VIDEO The New Bay Bridge: Earthquake Makeover
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After the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, San Francisco's Bay Bridge has been considered to be a safety risk. Fortunately, a new bridge, one build to survive "The Mother of All Earthquakes," is curren...
VIDEO ZeroN - Levitated Interaction Element
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"What if materials could defy gravity, so that we could leave them suspended in mid-air? ZeroN is a physical and digital interaction element that floats and moves in space by computer-controlled magne...
VIDEO Radiolab's Jad Abumrad: How Radio Creates Empathy
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Radiolab's Jad Abumrad discusses how radio creates empathy.
VIDEO NOVA: Smartest Machine's On Earth
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Augmenting human intelligence is a lot tougher than it looks, but scientists are edging closer with machines like "Watson," an IBM computing system that is gearing up to compete on the game show Jeopa...
VIDEO Physics of the Impossible - How to Travel Through Time
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Hurtling back in time to visit the dinosaurs is not an impossible fantasy! Dr Michio Kaku draws up blueprints for a working time machine that will let us visit the past and travel back to the future.
VIDEO Born to Rage with Henry Rollins: The Warrior Gene
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You know this documentary has got to be good when Henry Rollins (ex-singer of infamous eighties punk band Black Flag) talks science. This badass of hardcore attempts to answer one of the greatest ques...
VIDEO Richard Dawkins: 'Somebody as intelligent as Jesus would have been an atheist'
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Richard Dawkins is an incredibly smart, logical and rational man. He's also a scapegoat and enemy of reilgious fundamentalists for his staunch atheism and anti-religious beliefs. While I'm also a wick...
VIDEO Robert Seyfarth: Can Monkeys Talk?
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Can Monkeys Talk? Apparently gorillas do when they're really craving some nipple action. Sorry, I just couldn't resist. Koko is a sweetheart.
VIDEO Shaq Attacks Sleep Apnea
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Shaq is like this massive, indestructible giant. But, apparently he suffers from sleep apnea and volunteers himself as a human guinea pig to Harvard researchers. Kazaam!
VIDEO Quake-Proof Bridge
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The world's largest and tallest suspension bridge, the Akashi Bridge, is in Japan, a country known for its powerful earthquakes. This National Geographic video explores the science behind keeping a br...
VIDEO Seven Wonders of the Microbe World
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We take a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly microbes that inhabit our body and wreak havoc on our civilization. If it wasn't for these little buggers then we wouldn't have beer, so appreciate th...
VIDEO Bill Nye: The Search for Life Begins with Water
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It's Bill Nye the Science guy talking about how the search for life begins with water. Even though he's highly intelligent, I just can't take this guy seriously because I keep imagining the "wacky" sc...
VIDEO Nanotechnology to combat diabetes
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All over the world scientists are using nanotechnology to create new treatments for diabetes.
VIDEO Physics of the Impossible - How to Become Invisible
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A cloak of invisibility isn't just some Harry Potter fantasy- Dr. Michio Kaku draws up the blueprints for a real invisibility cloak and reveals that vanishing into thin air could be much closer than w...
VIDEO Leonardo: Anatomist - by Nature Video
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Nature Video was invited to Windsor Castle to see some of Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings. The drawings show that Leonardo did more than dabble in the sciences; he carried out experiments and ...
VIDEO 10 Questions for Stephen Hawking
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A chat with Stephen Hawking who discusses some of the mysteries of the the Universe including the big bang and women. Oh that Stephen, such a witty guy.
VIDEO Hate E-mails with Richard Dawkins
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This is a hilarious clip of the world's most famous atheist reading hate mails.
VIDEO California Carnivores
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Carnivores plants are strange creatures. Little Shop of Horrors anyone? So, there's more to these alien like plants than Venus Fly Traps, and we take a look at how they eat, kill and propagate.
VIDEO Artifical blood vessels are almost here
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Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany are on the trail of the first functional artificial blood vessel.
VIDEO Science in the City: Golden Gate Bridge Dynamics - YouTube
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San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge is made to move in this exhibit at the Exploratorium. Though the real bridge has been engineered to minimize movement, this model clearly demonstrates the types of m...
VIDEO Clash of the Americas
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We take a look at the prehistoric Americas. Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore. Well we technically are, just a very, very different one.
VIDEO What Darwin Didn't Know
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We take evolution to the next step: What Darwin didn't know.
VIDEO Last 250 years in 3 minutes
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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 equival...
VIDEO Physics of the Impossible - How to Teleport
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Teleportation is sci fi's most exciting way to travel. Imagine zapping your molecules through space on a transporter beam right out of Star Trek - Dr Michio Kaku reveals how we might all one day be sa...
VIDEO Dr Yan recreates the world's first wireless telephone call -
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Dr Yan recreates the world's first wireless telephone call.
VIDEO Brian Greene: The Search For Hidden Dimensions
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We go on a search for parallel universes. Pretty soon, scifi will become a reality. It's just too bad that I won't be alive to see it. What is the irony & chance of being on the cusp of that era where...
VIDEO Venice Backstage. How does Venice work?
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Ah, Venice Bella: The infamous sinking city famed for its romantic canals & old world renaissance beauty. Most travel shows are about the city's culture, but this video shows us how Venice operates. F...
VIDEO Stanford Researchers Create Super-Sensitive Artificial Skin
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Scientists from Stanford University lab have developed super-sensitive material as a part of research project on artificial skin.
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