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The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic

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The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=8CluknrLeys
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Is There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

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Has a fifth fundamental force been discovered and how will this effect our understanding of the universe? Get your own Space Time tshirt at http://bit.ly/1QlzoBi Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com/pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] g
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Entropy: Why the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is a fundamental law of physics

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Why the fact that the entropy of the Universe always increases is a fundamental law of physics.
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The Phenomenon of the Missing Fundamental

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Why do some higher frequencies sound like they have lower pitch than lower frequency sounds? Engineer and music lover Shaun Fitzgerald explores the phenomenon of the missing fundamental.Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibeShaun
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New Fundamental Particle Discovered?? + Challenge Winners! | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

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Be sure to check out Matt’s AMA at https://www.reddit.com/r/science on Monday, June 13th. He’ll be discussing the upcoming documentary he was a part of Distant Quasars: Shedding Light on Black Holes http://www.amnh.org/explore/science-bulletins/(watch)/as
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Four Fundamental Forces

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Gravity, Weak, Electromagnetic and Strong More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=FEF6PxWOvsk
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The Fundamental Constituents of Matter and the Eightfold Way

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Join Ben Still as he deconstructs particle physics brick by brick on a journey through the creation of the standard model.Ben's book: https://geni.us/X7TggmLearn more on Ben Still's channel: youtube.com/drbenstill Visit Ben Still's website: http://pprc.qm
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Thermodynamics and the End of the Universe: Energy, Entropy, and the fundamental laws of physics.

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Easy to understand animation explaining energy, entropy, and all the basic concepts including refrigeration, heat engines, and the end of all life in the Universe.
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The Speed of Sound & How does Sound Travel? A Fundamental Understanding

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Sound moves incredibly fast! You snap your fingers, and it can be heard almost instantly throughout an entire room. But how does sound travel so quickly? Do you know how sound travels? Also, how does pushing a table relate to sound? This video goes into t
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What is Sound? The Fundamental Science Behind Sound

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Why does water sound the way it does? How do vinyl records work? Sound is everywhere, but at its core: What is sound? Also- What are sound waves? This video explains the fundamental science and key concepts behind sound using in-depth examples and animati
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The Creation of Chemistry - The Fundamental Laws: Crash Course Chemistry #3

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Today's Crash Course Chemistry takes a historical perspective on the creation of the science, which didn't really exist until a super-smart, super-wealthy Frenchman put the puzzle pieces together - Hank tells the story of how we went from alchemists to ch
Quantum Color

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The idea of electric charges and electricity in general is a familiar one to the science savvy viewer. However, electromagnetism is but one of the four fundamental forces and not the strongest one. The strongest of the fundamental forces is called the str
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Is It Time to Give Up on Dark Matter?

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There is still good reason to think undiscovered fundamental particles act as gravitational glue for galaxies.
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The Beauty of Algebra

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Why the abstraction of mathematics is so fundamental More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=kpCJyQ2usJ4
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The Most Successful Scientific Theory Ever: The Standard Model

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The Standard Model of particle physics is the most successful scientific theory of all time. It describes how everything in the universe is made of 12 different types of matter particles, interacting with three forces, all bound together by a rather speci
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Hidden Law Governing Growth of Pointy Bits on Living Things Uncovered

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A power law reveals the fundamental growth pattern of a myriad of objects.
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Have We Found The Fifth Force Of Nature?!

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Scientists recently discovered an anomaly in the 4 fundamental forces of nature. What was it and might it indicate a 5th fundamental force? Inside The World's Largest Particle Accelerator - http://bit.ly/2bReDRH Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - ht
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Philosophy of Physics

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From Newton and Maxwell to General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy. The nature of fundamental physical laws. My Patreon account is at https://www.patreon.com/EugeneK
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What is Symmetry in Physics? With Tara Shears

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Symmetry underlines our whole understanding of the universe. And the deeper we look, the more symmetries we find, reflecting our world in new and beautiful ways. Subscribe for weekly science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Symmetry is vital to understan
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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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Supercluster Explains: How Orbits Work

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Supercluster Explains is our video series that illuminates basic space science concepts using short, easy-to-understand animations. This episode explains a fundamental part of flying in outer space: Orbits. Music produced by badatsports. (Ari Trautmann an
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Quantum Computers, Explained With Quantum Physics

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Quantum computers arent the next generation of supercomputerstheyre something else entirely. Before we can even begin to talk about their potential applications, we need to understand the fundamental physics that drives the theory of quantum computing. (F
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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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Why Does The Earth Spin?

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The Earth spins on its axis, completing a full revolution every day. By why does it do this? One of the most common misconceptions in physics is the belief that constant motion requires a constant force. So many people believe there must be some force in
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We The People, And The Republic We Must Reclaim - Lawrence Lessig

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There is a corruption at the heart of American politics, caused by the dependence of Congressional candidates on funding from the tiniest percentage of citizens. That's the argument at the core of this blistering talk by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig. Wit
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What is a vector? - David Huynh

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-a-vector-david-huynh Physicists, air traffic controllers, and video game creators all have at least one thing in common: vectors. But what exactly are they, and why do they matter? David Huynh explains h
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The Grips// Stess-Show Vol1 // Learn basic card grips!

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Stess-Show Vol1 simply teaches the most basic of card deck grips. The Mechanics Grip, Straddle Grip, and Upper Straddle Grip. These grips may seem obvious to some but they are fundamental in learning card moves. This is the best place to begin your card m
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Scaffolding of the Galaxies

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In the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT, researchers develop ideas for describing the fundamental physical laws governing our universe, from perspectives spanning nuclear and particle physics, string theory, gravity, and quantum information. (Learn m
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Understanding Second Law of Thermodynamics !

