Instructional Video7:42
SciShow

The Giant of Nanoscience

12th - Higher Ed
Mildred Dresselhaus was a giant in the field of nanoscience. She didn't invent anything you have in your home right now, but she made it possible for us to have self-charging phones, smarter refrigerators, and more.
Instructional Video4:32
SciShow

The 100-Year Mystery of the Diffuse Interstellar Bands

12th - Higher Ed
Diffuse interstellar bands were first discovered in 1919 and since then scientists have found nearly 500 of them. How many do we understand? Only one.
Instructional Video6:10
SciShow

3 Cosmic Time Capsules

12th - Higher Ed
Long before we were around, the universe was preserving clues about the distant past, in everything from little balls of carbon to huge groups of stars.
Instructional Video1:01
Next Animation Studio

Hubble Space Telescope finds charged soccer-shaped molecules in space

12th - Higher Ed
The Hubble Space Telescope have identified electrically-charged molecules in space that are shaped like soccer balls.
Instructional Video4:12
FuseSchool

Bucky Balls, Nanotubes & Graphene

6th - Higher Ed
Learn the basics about bucky balls, graphene and nano tubes. This video start with a short recap on Allotropes and then starts you off learning about Fullerenes and Graphene and then gives you an overview into nanoscience and it's uses...
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Happy Birthday, Buckyballs!

9th - 10th
A look back at the discovery of buckminsterfullerenes in 1985, and what that discovery led to later. Robert Curl, Richard Smalley, and Harold Kroto won the Nobel Prize for their work. Aired Sep. 10, 2010 [12:50 min]
Instructional Video
University of Virginia

Uva Virtual Lab: Nanocarbon From Graphene to Nanotubes to Buckyballs

9th - 10th
This lab explains how carbon atoms bond into rings which serve as the building blocks of graphene and graphite sheets, carbon nanotubes, and C60 Buckyballs.
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Nobel Chemist Harry Kroto and Buckyballs

9th - 10th
We'll talk with chemist Harry Kroto about his discovery of buckyballs in the 1980s, and about new nano applications today, such as buckypaper.