Science360
Picture Yourself Where Discoveries Begin - NSF's Recent Graduates Program
Josh Abbot, a Program Specialist at NSF and recent graduate, discusses the benefits of NSF's Recent Graduates Program, including the potential for a full-time career in the federal government.
Science360
Roboticist Robert Wood discusses his robobees research
Robert Wood is a roboticist at Harvard University who has designed robobees. He is also an Expeditions in Computing Awardee and has been awarded the 2012 Alan T. Waterman Award.
NASA
Training the Next Generation of Planetary Scientists
Each year in early March, a new class of postdocs at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center gathers for the Planetary Science Winter School. This intensive training program takes the young scientists and plunges them into the Instrument...
Espresso Media
Walls of Venice: The Costly Battle Against Flooding
Walls of Venice part 8/8: This video provides an overview of the construction and purpose of the MOSE project in Venice. The project involves the installation of floating barriers to protect the city from flooding caused by high tides....
Espresso Media
Ships That Carry Ships: Inspecting and Preparing for Loading
Ships That Carry Ships part 2/8: The video is a documentary-style footage of a cargo loading operation in Vung Tau, Vietnam. The focus is on the inspection and preparation of three module carriers. The video highlights the importance of...
Zach Star
How I Taught Myself an Entire College Level Math Textbook
How I Taught Myself an Entire College Level Math Textbook
Science360
How Rat Whiskers Can Help Technology - Science Nation
The image of a rat sniffing around for food with its little whiskers moving back and forth to help satisfy it's appetite is enough to make most people lose theirs! But those whiskers play a valuable role in helping rats determine what is...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Daniel Forrester - Teachers Make a Difference - Bill Clarke
Daniel P. Forrester is the author of Relentless: The Forensics of Mobsters' Business Practices. He is the founder of THRUUE, Inc an expert consultancy that assists leaders in bridging the gap between corporate culture and corporate...
Science Buddies
Build a Popsicle Stick Catapult
Catapults were mighty handy for pirates in the golden age of piracy (during the 17th century). And medieval knights used them centuries earlier for taking down massive castle walls. Even Greeks and Romans used catapults about 2,000 years...
NASA
Hubble Tool Time Episode 5: Servicing Mission 3B
Retired NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld hosts this six-part mini-series about the tools used on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Hubble was uniquely designed to be serviced in space so that components could be repaired and...
Zach Star
When the FBI had too many fingerprints in storage - The mathematics of image compression
When the FBI had too many fingerprints in storage - The mathematics of image compression
Zach Star
What I Learned Teaching Myself an Entire College Course From a Textbook
What I Learned Teaching Myself an Entire College Course From a Textbook
Espresso Media
Mighty Sea Crane: The Birth of the Oleg Strashnov
Mighty Sea Crane part 2/8: In this video, the narrator discusses the construction and design process of a massive crane ship called the Oleg Strashnov. The video provides insights from the naval architect involved in the ship's inception...
NASA
OSIRIS-REx Tech – Surveying an Asteroid with Light
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on a mission explore to near-Earth asteroid Bennu, a carbon-rich body that may contain clues to the origins of life. OSIRIS-REx is equipped with a suite of technologies designed to map and study Bennu in...
NASA
NASA | Black History Month 2009: Danielle Wood
Join NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in celebrating Black History Month. Each week in February, a different African-American employee from GSFC will be featured. The employees will talk about their careers, career...
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: We're Not in Kansas Anymore
NASA astronaut Nick Hague and his wife, Lt. Col. Catie Hague, talk about Nick’s journey to becoming an astronaut, his education, and his time in the U.S Air Force. The couple discusses how their family is prepared for the journey ahead....