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The Second Law of Thermodynamics is a fundamental law of nature, unarguably one of the most valuable discoveries of mankind; however this law is slightly confusing for most engineers or students. The main reason for this is because it has so many complex
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Hyper Realistic Human Sculptures

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Featuring uncanny figures with painted silicon skin, glass eyes, human hair and cutting-edge digital art, Hyper Real provokes reflection, fascination, fear and joy. These are clips from the National Gallery of Australia and explore the fundamental questio
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Community Ecology: Feel The Love - Crash Course Ecology #4

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Interactions between species are what define ecological communities, and community ecology studies these interactions anywhere they take place. Although interspecies interactions are mostly competitive, competition is pretty dangerous, so a lot of interac
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How Does A Boomerang Work?

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A boomerang can execute its unique roundtrip flight by making use of three fundamental physics principles: lift, relative velocity, and gyroscopic precession.numberphile http://bit.ly/numberphileefit30 http://bit.ly/O4CMmeappchat http://bit.ly/NxAMlXerika
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A short animation: the Copernican Revolution

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In the 16th century, Nicholai Copernicus proposed a fundamental change to the way we see our place in existence: it is the Sun and not Earth that occupies the physical centre, he said. The Copernican revolution that followed holds many important lessons f
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Why Is The Universe Flat?

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Cosmic inflation is a theory that was proposed in the 1980s by cosmologist Alan Guth to answer some of the most fundamental questions of the origins of our universe. It also solved the Horizon Problem and the Flatness Problem. Subscribe - http://www.youtu
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'Gravity Is the Law That Makes Everything Happen'

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The theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham explains why gravity is so fundamental to our understanding of everything in the universe. Read the full interview here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/claudia-de-rham-slayed-gravitys-ghosts-20200818/Video by Phil
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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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The Physics of Falling Back in your Chair

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Engineering statics (or the study of objects at rest) is a fundamental part of most engineering curricula. It's broadly applicable not only to engineers, but anyone who has anything that needs to stay put. Thank you for watching, and let me know what you
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The Most Important Process on Earth

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All sources of energy on earth (except some geothermal) can be traced back to the fusion of atoms in a star. Without that fundamental process, interesting things in the universe wouldn't last very long. But how do we take advantage of this crucial reactio
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How to Build a Teleporter with Aliens

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The first 200 people to use http://skl.sh/minutephysics30 get 30% off a premium Skillshare subscription. Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ This video
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What happens to humans when we can't touch? | BBC Ideas

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Touch is how we first communicate as babies. Touch is fundamental to human wellbeing. So what happens when we can't touch - for example during the coronavirus pandemic?Enjoyed this? You might like to watch this video next How limits can boost your creativ
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Electromagnetism 101 | National Geographic

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Electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental forces of nature. Learn about the relationship between electricity and magnetism, the different wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum, and how an invisible force protects our entire planet. ➡ Subscribe
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Jamie Oliver's War on Nuggets

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Clickbait Title: Chefs Hate Him! Big thanks to Hot Dad for letting me use his absolute banger, you can put the whole song in your ear holes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr-sDJX72WY I wanted to make this because I see this clip make the rounds aga
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Ampère's Law: Crash Course Physics #33

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Hans Christian Oersted had just discovered the connection between electricity and magnetism. Meanwhile, a French physicist named André-Marie Ampère was experimenting with some wires, trying to learn more about the connection between currents and the magne
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Argon | Music From the Periodic Table

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Explore the soundtrack to the universe with Music from the Periodic Table, a weekly music listening series featuring compositions by the Exploratorium Sound Artist Wayne Grim. This week we're tuning into Argon.--Be in your elements every Friday to listen
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Brian Greene on the 100th Anniversary of the Eclipse that Proved Einstein Right

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Brain Greene tells the story of Einstein's journey to develop his wild ideas about space and time, his General Theory of Relativity. Photographs of stars taken during a solar eclipse on May 29th, 1919, confirmed his calculations correct. This major discov
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Understanding neural networks

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MIT-IBM Watson AI lab research team member David Bau explains how computers show evidence of learning the structure of the physical world.Watch more videos from MIT: http://www.youtube.com/user/MITNewsOffice?sub_confirmation=1The Massachusetts Institute o
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The language of color

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Cognitive scientists from MIT and elsewhere have found that people can more easily communicate warmer colors than cool ones. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/analyzing-language-color-0918) Watch more videos from MIT: http://www.youtube.com/user/MITNe
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The Oldest Fossils Ever Found!

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Scientists have found fossils that show life appearing on Earth much earlier than we thought. Meanwhile, could there be a new fundamental force? Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scis
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Martin Luther King | "I Have A Dream" Speech

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One of the most famous speeches of the 20th century by Martin Luther King on Wednesday, August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. A heartfelt speech which reminds us our all our fundamental rights and values. "I Have A Dream" is the popul
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#MacroMonday: Angles

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Things aren’t always what they seem . . . or are they? Extreme close-ups often obscure the full picture. Cloaked in mystery, this new video series introduces a variety of objects and moments — found at MIT — that invite you to take a second look. Watch mo
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Robo-thread

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MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide through narrow, winding pathways, such as the labyrinthine vasculature of the brain. (Learn more: https://news.mit.edu/2019/robot-brain-blood-vessels-0828)Wat
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Possible signs of life on Venus

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Scientists at MIT, Cardiff University, and elsewhere have observed what may be signs of life in the clouds of Earth's planetary neighbor, Venus. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2020/life-venus-phosphine-0914)Watch more videos from MIT: http://www.youtube
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Why Do Men Have Deeper Voices?

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Cristen explains why male humans' voices generally get lower than female humans' during puberty. Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com: http://health.howstuffworks.com/sexual-health/male-reproductive-system/male-puberty2.htm Share on Facebook: https://goo.gl/Hg
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Extracting drinkable water from the air

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Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have developed a solar-powered device that can extract drinkable water directly from the air even in dry regions. (Learn more: https://news.mit.edu/2020/solar-extracts-drinkable-water-1014) Watch more videos from MIT: http
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A paper-thin loudspeaker plays "We Are the Champions" by Queen

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MIT engineers have developed a paper-thin loudspeaker that turn any surface into an audio source. This thin-film loudspeaker produces sound with minimal distortion while using a fraction of the energy required by a traditional loudspeaker. Watch more vide
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Why Do Galaxies Rotate?

