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TED Talks
TED: How Mars might hold the secret to the origin of life | Nathalie Cabrol
While we like to imagine little green men, it's far more likely that life on other planets will be microbial. Planetary scientist Nathalie Cabrol takes us inside the search for microbes on Mars, a hunt which counterintuitively leads us...
SciShow
The Gulf of California's Upside-Down Mirror Pools | Weird Places
For upside-down mirrors, super hot volcanic chimneys, and neon rocks with living microorganisms, look no further than the Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California.
SciShow
Watch the Delta Aquarids, and Meet NASA's 'Aquanauts'
SciShow Space preps you for the Delta Aquarids, a meteor shower, and explains what makes them so unique. Plus, join "aquanauts" on one of NASA's least-known missions, a nine-day tour in its NEEMO undersea laboratory.
Crash Course Kids
Normal Stuff in Not-So-Normal Places
So, what happens to normal stuff (like water) when it goes to not so normal places? What happens if you take a glass of water to the top of Mt. Everest? Or Space? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how matter is...
Curated Video
Antarctica - Exploring the Wonders of Enterprise Island
Enterprise Island, formerly Nason Island, has a fascinating history since its charting in 1898. Located in Wilhelmina Bay, it is 1.5 nautical miles long and became known to whalers in the early 1900s. The island attracts scientists and...
Curated Video
Archaea
A type of prokaryotic organism lacking a cell nucleus, similar to bacteria but now considered as a domain in their own right.
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Curated Video
Extreme Living: Nomads
With nomadic populations in decline, the Darhad still choose to roam the harsh environment of Outer Mongolia year round. But for how long? Human Geography - Orientation And Settlements - Learning Points. Nomadic tribes have no permanent...
NASA
Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 42, Game Changing Development Program Small Steps, Giant Leaps
NASA Game Changing Development Program Executive Niki Werkheiser discusses advancement of space technologies that could lead to new approaches for future space missions.
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: Astronaut, M.D.
Serena Auñón-Chancellor shares her story about becoming an astronaut from her education in engineering and medicine to her time at NASA as a flight surgeon. Auñón-Chancellor discusses her training and expectations before her first trip...
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: The National Lab in Space
Patrick O'Neill, Marketing and Communications Manager at CASIS, talks about the part of the International Space Station designated as a U.S. National Laboratory, what that means, and how CASIS manages research from all over the world...
Curated Video
46,000-year-old worm comes back to life after thawing
When scientists revived two female roundworms that were frozen in the Siberian permafrost for 46,000 years, they immediately started reproducing. Philipp Schiffer, group leader at the Institute for Zoology at the University of Cologne,...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: A Community of Ancient Bacteria
We'll talk with researcher studying a community of bacteria that has been isolated from the surface for millions of years. They describe some of the biochemical processes that have allowed the bacteria to survive below glacier ice, and...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Great Salt Lake Is No 'Dead Sea'
Biologist Bonnie Baxter explains how Great Salt Lake was formed, and what it is like today. One half of the lake is much saltier, yet still supports microbes. These microbes, called halophiles, promise to give us insights into how to...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: From Atlantis to Antarctica
In this segment, we'll listen in on a phone call from Atlantis to Antarctica, to check in with researchers studying organisms that live in extreme environments: one group of scientists is working with the submersible Alvin, studying...