Bottle molecular models
Periodic Videos
Interesting use of plastic bottles as makeshift molecular models.
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Read time: 1 minSubmitted by Emanuela Clavarino on 30 May, 2012 - 12:25
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May 2012
Incandescent Sun
NASA
This video takes SDO images and applies additional processing to enhance the structures visible. While there is no scientific value to this processing, it does result in a beautiful, new way of looking at the sun. The original frames are in the 171 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet. This wavelength shows plasma in the solar atmosphere, called the corona, that is around 600,000 Kelvin. The loops represent plasma held in place by magnetic fields. They are concentrated in "active regions" where the magnetic fields are the strongest.
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Read time: 1 minSubmitted by Emanuela Clavarino on 28 May, 2012 - 11:38
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Growing plants in space
The Bioregenerative Life Support System Simulator, BLiSS Sim, is based on investigations conducted by NASA scientists and engineers to explore how plants can be grown to provide air, water, and food for astronauts at a lunar base.
Carpenter's Flight
NASA
50 years ago today, Scott Carpenter flew the second American manned orbital flight on May 24, 1962. He piloted his Aurora 7 spacecraft through three revolutions of the earth.
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Read time: 1 minSubmitted by Emanuela Clavarino on 25 May, 2012 - 09:46
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Behind the Science
Maintaining a large international research consortium
Behind the Science is a documentary film on the aspects, steps and goals of creating and maintaining a large international research consortium. The idea is to show that being accountable, having a good management, training young scientists to communicate, and communicating to the public are important aspects of everyday life of a scientist.
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Read time: 1 minSubmitted by Emanuela Clavarino on 24 May, 2012 - 11:31
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Preparedness
Earthquake
A team project for school to make an infographic about earthquakes.
The sound design was made by Yonny Vizcaya.
Irving Diaz and Luis Barros were the team members for this project.
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Read time: 1 minSubmitted by Emanuela Clavarino on 22 May, 2012 - 11:43
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Modes of Public Funding of Research and Development
OECD
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Mathematics can explain the end of Pompeii
Vesuvius enters into the history of volcanology with the 79 AD eruption, which was described very accurately in the letter sent to Tacitus by Plinius the Young, who could observe its whole development from Miseno (20 km far from Vesuvius). More recent, qualitative and quantitative (numerical simulations) studies allow to describe deeply the dynamics of sustained and collapsing plinian eruptions, as well as of the pyroclastic currents associated to this kind of eruptions.
Welcome to the Anthropocene
Rio+20
A 3-minute journey through the last 250 years of our history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution to the Rio+20 Summit. The film charts the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes.
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Read time: 1 minSubmitted by Valentina Daelli on 17 May, 2012 - 11:42
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Social Jetlag and Obesity
Current biology
Why are most people in industrialized societies so tired? The reason lies in an increasing discrepancy between our body clocks' internal time and the social demands on work/school days (social jetlag). Because we predominately work inside, our body clocks have become later over the years while work times have stayed approximately the same.Body clocks use the light-dark cycle to synchronize to the 24-hr day, while society manipulates social time (e.g., time zones and daylight saving time) ignoring the internal time of an individual.
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Read time: 1 minSubmitted by Emanuela Clavarino on 11 May, 2012 - 16:29
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