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If you believe the worlds leading physicists, the vast majority of matter in the universe is hiding in plain sight. For nearly a century, evidence has mounted that the gravitational pull necessary to keep clusters of galaxies intact, as well as stars with
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How Much Dark Matter Exists in the Universe?

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If you believe the worlds leading physicists, the vast majority of matter in the universe is hiding in plain sight. For nearly a century, evidence has mounted that the gravitational pull necessary to keep clusters of galaxies intact, as well as stars with
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Searching for WIMP Dark Matter

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If you believe the worlds leading physicists, the vast majority of matter in the universe is hiding in plain sight. For nearly a century, evidence has mounted that the gravitational pull necessary to keep clusters of galaxies intact, as well as stars with
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How to get conductive gels to stick when wet

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A team of engineers at MIT has developed a new way of making polymers adhere to surfaces even with the introduction of moisture, that may enable better biomedical sensors and implants. (Read more: http://news.mit.edu/2020/conductive-gels-stick-wet-0320)Wa
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Sliding through a syringe

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MIT researchers have developed a simple, low-cost technology to administer powerful drug formulations that are too viscous to be injected using conventional medical syringes. (Learn more: https://news.mit.edu/2020/syringe-concentrated-biologic-drugs-0824)
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Social Thinking: Crash Course Psychology #37

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You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Also, if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing great content.
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A light rain can spread soil bacteria far and wide

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Using high-resolution imaging, researchers from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering observed the effect of raindrops falling on dry soil laden with bacteria. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/light-rain-spread-soil-bacteria-0307) Watch more vid
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The Zero Gravity Tower Preparing Us For Future Mars Missions

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A look inside Germany's zero gravity tower where its probing the most fundamental questions in science.Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Focal Point | https://bit.ly/2s0cf7w Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.com From astroph
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New system can sterilize medical tools using solar heat

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A team of researchers from MIT and the Indian Institute of Technology has developed a device that could provide pressurized steam to run autoclaves without the need for electricity in off-grid areas such as the developing world. (Learn more: https://news.
Insect-like robots

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A team of researchers has developed a new generation of tiny, agile drones that look, act and maneuver like actual insects allowing them to operate in cramped spaces and withstand collisions. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2021/researchers-introduce-new
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Robot takes contact-free measurements of patients' vital signs

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A team of researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a system that allows a robot to take contact-free measurements of patients' vital signs. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2020/spot-robot-vital-signs-0831)Watch more videos fro
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This is the Oldest Restaurant in the World

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Botín Restaurant has kept the flame burning for the past 293 years … literally. Ever since the doors opened in 1725, the oven has been sizzling continuously, never to be extinguished. According to deputy manager Luis Javier Sànchez Alvarez, the oven is th
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Einstein's equations and the enigma of wormholes | Janna Levin

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Quantum wormholes are mathematically possible but might also be physically impossible. Physicist Janna Levin explains the wormhole paradox.This interview is an episode from @The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created wit
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Make way for Little HERMES, the lightweight bipedal robot

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Engineers at MIT have designed a new lightweight bipedal robot, that can lean from side to side, walk in place, and jump while keeping its balance. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2019/two-legged-robot-mimics-human-balance-while-running-jumping-1030)Watc
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The Physics of Life: How Water Folds Proteins - with Sylvia McLain

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Sorry about the audio problems for the first 30 seconds or so - stick with it, it levels out soon. Proteins are arguably the most important biological components in any living creature but only now are we beginning to look into the role water plays in the
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The MIT Intelligence Quest

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The MIT Intelligence Quest seeks to discover the foundations of human and machine intelligence and drive the development of technological tools that can positively influence society. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-launches-intelligence-quest-02
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Programming Basics: Statements & Functions: Crash Course Computer Science #12

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Today, Carrie Anne is going to start our overview of the fundamental building blocks of programming languages. We’ll start by creating small programs for our very own video game to show how statements and functions work. We aren’t going to code in a speci
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How to mass produce cell-sized robots

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A team of engineers at MIT have developed a novel method to mass-produce tiny robots, no bigger than a cell, quickly, easily and accurately with little to no external stimulus. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2018/how-mass-produce-cell-sized-robots-1023)
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New method removes micropollutants from water

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A team of MIT researchers has developed a new way to clear pollutants from water, even when present in extremely low concentrations. (Learn more about their novel method: http://news.mit.edu/2017/electrochemical-clear-pollutants-water-0510) Watch more vid
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Particle robots

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Researchers from MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have developed computationally simple robots that connect in large groups to move around, transport objects, and complete other tasks. (Learn more: https://news.mit.edu/2019/particle-robot-cluster-s
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Backflipping MIT Mini Cheetah

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MIT'S new mini cheetah robot is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip. At only 20 pounds the limber quadruped can bend and swing its legs wide, enabling it to walk either right side up or upside down. The robot can also trot over uneven terrain abo
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Giving bug-like, flying robots a boost

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A new fabrication technique, developed by a team of electrical engineers and computer scientists, produces low-voltage, power-dense artificial muscles that improve the performance of flying microrobots. (Learn more: https://news.mit.edu/2021/micro-robots-
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Revolutionizing Agriculture with Low Emissions, Resilient Crops

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This project is working to revolutionize the agricultural sector with climate-resilient crops and fertilizers that have the ability to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food production. Learn more about this project: https://climategrandch
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A new way to mix oil and water

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A team of researchers in the Varanasi Lab at MIT has developed a way to create nanoscale emulsions, of oil and water, stable enough to last indefinitely, and with no mixing required. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/new-way-mix-oil-and-water-1108) Wa
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Jell-O-like, expanding pill

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MIT engineers have designed an ingestible, Jell-O-like pill that, upon reaching the stomach, quickly swells to the size of a soft, squishy ping-pong ball big enough to stay in the stomach for an extended period of time. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/20
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Plug-and-play diagnostics

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Researchers at MIT’s Little Devices Lab have developed a set of modular blocks that can be put together in different ways to produce diagnostic devices. These “plug-and-play” devices, which require little expertise to assemble, can test blood glucose leve
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One giant leap for the mini cheetah

