Instructional Video13:58
PBS

Can Viruses Travel Between Planets?

12th - Higher Ed
With the global pandemic of Covid 19 still encompassing the world, we are generally not big fans of viruses right now. But we sure are thinking about them a lot. That’s right, even astrophysicists are pondering these bizarre little...
Instructional Video11:54
TED Talks

TED: What it feels like to see earth from space | Benjamin Grant

12th - Higher Ed
What the astronauts felt when they saw earth from space changed them forever. Author and artist Benjamin Grant aims to provoke this same feeling of overwhelming scale and beauty in each of us through a series of stunning satellite images...
Instructional Video17:47
TED Talks

Scott Dinsmore: How to find work you love

12th - Higher Ed
Scott Dinsmore quit a job that made him miserable, and spent the next four years wondering how to find work that was joyful and meaningful. He shares what he learned in this deceptively simple talk about finding out what matters to you —...
Instructional Video9:53
TED Talks

TED: Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future | Liam Young

12th - Higher Ed
Get transported on a stunningly rendered, sci-fi safari through Planet City: an imaginary metropolis of 10 billion people, from the brain of director and architect Liam Young. Explore the potential outcomes of an urban space designed to...
Instructional Video11:55
TED Talks

TED: A forgotten Space Age technology could change how we grow food | Lisa Dyson

12th - Higher Ed
We're heading for a world population of 10 billion people -- but what will we all eat? Lisa Dyson rediscovered an idea developed by NASA in the 1960s for deep-space travel, and it could be a key to reinventing how we grow food.
Instructional Video2:06
SciShow

How Do You Weigh Things in Space?

12th - Higher Ed
Astronauts need to know their mass while in orbit, but a normal scale would be free-falling around the Earth with them. So how do they measure their mass without gravity?
Instructional Video0:52
Next Animation Studio

NASA Dawn mission: spacecraft takes first image of dwarf planet Ceres

12th - Higher Ed
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is currently on its way to the asteroid belt where it will rendezvous Ceres, its largest celestial body. Ceres, also classified as a dwarf planet, has an average diameter of about 950 km (590 miles) making it...
Instructional Video1:00
NASA

Time-Lapse of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Assembly, Sunshield Deployment

3rd - 11th
This time-lapse video reveals NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now a fully assembled observatory, and is accomplishing large-scale deployments and movements that it will perform while in space. Ensuring mission success for an...
Instructional Video4:41
Science ABC

Fermi Paradox Explained: If There Are TRILLIONS of Planets in Space, Why Hasn’t Anyone Contacted Us?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The Fermi Paradox refers to the apparent contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial life in the universe and the lack of evidence or contact with such civilizations. Named after physicist Enrico Fermi, the paradox...
Instructional Video8:46
Professor Dave Explains

Exploring the TRAPPIST-1 System

12th - Higher Ed
We've briefly discussed exoplanets and some methods that we can use to detect them, but we haven't yet looked at any specific ones. You may have heard of the TRAPPIST-1 system that was discovered recently, and for good reason, it's a...
Instructional Video3:23
Rock 'N Learn

Earth Science : Mohs Hardness Scale

K - 5th
Earth Science for Kids is the fun way to learn important facts about earth science and prepare for tests. Take a fascinating journey to the Super Science Station to learn about the Mohs hardness scale.
Instructional Video13:49
PBS

Loop Quantum Gravity Explained

12th - Higher Ed
The holy grail of physics is to connect our understanding of the tiny scales of atoms and subatomic particles with that of the vast scales of planets, galaxies, and the entire universe. To connect quantum physics with Einstein’s general...
Instructional Video12:27
PBS

How To Build The Universe in a Computer

12th - Higher Ed
We routinely simulate the universe on all of its scales, from planets to large fractions of the cosmos. Today we’re going to see how it’s possible to build a universe in a computer - and see whether there’s a limit to what we can simulate.
Instructional Video5:35
SciShow

Why Does It Take So Long to Get to Mercury?

12th - Higher Ed
On a cosmic scale, Mercury isn’t very far away, but it's incredibly hard to get there. Getting into orbit around it takes years of flybys in the solar system, but we're going to do it again!
Instructional Video13:23
TED Talks

TED: SpaceX's supersized Starship rocket -- and the future of galactic exploration | Jennifer Heldmann

12th - Higher Ed
SpaceX's Starship launch vehicle has the potential to explore the solar system in a bold, new -- and supersized -- way. Planetary scientist Jennifer Heldmann talks about how reusable, large-scale spacecraft like Starship could help...
Instructional Video17:40
TED Talks

Andrew Connolly: What's the next window into our universe?

12th - Higher Ed
Big Data is everywhere — even the skies. In an informative talk, astronomer Andrew Connolly shows how large amounts of data are being collected about our universe, recording it in its ever-changing moods. Just how do scientists capture...
Instructional Video1:56
Instructional Video1:54
Curated Video

Scale of the Universe

6th - 12th
How big is our Universe? Travel from Earth through the Solar System, past our Galaxy, to the Universe beyond. Physics - Universe - Learning Points. The Universe is constantly expanding. The Universe is already billions of light years...
Instructional Video5:12
MinutePhysics

Our Ignorance About Gravity

12th - Higher Ed
Thanks to the Heising Simons Foundation (https://www.hsfoundation.org/) for their support of this video, and of short range gravity research. This video is about how little we know about the behavior of gravity at short length and...
Instructional Video3:14
NASA

WFIRST: The Best of Both Worlds

3rd - 11th
NASA officially is beginning work on an astrophysics mission designed to help unlock the secrets of the universe -- the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). With a view 100 times bigger than that of NASA’s Hubble Space...
Instructional Video2:59
NASA

What Is NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)? (Mission Overview)

K - 11th
Soon to be operating from the International Space Station, NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission will comprehensively measure the mineral composition of Earth’s mineral dust source regions to help...
Instructional Video5:39
Curated Video

10 Things About The Solar System Your Teachers Never Told You

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Remember those old space movies where spaceships had to maneuver through a bunch of asteroids scattered around and blocking the path of the ship? Well, that's not really true. The asteroid belt contains asteroids which are so far apart...
Instructional Video0:19
The March of Time

1953: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: HANCOCK PARK: WS Fenced park land w/ houses, apartment buildings BG, TD Rancho La Brea Tar Pit; TD MS Ice Age fossils in asphalt. Bones, preserved, plants, animals.

12th - Higher Ed
MOT 1953: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: HANCOCK PARK: WS Fenced park land w/ houses, apartment buildings BG, TD Rancho La Brea Tar Pit; TD MS Ice Age fossils in asphalt. Bones, preserved, plants, animals.
Instructional Video14:49
Seven Dimensions

Importance of Crisis Management Strategy in Business

Higher Ed
In this video, Ross discusses the importance of crisis management and strategy planning for businesses. He emphasizes the need to identify and manage risks, as well as the importance of preparing for worst-case scenarios. Ross also...