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Why Reality May Just Be A Hallucination
Anil Seth, professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, explains the link between perception and reality. Seth believes reality as we know it comes from activity of our brain. Following is a...
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The DAVINCI Mission to Venus
Launching in 2029, NASA’s Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry and Imaging (DAVINCI) mission will bring a rich suite of instruments to Venus to address long standing questions about Earth’s sister planet. Some...
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This Is What Neutrinos Look Like When Scientists Catch Them
Scientist use crazy technology to hunt down the elusive “ghost particle”, from bubble chambers to glowing radiation. Here are the different methods they’ve tried, and are still using today. Get 20% off http://www.domain.com domain names...
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NASA | ATREX Studies Earth's Ultra-High Super Wind
High in the sky, 60 to 65 miles above Earth's surface, winds rush through a little understood region of Earth's atmosphere at speeds of 200 to 300 miles per hour. Lower than a typical satellite's orbit, higher than where most planes fly,...
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Seas of Infinity: OAO 2's 50th Anniversary
On Dec. 7, 1968, an Atlas-Centaur rocket carrying NASA’s heaviest and most ambitious uncrewed satellite to date blasted into the sky from Launch Complex 36B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Formally known as Orbiting...
The Royal Institution
Living in Space: An Astronaut's Perspective
Four seasoned astronauts recall what life in space is really like. Helen Sharman, Michael Barratt, Daniel Tani and Jean-Francois Clervoy talk about weightlessness, space walks, and coming home. Day 18 of our advent calendar:...
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Lightning | Electricity | Physics | FuseSchool
Lightning | Electricity | Physics | FuseSchool A flash of lightning, and a rumble of thunder. But what exactly are these spectacular occurrences? In 1752, Benjamin Franklin discovered that lightning was caused by powerful electrical...
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What Would Happen If Humans Tried To Land On Jupiter
The best way to explore a new world is to land on it. That's why humans have sent spacecraft to the Moon, Venus, Mars, Saturn's moon, Titan, and more. But there are a few places in the solar system we will never understand as well as...
The Guardian
Songbird: a virtual moment of extinction in Hawaii - 360° video
Hawaii is the extinct bird capital of the world. Many native birds are endangered, but for some it's too late. The fabled ʻōʻō (songbird) was last seen in 1985. Set amid the cloud forest of Kauai, Songbird takes you back in time to meet...
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Aspirational Play - Adding a Sense of Wonder to Game Design - Extra Credits
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The Royal Institution
Junk Log 034 | A Space Debris Short Story
The story of a lost piece of debris, struggling to find her place in the vastness of space. An illustrated short story. Day 11 of A Place Called Space: http://rigb.org/advent Download the audio piece:...
The Royal Institution
The Dreams of an Astronaut - with Helen Sharman
What do astronauts dream of? In 1991, Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space; in this animation she shares a dream she has about returning to space, and talks about what it’s like to gaze down on the earth from above. This is the...
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Sprites - First Sighting
Subscribe to Naked Science – http://goo.gl/wpc2Q1 On 6th July 1989, physicists from the University of Minnesota test out a new low-light camera they plan to use for a high altitude rocket experiment. They point the camera East at some...
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What Is The Natural Greenhouse Effect? | Environmental Chemistry | Chemistry | FuseSchool
Learn the basics about the natural greenhouse effect. The atmosphere helps to keep our planet warm by making it harder for the energy we get from the sun to escape back to the universe. Our atmosphere is held to the earth by the force of...
Big Think
A Scientific Explanation of the Human Mind | Daniel Siegel
Back in 1988, Pixies asked the catchy question: “Where is my mind?”. Now, nearly 30 years later, UCLA psychiatry professor Daniel Siegel has a revolutionary answer. We’ve come to accept that the brain is the instrument that plays the...
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NASA | Death-Defying Comets Explore the Sun's Atmosphere
To observe how winds move high in Earth's atmosphere, scientists sometimes release clouds of barium as tracers to track how the material corkscrews and sweeps around � but scientists have no similar technique to study the turbulent...
Next Animation Studio
How the Large Underground Xenon detector finds dark matter
The Large Underground Xenon Detector is a two-phase liquid xenon detector designed to pick up dark matter particles. The Large Underground Xenon detector, or LUX, is located about a mile underground. Its outer tank is filled with...
Great Learning
C Language Tutorial For Beginners In Hindi | C Programming For beginners | Great Learning
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Mind Melds and Brain Beams: The Dawn of Brain-to-Brain Communication
Music students download the technique of their favorite pianist or singer directly into their brains. Medical students download the skills of a seasoned surgeon or diagnostician. And each one of us routinely uploads our thoughts and...
Periodic Videos
Silver Halides - Periodic Table of Videos
Old photos on Objectivity: https://youtu.be/9Xt55LyX5pU Silver Nitrate into a solution containing halides. Also some talk about photography and cloud seeding. Discussed by Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff. Dr Samantha Tang did the...
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NASA | Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD (4K)
It’s always shining, always ablaze with light and energy that drive weather, biology and more. In addition to keeping life alive on Earth, the sun also sends out a constant flow of particles called the solar wind, and it occasionally...
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Cinematic Science Helps Researchers Explore Data From NASA’s CAMP2Ex Field Campaign
Bringing together data from numerous sensor nodes and visualizing it is a critical part of the scientific process. But creating accessible visualizations is not easy, especially when those sensor nodes communicate complex Earth-science...
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Changes of State | Matter | Physics | FuseSchool
Changes of State | Matter | Physics | FuseSchool On Earth, materials exist in one of three main states of matter: solid, liquid or gas. Materials can change between these states. When a state change occurs, a substance’s properties will...
Active Galactic
The Top Secret Story of Adaptive Optics
Adaptive optics, a high-tech solution to atmospheric distortion, is one of astronomy's oldest problems. While it may seem like adaptive optics works like magic, the story of how this technology came to be is far from simple. What started...