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The Uncertain Location Of Electrons - George Zaidan And Charles Morton

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-uncertain-location-of-electrons-george-zaidan-and-charles-morton The tiny atoms that make up our world are made up of even tinier protons, neutrons and electrons. Though the number of protons determines an a
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How Physicists Trapped Photons in a Box

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Physicist and Nobelist Serge Haroche describes using a mirrored box to trap photons to spy on them as they bounce around inside. This Nature Video was produced with support from Mars, Incorporated. All Nature Video content is editorially independent of sp
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Valence Electrons

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Looking at valence electrons to figure out reactivity More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=1TZA171yxY4
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Do Photons Cast Shadows?

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Thanks to CuriosityStream for their support. Go to http://www.curiositystream.com/minutephysics to watch Particle Fever and get Nebula! Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysicsLink to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephys
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Scientists Trapped Electrons In a Quantum Fractal (And It's Wild!)

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Fractals aren’t just crazy cool mathematically infinite shapes. They might just have the capacity to revolutionize modern electronics as we know it. Thumbnail image courtesy of Sander Kempkes. There’s a Subterranean Biosphere Hiding in the Earth’s Crust a
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Liquid Electrons - Periodic Table Of Videos

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Solvated electrons - sodium in ammonia. Featuring Dr Rob Stockman from the University of Nottingham. Hello Internet podcast: http://www.hellointernet.fm And on YouTube (although a few weeks behind): http://bit.ly/HelloInternetYT More chemistry at http://w
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These Satellite Dishes Can See Electrons 100 km Away

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Auroras are the result of particles colliding in the Earth's atmosphere, but how do scientists know that? How do we study auroras? A Rare Look Inside The Doomsday Seed Vault Deep In The Arctic- https://youtu.be/uAl8dSpkNWs Sign Up For The Seeker Newslette
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The Photoelectric Effect: Light As A Particle

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A simple, easy-to-understand explanation of the experiment that proved the particle nature of light and won Einstein a nobel prize. The Photoelectric Effect. Hi! I'm Jade. I make fun physics videos that will make you smarter while making you smile :) ***S
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This crystal can split light particles

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How unusual non-linear crystals can entangle particles of light, or photons. Thanks to non-profit edX.org for sponsoring this video. Go to http://bit.ly/edXPhysicsGirl to learn more about MIT's Circuits and Electronics course or other classes from some of
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How Does Night Vision Work?

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Sure, night vision looks cool in the movies - but what is it, exactly? How can a scope or a pair of goggles help you see in near-absolute darkness? Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/high-tech-gadgets/nightvision
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Current Direction

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The positive sign for current corresponds to the direction a positive charge would move. In metal wires, current is carried by negatively charged electrons. The positive current arrow points opposite the direction the electrons move. This has been the sig
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A Light Bulb Mystery- Electric Resistance // Homemade Science with Bruce Yeany

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A 110 volt light bulb and a 1.5 volt mini light bulb are wired in series to a nine volt battery. What will happen when the electricity flows? This is a nice simple demonstration of how temperature can affect the resistance in a conductor. The result is ca
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Redox Reactions: Crash Course Chemistry #10

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All the magic that we know is in the transfer of electrons. Reduction (gaining electrons) and oxidation (the loss of electrons) combine to form Redox chemistry, which contains the majority of chemical reactions. As electrons jump from atom to atom, they c
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Curing Cancer with Proton Beams – with Suzie Sheehy

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Particle accelerators do more than just particle physics research. Suzie Sheehy takes a look at the history and promise of proton therapy: using particle accelerators to fight cancer. Subscribe for science videos and lectures every week: http://bit.ly/RiS
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How Atoms Bond - George Zaidan And Charles Morton

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-atoms-bond-george-zaidan-and-charles-morton Atoms can (and do) bond constantly; it's how they form molecules. Sometimes, in an atomic tug-of-war, one atom pulls electrons from another, forming an ionic bond.
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How To Make A Vinegar Battery | Homemade Vinegar Battery | Science Experiment For School Kids

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How to make a Vinegar Battery | Homemade Vinegar Battery | Science Experiment for School Kids Vinegar battery For this experiment you'll need: • Vinegar • Two glasses • Two zinc strips • Two copper strips • Connecting wires • LED Bulb Procedure: • Take tw
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Painting An Asteroid To Save The Planet

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As an object travels through space it absorbs heat from the sun and emits heat energy in the form of photons. These photons can determine the course of an asteroids orbit. NASA'S UNEXPLAINED FILES Tuesdays 10/9c on Science http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv
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How Small is an Atom?

