Stanford University neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector relates her personal career trajectory of beginning as an electrical engineer before eventually becoming a specialist in computer vision and neuroscience.

Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt describes how scientific biographies often give an unrealistic description of how science is really done.

A video entitled "Summarize a Scientific Text” which discusses how to identify the main idea and details of a scientific text.

Archimedes’ Principle investigates important scientific laws related to buoyancy by analyzing Archimedes’ Principle.

Learn about the comet Hale Bopp, one of the brightest comets ever discovered — including its discovery, orbit, near-collisions with planets, the bright dust tail, the ion tail, the sodium tail and more astronomy facts -- with these space...

The Law of Antoine Lavoisier explores the life of Antoine Lavoisier by investigating the discovery of the Law of Conservation of Mass and the struggles he had in the scientific community.

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0:00 Tutankhamun's Life & Hi
story
4:50 Discovery o
f his Tomb
8:50 How di
d King Tut die?
12:22 Wh
at did he look like?
13

:50 Re-creations Revealed

What did King Tut...

Season 2, King Brown Snake part 3.

The team visits a research center studying the impact of cane toads and learns that the poisonous amphibians have spread farther than they realized. They join researchers to set up a...

National Archives: Drawing on a rich selection of records held at The National Archives, this films looks back at the discovery of Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 and the surrounding 'Tutmania' that swept the press and the globe.

Part II of The Scientific Revolution explores the latter half of this movement and the gradual acceptance of scientific truth. This fascinating period of history chronicles European society's emergence from church domination that...

Antibiotic resistance is becoming a big problem, some strains of pathogens are now resistant to all antibiotics normally used in hospitals. But there is an alternative, using viruses that infect bacteria, bacteriophages, to fight the...

NSF Director France A. Córdova outlines how President

Obama's fiscal year (FY) 2017 request for NSF supports research into critical national is
sues,
including clean energy technologies, food sustainability, disaster response...

Europe experienced one of the most remarkable periods in history roughly between 1550 and 1700, when three of history's most important events were occurring simultaneously: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution....

In episode 63, Jordan and Charlie discuss the "blue fire whirl", a type of fire whirl that could lead to beneficial new approaches for reducing carbon emissions and improving oil spill cleanup. Fire whirls, otherwise known as fire...

Explaining the exciting new Fermilab muon result to my production team

Traditionally DNA has been represented in the double helix form, but a newly-discovered, four-stranded DNA may provide some insight into the fight against cancer. A group of scientists on the Cambridge University research team told...

A British architectural firm has designed a research center called the Discovery Building for the British Arctic Survey research team in Antarctica. <br/>

What will the next technological revolution look like? What challenges will be posed by climate change? Economists cannot approach it merely as an externalities pricing problem, but one which will require a wider range of policies...

This program examines the important figures of this period, their motivations for exploring new lands, and their tragedies and successes. This video looks at the first record of an explorer circumnavigating the world, this explorer was...

This video describes the Reggio Amelia approach to education, which was developed in response to the tragedy of World War Two. The approach emphasizes the development of creativity and social skills, with teachers stepping aside to let...

Researchers at the state-of-the-art Structural Engineering and Materials Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology are using a full-scale model building to test new ways to protect structures from earthquakes and...

Europe experienced one of the most remarkable periods in history roughly between 1550 and 1700, when three of history's most important events were occurring simultaneously: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution....

FT energy editor David Sheppard uses maps of the eastern Mediterranean to explain why there is such interest in gas deposits. The Turkish exploration vessels searching for them are not using conventional drilling platforms while the...

The application of computer science to legal situations include evidence gathering is referred to as digital forensics. This episode covers e-discovery and steganography.
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This clip is from the chapter "Dealing with...