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Curated Video
Hungry for knowledge - with Oliver Smithies
Oliver Smithies is a toolmaker. He shared the Nobel prize for discoveries that led to the development of knockout mice. Diego Bohórquez uses mouse models to understand how our gut regulates appetite. He has wanted to meet Smithies ever...
Curated Video
Inside Fukushima's empty villages
In November 2012, Geoff Brumfiel traveled to Fukushima Prefecture to learn more about how the nuclear accident has affected mental health. These photographs document his trip into the empty villages around the plant. Video with Japanese...
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Printing Lucy
Researchers believe they've discovered how Lucy, a 3.2 million year old human relative, died. To convince others of their theory, the researchers released 3D scans of Lucy's bones. In this Nature Video we 3D print Lucy's bones to see for...
Gresham College
Medieval Dance - Professor Christopher Page
Professor Page discusses the place of dancing in medieval society, specifically the dancing that occurred outside of the courtsf='http://www.gresham.ac.uk/music-imagination-and-experience-in-the-medieval-world' target='_blank'...
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Ice Age art
A new exhibition at the British Museum features sculptures made up to 40,000 years ago. Dr. Alice Roberts meets curator Jill Cook to discuss three artefacts in the collection; the Lion Man, a group of female figurines from Siberia, and...
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Have you ever seen an atom?
Scientists at the University of California Los Angeles have found a way to create stunningly detailed 3D reconstructing of platinum nanoparticles at an atomic scale. These are being used to study tiny structural irregularities called...
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By scientists, for scientists: A new partnership is born
In February 2013, Nature Publishing Group and Frontiers announced a strategic alliance to advance the global open science movement. The two publishers will work together on open access publishing, open science tools, networking, and...
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Hurricane Sandy: After the storm
After Hurricane Sandy hit New York in October 2012, Jeff Tollefson headed out into the aftermath to see first hand the devastation Sandy left behind. He photographed his experiences of the falling, and rebuilding of a global city. These...
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Ain’t no stopping them now with Art McDonald
Unstoppable by lead, undetectable above ground, undividable by modern physics; neutrinos are messengers from the very centre of the sun. Art McDonald, co-recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics, describes the puzzle of detecting...
Curated Video
Is dark matter real? - with George Smoot and Martinus Veltman
The morning after CERN announces the discovery of the Higgs particle, three young physicists sit down with Nobel prizewinners George Smoot and Martinus Veltman to digest the news. The students see it as another success for the standard...
Curated Video
ENCODE: Encyclopedia Of DNA Elements
ENCODE, the Encyclopaedia of DNA Elements, is the most ambitious human genetics project to date. It takes the 3 billion letters described by the Human Genome Project in 2000, and tries to explain them. Remarkably, ENCODE scientists have...
Visual Learning Systems
Forming Bonds: Ionic Bonds
Upon viewing the Forming Bonds video series, students will be able to do the following: Understand that matter is made up of tiny particles called atoms. Explain that atoms consist of many different types of subatomic particles including...
Crash Course
Get Outside and Have a (Mystery) Play: Crash Course Theater #10
In the Middle Ages, theater left the church of moved outside to a secular stage. An interesting video describes the transition from pulpit to public venue, discussing common plot lines and other aspects of medieval drama. Animated...