Mazz Media
Ecology
This live-action video program is about the word ecology. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word ecology through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
Visual Learning Systems
The Classification of Organisms: Basis for Classification
For thousands of years scientists have named and categorized the vast array of life on Earth. This series of videos highlights the major advances concerning the classification of life, more specifically focusing on current trends in...
Professor Dave Explains
Prokaryotic Cells: The Simplest Kind of Life
We've established that the basic unit of life is the cell, and that the simplest forms of life are just one cell. The earliest unicellular organisms were prokaryotic, and there are many prokaryotic organisms still around today, including...
Visual Learning Systems
Ecology Fundamentals Review
This video provides a brief overview of the topics covered in the Ecology Fundamentals series. It explains the terms species, population, and community, and emphasizes the importance of understanding the biotic and abiotic components of...
Visual Learning Systems
The Theory of Continental Drift
The video discusses the theory of continental drift proposed by Alfred Vagner in 1912. The video explores the evidence that Vagner compiled to support his theory, including the geographic fit of the continents, fossil evidence, and rock...
Professor Dave Explains
Viruses: Molecular Hijackers
Most of us know about viruses, and that they spread disease. But what is a virus exactly? Is it alive? How does it infect a host? There's a lot to discuss here! Take a look.
Mazz Media
Blood Vessels
This live-action video program is about blood vessels. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful, animated...
Visual Learning Systems
Energy in Ecosystems
This video explains the concept of energy flow in an ecosystem, particularly in a forest ecosystem. It highlights the relationship between producers, consumers, and decomposers and how they interact with each other to obtain energy....
Curated Video
Is it OK to pick your own wild mushrooms in Edmonton?
Mushroom enthusiast Mel Hohn brings the CBC's Mark Connolly up to speed on the dos and don'ts of foraging fungus within city limits.
Curated Video
Kenya expert warns of ecological disaster due to insect trafficking
Muya warned against taking ants from their natural habitats, saying they were unlikely to survive if not supported to adapt to their new environment.
Bridgeman Arts
Scientists working with microscopes and close-ups of organisms. France, 1940s
Clip 3 from the 1940s French film 'Au Dela Du Visible', exploring scientific work undertaken at the Palais de la Decouverte (Discovery Palace) in Paris, and experiments relating to the theme of outer space. (1943-1944). Scientists...
Curated Video
Polymer coating repels bacteria which cause hospital infections
LEADIN:
A clinical study is underway to confirm whether a special bug resistant coating for medical devices can prevent hospital patients getting serious infections.
Scientist say the polymer coating...
Curated Video
Microbe found that widens scope for finding new forms of life
1. Wide of news conference
2. Cutaway of media
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Felisa Wolfe-Simon, NASA Astrobiology Institute: (clients note: soundbite partly overlaid with image of bacterium)
"I'd like to introduce to you today the bacterium...
Curated Video
Bacteria-enzyme created that can detect and destroy anthrax
AUGUST 22 - New York
1. Medium shot Professor Vincent Fischetti walks into laboratory
2. Wide shot Fischetti working in lab
3. Close up lab equipment
4. SOUNDBITE: (English): Professor Vincent Fischetti, Rockefeller University:
"Well the...
Curated Video
The common bacteria which is killing babies
LEADIN:
There are calls for the development of a vaccine to help prevent the death of thousands of newborn babies.
Millions of women unknowingly carry a bacteria which can be passed on in pregnancy and later...
Curated Video
The common bacteria which is killing babies
LEADIN:
There are calls for the development of a vaccine to help prevent the death of thousands of newborn babies.
Millions of women unknowingly carry a bacteria which can be passed on in pregnancy and later...
Curated Video
Plague bodies reveal secrets of the old city of London in the 14th century ++EMBARGOED++
Almost a year after they emerged into the light, the bones of these men and women are still offering up tantalising details of the city that thrived about 800 years ago.
That is until it was struck by the Black Death.
The bodies were...
Curated Video
Dr. Jack Szostak and fellow researchers Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn shared the Nobel Prize for medicine Monday for their research into how chromosomes protect themselves from degrading when cells divide.
HEADLINE: Nobel winner Szostak pleased to share award
CAPTION: Dr. Jack Szostak and fellow researchers Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn shared the Nobel Prize for medicine Monday for their research into how chromosomes protect...
Curated Video
COP26 Discusses Transitions To Cleaner Technologies
One technology is an air bubble that promotes the growth of algae, which are organisms that eat carbon dioxide.
Curated Video
ALBANIA: SIGNS THAT JUNE ELECTIONS COULD BE DELAYED
Albanian/Nat
Signs are emerging from Albania that elections promised by June could be delayed.
The leader of Albania's coalition government said Saturday he could not guarantee elections before June because they would be undemocratic...
Curated Video
Top expert: World needs to prepare for next virus
A leading epidemiologist who heads a UN-backed alliance which helps get vaccines to developing countries on Friday said the world had been unprepared for outbreaks like the new coronavirus.