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A new control system, designed by researchers in MIT's Improbable AI Lab and demonstrated using MITs robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to traverse across uneven terrain in real-time. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2021/one-giant-leap-mini
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Lab on a LEGO

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A team of MIT engineers turned to LEGO bricks as the basis of their new microfluidic design because of their precision and consistency. No matter where in the world they are found, LEGO bricks are guaranteed to line up, and snap seamlessly and securely in
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Forest search-and-rescue

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A group of researchers from MIT and the NASA Langley Research Center has developed an autonomous system for a fleet of quadrotor drones that enables them to search collaboratively under dense forest canopies using only on-board computation and wireless co
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Lining the GI tract

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By making use of enzymes found in the digestive tract, MIT engineers have devised a way to apply a temporary synthetic coating to the lining of the small intestine. This coating could be adapted to deliver drugs, aid in digestion, or prevent nutrients suc
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Origami-inspired medical patch for sealing internal injuries

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Taking inspiration from origami, MIT engineers have designed a medical patch that can be folded around minimally invasive surgical tools and delivered through airways, intestines, and other narrow spaces, to patch up internal injuries. (Learn more: https:
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Blood testing via sound waves

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A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from MIT, Duke University, Magee-Women's Research Institute, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has developed a novel way to analyze blood, for signatures of cancer and other diseases, using sound wa
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Vision-free MIT Cheetah

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MIT's Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered with debris, and quickly recover its balance when suddenly yanked or shoved, all while essentially blind. Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2018/blind-cheetah-rob
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Glowing plants provide light to read

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MIT engineers have been able to induce plants to give off a dim light for nearly four hours. And they believe that, with further optimization, such plants will one day be bright enough to illuminate an entire workspace. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/20
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Plant-to-human communication

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MIT engineers have transformed spinach plants into sensors that can detect explosives and wirelessly relay that information to a handheld device similar to a smartphone. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2016/nanobionic-spinach-plants-detect-explosives-103
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Magnetic shape-shifters

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MIT engineers have created soft, magnetic 3-D-printed structures that can transform their shape almost instantaneously by the wave of a magnet. The structures are flexible, yet strong and could be used to develop remotely controlled biomedical devices. (L
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Robo-picker grasps and packs

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A team of engineers from MIT and Princeton University has developed a robotic system that can successfully localize and pick up any item, amid clutter, and move it to another location. This technology earned them a first place spot at the 2017 Amazon Robo
Robotic fibers can make breath-monitoring garments

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A new kind of fiber developed by researchers at MIT and in Sweden can be made into cloth that senses how much it is being stretched or compressed, and then provides immediate tactile feedback in the form of pressure or vibration. Such fabrics, the team su
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Slime Oobleck - The science of cornstarch and water

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When you mix cornstarch and water, weird things happen. Sometimes it acts like a liquid and sometimes it acts like a solid. Now, a team of MIT engineers have developed a mathematical model that can accurately predict this material's behavior under various
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Boolean Logic & Logic Gates: Crash Course Computer Science #3

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Today, Carrie Anne is going to take a look at how those transistors we talked about last episode can be used to perform complex actions. With the just two states, on and off, the flow of electricity can be used to perform a number of logical operations, w
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Testing wastewater to help detect Covid-19

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In a project that will run through the fall semester, wastewater from seven buildings on campus will be tested each day for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. The project is designed to determine if wastewater testing can be an effective early wa
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Advanced CPU Designs: Crash Course Computer Science #9

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So now that we’ve built and programmed our very own CPU, we’re going to take a step back and look at how CPU speeds have rapidly increased from just a few cycles per second to gigahertz! Some of that improvement, of course, has come from faster and more e
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Self-folding printable structures

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A team of researchers from MIT and Umass Amherst have designed 3-D printed structures that can fold themselves up without any outside stimulus, and the folding begins the instant it is peeled off the printing platform. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/201
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Making Medallions at MIT

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Each year, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering gives its graduating students a bronze medallion of the MIT seal. These medallions are entirely prepared, cast, and finished by students in the Merton C. Flemings Materials Processing Laborato
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System can 3-D print an entire building

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The list of materials that can be produced by 3-D printing has grown to include not just plastics but also metal, glass, and even food. Now, MIT researchers are expanding the list further, with the design of a system that can 3-D print the basic structure
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Supply And Demand: Crash Course Economics #4

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In which Adriene Hill and Jacob Clifford teach you about one of the fundamental economic ideas, supply and demand. What is supply and demand? Well, you’ll have to watch the video to really understand it, but it’s kind of important for everything economica
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The True Nature Of Matter And Mass | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

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Are matter, mass, and time real? Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com/pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsspacetime We know that mass is energy… but what is energy? And where
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Carl Sagan - One Planet (Music by Moon Hooch & Tonio Sagan)

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Carl Sagan - “One Planet” (Music by Moon Hooch & Tonio Sagan) “One Planet” from Ep.13 of Cosmos "Who Speaks for Earth" written by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, with music and video created by @MoonHooch and Tonio Sagan. Download A
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Movable microplatform floating on droplets

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A new approach to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), developed by a team of researchers at MIT, could offer a new way of making movable parts with no solid connections between the pieces, potentially eliminating a major source of wear and failure. (Le
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What If We Stopped Vaccinations?

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You’ve heard all the scary rumors surrounding vaccines: they cause autism, they contain toxins. Even that they can give you the disease they’re trying to prevent! But do they fully grasp what that world would look like? What kind of diseases would be welc
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Tunnel Vision: The Borderline Mural Project at MIT

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During the 2017 spring semester a group of students organized to design and paint interactive murals covering a 200-foot long stretch of wall in the tunnel system located under the campus of MIT. The interactive portion comes in the form of augmented real
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AUDIO: New AI model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections

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A team of MIT researchers have developed an AI model that can distinguish asymptomatic people with Covid-19 from healthy individuals without the disease through forced-cough recordings. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2020/covid-19-cough-cellphone-detect
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Lending a Hand

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An Inflatable robotic hand design gives amputees real-time tactile control and enables a wide range of daily activities, such as zipping a suitcase, shaking hands, and petting a cat. The smart hand is soft and elastic, weighs about half a pound, and costs
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What If We’re Living in a Computer Simulation?

