Institute of Human Anatomy
The Journey of Sperm Cells: Production, Development, and Maturation
This video explores the process of sperm cell production in the male reproductive system, including the anatomy of the testes, the seminiferous tubules where sperm cells are produced, and the epididymis where they mature and become...
Curated Video
Using the British Library for Social Science Research
The British Library’s archives and collections represent an amazing resource for innovative and interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. Meet some of our curators and get a flavour of the unique and diverse material that is...
SciShow
Detecting Earthquakes: AI vs. Citizen Scientists
There are over 13,000 active seismic stations out there, producing far more data than seismologists have time to go through. So, researchers set up a showdown of humans versus machines to sift through all this information and, in the...
NASA
How NASA Data Helps Study Animals on the Move
MoveBank provides a free online database that enables animal tracking researchers to manage, share, protect, analyze and store their data. The system includes a set of online tools that help ecologists link animal movement data with...
FuseSchool
The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
"The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection Where did humans, and all the other living things on our planet come from? This problem puzzled humans for centuries, and there have been many different theories through the ages. Then, in...
Healthcare Triage
The Malpractice System Doesn't Deter Malpractice
Research indicates that the malpractice system in the United States doesn't do a lot to deter malpractice. There are several recent studies about malpractice that look at how many doctors have malpractice claims against them, and what...
Science360
NSF SCIENCE NOW: EPISODE 50
In this week's episode, we learn how AI uncovers insights into cancer, how loops give toughness to spider silk, a newly released database of stars and finally, we investigate a novel water testing technique. Check it out! Provided by the...
Healthcare Triage
Does CBD Have Any Value as a Treatment?
Last week we covered CBD and mental health, finding that data to backup health claims are scarce and consumer CBD products are often sketchy. In this week’s episode on CBD and other health ailments, we find that many of the same caveats...
Catalyst University
Excel/Numbers: Program Average and Standard Deviation
Excel/Numbers: Program Average and Standard Deviation
MinuteEarth
How Much Food Is There On Earth?
Go to https://brilliant.org/MinuteEarth to build your math & science skills! Food already in cupboards, supermarkets, & warehouses could feed humanity for 4 months, but potential food - berries, termites & krill - could extend that by...
MinuteEarth
How Much Food Is There On Earth?
Food already in cupboards, supermarkets, & warehouses could feed humanity for 4 months, but potential food - berries, termites & krill - could extend that by another year. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start...
NASA
NASA | Global Landslide Catalog Aids View From Space
Landslides are among the most common and dramatic natural hazards, reshaping landscapes -- and anything in their path. Tracking when and where landslides occur worldwide has historically been difficult, because of the lack of a...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Michael Rich - On Akira Kurosawa
Michael Rich, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health, and practices Adolescent Medicine at Boston Children’s...
Schooling Online
Perfecting Poetry: T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Lines 70-86
Join us as we continue our close analysis of T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. In this lesson we’ll look at lines 70-86 which reveal Prufrock’s existential angst. This part of the poem contains some of the most famous...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Stephen Wolfram - Computational Thinking
Stephen Wolfram, (born August 29, 1959, London, England), English physicist and author best known for his contributions to the field of cellular automata and the development of Mathematica, an algebraic software system, and Wolfram...
Science360
Engineering a more efficient way to diagnose prostate cancer - Science Nation
To diagnose prostate cancer, urologists, such as John Wei, and pathologists, such as Scott Tomlins, at the University of Michigan Health System, use biomarkers, which are biochemical signatures in blood, urine and tissue that suggest the...
Big Think
Preserving truth: How to confront and correct fake news | Craigslist founder Craig Newmark
- "[T]o have a democracy that thrives and actually that manages to stay alive at all, you need regular citizens being able to get good, solid information," says Craig Newmark. - The only constructive way to deal with fake news? Support...
Curated Video
The web of tomorrow
Royal Society Milner Award Lecture given by Dr Serge Abiteboul on 12 November 2013. Relational database management systems serve as mediators between individuals and machines. Web search engines brought information management to levels...
The Royal Institution
Can Data Make a Medicine? - with Patrick Vallance
Patrick Vallance, President of Research and Development at GlaxoSmithKline, explores how real-time data and open-source information can improve the world of medicine. Watch the Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aClJ1QZYsVw Subscribe...
Science360
Engineering a more efficient way to diagnose prostate cancer
To diagnose prostate cancer, urologists, such as John Wei, and pathologists, such as Scott Tomlins, at the University of Michigan Medical Center, use biomarkers, which are biochemical signatures in blood, urine, and tissue that suggest...
World Science Festival
Our Global Human Genome
In order to create a comprehensive genomic cancer database, scientists have to reach out to the entire world. Starting with the underserved populations in South Chicago, oncologist Olufunmilayo Olopade began studying the occurrence of...
AsapSCIENCE
How Much Is Your Body Worth?
We break down your value piece by piece! Get your Rx hair kit for just $5: https://www.forhims.com/asaphair See website for full details. Created by: Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown Written by: Tharsan Kanagalingam, Rachel Salt, &...
American Museum of Natural History
Tell-Tale Leech Meals
On a recent expedition to the lush forests of Cambodia, a team of Museum researchers experimented with a new method of tracking endangered animals. But first, they had to bare their arms and legs and attract bloodsucking leeches....
Curated Video
Into the Bat Caves of Kenya: Pt. 2
Watch Pt. I here: http://youtu.be/XxhKUP9Ixco This is the 2nd installment in a 2-part series of highlights from our expedition deep into the bat caves of Kenya! Video created by: Emily Graslie: Writer, host Greg Mercer and Emily Ward:...