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The moon lost its magnetic fields one billion years ago: Study
Billions of years ago, the ancient moon had a powerful dynamo at its core that produced a strong global magnetic field.
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Hot super-Earths do not owe their brightness to molten lava or cooled glass as formerly assumed: scientists
Hot super-Earths are fiery rocky planets orbiting so close to their suns that their surface is heated to lava oceans.
Easy Languages
German Prepositions with Dative and Accusative (Wo ist Justyna?) | Super Easy German (120)
German Prepositions with Dative and Accusative (Wo ist Justyna?) | Super Easy German (120) Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and...
Physics Girl
Cosmic Inflation with Alan Guth | EXPERT ANSWERS PHYSICS GIRL QUESTIONS
Inflation video with Alan Guth:
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U.S. Become Like Mexico? Consequences of Skewed Economic Distribution - Simon Johnson
MIT Professor Simon Johnson notes that technological change can influence society unequally, and perhaps exacerbate societal schisms. Interviewed by Daniel Erasmus at King's College, April 2010.
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Scientists combine cancer drugs to treat melanoma
Scientists have combined two experimental cancer drugs to treat melanoma.
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Scientists develop robot 'hedgehogs' to explore Martian moon
Stanford researchers in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have developed a nearly completely autonomous system to explore the Martian Moon Prohos. The system consists of a...
NASA
How NASA’s Newest Planet Hunter Scans the Sky
TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is NASA's newest exoplanet mission. Led by MIT, TESS will find thousands of new planets orbiting nearby stars. During its two year survey, TESS will watch a wide variety of stars, looking...
NASA
How Winking Stars Point Us To Distant Worlds
How do we spot something as tiny and faint as a planet trillions of miles away? The trick is to look at the star! So far, most of the exoplanets – worlds beyond our solar system – we’ve found were detected by looking for tiny dips in the...
NASA
NASA | LCRD: From Vision to Reality
Since its inception in 1958, NASA has relied exclusively on radio frequency (RF)-based communications as the only viable medium for exchanging data between a mission and a spacecraft. Today, with missions demanding communication with...
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Ammonia points to the possibility of life in the clouds of Venus
Scientists say they found what looks like ammonia in the boiling acid clouds of Venus, which increases the odds that organisms might be living in the clouds.
NASA
NASA | Laser Comm: That's a Bright Idea
Laser light made records obsolete. NASA is on the verge of doing the same thing with space based communications. Before the end of the decade, the Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) mission will revolutionize the way we move...
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NASA | Goddard Summer Interns: Danielle Wood
A video profile of NASA intern Danielle Wood. During her career, Danielle has pursued diverse experiences with NASA as an intern, guest researcher, graduate fellow, contractor and Student Ambassador. Danielle is currently interning at...
TMW Media
Robotics Challenges for the Future: Robots in the wild
What are remote robots? What are some things that ASIMO can do? How can you work on robots one day? Robotics Challenges for the Future, Part 3
Curated Video
Shirley Jackson: the First African American Woman to Receive a Doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Born on August 5, 1946, Shirley Jackson is the first African-American woman to receive a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the first African-American woman to serve as president at a top-ranked research...
Physics Girl
The Physics of Weightless Flight ft Emily Calandrelli
Ever wanted to know how those vomit comet planes simulate weightlessness?
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2D antenna turns wifi signals into electricity
Scientists have created a device that can power electronics, wearables, and other devices without the use of batteries or wires, according to MIT News.
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MIT researchers publish study on traffic-light-free 'smart intersection'
Researchers at MIT have published a study outlining the basis for a potential traffic-light-free transportation design that, if developed, could allow twice as many cars to travel smoothly on the road.
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New nanoparticle detects harmful blood clots
A research team at MIT developed a novel nanoparticle that detects blood clots before they cause stroke or other adverse cardiac events. This non-invasive clot detection assay presents an fast and affordable method to screen for blood...
Physics Girl
Exploding soda cans with electromagnets in SLOW MOTION ft Joe Hanson
Watch a soda can rip itself apart in a fiery explosion at 11,000fps with a Phantom high speed camera. Running a current through a coil, produces an electromagnet. Turn up the voltage in this experiment, and make that current strong...
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Amusing Surface Tension Experiment
How does soap change the surface tension of water? I have used my degree to make a fifth video -- for you all -- to explain this very question.
Curated Video
The Legacy of Robert Van de Graaff
This video provides a brief overview of the life and accomplishments of Robert Jemison van de Graaff, an American physicist and inventor. It discusses his invention of the Van de Graaff generator, a high-voltage generator that produces...
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How I broke a wine glass with my VOICE (using science!)
If you sing at a wine glass at its exact resonant frequency, you can break the glass without the help of a speaker! Learn the physics behind that.