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The size of an atom is only a few angstroms at most - there are 10 billion angstroms in 1 meter. This video also goes the basic parts of an atom (protons, neutrons, and electrons) and why the traditional model of the atom is not correct. Electrons are unp
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What Happens When You Put Antimatter in a Double Slit Experiment?

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Interference patterns with particles have stumped scientists for years, but when they put antimatter through the test, they revealed an even bigger mystery. This Is The Only Place Antimatter Can Survive In The Universe - https://youtu.be/XD8Q3Mb1Q4I Read
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What actually expands in an expanding universe?

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As the universe expands, #expanding #space is said to "stretch" photons. But if it stretches photons, does it also stretch molecules, galaxies and you? A portion of this video was sponsored by Salesforce. Go to https://salesforce.com/veritasium to learn m
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Atomic Hook-Ups - Types of Chemical Bonds: Crash Course Chemistry #22

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Atoms are a lot like us - we call their relationships "bonds," and there are many different types. Each kind of atomic relationship requires a different type of energy, but they all do best when they settle into the lowest stress situation possible. The n
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This New Form of Light Is a Physical Molecule, Here’s How We Made It

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Shooting photons through a rubidium gas cloud has some surprising results: photonic molecules. Are we one step closer to light crystals? Quantum Teleportation Is Real, Here's How It Works - https://youtu.be/yb38jozeDOs Read More: Scientists Create a New F
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Carbon Nanotubes Might Be the Secret Boost Solar Energy Has Been Looking For

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One of the greatest challenges facing solar technology is wasted heat, but carbon nanotubes might be the high efficiency boost that solar cells need to succeed. Subscribe to Seeker!http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsP
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Elements and Atoms

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How elements relate to atoms. The basics of how protons, electrons and neutrons make up an atom. More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=IFKnq9QM6_A
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Two Colour Chemiluminescent Clock Reaction - Periodic Table Of Videos

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More details in full description. Dr Sam Tang adds hydrogen peroxide to pyrogallol, formaldehyde and luminol. Chemiluminescence is caused by molecules being formed with some of their electrons in a higher energy level and then losing that energy as light.
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How To Make Your Phone Magnetic - Static Magnetism

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(Okay, you got us, this video was an April Fools' trick. Read our blog all about why it's all nonsense, and how science misinformation like this can be so believable: http://bit.ly/ApRilFoolSci) Try this amazing magnetic phone trick. Michael Faraday disco
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Making Glowing Plasma in a Microwave

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SUBSCRIBE!: http://bit.ly/1G97GmA SHARE THIS VIDEO: https://youtu.be/pVs8HwpPCpA Science Team! We made the fourth state of matter (nbd) with a microwave and some incense I got a home good store. I will admit, this one freaked me out a bit. The sounds and
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How To Reveal Subatomic Particles At Home | NOVA

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Here's a way you can reveal subatomic particles that are shooting in front of your eyes all the time. NOVA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NOVAonline NOVA Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/novapbs Credits: Produced, animated, and edited by Greg Kestin A
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What Can Frogs See That We Can't?

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Check out the original double slit experiment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuv6hY6zsd0 - oh, and for the sun to be seen as single photons, you would have to be ~1000 light years away, so well past Pluto. For clarification on this video, please see: htt
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Quantum Entanglement: Explained in REALLY SIMPLE Words

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Quantum entanglement is a physical resource, like energy, that is possible between quantum systems. When a coin spins on a flat surface, its in a state of superposition between its two faceshead and tails. Similarly, electrons in their natural state exist
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See Subatomic Particles In Action With The Naked Eye | NOVA

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Watch the smallest particles in the universe fly down from space and get ejected from a radioactive rod. NOVA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NOVAonline NOVA Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/novapbs EXPERIMENT INSTRUCTIONS: http://bit.ly/1BSEZK6 Credit
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Photonic Chips Will Change Computing Forever... If We Can Get Them Right

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Using photons in computers instead of electrons could make light-speed computing possible, but at what cost? This Is the End of the Silicon Chip, Here’s What’s Next - https://youtu.be/NlO9F-gl9e4 Get 20% off http://www.domain.com domain names and web host
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What Are Atoms Made Of?

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While we used to think atoms were fundamental particles, we now know they are made of smaller parts still. Here we learn about the anatomy of an atom: Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons. To play the BondBreaker game, go here: http://www.castl.uci.edu/games/
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Shocking Pickled Pumpkins! Halloween Science

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Its Halloween, which means its time we put more pumpkins in peril. This year, our inventive presenter and experimenter Dan Plane finds out what happens when you run an electric current through pumpkins pickled in different compounds.Subscribe for regular
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What Are Atoms and Isotopes?

