On September 18, 2008 at the Koshland Science Museum in Washington, D.C., Dr. Stuart Levy, professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and Dr. Linda Tollefson, Assistant Commissioner for Science at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, discussed how to optimize antibiotic use and how to minimize the emergence of drug resistant pathogens. In part 2 of this 3 part video series, Dr. Levy discusses how antibiotic resistance develops, the development...

Emperor penguins can flourish in locales where few other animals roam. But scientists now wonder if they can adapt to a new threat: climate change.

Make a piece of art by mixing dry ice, paint, and water. Ok, it's not da Vinci, but it's fun.

Add a piece of dry ice to a 2 liter bottle of soda and stand back.

How to make dry ice rings.

German vodcast about science communications. Uni-Bonn TV: Das erste Forschungs-Videoportal einer deutschen Hochschule - Sommerpause? Das ESO-Blog - „Reseach Blogging“ gibt es jetzt auch auf deutsch - WeiterGen! von Tobias Maier - "Schritte durch die Zeit" im Botanischen Garten Berlin - Faszination der Mineralien im Müritzeum - Das GLAST Prelude for Brass Quintet, Op.12 als Video bei YouTube und die Hintergrundinfos der Nasa dazu - Das "Chemikum" in Marburg - Der Astrobiology 2008-Rap...

West Nile virus entered the United States in 1999 and is now considered a seasonal epidemic that starts in the summer and continues into the fall. First isolated in Uganda in 1937, the virus can cause severe human meningitis or encephalitis in 1% of those infected. In 2007 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported 124 fatalities. The rapid spread of West Nile virus has put local and state mosquito surveillance programs on the front line of public health and disease preparedness. In...

Ronald Atlas, former President for the American Society for Microbiology, discusses the new One Health Initiative that recognizes the inter-relationships among human, animal, and environmental health and seeks to enhance communication, cooperation, and collaboration in integrating these areas for the health and well-being of all species. Development of the One Health Initiative began in 2007 with the American Veterinary Medical Association's (AVMA) efforts to strengthen communications and...

Jacobs School of Engineering associate dean Jeanne Ferrante talks about the challenge of paralllel computing to an audience of middle- and high-school students at UC San Diego, as part of the monthlong residential summer school in math, science and engineering - COSMOS. Ferrante is introduced by fellow associate dean Charles Tu.

ES4FUN is a Physics-driven educational project with the aim of spreading universal scientific concepts in a game context, with research high-tech and audio+video clip support Multitudinary games were designed and implemented to spread the concepts "structures and functionalities" which are shared by all the scientific disciplines. The clip has been made with the graphic material recorded during the ES4FUN 1.0 event at the car parking of the Science and Technology Campus of the University...