The Backyard Scientist
Breathe Fire and make Giant Fireballs with Cornstarch!
In this video I team up the The Proper People to make blow huge fireballs and spin steel wool in an abandoned mine! All you need to make these fireballs is cornstarch. Just grab a hand full and blow it onto a flame. This is probably the...
Curated Video
The History and Making of Shortbread
Shortbread is a type of biscuit cookie that evolved from medieval twice-baked bread. Follow the shortbread ratio of one part sugar, two parts butter, three parts flour to make this easy cookie!
Science360
Home grown
In episode 29, Charlie and Jordan talk about life at home... microscopic life, that is. This research highlights the impressive amount of microbial diversity in the average household and the degree to which these organisms can tell a...
Schooling Online
Shakespeare Today: Hamlet - Key Quotes 1
After watching this lesson, you will be able to support your discussion of Hamlet’s themes with detailed textual analysis! This lesson unpacks the most famous and significant quotes uttered by Hamlet, the main character. These quotes...
Easy Languages
German Clothing Vocabulary | Super Easy German 170
German Clothing Vocabulary | Super Easy German 170 Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of...
NASA
Gravity Assist: Solar Power for the Moon, with Lyndsey McMillon-Brown
As NASA prepares to send astronauts to the Moon through the Artemis program, engineers are working on technologies that will give these explorers power – solar power, that is. In space, the harsh radiation and huge temperature changes...
Science360
Science in Motion: Reusing Forests
A lively, informal look at research from the University of Maine, where scientists are turning forest-industry waste into fuel, construction materials, textiles and polymers for space-age plastics.
NASA
What Is NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)? (Mission Overview)
Soon to be operating from the International Space Station, NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission will comprehensively measure the mineral composition of Earth’s mineral dust source regions to help...
TMW Media
Traveling Desert Sand: What does traveling sand do
How does sand from the Sahara Desert travel around the world? Where does it help or harm other parts of the world? Traveling Desert Sand, Part 1
Astrum
What's special about the Event Horizon Telescope that imaged the M87* black hole?
Why wasn't it Hubble that imaged M87*, or Messier 87's supermassive black hole? Is the Event Horizon Telescope more powerful?
Professor Dave Explains
Types of Nebulae Stellar Nurseries and Star Remnants
Have you ever seen images of colorful, wispy clouds of gas in space? Those are called nebulae! What happens inside a nebula? In some of them, new stars are born. How does that work? How can we see all this gas? Are there different types...
NASA
Gravity Assist: Planetary Defense and Oumuamua with Kelly Fast
NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green sits down with Dr. Kelly Fast, a planetary astronomer to discuss planetary defense and Oumuamua.
Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Down Behind The Dustbin - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen performing Down Behind The Dustbin.
NASA
Gravity Assist: Mars Dust Storm with Melinda Kahre.
Listen in as NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green discusses the Mars dust storm with a dust storm expert, Melinda Kahre.
NASA
On a Mission: The Danger of Going to Mars
Many spacecraft have died trying to get to Mars. The current record for Mars missions is 18 successes, and 25 failures. The InSight mission hopes to improve the odds.
Brains On
Little Bugs that Live on Humans
Microscopic creatures have always lived around, on, and inside of us. While some of these tiny bugs can cause illness, others do us no harm, or may even help us. In this audio story, an entomologist discusses her study of Demodex mites,...
NASA
NASA | Scientists Create First Full 3D Model of Eta Carinae Nebula
An international team of astronomers has developed a 3D model of a giant cloud ejected by the massive binary system Eta Carinae during its 19th century outburst. Eta Carinae lies about 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation...
NASA
NASA | CATS in Space Keep Eyes on Atmosphere
NASA Goddard is preparing to demonstrate for the fist time in space, a 3-wavelength, laser remote sensing instrument. The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System or CATS will measure clouds and aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere. This...
NASA
NASA Team Explores Using LISA Pathfinder as a 'Comet Crumb' Detector
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from NASA, has successfully demonstrated critical technologies needed to build a space-based observatory for detecting ripples in space-time called...
Weatherthings
Saharan Dust
Every summer, millions of tons of dust from the Sahara desert move into the Atlantic and travel westward. Here, you'll see it on satellite.
NASA
NASA | Asteroid Bennu's Journey
Bennu's Journey is a 6-minute animated movie about NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, Asteroid Bennu, and the formation of our solar system. Born from the rubble of a violent collision, hurled through space for millions of years, Asteroid Bennu...
NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: The Dark Side of the Crater: Podcast
A feature from NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley originally posted on July 26, 2017.
Science360
Utah's drying lake beds
This video shows how the dust from Utah's drying lake beds could be lowered by preserving lakes.
Schooling Online
Shakespeare Today: Hamlet - Theme of Death and Mortality
Watch this lesson today to discover how Shakespeare explores an overarching theme in Hamlet: death and mortality. Consider for yourself Shakespeare’s provocative questions about our understanding of death, and the way it can affect us....