast is about the origins of life on Earth and the search for life elsewhere.[scald=338003:full_width][scald=338003:full_width]

The USDA's Strike Force Initiative is looking to help farmers and ranchers who may have been under served with financial and technical assistance in the past.

There is a lot of evidence that not getting enough to eat has a negative effect on health and well-being. So, what are we going to do about it. Today, we're talking about some programs that work to help people get the nutrition they need...

In this video, we explore gait patterns used in the neurological population that can be done with bilateral assistive devices including axillary crutches, straight canes, forearm and Lofstrand crutches (axillary crutches on demonstration...

In this episode of Gravity Assist, Jim Green talks with New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute about what the July 2015 flyby of Pluto revealed about this mysterious and diverse world.

Yaireska Collado-Vega leads a team at NASA’s Goddard Spacecraft Center that is studying the solar weather environment so that robots and people exploring space can be protected. In this episode of Gravity Assist, she describes the...

NASA not only seeks to unravel the secrets of the solar system and the universe, we have a robust program to better understand how Earth works as a system, how it’s changing, and to assist when natural disasters like hurricanes and...

n this episode of Gravity Assist, NASA’s Jim Green and Amy Simon discuss Uranus, Neptune, and Neptune’s intriguing moon – Triton -- and what we still have to learn about these mysterious bodies.

In honor of National Intern Day, Gravity Assist features Felicia Ragucci, an undergraduate at Dartmouth College who recently completed an internship with NASA’s History Office and the Office of the Chief Scientist. During her time at...

In this episode of Gravity Assist, Jim Green talks with New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern about what we’ve learned about Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69.

A ventricular assist system, or VAD, is a implantable device that is used to help a failing heart pump blood through the body, often while the patient is awaiting a heart transplant. It consists of a control system and an energy supply...

As large as 1,000 Earths, Jupiter is the heavy hitter of the solar system. Even its Great Red Spot is larger than Earth, yet it’s shrinking! In this episode of Gravity Assist, Planetary Science Director Jim Green talks with Jared Espley...

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Howcast - Learn how to do an assisted pull-up from Warrior Fitness Boot Camp creators Ruben Belliard and Alex Fell in this Howcast workout video.