nsf's videos (186)


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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...

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Dec 8, 2011
CHALK TALK: ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM

The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of all possible wavelengths of energy, including the visible light that...

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Dec 8, 2011
CHALK TALK: ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION

Electromagnetic radiation (ER) is a form of energy, and it acts like a wave as it moves at the speed of light--it’s...

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Dec 8, 2011
CHALK TALK: DNA

DNA contains the genetic code used by all known living organisms. It also contains historical information, because it...

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Dec 8, 2011
CHALK TALK: MITOCHONDRIA

This episode of Chalk Talk gives viewers a look inside the "power plant" of most complex cells. Mitochondria provide...

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Dec 5, 2011
GREEN REVOLUTION: WIND POWER

Kathryn Johnson, an electrical engineer at the Colorado School of Mines, studies large utility-scale wind turbines....

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Dec 5, 2011
GREEN REVOLUTION: SOLAR POWER

Arizona gets plenty of sunlight, and researchers there are working hard to turn that energy into electricity we can...

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Dec 5, 2011
GREEN REVOLUTION: MICROBES

In Bruce Logan's lab at Penn State Univeristy, researchers are working on developing microbial fuel cells (MFC) that...

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Dec 5, 2011
GREEN REVOLUTION: HYDROGEN

Host Lisa Van Pay meets with NSF-funded scientists Yang-Shao Horn and Yogi Surendranath at the Massachusetts...

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Dec 5, 2011
GREEN REVOLUTION: GREEN ROOFS

A green roof can certainly make a building look nicer, but can it measurable lower energyrequirements and improve...

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Dec 2, 2011
GREEN REVOLUTION: ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Host Lisa Van Pay visits the scientists and engineers working to make the electric car of the future a reality today....

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Dec 2, 2011
GREEN REVOLUTION: DISCOVER

A trip to Snowy River, a bright white crystalline formation found deep within Fort Stanton Cave in New Mexico,...

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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 2, 2011
EINSTEIN'S MESSENGERS, LIGO AND THE SEARCH FOR GRAVITY WAVES

Einstein's Messengers is an Award-winning 20-minute documentary on LIGO, NSF's Laser Interferometer Gravitational...