YouTube: You might think of national parks as a nice place to see a geyser, or a big ol’ canyon, but over the past 100 years, US national parks have produced some of the biggest, oldest, deepest, and... continue reading
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YouTube: There aren't as many rules to naming a scientific discovery as you might think-- and that has led to some pretty outrageous names.
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 1 month 1 week ago • 520 views • 8:07WooHoo! Hank said Washington State! YouTube: Last week, it was announced that we've detected gravitational waves on Earth. Now, Hank explains what that means for the future and why it's such a huge deal.
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 564 views • 4:39The sound of the collision from a billion light-years away is the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago.
posted by blacklotus90 8 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 778 views • 4:36The best in show... 2015. Science breakthrough edition with speed talker Hank
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 4 months ago • 188 views • 4:54"The movie Ant-Man was (obviously) inspired by ants, so we thought we'd talk to a real ant expert to learn a bit more! ..." From http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3hu8oe/science_ama_series_im_brian_fisher_ant_s... continue reading
posted by ant 8 years 8 months 1 week ago • 103 views • 7:51YouTube: Hank shares losses and finds this week, including a huge amount of Antarctic ice that’s lost for good, and 10 cool new species that are last year’s top finds.
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 91 views • 5:14YouTube: SciShow News explains the forces at work behind the earthquake in Nepal, introduces you to a new species of dinosaur, and reveals a discovery in Antarctica.
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years ago • 116 views • 4:31"... it can take us awhile to fully grasp the downsides and side effects of new discoveries." I'll say! YouTube: SciShow explores the harrowing tale of the so-called Radium Girls, factory workers who... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 3 weeks ago • 167 views • 4:39While the sun is keeping us all alive on this planet, it's also causing many people to develop skin cancer.
posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 9 years 11 months ago • 137 views • 2:17Hank explains how a recent astronomical discovery made in Antarctica could change what we know about the birth of the universe, and the rules of physics that govern it. (Youtube)
posted by Fantomas 1 decade 1 month 2 weeks ago • 658 views • 3:59YouTube Description: Discovery / Science Channel's "How It's Made" Baseballs episode
posted by aaronfr 1 decade 1 year 3 weeks ago • 1,477 views • 5:01YouTube Description: According to an online article,We now have found a Higgs-like particle.It is a Boson, we're 5-sigma sure.5-sigma's an extraordinary score. 133 times heavier than a proton,Is the... continue reading
posted by Lendl 1 decade 1 year 10 months ago • 839 views • 40 secsJust what is the Higgs Boson? Sixty Symbols explains in this video from last year. After the news of 4 July 2012, they did a new video to talk about the likely discovery of the Higgs Boson: http://videosift.com/video/Is... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 1 year 10 months ago • 1,584 views • 12:45Researchers from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal. The discovery, published in the Proceedings of the... continue reading
posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 1 year 10 months 2 weeks ago • 985 views • 14:47The Earth's radius is often quoted when describing the size of exoplanets, such as those recently discovered by the Kepler telescope. Why? and other interesting bits about the discovery of planets outside... continue reading
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