nsf's videos (186)


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Dec 19, 2012
Chemist - Profiles of Scientists and Engineers

What's it really like to be an engineer or a scientist? What do they really do all day? You're about to find out!...

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Dec 19, 2012
Virtual Reality Scientist - Profiles of Scientists and Engineers

What's it really like to be an engineer or a scientist? What do they really do all day? You're about to find out!...

168
Dec 2, 2011
GREEN REVOLUTION: CITYCAR

Lisa Van Pay of the National Science Foundation meets with Will Lark, an MIT graduate student working on the CityCar...

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Dec 8, 2011
CHALK TALK: LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It is expected to...

166
Nov 30, 2011
SCIENCE OF THE WINTER OLYMPICS: SCIENCE OF SKIS

In skiing events like the downhill, slalom or ski jump it's often the skis that are bound to an athlete's feet--and...

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Nov 30, 2011
SCIENCE OF THE WINTER OLYMPICS: SUIT UP

Olympic athletes have long worn special competition clothing to gain an edge. Science and technology continue to...

164
Dec 8, 2011
CHALK TALK: LIQUID CRYSTALS

Liquid crystals are a kind of matter that exists somewhere between a liquid and a solid. We can control the order of...

164
Dec 8, 2011
CHALK TALK: BINARY

A binary system of numbers is one that is composed only of ones and zeros. It was the system of choice for people who...

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Jun 13, 2012
Science Nation - Dragonflies in Motion

Next time you see a dragonfly, try to watch it catch its next meal on the go. Good luck! "Unless we film it in high...

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Nov 29, 2011
SCIENCE OF SPEED: DRAG & DRAFTING

Engine power is constrained at superspeedways like Daytona and Talladega, so teams use aerodynamics to gain an...

160
Apr 4, 2012
Robotic Sharks

Dive in with NSF funded researcher John Long and his robotic sharks. A professor at Vassar College, Dr. Long and his...

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Nov 30, 2011
SCIENCE OF THE WINTER OLYMPICS: SCIENCE OF SKATES

The ice skates worn by this year's hockey players, figure skaters and speed skaters are vastly different from what...

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Nov 30, 2011
SCIENCE OF THE WINTER OLYMPICS: SNOWBOARDING

The stakes are high for the snowboarders in Vancouver as they try to master new tricks to unseat the star of Torino,...

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Nov 30, 2011
SCIENCE OF THE WINTER OLYMPICS: MATHLETES

It's been called "the Queen of Sciences"--mathematics. It might not be as obvious in Olympic sports as physics or...