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Most people recognize that atoms are the fundamental building blocks of all matter around us. An atom itself is composed of protons, neutrons and electrons. The simplest atom is the hydrogen atom because it consists of only one proton and one electron. If
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Structure of the Atom

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Craig Beals explains the structure of the atom: Protons, Neutrons, Electrons. And the concepts of Ions, Isotopes and Radiation. Visit my website to learn more: https://www.BealsScience.com Periodic Table: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Isotopes
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The Evolution Of The Human Eye - Joshua Harvey

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-evolution-of-the-human-eye-joshua-harvey The human eye is an amazing mechanism, able to detect anywhere from a few photons to a few quadrillion, or switch focus from the screen in front of you to the distant
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The first electric generator#Shorts

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On 17 and 18 October 1831, Michael Faraday developed the first-ever electric generator. Watch the demo: as the magnet moves, the lines of magnetic force repeatedly intersect with the wire, exciting the electrons in the wire and generating electrical curre
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Thomson's Plum Pudding Model of the Atom

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JJ Thomson proposed the first model of the atom with subatomic structure. He had performed a series of experiments and was credited with the discovery of the first sub-atomic particle, the electron. He therefore proposed a new model of the atom called the
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How polarity makes water behave strangely - Christina Kleinberg

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-polarity-makes-water-behave-strangely-christina-kleinberg Water is both essential and unique. Many of its particular qualities stem from the fact that it consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen, theref
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How This New State of Matter Is Made With Lasers, Crystals, and Frustration"

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Scientists were able to use lasers to create a "supercrystal." The key to making this happen? Frustration. Subscribe to Seeker!http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist A team of scientists managed to use a laser pu
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A Visual History of Light

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400,000 years ago, humans and Neanderthals created fire. This ignited a relationship between people and photons that changed the course of mankind—and continues to evolve to this day. Take a tour through the visual history of light. For a detailed t
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Electromagnetism: The Glue Of The Universe

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Electromagnetism is one of the fundamental forces and is the glue that holds all matter together. Find out how photons, the charged particles that allow us to see the world around us, are at the heart of electromagnetism. Catch new episodes of HOW THE UNI
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What Is The Shape Of A Molecule? - George Zaidan And Charles Morton

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-the-shape-of-a-molecule-george-zaidan-and-charles-morton A molecule is nearly all empty space, apart from the extremely dense nuclei of its atoms and the clouds of electrons that bond them together. When
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Particles And Waves: The Central Mystery Of Quantum Mechanics - Chad Orzel

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/particles-and-waves-the-central-mystery-of-quantum-mechanics-chad-orzel One of the most amazing facts in physics is that everything in the universe, from light to electrons to atoms, behaves like both a particle
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Can We Really Touch Anything?

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Can we really touch things? Well if by touch we mean exchange a force-carrying particle with, then yes. The photon is the force-carrier of the electromagnetic interaction. But if the photon is also a particle of light then why aren't magnets glowing? Beca
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Was Einstein Wrong About The Speed Of Light?

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The speed of light is the cosmic speed limit and it can't been changed. Or can it? Here's What Parallel Universes Might Look Like (360 Video) - https://youtu.be/1xx3QjP089o Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: Theory t
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Can We Really Get To Alpha Centauri?

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It’s going to be almost impossible to travel to another star, but a new idea was announced that might get us to a nearby star within our lifetime. How will it work? Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.univ
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Why The Sun Isn't Actually Yellow

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On Earth, the sun appears to be yellow. But sunlight isn't actually made of just one color. It contains a multitude of colors that can be found on the color spectrum. Due to Earth's atmosphere, we only see some color photons. It's the same reason why the
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How lasers work (in theory)

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How does a laser really work? It's Bose - Einstein statistics! (photons are bosons) Check out Smarter Every Day's video showing lasers in real life: http://bit.ly/uBwhU2 Trying out a new feature: English Transcript! Let me know how it works Tweet it - htt
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Extreme Physics BBQ

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Can you cook a steak with pure electricity or focussed beams of light? And can you fry a prawn with a bottle rocket? Andy invited Greg Foot from Brit Lab to investigate. Don't try any of this at home! Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/Ri
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What the coronavirus looks like up close

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Seeing the virus up close helps us understand it.Support Vox by joining the Video Lab at http://vox.com/join or making a one-time contribution: http://vox.com/contributeThe images of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that first appeared in humans in late
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Light Pollution Is More Dangerous Than You Think!

