Snakes don’t have lips, they can't lap up water, and they don’t grab mouthfuls of water and tip their heads back to swallow, so how do they drink? Turns out, some snakes have sponge-mouths that literally soak up water!

In this video Paul Andersen explains the parts of the Solar System; including the planets, dwarf planets, moons and asteroids. He explains how everything orbits around the Sun and how a proper understanding of this heliocentric model...

Upon viewing the Exploring Earth, Sun, and Moon video series, students will be able to do the following: Cite some of the characteristics of Earth which make it unique in our solar system, including: Earth's moderate temperature, the...

On Sept. 13, 2015, as NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, kept up its constant watch on the sun, its view was photobombed not once, but twice. Just as the moon came into SDO’s field of view on a path to cross the sun, Earth...

MOT 1940: NEW YORK CITY: NIGHT: MS 14th Precinct sign. Policemen in line being inspected by ranking officer. CU Hibernian Ball at Cortelyou Club in Flatbush (Brooklyn) advertisement. Irish Catholic Americans dancing traditional dance in...

Journey into the mystery of Stonehenge, the ancient monument built over 5,000 years ago in England. Learn about the possible purposes of this prehistoric structure, from celestial calendar to burial ground, and the impressive feat of...

In a paper published on Wednesday in Nature, scientists proposed that two moons were formed billions of years ago when a Mars-sized planet slammed into the Earth - our Moon and a tiny Trojan moon that inhabited what's known as a Lagrange...

How the Moon affects daily tides and drives extreme spring tides, when the Sun and Moon align. Physics - Our Solar System - Learning Points. The Moon creates and controls the tides. Its gravitational pull causes ocean water to bulge...

Our sun and moon are DEFINITELY not the same size? So why do they appear that way? Support the great work being done by Lifespan, the team powering Life Nogginf='https://www.lifespan.io/life-noggin/' target='_blank'...

This is a lecture video that discusses an alternative approach to quality control in businesses - quality assurance. The video explains the limitations of quality control and highlights the benefits of quality assurance, such as...

Through telescopic video and photos combined with animated graphics, students will learn about the layers of the sun and its effects on earth, the moon and all the objects in our solar system and the universe.

In this video, the teacher explains the concept of the Earth's rotation and its effect on day and night. They use a toy spinning top as an analogy to demonstrate how the Earth spins on its axis, causing the sun to appear to rise and...

In this video, we learn about the different seasons and what causes them. The Earth's tilt on its axis as it revolves around the sun is responsible for the varying amounts of light received by different parts of the Earth throughout...

This video is a review of the Earth and Moon Cycles series. In this video, we explore the relationships and interactions between the Earth, Sun, and Moon. We learn about how the Earth's rotation causes day and night, and how the varying...

This video is a quiz over the Earth and Moon Cycles series. In this series, we explore the relationships and interactions between the Earth, Sun, and Moon. We learn about how the Earth's rotation causes day and night, and how the varying...

A video entitled “The Two Clocks” which reviews both analog and digital clocks and explores reading the time on the hour on both types of clocks.

Discover Ivo Zdarsky's incredible escape from Czechoslovakia and his innovative life in Lucin, Utah, where he continues to invent and explore.

Inside a cylinder that is about the size of a roll of paper towels lives a circuit board filled with sensors. It's called a dropsonde, or ""sonde"" for short. It's a work horse of hurricane forecasting, dropping out of ""Hurricane...

In this episode we take a break from physics and do a little fuzzy math. But not really: this is actually relevant to physics! Come back and I'll explain later.

The IARC has categorized processed meat as a definite carcinogen. But how dangerous is it really? Do we finally have to give up bacon?

Squeaks can't sleep because the sun is too bright, and Sam the Bat stops by to talk about what makes the sun so special



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In this video, we explore the largest object in our solar system, which is the Sun. We learn about the relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Moon, and how they interact with each other. This video is part of the 8-part series, Earth...

This video explains pie charts and their use. This clip is from the chapter "Basics of Data Manipulation in Time Series" of the series "A Practical Approach to Timeseries Forecasting Using Python".This section focuses on the basics of...

(NOTE: This talk was given in 2011, and this field of science has developed quickly since then. Read "Criticisms & updates" below for more details.) Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve...