From YT: The open cluster M67 has traditionally been considered a possible birthplace for the Sun, though computer modelling may throw a spanner in the works? Will astronomers ever learn where our star... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 1 year 7 months 4 weeks ago • 487 views • 4:50Videos (111) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
The Deep Sky team explains why some stars appear spiky in some photographs of stars.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 1 year 8 months 1 week ago • 559 views • 7:18YouTube Description: A huge crystal of calcite is used to demonstrate birefringence, a side-effect of light's refraction through certain materials. Featuring Professor Mike Merrifield.... continue reading
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 1 year 9 months ago • 856 views • 6:55YouTube Description: Professor Roger Bowley uses fuse wire, magnets and electrical current for a quick demonstration.
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 1 year 9 months 1 week ago • 709 views • 4:40YouTube Description: Gathering dust (and beer cans) under a tree at CERN - it's Gargamelle. This experiment played a key role in Nobel Prize-winning research into the weak force. It's now on public... continue reading
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 1 year 9 months 3 weeks ago • 499 views • 5:29Just 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 11 months ago • 1,584 views • 12:45I may have some tears for all the excitement... Wondering what the Higgs Boson is? http://videosift.com/video/Sixty-Symbols-What-is-the-Higgs-Bason From YT: Professor Ed Copeland and Brady tune in live... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 1 year 11 months ago • 2,585 views • 8:39Deep Sky Videos celebrates Father's Day by discussing the Herschel family.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 1 year 11 months 2 weeks ago • 838 views • 7:58Momentum, Magnets & Metal Balls - Sixty Symbols
posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 2 years ago • 1,454 views • 5:20FOR SCIENCE !@ @
posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 2 years 1 week ago • 1,270 views • 5:16Brady asks someone from the LHC the question.
posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 2 years 3 weeks ago • 1,487 views • 2:44Feynman Diagrams help physicists understand what happens when particles collide.
posted by GenjiKilpatrick 1 decade 2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 3,324 views • 9:01Charles Darwin is the favourite scientist of Chris Smillie, a senior lecturer in Ecology and Environmental Management at Nottingham Trent University
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,027 views • 4:06The numberphile guys, who also do the Sixty Symbols videos, take a look at the number 42. Douglas Adams would have turned 60 on March 11th, 2012.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,168 views • 8:42Sixty Symbols
posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 2 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 526 views • 13:45From YT: A visit to the toilet is included in Professor Phil Moriarty's explanation of 3D glasses. How do 3D films give us that three dimensional effect?
posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,522 views • 10:26The newest series from the guy who does the Sixty Symbols and related videos. From YT: Charles Messier's "anti-list' of objects in space has become iconic in the world of astronomy. We'll making videos... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 984 views • 7:26FOR SCIENCE !
posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 2 years 5 months 1 week ago • 983 views • 7:08Sixty Symbols is in Australia talking to one of the former Nottingham members and amateur astronomer Paul Haese about the Southern night skies.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 6 months 1 week ago • 825 views • 5:21From YT: We're in Dublin discussing Ireland's only science Nobel Prize winner, Ernest Walton, known as ETS to his colleagues. One of those colleagues, Iggy McGovern, penned a poem about Walton called... continue reading
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