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Computer scientist Cyntrica Eaton - ScienceLives
Cyntrica Eaton is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Norfolk State University in Virginia. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of several publications,...
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Disaster preparedness: keeping pets and their humans safe!
National Science Foundation-funded researchers at the University of Georgia and Illinois State University explore past efforts to evacuate pets and their owners during 9 different disasters in the U.S. to identify how best to accommodate...
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Powerful Golf Ball cannon! [Black Powder in a 1.75" fiberglass tube]
This cannon was pretty extreme. It shot a golf ball at speeds approaching the speed of sound and has some SERIOUS power. We typically used around 1 ounce of powder charge, enough to propel the ball clear through a bucket, and into the...
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Morehouse Men Dream to Teach K-12 Students
An innovative National Science Foundation-funded Discovery Research PreK-12 program helped these Morehouse College students fulfill a dream they had since they were high school juniors and seniors: become K-12 STEM teachers. Hear what...
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Eye on Home - Innovation Nation
On this Innovation Nation, learn about an NSF-funded project on remote monitoring of household appliances from a smartphone app.
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Engineering innovation to boost shellfish diversity, jobs
Marine Ecologist Brian Beal and a team based at the University of Maine at Machias Marine Science Field Station at the Downeast Institute are putting their aquaculture innovation skills to work. The team's goals are to diversify the U.S....
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How Does Carbon Get Into The Oceans? - The Carbon Cycle
How does carbon get into the oceans, and how much is in there?
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Purify chloroform by distillation
In this video I am distilling the chloroform.
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Teaching STEM with Augmented Reality Scenarios – LightUp
LightUp, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation, has developed an educational augmented reality software application to help kids learn STEM subjects. LightUp’s Hololab software allows kids to try many different...
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Rock-n-roll bridges, blinking eye-on-a-chip, high-flying low metabolism, & urban air “re-leaf”
4 Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn’t Hear About - Episode 33 Rock-n-roll bridges, blinking eye-on-a-chip, high-flying low metabolism, and urban air “re-leaf.” It’s four awesome discoveries you probably didn’t hear about. Guitar...
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Solving Crimes with DNA - Scientists & Engineers on Sofas (and other furnishings)
DNA Scientist and Mentor Bruce Jackson, PhD, traces ancestry and solves crimes with the powerful tool of DNA on this edition of "Scientists & Engineers on Sofas (and other furnishings)"!
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Muon g-2 - Moving the worl'd largest electromagnetic ring
Muon g-2, the world's largest electromagnetic ring, is travelling in one piece from Brookhaven National Laboratory on New York's Long Island to Fermilab outside Chicago. Its arrival may lead scientists to the next big discoveries in...
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Warming and Carbon Dioxide - How Do We Know?
A giant video screen that takes up an entire wall, floor to ceiling, is allowing scientists to see details they've never seen before. Developed at Tufts University with help from the National Science Foundation, the Visualization Wall...
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NSF - Everywhere in Your World
How has scientific research changed your world? Answer: In more ways than you probably think. Here's a quick look at the impact of National Science Foundation-funded research in your daily life.
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How to make your holidays greener?
Wondering how to be "green" and leave behind the smallest environmental footprint during the holidays? Listen to some tips from from the environmental packaging company Ecovative Design on how you can make your home more sustainable...
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Understanding the Brain with John Wingfield
During the week of May 6th, 2013, scientists from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and DARPA, met for the first meeting on the BRAIN Initiative. Dr. John Wingfield, Assistant Director of Biology at the...
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Time out of mind - Finding Your Science
Physics Nobel Laureate Sir Anthony Leggett talks about the paradox of time's forward motion. Finding Your Science engages the greatest minds in science to share with you their passion, perspective and inspiration for making breakthrough...
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The Physics of Popping Water Balloons
Take a slow motion look at what actually happens when a water balloon bursts.
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Explained: First ever observed black hole
If you could fly next to the supermassive black hole M87*, this is what you would see. Full Text: 55-million light years from Earth, at the heart of galaxy Messier 87 lies a monster black hole. Weighing in at 6.5 billion times the mass...
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Bonanza of birdsongs digitized for science
The world's largest scientific archive of animal signal recordings, the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds, is partnering with other institutions to co-curate and digitize an enormous archive of animal audio and video recordings from the...
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Black Hole Researchers Katie Bouman and Colin Lonsdale Answer Your Questions
On April 10, a team of international scientists from Event Horizon Telescope project unveiled the first ever image of a black hole at the center of the M87* galaxy. We invited computer scientist Dr. Katie Bouman and astronomer Dr. Colin...
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Batty for Bats - Innovation Nation
Bat wings have unique aerodynamic qualities, and studying their structure and function influences the design of new, more advanced airplane wings. Sharon Swartz and Kenny Breuer from Brown University talk about their research on how bats...