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What if your reality was nothing more than a complex computer simulation? And if you were just a program on someone else’s hard drive, how would you know? Who would be controlling your every move? What kind of technology could make the simulation possible
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Neutron stars collide

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For the first time, scientists have directly detected gravitational waves – ripples in space-time – in addition to light from the spectacular collision of two neutron stars. This marks the first time that a cosmic event has been viewed in both gravitation
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What If We Terraformed Venus?

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We’ve heard about terraforming the Moon and Mars as we attempt to colonize space, but what about Venus? Could we live here one day? How different would it be from life on Earth? Believe it or not, Earth and Venus are very similar. At times, Venus is even
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How many ways are there to prove the Pythagorean theorem? - Betty Fei

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-many-ways-are-there-to-prove-the-pythagorean-theorem-betty-fei What do Euclid, 12-year-old Einstein, and American President James Garfield have in c
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Meet Boston Jedi

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Meet Boston Jedi, a Boston-based lightsaber stage combat club that meets weekly to practice on MIT's campus. Members of the club, which include MIT students and alumni, use lightsaber props to create visually engaging battle sequences to perform for audie
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How To Debunk Perpetual Motion Machines - with Tom Scott

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Warning: Contains flashing images Have you seen those YouTube videos showing working perpetual motion machines? They’re fake. Tom Scott helps us explain how to debunk them. Watch his video on wheels, bombs and perpetual motion machines here: https://youtu
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What If Humans Were Immortal?

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Imagine the possibilities that would come with living forever! You could spend more time with loved ones, master a variety of careers, and travel the entire world! If everyone on Earth were immortal, we’d all have a chance to recover from our mistakes, an
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Yo-Yo Ma and Anna Clyne - In The Gale - The Birdsong Project (Official Video)

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For The Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. I & Vol. II are available to stream now, and pre order the exclusive 20 LP box set here- https://linktr.ee/thebirdsongproject The Birdsong Project Mission Statement The Birdsong Project is a community dedicate
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What If You Were Alive 200 Million Years Ago

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This is the world 200 million years ago. No cell phones, electricity or even other humans. Would you be able to survive in this new world? Could you get yourself a pet dinosaur? Transcript and sources: https://insh.world/science/what-if-you-were-alive-200
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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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What If Humanity Became an Interstellar Species?

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What if humanity grew to be so technologically advanced that we were able to leave our Solar System and spread across interstellar space? Would we hop from one exoplanet to another, colonizing everything on our way? How could we make traveling across the
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What If the World Lost Oxygen for Five Seconds

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Imagine if all the Earth’s oxygen disappeared. Not forever, just for say, 5 seconds? Would we just hold our breath? What would happen to the atmosphere? What would happen to the environment? Here’s what would happen if the world lost oxygen for just 5 sec
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One of the strongest lightweight materials known

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A team of MIT engineers has successfully designed a new 3-D material with five percent the density of steel and ten times the strength, making it one of the strongest lightweight materials known. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/3-d-graphene-stronges
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What If Earth Started Spinning Backwards?

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Since its formation, the Earth has been revolving west to east on its axis. If one day our planet started rotating in the opposite direction, it would no longer be the Earth as we know it.In what ways would a clockwise rotation change the Earth? And why w
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Inside the World's Largest Science Experiment

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Thank you to Brilliant.org for supporting PBS. You can learn more at www.brilliant.org/PhysicsGirlDianna from Physics Girl visited CERN in Geneva Switzerland to find out what the detectors at the LHC are looking for, and dive into the fundamental question
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What If You Could Ski On Mars?

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Did you know that Mars has polar ice caps just like we do here on Earth? With the right technology, they might be our water source should we ever move to the red planet. But in their current state, these caps could be a source for extreme interplanetary s
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Light-based therapy for Alzheimer's disease

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Researchers in Li-Huei Tsai's laboratory at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown that disrupted gamma waves in the brains of mice with Alzheimer’s disease can be corrected by a unique non-invasive technique using flickering light. (Lea
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Design Your Own Space Elevator

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Join the National Marrow Donation Program: http://join.marrow.org/practical Trying sometime a little different this time - animation. Thanks to my friend, James, for the idea. Diving into the "meat and potatoes" of engineering this literal stairway to the
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3D printing with living organisms

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A method for printing 3D objects that can control living organisms in predicable ways has been developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere. This technique may lead to 3D printing of biomedical tools that can be customized to
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The Higgs Mechanism Explained | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

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What is the Higgs field and why is it a fundamental part of our universe? Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com/pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsspacetime Quantum Field Theo
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ENERGY A changing universe in chemical reactions | Phenomena (4K)

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Energy is at the foundation of all change in the universe. Chemical reactions reveal explosive and vivid patterns that visualise the power and beauty of energy. #PhenomenaTVSubscribe to ABC Science YouTube https://ab.co/2YFO4GoIn a petri dish, alcohol and
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What If We Could Build a Replica of the Sun on Earth?

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Imagine what it would be like to have miniature version of our Sun right here on Earth. Would this artificial star provide us with an infinite supply of clean energy? Would we even need all the coal and nuclear power plants that give us electricity today?
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What If You Were Swallowed by a Whale?

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Close calls with whales happen more often than you might expect. And although the people in these videos got away relatively unscathed, there's no denying that they were just meters away from becoming a whale's lunch. But what would happen if they hadn't
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The Science Of Pyrotechnic Effects – With Matthew Tosh

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Matthew Tosh, one of the UK’s leading pyrotechnicians, explains how fireworks and explosions are safely performed in a journey from fundamental combustion to the complex and visual effects seen around the world. Subscribe for more talks like this: http://
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Types of Oscillators - Christmas Lectures with Philip Morrison

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What are the similarities and differences between pendulums and spring oscillators? Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Watch the full lecture:http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1968/gullivers-travels/beyond-the-map?u
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Secrets of the conch shell and its toughness

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The shells of marine organisms take a beating from impacts due to storms and tides, rocky shores, and sharp-toothed predators. But as recent research has demonstrated, one type of shell stands out above all the others in its toughness: the conch. Now, res
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What If We Dumped Our Trash into Volcanoes?