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Light pollution in cities can make it hard for us to see the stars, but can it also kill baby sea turtles? How dangerous is light pollution? This Is What Pollution Does To Your Body - https://youtu.be/_k22ejJ_fvc Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - h
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These Strange Metals Could Make Electronics Perfectly Efficient

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Scientists are hunting for the high-temperature superconductor that could revolutionize electronics, and new research takes us one step closer. How Supercapacitors Could Make Batteries a Thing of the Past - https://youtu.be/GeSvErqdmIM Read More: Physicis
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Watch the first ever video of a chemical bond breaking and forming

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Pay attention to the 2 black atoms of a metal molecule being shot with a beam of electrons, breaking their bond and in the process revealing a transitional state where the atoms are neither fused or completely separated. This is the first time it has been
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Spintronics: The Technology Revolution You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

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Electronics use an electron's charge to encode information. Now, scientists are using spin instead-- and it could revolutionize everything. Quantum Teleportation Is Real, Here's How It Works - https://youtu.be/yb38jozeDOs Read More: Shift from electronics
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The Worlds First Photo of Quantum Entanglement Could Disprove Einsteins Theory

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Einstein dubbed the idea of quantum entanglement as "spooky action at a distance." Now for the first time ever, scientists have taken a picture of it. Subscribe to Seeker!http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylistTod
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This Discovery Shows Life Might Have Come From Space

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Chiral molecules are "handy" molecules. Here's how they're helping us discover where else life might exist and how it originated on Earth. Atomic Oxygen Found on Mars! What Does It Mean? - http://bit.ly/1UzuPES Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - htt
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The Newest Form of Water Is Hot and Black, Wait What?

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It only took diamonds, x-rays, and a bunch of ultra-powerful lasers to create our newest form of water, Ice XVIII. And it might be the key to unlocking what's inside the mysterious ice planets of our solar system. This New State of Matter Is a Liquid and
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The Electron: Crash Course Chemistry #5

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Hank brings us the story of the electron and describes how reality is a kind of music, discussing electron shells and orbitals, electron configurations, ionization and electron affinities, and how all these things can be understood via the periodic table.
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WHAT IS LIGHT? explained in an elevator ride | Elevator Pitch

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Light is everywhere. But what exactly is it? Some kind of wavy thing or a bunch of photons? Subscribe to ABC Science YouTube https://ab.co/2YFO4Go University of Sydney's Dr Alessandro Tuniz explains how scientists define light and as Rad Yeo discovers, th
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Are Lasers The Weapons Of The Future?

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Laser weapons no longer only exist in science fiction! Lasers are being used to develop ultra precise weapons, but how do they work? How Lasers Make Metal Waterproof ►►►► http://dne.ws/1GTHBxN Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►► http://dne.ws/1M
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Vision Is Actually A Chemical Reaction

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Get 70% off NordVPN for the first 3 years and an additional 30 days free: https://nordvpn.com/steve and use the promo code steveHow does vision work on the molecular level? It all starts with a molecule in your rod and cone cells called retinal that flips
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Hardy's Paradox | Quantum Double Double Slit Experiment

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Need a last minute holiday gift idea? Go to https://www.brilliant.org/minutephysics for 20% off a premium subscription to Brilliant (can be given as a gift). Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters
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What Causes The Northern Lights?

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The aurora borealis or northern lights is one of the most spectacular natural displays on the planet. Theories about its origins have been debated for centuries and common misconceptions persist that the aurora is the sun's rays scattered off ice crystals
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What's In A Candle Flame?

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Microwave grape plasma: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwTjsRt0FzoNorthern Lights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knwiWm4DpvQNanodiamonds in candle flames: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzOkuGQC3RwRelight Candle Trick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tXP
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Blue Sodium Chloride - Periodic Table of Videos

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We attempt to make some blue Sodium Chloride - at the suggestion of loyal viewer Artem. More links and info in full description Liquid electrons: https://youtu.be/tYjQXjUUvwYOur thanks to Artem: https://t.me/s/ArtemROganovVideos on all 118 elements: http:
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Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Explained

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Heisenberg's uncertainty principle tells us that it is impossible to simultaneously measure the position and momentum of a particle with infinite precision. In our everyday lives we virtually never come up against this limit, hence why it seems peculiar.
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Cloud Chamber

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The trajectories of individual charged particles leave behind cloudy trails as they ionize the cooled, supersaturated air-alcohol vapor inside this diffusion cloud chamber. Alpha particles from the radioactive decay of an inserted 2% thorium alloy rod for
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How To Make MUONS

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To keep your brain sharp with quick daily math & science puzzles, head to http://www.brilliant.org/minutephysics This video is about how to create muons in a particle accelerator via bombardment of heavy nuclei with protons, which results in creation of c
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Particle accelerators: What are they, how do they work and why are they important to us?

