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Dead Trees & Dirty Water In The Rockies
The Rocky Mountains supply water to more than 60 million homes in the West, but this crucial water shed is in peril due to a tiny insect called the mountain pine beetle. Scientists Reed Maxwell of Colorado School of Mines and John...
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NASA finds possible clue for life on early Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover found organic compounds called thiophenes in soil samples that may have been produced by bacteria.
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The Origins and Early Evolution of Life on Earth
This video provides a brief overview of the early stages of life on Earth, highlighting the importance of organic compounds in the early oceans and the role they played in the development of the first living cells. It also discusses the...
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Dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world: scientists
Scientists say Ceres is an ocean world with brine under the surface after reviewing data from NASA’s Dawn orbiter, according to new studies published separately in Nature Astronomy and Geoscience.
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Houston We Have a Podcast: The Search for Life
Dr. Aaron Burton and Dr. Marc Fries, Planetary Scientists, talk about searching for organic material in meteorites from around the solar system. They share what we're finding that helps us understand the fundamentals of life here on...
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Gravity Assist: A Special Delivery of Life’s Building Blocks, with Jason Dworkin
When Earth was just a baby, meteors and asteroids rained down, delivering all sorts of chemicals to our developing planet. These small objects could have delivered the chemicals needed to spark life on Earth for the first time.
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Exploring Carbon Compounds
In this video, we explore the significance of carbon compounds in our everyday lives. Carbon, a common element found in all living things, forms the basis of organic compounds. This video is part of the 10-part series, Compounds in...
Curated Video
Introduction to Organic Chemistry: Representing Molecules and Naming Compounds
The video is a lecture on organic chemistry, introducing key concepts such as hydrocarbons, functional groups, homologous series, and isomerism. The speaker explains how organic molecules can be represented in different ways, using...
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NASA | Need To Know: Sample Analysis at Mars Findings
There’s big news coming out of the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite (SAM) on NASA’s Curiosity rover. For the first time, organic matter has definitively been detected on Mars. In addition to finding organic compounds in rocks,...
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NASA | Inside Astrobiology: Danny Glavin
Danny Glavin talks about crushing meteorite samples, funding, and how having the right chemistry (no pun intended) is important in an astrobiology lab.
Curated Video
Life Substances - The Chemistry of life
There are a number of substances that are vital to all living organisms. In this lecture, I talk about substances like carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids, going into some detail about their structures and importance.
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Unique Nature of Carbon
It explains sources of organic compounds and the unique characteristics of carbon atoms, namely tetracovalency, catenation and formation of strong bonds.
Curated Video
Vitamins: Types, Functions, and Sources
Vitamins are nutrients that our bodies need to survive, but that we cannot produce enough of on our own. Learn about different types of vitamins, where we get them, and how they are processed in the body. Plus, understand the difference...
Curated Video
The Importance of Oxygen: Our Lifeline
Oxygen is the chemical element with the symbol O and atomic number 8. Oxygen is a necessary and abundant resource on Earth. Learn about the many things oxygen is used for - including keeping humans alive!
Curated Video
The Importance of Carbon: An Overlooked Element
In this video, we explore the importance of carbon, an element that is present in everything from the air we breathe to the objects we use daily.
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The Origin of Life on Earth
You must have wondered about it before, haven't you? How did life begin on earth? I mean the very first thing. The first unicellular organism, billions of years ago. Is it even possible? As it happens, our understanding of chemistry,...
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The Pharmaceutical Industry
In this video we will look at a commonly used separation technique, which you may have already met in Chemistry, and see how it is applied in the synthesis of organic compounds as done in the pharmaceutical industry. Ideally a chemical...
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Our Solar System's Moons: Triton
Everything you could want to know about Neptune's largest moon, Triton. NASA Voyager 2 images of Triton explained.
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Hydrocarbon Derivatives
This comprehensive video focuses on functional groups including alcohols, hydroxyl groups, aldehydes, carboxylic acid, acetone, ethers, esters, and amines.
Crash Course
Aromatics and Cyclic Compounds
Why can we smell aromatic and cyclic compounds and why they are in rings instead of lines? Viewers learn about organic compounds, resonance, naming standards for aromatic compounds, common chemical reactions, and the many uses...
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Nomenclature
Who is IUPAC and what they do? IUPAC is the organization that names and establishes rules for every organic compound. Find out more in a short video that focuses on prefixes, suffixes, functional groups, carbon chains, and cis or trans...
Crash Course
Hydrocarbon Power!
This short video covers the history of hydrocarbons and organic compounds, discusses the structures and properties of alkanes, isomers, and concludes with an explanation of naming alkanes based on their structure.