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A volcano is one of the most unforgiving natural phenomenons on Earth. If you were to fall into its magma-filled center, your body would quickly bubble up, and disappear without a trace. So if they're so good at getting rid of things, why aren't we using
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What If We Could Open a Portal to a Parallel Universe?

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What if there are other universes, just like ours? With an infinite number of Earths? With uncountable versions of you? And what if we don't have to look too far to find them? Maybe a mirror version of our reality is right here... Our Universe began when
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How Computers Calculate - the ALU: Crash Course Computer Science #5

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Take the 2017 PBS Digital Studios Survey: http://surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2017. Today we're going to talk about a fundamental part of all modern computers. The thing that basically everything else uses - the Arithmetic and Logic Unit (or the ALU). The ALU
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What If We Covered the Moon With Solar Panels?

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Not too far from Earth is a giant space rock that has silently played host to just twelve people in its entire history. What would happen if we put our cosmic satellite to work by covering it with solar panels? What would it take to build an enormous powe
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Fast and forceful gel robots

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Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent gel robots that can perform a number of fast, forceful tasks, including kicking a ball underwater, and grabbing and releasing a live fish. (Learn more:https://news.mit.edu/2017/transparent-gel-robots-catch-rele
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Curious about Curling? Meet the MIT club

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For many people, including those that participate, the sport of curling is somewhat of a mystery. "There's a lot of science behind curling, including some that's actually not so well understood," says graduate student Nate Bailey, a member of the MIT Curl
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Do Cause and Effect Really Exist?

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Thanks to Google Making and Science for supporting this series, and to Sean Carroll for collaborating on it! His book can be found here: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/bigpicture/ Playlist of the full video series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?l
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What If There Were No Limits to Organ Transplantation?

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How much of you are you willing to part with? Your heart and lungs? Skin and bones? Cornea? Genitalia? Why not just give away your entire body? Yes, a neurosurgeon by the name of Sergio Canavero says he’s close to achieving the world’s first successful bo
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What If Everyone on Earth Lived in One City?

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55% of the worlds population live in cities. By 2050, thatll be two thirds of the worlds population.So what does that mean? Can we accomodate this trend? Should we?What are the pros and cons of urban density? And how bad can it get?Transcript and sources:
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Furry Wetsuits

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Inspired by hairy, semiaquatic mammals such as beavers and sea otters, a group of MIT engineers are fabricating fur-like rubbery pelts learn how these mammals stay warm and even dry while diving underwater. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2016/beaver-ins
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How to image atoms

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In the basement of MIT.nano there is a specialized microscope able to image materials at the atomic level. In this video we go through each step of how to image the tiny building blocks for all materials: atoms. (Learn more about MIT.nano: https://mitnano
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The afterlife according to Einsteins special relativity | Sabine Hossenfelder

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Sabine Hossenfelder discusses the physics of… dead grandmothers? Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, The Universe in 90 minutes: Time, free will, God, & more htt
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WAVES Visualizing sound through cymatics and resonant frequencies | Phenomena (4K)

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Waves are all around us. As sound waves move through water and salt, they vibrate into geometric patterns that visualize the nature of waveforms. Subscribe to ABC Science YouTube https://ab.co/2YFO4GoUncovering the geometric nature of soundwaves. This is
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Self-Replicating Robots and Galactic Domination | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

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To check out any of the lectures available from Great Courses Plus go to http://ow.ly/dweH302dILJ We’ll soon be capable of building self-replicating robots. This will not only change humanity’s future but reshape the galaxy as we know it. Get your own Spa
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What If the Speed of Light and Sound Were Switched?

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Nothing can travel faster than light. But what if we switched the rules a little? Imagine a world, where the speed of light was slower. Way slower. About the speed that sound travels at. In turn, the sound in that hypothetical world would be accelerated u
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Robots learn to use their hands

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Having robots learn dexterous tasks requiring real-time hand-eye coordination is hard. Many tasks that we would consider simple, like hanging up a baseball cap on a rack, would be very challenging for most robot software. What's more, for a robot to learn
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What If Teleportation Was Possible?

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Welcome to a world of teleportation! Where you can wake up in a remote corner of the world, teleport to work in Tokyo, meet for lunch in Mexico City, and end your day by catching the opera in Rome! This idea of beaming yourself from one location to anothe
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What If There Was Another Earth in Our Solar System?

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Twin siblings, twin peaks, twin cities, twin planets... Two earths, one solar system. How would that work? Where would it have to be located? Can two planets share an orbit? Would people on another Earth be the same as us? Would we be in touch? Transcript
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What Happens If You Eat Uranium?

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In today's interconnected world, we're constantly barraged by conflicting information on what we should and shouldn't be eating. But if there's one thing that we can all agree should definitely not be a part of our diets, it's nuclear waste. In the movies
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What If Earth Was Inside of a Nebula?

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If you could teleport the Earth to any place in the Universe, what would you want to look at in the night sky?The bright explosion of a supernova? A black hole passing over your house? How about a nebula?How would this gorgeous gas cloud look from up clos
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What If a Black Hole Entered Our Solar System?

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Eight planets, hundreds of moons, hundreds of thousands of asteroids, and billions of comets orbiting our Sun make up our Solar System. And not once has a single black hole disturbed our planetary routine. But what if it did? Would this uninvited guest sw
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What If You Were the First Person on Mars?

