Brooke has planned a surprise! Can you guess where they are going? This lesson will introduce the centripetal force and torque.<br/>
Definitions included: centripetal force, torque

Imagine if engineers could build a computer to be millions of times faster than anything that exists today, yet so small it's microscopic. John Preskill, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, explains the...

Next generation wind engineering facility draws researchers from all over the country; new tools provide information to help save lives, protect property



Description: Wind engineer and 13th generation Floridian...

Mehdi Kalantari Khandani at the University of Maryland has created a sensor system that constantly monitors different types of stresses on bridge structures and, when it detects anything unusual, alerts those who need to know.
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Meet Holly the honey bee, a very busy bee with an important job to do! Sent by Quinnie the Queen Bee, Holly and her new friend Stanley, explore Scarecrow Plough whilst keeping an eye out for tasty nectar. Watch as they discover how...

From the section: Computer Vision Basics: Part 1. In this section, we’ll cover the basic features of Computer Vision.<b<br/>r/>

Computer Vision Basics: Part 1: Humans vs. Computers Vision system

On December 15, 2015, the NFL, Under Armour, GE, & NIST announced the semifinalists for Head Health Challenge III, an open innovation competition to develop advanced materials for use in a wide variety of impact absorbing gear.

Today, we think of computer science as a field dominated by men, but the women have a long and important history in the field. In fact women were many of the very first computer programmers, played a hugely important part in the...

In this video lecture, the presenter discusses Lewin's force field analysis, which is a model used by businesses to assess potential areas of resistance when implementing change. The presenter explains that change is often driven by...

ViSUS LLC, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation, has created software to help farmers analyze aerial photos of crops.



Farmers often gather crop data using drones to take aerial photos, but it can take up...

Leslie Zebrowitz (PhD, Yale University) is the Manuel Yellen Professor of Social Relations and Professor of Psychology at Brandeis University. Trained as a social psychologist, she has recently received advanced training in social...

From diving in Antarctica’s ice-covered lakes to exploring Mexico’s Cave of the Crystals, NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay has been searching for life in a wide variety of extreme environments on Earth.

Baruch S. Krauss is a pediatrician and emergency physician at Boston Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He is an international expert on the

pharmacological and...

Stephen Wolfram, (born August 29, 1959, London, England), English physicist and author best known for his contributions to the field of cellular automata and the development of Mathematica, an algebraic software system, and...

Learn the nine baseball position numbers and the skills, body types and attributes of players that play each of them.

Dorothy, a girl from the Kansas prairies, finds herself lost and far from home in the Land of Oz. To return home, Dorothy sets off to find the Wizard of Oz and makes new friends along the way. But trouble comes along when the Wicked...

Twelve hundred tornadoes rip through U.S. towns every year, causing injuries, fatalities and billions in damage. An NSF-funded research team at the University of Oklahoma's Advanced Radar Research Center hopes that their radar simulator...

This video lesson teaches students how to find the perimeter of a polygon by solving real-world problems. It provides examples of finding the perimeter of a rectangular soccer field and a square garden, helping students apply their...

Every story starts as a small idea, or seed, and then—if nurtured and worked on—grows into a complete tale. In this audio story, an author and a 12-year-old girl work together to grow a story seed into a tale about a young athlete...

Climate change is one of the most important issues facing our planet, and NASA has lots of space missions and programs in the works to monitor and understand its drivers and effects. Kate Calvin, NASA’s new chief scientist, is also the...

Our virtual tour of the solar system continues with Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. Since it’s tough to observe Mercury except at dawn or twilight, most of what we know about Mercury is from NASA’s Mariner 10 and MESSENGER missions.

This video covers just a few examples of research and companies that you might find interesting in the field of robotics.



I only cover a few examples but remember there are SO many more. Many companies encompass some version...

Julia Moura is the founder of Tunnel Lab in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Tunnel Lab is a nonprofit that empowers low income teens to harness technology to design business solutions that address their communities greatest challenges. The...

It may sound like the stuff of science fiction but at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), nanosoccer is serious business.