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Ice Stories: Herc C-130 Flight to Greenland (clip)

Running Time:
00:01:48

To get to Greenland, scientists fly with the 109th Air National Guard in a Hercules C-130 aircraft. It is definitely not your typical airline experience.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: June 11, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s):

Microscope Imaging Station: Cancer: Cellular Misfits Run Amok -- A Scientist's View (clip)

Running Time:
6:50

How do cancer cells misbehave? Watch and listen as cancer researcher Dr. Thea Tlsty explains how genetic blips turn cancer cells into the rogues they are.

Project: Microscope Imaging Station | Browse All

Date: May 18, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

Microscope Imaging Station: Frogs: Princes of Science — A Scientist's View (clip)

Running Time:
5:49

From fertilization to pregnancy tests, watch and listen as Xenopus researcher Dr. Thierry Brassac shows how these creatures, with their enormous eggs cells and their acts of metamorphosis, have been helping scientists for centuries.

Project: Microscope Imaging Station | Browse All

Date: May 18, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

Microscope Imaging Station: Making Heads and Tails of Planaria — A Scientist's View (clip)

Running Time:
6:48

The water-dwelling planaria can lose its head and regrow a new one. Watch and listen as planaria researcher Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado explains how a little flatworm's might teach us about our own regenerative potential.

Project: Microscope Imaging Station | Browse All

Date: May 18, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

Ice Stories: Ice Core Lab Tour (clip)

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00:02:52

At the National Ice Core Lab in Denver, Colorado, scientists study ice cores in a Class 100 clean room lab kept at minus 7 degrees F.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: May 15, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science,

Ice Stories: Jakobshavn Isbræ Calving Timelapse, May 10, 2008 (clip)

Running Time:
00:00:54

The Jakobshavn Isbræ is among the fastest-moving glaciers in the world. The Jakobshavn is an outlet glacier, one of the few places where the giant Greenland ice sheet can shed ice in the form of gigantic icebergs. This timelapse video (100x real speed) from glaciologist Mark Fahnestock shows one of these massive calving events. Notice the dark blue ice that surfaces when the iceberg flips over in the ice-choked Ilulissat icefjord. Time interval on this timelapse is 10 seconds per frame.

Project: Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists | Browse All

Date: May 10, 2008
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science,

Microscope Imaging Station: Stem Cells: Cells with Potential — A Scientist's View (clip)

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Hear stem cell researcher Bruce Conklin explain why this science is important and what it's like to watch newly grown heart cells beat in a culture dish late at night.

Project: Microscope Imaging Station | Browse All

Date: May 6, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

Microscope Imaging Station: What's So Interesting About Blood? — A Scientist's View (clip)

Running Time:
00:03:45

A tattoo lasts a lifetime, thanks to your white blood cells. Watch and listen as researcher Mike McGrath explains how these warrior cells protect you from disease—and keep body art intact.

Project: Microscope Imaging Station | Browse All

Date: April 17, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

Microscope Imaging Station: Celebrating The Sea Urchin — A Scientist's View (clip)

Running Time:
00;05:41

What's so special about the sea urchin? Watch and listen as urchin researcher Fred Wilt describes the things he and others observe under the microscope.

Project: Microscope Imaging Station | Browse All

Date: April 17, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

Second Skin: 2nd Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing (clip)

Running Time:
00:03:50

Science, technology, art, and fashion converge at a runway fashion show at the Exploratorium on Friday, April 25, 2008, 7-11pm. The 2nd Skin Clothesline Exhibit debuts that evening; the event also features two artists at work on their creations. If you miss the opening, artists' works will to be highlighted around the museum for five months,from April 26-September 7, 2008.

Project: Second Skin | Browse All

Date: March 31, 2008
Format: Exhibit
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Art