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Congratulations, you've taken the seven-month-long journey and have landed on Mars. And it turns out, you're the first person. Better start getting the human colonization prepared.Will you ever make it back to Earth? How will you gather resources for surv
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Non-Euclidean Geometry of a Sphere - Christmas Lectures with Philip Morrison

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According to Euclidean geometry the angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees. Philip Morrison shows an example of where this isn't true, and non-Euclidean geometry applies. Watch the full lecture: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1968/gulliv
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What If All the Sea Water Becomes Fresh Water

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Where do you go to quench your thirst? The kitchen sink? The local bar? The mineral rich springs of Bergamo, Italy? In the 21st century, you don’t have to go that far for fresh water. But still, supply is running out. What if we didn’t have to worry about
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Muscles made of nylon

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MIT researchers have come up with one of the simplest and lowest-cost systems yet for developing artificial muscles, in which a material reproduces some of the bending motions that natural muscle tissues perform. The key ingredient? Nylon fiber. (Learn mo
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What If We Extinguished the Sun?

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How much water would you need to extinguish the Sun? How would we deliver such an enormous amount of water anyway? Would all that water even make it to the star?Wouldn't it evaporate before reaching the Sun's burning flares? Whatever your plan is, be care
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Can Quantum Entanglement Explain Gravity?

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Until now theories about quantum physics were negated by gravity, but can entanglement actually help explain gravity? Are We Living In A Holographic Universe ►►►►http://dne.ws/1tUskC5 Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►►http://dne.ws/1McUJdm Read
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What If We Used the Full Capacity of Our Brains?

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Brain size relates more to proportion than it does to intelligence. Your brain is smaller than a whales because your body is smaller. However, your brain is structured in a way that enables you to survive, and succeed.But after all that, would you believe
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Plastic: the new fantastic?

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Plastic has become a malevolent symbol of our wasteful society. Its also one of the most successful materials ever invented: its cheap, durable, flexible, waterproof, versatile, lightweight, protective and hygienic. During the coronavirus pandemic, plasti
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What Is The Higgs Boson?

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What is this thing we keep hearing about - the Higgs Boson, and why is it important? Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: http://www.universetoday.com/ Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Follow us on Tumblr: http://univer
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What If You Fell Into a Volcano?

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If you ever find yourself falling into a volcano, there are a couple of things you should know.First off, when you reach the bottom, the magma's not going to swallow you up as it does in the movies. In fact, the odds of your body even making it to the end
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What If the Earth Was Hollow?

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What Earth do you live on? A round one? Flat one? Maybe your world is resting on the back of a huge cosmic turtle? What about a hollow Earth? Just a planet's shell levitating around absolutely nothing. How would the laws of physics work on that hollow Ear
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Surface Area to Volume Ratios - Christmas Lectures with Philip Morrison

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The mathematicians of Lilliput assumed that Gulliver would need 1728 times as much food as an individual Lilliput. Philip Morrison shows why this is not true, using surface area to volume ratios. Watch the full lecture: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectu
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Visualising Brownian Motion - Christmas Lectures with Philip Morrison

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Philip Morrison uses a microscope and a model made of small ball bearings and a magnetic field to demonstrate Brownian motion. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Watch the full lecture: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/w
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What If a Massive Solar Storm Hit the Earth?

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Bursts of solar flares from the Sun’s surface look spectacular, but they can pose a danger to us here on Earth. If one was to hit us hard enough, it would knock our entire planet into darkness. Wait, what? How can the Sun do that to us from a distance of
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What If Humans Were 5 Meters (16ft) Tall?

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The tallest man to ever walk the Earth was 2.72 m (8'9") tall, and he quickly became an international sensation. So can you imagine what life would be like if you grew to be almost double that height?How would you navigate a world built for smaller people
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The Mathematics of Walking and Gait - Christmas Lectures with Philip Morrison

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Just like the extent of the swing of a pendulum is proportional to the length of the pendulum, the pace of an animal walking is proportional to the length of the leg of the animal. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Watch the
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New coating could prevent pipeline clogging

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Researchers at MIT have developed a coating that could stop the buildup of hydrate ices that slow or block oil and gas flow. These hydrates are potentially explosive and are largely responsible for the initial failure to contain the oil spill that rocked
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Properties of Resistors - Christmas Lectures with Philip Morrison

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What's the relationship of a resistors size to its electrical resistance? And how does resistance change when resistors are set in a series or in parallel? Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Watch the full lecture: http://www.
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Information, Evolution, And Intelligent Design - With Daniel Dennett

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Daniel Dennett explores the first steps towards a unified theory of information, through common threads in the convergence of evolution, learning, and engineering. Subscribe for regular science talks: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe The concept of information i
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What If We Moved Earth?

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Some 5 billion years from now, the Sun will expand and become a red giant. And the Earth might be just in the way... If humans were still around then, would we leave the Earth? Or would we move it? What is the Sun's problem anyway? Like any other star, it
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What If the Earth Collided With Another Planet?

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Last time a stray planetoid the size of Mars smashed into Earth, it scattered our planet's young crust into space, where gravity glued those particles into what we now call the Moon.This time, it would be all hellfire and brimstone with no survivors left.
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What If Every Dead Person Was Still Alive?

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What if you actually did see dead people? Not in a Sixth Sense kind of way, but in an 'inexplicable mass resurrection' kind of way? Not in a Walking Dead kind of way, but in a "Holy shit Grandma's back!" kind of way. While this might sound like a great op
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Is Our Entire Universe Held Together By One Mysterious Number?

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1/137 is a universal constant that determines how stars burn, how chemical reactions happen, and if it were off by just a few percentage points—all of this might not even be here. But what happens if it shifts? Watch more Focal Point! | https://bit.ly/2ZJ
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What If You Fell Into a Pool of Liquid Nitrogen?

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What would happen if you poured liquid nitrogen all over your car? Or used it to fight a fire? Or even tried to cool down with it on a hot day?Liquid nitrogen may look like a lot of fun when you're watching people dump everyday objects into it, but it's a
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What if Earth Had Rings Like Saturn?

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Jupiter.... Uranus.... Saturn... Earth? Sadly, the Earth didn't make it onto the list of the Solar System's ringed planets. If it did, would it still be able to host life? Having planetary rings visible in the sky would look way more spectacular than just
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What If You Could Stop Time?