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A particle accelerator is a machine that accelerates particles. More specifically, it accelerates elementary particles, like protons and electrons, at extremely high speedsalmost 99.99% of the speed of light. These particles are then smashed against a sta
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This Video Has Consumed 113249.2 mL of Gasoline!

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Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minuteearth for sponsoring this video. The title of this video is changing every 10 seconds to reflect an estimate of the actual energy used just by people (like you!) watching it. Thanks to Jasper Palfree for doing the co
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Can You Push A Spacecraft With Light?

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This episode is brought to you by Squarespace: ‪http://www.squarespace.com/physicsgirl What if you could power a ship using sunlight instead of wind? Well in space, you can! Solar sails or light sails are pushed with light from the sun. Photons provide a
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This Gamma-Ray Burst Was the Most Powerful Energy Event Ever Recorded

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This cataclysmic event just generated the brightest light in the known universe - and we detected it using MAGIC. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.c
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The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves

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A head-vaporizing laser with a perfect wavelength detecting sub-proton space-time ripples. Huge thanks to Prof Rana Adhikari and LIGO: http://ligo.org Here's how he felt when he learned about the first ever detection: https://youtu.be/ViMnGgn87dg Thanks t
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This Next Generation Camera Aims To Capture Alien Life

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Researchers at NIST recently unveiled a superconducting camera so sensitive, it can count single particles of light. Could this be the tool we need to finally detect alien life? Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http:
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Why Do We 'See Stars'?

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When you bash your head and “see stars,” what’s going on? Why does your brain pick this moment to give you a laser light show? Josh explains the phenomenon of seeing stars in this Brainstuff video. Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com Share on Facebook: https:
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How Crystals Can Turn Any Surface Into a Solar Panel

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Scientists are on the hunt for a more efficient solar panel cell. Perovskites show a lot of promise, but face a few obstacles before they become commercially viable. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/Ele
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This Massive Black Hole Is Blasting a Jet at 99% the Speed of Light

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Jets of particles appear to be streaming from the center of the supermassive black hole M87* faster than the speed of light. But how could that be the case??! Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPl
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Timing Is Everything

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Deputy Systems Engineer Phil Luers explains how ICESat-2’s ATLAS instrument transmitter and receiver subsystems come together to calculate the timing of photons, which, in turn, measure the elevation of ice. To view the previous parts in this series, go t
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Electric Charge and Light - Physics 101 / AP Physics 1 Review with Dianna Cowern

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Lesson 18 (Electric Charge and Light) of Dianna's Intro Physics Class on Physics Girl. Never taken physics before? Want to learn the basics of physics? Need a review of AP Physics concepts before the exam? This course is for you! Exercises in this video:
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Visualising Antimatter with Bubble Chambers - Christmas Lectures with Frank Close

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You can use a bubble chamber to visualise the passage of negatively charged electrons and their positively charged antimatter counterparts - positrons. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Watch the full lecture: http://www.rigb
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Do Black Holes Ever Die?

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Do black holes actually evaporate? Find out more as we dive deep into Hawking Radiation! Inside The World's Largest Particle Accelerator - http://bit.ly/2cmBmH1 Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: Hawking Radiation ht
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Why this black hole photo is such a big deal

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What it took to collect these 54-million-year-old photons from a supermassive black hole. Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-lab This is an updated version of a video we published in 2016 about the Event Horizon Telescope, an international col
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Can Stars Be Cold?

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Stars are hot, we know that, everyone knows that. But are there “cold stars”? It all depends on what you mean by the word “cold” and the word “star”. Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow
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Matter Makes Up Everything, So What Makes Up Matter? (Part 1 of 3)

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Practically everything around us is matter, but how did the first scientists figure that out? How did we define matter? Tune in next Thursday for Part 2! Read More: Discovery of the Electron http://www.pbs.org/transistor/science/events/electron.html “Scie
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What Would a Quantum Internet Look Like?

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Amazing images of the far reaches of the universe are everywhere, but are they accurate? What does space really look like? Yes, Apollo Flew Through the Van Allen Belts Going to the Moon - https://youtu.be/bLtgS2_qxJk Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here
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The nanoscopic world is wild!! Looking at basic objects like a grain of salt under an electron microscope looks like nothing you would have expected. Furthermore, have you ever wondered whether seeing a single atom is possible? Or how do scientists and en
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Plastics usually stop electricity in its tracks, but scientists have figured out a way to keep the electrons flowing. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo th
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