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VIDEO Andy Samberg's speech at Harvard
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SNL star Andy Samberg was one of two featured guest speakers at Harvard College Class Day on May 23, 2012. The other speaker was Barney Frank.
VIDEO What is the FINESSE Mission?
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The FINESSE mission would take the first "family portrait" of exoplanets. Proposed for launch in 2016 as part of NASA's Explorers Program, FINESSE is the first mission dedicated to finding out what ex...
VIDEO Historic SpaceX Launch Abruptly Aborted
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SpaceX had to abruptly cancel a historic launch after computers detected a problem with one of the rocket's engines.
VIDEO Time Lapse: Solar Eclipse May 2012
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Using filters that only pass light when excited hydrogen atoms change state, pro photographer Cory Poole stacked 700 frames to uncover prominences and other disturbances of the Sun's chromosphere. Occ...
VIDEO Planet Earth's Northern Hemisphere
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A timelapse of Planet Earth from Electro-L, a geostationary satellite orbiting 40000km above the Earth. The satellite creates a 121 megapixel image every 30 minutes with four visible and infrared ligh...
VIDEO Extreme Dinosaurs: Science Of Giants (BBC Documentary)
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Amazing new discoveries in South America are revolutionising what we thought we knew about the dinosaur world. It now seems that South America was home to both the largest meat-eater - so new it's sti...
VIDEO These Kids Have No Idea Their Teachers Are Videobombing Them
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Some of the facutly of AKF hilariously dancing behind students. Their teacher received a letter from the Ellen Show, and it will also be shown on there.
VIDEO ScienceCasts: Don't Judge a Moon by its Cover
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Superficially, Saturn's moon Phoebe doesn't look much like a planet, but on the inside, the little gray moon has a lot in common with worlds like Earth.
VIDEO How Did We Get Here ? (BBC Documentary)
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The question of our human origins is one of the most controversial science has wrestled with. This is the story of how scientists came to explain the beauty and diversity of life on earth, and reveal ...
VIDEO ScienceCasts: Partial Eclipse of the Strawberry Moon
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On Monday, June 4th, the Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth, producing a partial lunar eclipse visible across the Pacific from China to the United States.
VIDEO Annular Solar Eclipse May 20 2012
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700 pictures through a Coronado Solar Max 60 Double Stack telescope were used to make this video. The Telescope has a very narrow bandpass allowing you to see the chromosphere and not the much brighte...
VIDEO Voyage of the Dawn (Asteroid) Treader
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Dawn is a NASA spacecraft tasked with the exploration and study of the two largest members of the asteroid belt: Vesta and the dwarf planet, Ceres. The spacecraft was constructed with some European co...
VIDEO Birth of a Book
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A short vignette of a book being created using traditional printing methods. For the Daily Telegraph. Shot at Smith-Settle Printers, Leeds, England. The book being printed is Suzanne St Albans’ 'Mango...
VIDEO Death of the Iceman - BBC Horizon
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KEPT FROZEN IN A SPECIAL CHAMBER IS THE BODY OF A MAN WHO DIED MORE THAN 5000 YRS. NOW THIS GRUESOME DISCOVERY HAS TURNED THIS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SENSATION INTO A MURDER INVESTIGATION.
VIDEO Arctic Dinosaurs (NOVA)
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Most people imagine dinosaurs lurking in warm locales with swamps and jungles, dining on vegetation and each other. But "Arctic Dinosaurs" reveals that many species also thrived in the harsh environme...
VIDEO ScienceCasts: Amateur Scientists Discover Galactic Bubbles
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Amateur scientists have made a effervescent discovery: The Milky Way Galaxy is bubbling like a glass of champagne.
VIDEO Tale of the Shepherd Planets
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Until recently, the search for planets beyond our solar system was a matter of calculating the odds and laying out theories of solar system formation. Circumstantial evidence began to trickle in, a co...
VIDEO Forever Young (BBC Documentary)
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The twenty-first century will be shaped by a revolution in biology that will enable us to read the genetic code of life as easily as we would read a book. We have gained the power to control the desti...
VIDEO Black-Hole Hunter
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NASA's NuSTAR will use its X-ray eyes to scout for hidden black holes in the universe.
VIDEO Launch of SpaceX Falcon 9
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"On Tuesday morning, SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon 9 rocket, shooting the Dragon capsule into orbit. This launch mission is part of NASA's COTS program, where the agency will work with priva...
VIDEO How a Giant Telescope Works
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Watch Space Rip videos commercial free on the SpaceRip app, available in the Apple and Google Play stores. From ESOcast, explore the state-of-the-art technology behind the Very Large telescope, which ...
VIDEO Why Do Old Books Smell? So awesome!
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Walk into a used bookshop and you will encounter the unique aroma of aging books. The smell is loved by some, disliked by others, but where does it come from?
VIDEO Ape Genius (NOVA Documentary)
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At a research site in Fongoli, Senegal, a female chimpanzee breaks off a branch, chews the end to make it sharp, then uses this rudimentary spear to skewer a tasty bushbaby hiding inside a hollow tree...
VIDEO Becoming Human (NOVA Documentary)
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Where did we come from? What makes us human? An explosion of recent discoveries sheds light on these questions, and NOVA's comprehensive, three-part special, "Becoming Human," examines what the latest...
VIDEO ScienceCasts: A Star Turns Inside Out
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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has mapped the debris of a supernova and discovered that the explosion may have turned the original star inside out. Peering into the heart of the inverted star, astro...
VIDEO The Secret Life Of The Dog (BBC Documentary)
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We have an extraordinary relationship with dogs - closer than with any other animal on the planet. But what makes the bond between us so special?
VIDEO Alien From Earth (NOVA Documentary) - Investigates the hobbit of Flores discovery
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An ancient legend on the Indonesian island of Flores tells of an elflike creature similar to the fictional hobbit of novels and film. But a controversial 2003 archeological find not only suggests that...
VIDEO Bottle Models - Periodic Table of Videos
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Just when you thought The Professor could not get more excited about plastic bottles.... During their visit to Brazil, they stumbled over this interesting use of plastic bottles - as makeshift molecul...
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