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If you had a device designed to freeze time for everything but you, life wouldn't be anything like what you'd expect. You wouldn't catch up on sleep, or rob a bank while no one can stop you, or cheat on an exam.Instead, you'd be left blind, deaf and unabl
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What If the African Continent Broke Apart?

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You've seen politics and national borders change all the time, but have you ever witnessed a continent literally breaking apart? Well, it's possible, and it's happening to Africa right now. In 2005, a 60 km long stretch of the continent cracked open over
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What If Extinct Animals Could Be Brought Back to Life?

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What do saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths and the dodo all have in common? They're all extinct, and some theorize humans played a large part in this.What if we could bring them back? What if we could apologize for our wrongdoings as a species and brin
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What If We Built an Artificial Planet?

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What if, someday, we decided that the usefulness of our planet had run its course, and humans needed to scour space to find somewhere new to live? But instead of finding a potentially habitable Earth-like exoplanet light years away, we'd build our own art
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What If Companies Had to Pay to Pollute our Earth?

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Since 1988, 71% of all the world’s carbon emissions have been produced by just 100 companies. Their operations are largely to blame for the climate crisis we now face. A crisis that costs the world economy roughly $4.7 trillion in medical and social costs
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What If The Neanderthals Had Not Gone Extinct?

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Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own, and researchers claim that some humans might be carrying as much as 2% of the Neanderthal genome. Making things even weirder is that scientists recently recovered a nearly complete DNA sequence from a 50,000-
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What is the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics?

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Why is there a zeroth law of thermodynamics? What use is such a simple-sounding law? And how can it be used to smash glass? Chemical engineer Valeska Ting explains in the first film from our 2016 advent calendar, all about thermodynamics. Visit the online
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Older Arctic Sea Ice Disappearing

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Arctic sea ice has not only been shrinking in surface area in recent years, it’s becoming younger and thinner as well. In this animation, where the ice cover almost looks gelatinous as it pulses through the seasons, cryospheric scientist Dr. Walt Me
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What Is Antimatter And Why Are We Searching For It?

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Scientists have been looking for antimatter since the early 1920’s. Is antimatter real? Did Scientists Create A New State Of Matter? ►►►► http://dne.ws/21MDMS6 Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►► http://dne.ws/1McUJdm Read More: Physicists Probe
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Why does ice float? | SciShow Kids

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Mind-Blowing Magic Magnets - Smarter Every Day 153

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What If We Planted a Trillion Trees

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It's dawn, it's dark, and you don't what kind of weather is waiting for you outside your tent. It doesn't matter anyway.In rain, hail, sleet, snow, or blistering heat, you're on the front lines, shovel in hand, wearing over 20 kilos (50 pounds) of gear, b
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Protein Folding and Particle Accelerators: A New Solution

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What can a particle accelerator teach us about biology? Dr Sylvia McLain explains her research into one of the most fundamental questions of life: how water is involved protein folding. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Answe
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Do Animals Dream Like Us?

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Researchers have recently found proof that animals dream. What do they dream of and how can we tell? Get 15% off http://www.domain.com's domain names and web hosting when you use coupon code DNEWS at checkout! How to Control Your Dreams ►►►► http://bit.ly
Alchemy: History of Science #10

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In fantasy stories, charlatans in fancy robes promise to turn lead into gold. But real alchemists werent just mystical misers. They were skilled experimentalists, backed by theories of matter. And they played a huge role in the development of knowledge ab
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Building a soft robotic cube

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Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a soft robotic cube that uses a series of spring-loaded metal tongues to jump, bounce, and roll. In this video, we watch the process of building a
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How Your Cells Decide Whether to Be Part of the Brain, or the Colon

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Before cells mature, they have to decide what they want to be — and new research shows that process gets pretty "noisy." Doctors Have to Trick Your Brain’s Defenses to Heal You, Here’s Why - https://youtu.be/USiZ6dUGUt8 Read More: Know Your Neurons: What
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Will We Ever Time Travel? Scientists Say ‘No’ Based on This New Discovery

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Scientists found an atomic nucleus shaped like a pear, and it is completely changing our understanding of physics. Is There a Limit to How Small Life Can Get? - https://youtu.be/B5fTn4IHQbc Get 20% off http://www.domain.com domain names and web hosting wh
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Einstein's Golden Secret! (Psst! Special relativity gives gold its color)

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Come discover how Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity gives gold it's beautiful yellow shine. Hi! I'm Jade. Subscribe to Up and Atom for new physics, math and computer science videos every two weeks! *SUBSCRIBE TO UP AND ATOM* https://www.youtube.com/
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Did the Big Bang Break the Laws of Thermodynamics? With Sean Carroll

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Why did the Universe have such low entropy at the start? Are the laws of physics consistent across the multiverse? Can we see evidence of other regions of the multiverse? Sean Carroll discusses thermodynamics and the Universe. Tell us what you think of us
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This Radioactive Element Defies Quantum Theory: Meet Berkelium

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Scientists studying those mysterious two rows at the bottom of the periodic table are making breakthroughs, and it’s getting weird. Matter Makes Up Everything, So What Makes Up Matter? - https://youtu.be/58C-gtX6uCY Read More: A Rare Element From The Edge
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What If We Lost The Amazon Rainforest?

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How long would it take for the world's largest rainforest to burn down? If we don't do anything to stop it, we'll soon find out. The Amazon rainforest creates 20% of the Earth's oxygen. It's home to 30% of the planet's species, and it holds the secrets to
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How Do We Grow Hard Bones From Soft Tissue?

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The foods we eat and the cells that produce our bones are squishy, but our bones are hard. How does that work? Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com: http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/musculoskeletal/bone.htm/printable Share on Facebook: https:
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Memory, explained | Narrated by Emma Stone

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Episode one from our new miniseries THE MIND, EXPLAINED on Netflix. Watch now: http://www.netflix.com/mindexplainedTHE MIND, EXPLAINED takes a five-episode deep dive into how our brains handle memory, anxiety, psychedelics and dreams. Narrated by Emma Sto

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