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Miscellaneous:  Impressions of Life Sciences at the Exploratorium (clip)
Running Time:
00:02:48
Riotously colorful bacteria and mobile mosses meet carnivorous plants and rotting carcasses in this impressionistic journey through the Life Sciences area at the Exploratorium.

Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All

Date: October 18, 2012
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): life sciences/biology
Driven:  This World Unfolding (slideshow)
Running Time:
04:00
Biologist Kristina Yu and exhibit developer Denise King share their love for the mighty (and mightily underappreciated) microorganism.

Project: Driven: True Stories of Inspiration | Browse All

Date: October 8, 2010
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology
SmallTalk:  Nanograffiti: Building from the Atoms Up (podcast)
Running Time:
00:22:52
Join us as we speak with IBM Fellow Dr. Don Eigler, who first used a scanning tunneling microscope to demonstrate the ability to build structures at the atomic level by spelling “I-B-M” with individual atoms. Also, meet Tom Rockwell, Director of Public Exhibition at the Exploratorium, who describes, in an audio essay, how he imagines the land of the very small.

Project: NISE: SmallTalk | Browse All

Date: January 19, 2007
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Nanotechnology, Physics
Microscope Imaging Station:  Zebra Fish Development (clip)
Running Time:
00:00:51
Witness the amazing development of live embryos at the microscope imaging station, part of the Traits of Life Collection.

Project: Microscope Imaging Station | Browse All

Date: January 10, 2006
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology
The Nobel Prize: 100 Years of Creativity:  The Existence of Atoms (webcast)
Running Time:
00:23:04
Using a simple ball-bearing model, Exploratorium Senior Scientist Dr. Paul Doherty demonstrates Brownian Motion and explains how it proves the existence of atoms.

Project: The Nobel Prize: 100 Years of Creativity | Browse All

Date: August 5, 2005
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Physics
Transit of Venus:  Transit of Venus 2004: 1st & 2nd Contact Program (webcast)
Running Time:
00:59:15
Astronomers in many parts of the world watched as Venus moved across the disk of the Sun, one of the rarest planetary alignments. The Exploratorium webcast this historic event from Greece.

Project: The Rarest Eclipse: Transit of Venus | Browse All

Date: June 8, 2004
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science
Origins: Antarctica:  South Pole Slide Show with Mary and Noel (webcast)
Running Time:
0:47:40
Join the Origins team as they travel to Antarctica. We sent Mary, Noel, Paul, and Julie to explore scientific wonders from McMurdo to the Pole. Learn all about the extreme science being conducted at the South Pole in a daily dispatch from Terra Australis Incognita!

Project: Origins: Antarctica - Scientific Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole | Browse All

Date: December 27, 2001
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): General Science
Origins: Antarctica:  South Pole Recap with Noel (webcast)
Running Time:
0:57:04
Join the Origins team as they travel to Antarctica. We sent Mary, Noel, Paul, and Julie to explore scientific wonders from McMurdo to the Pole. Learn all about the extreme science being conducted at the South Pole in a daily dispatch from Terra Australis Incognita!

Project: Origins: Antarctica - Scientific Journeys from McMurdo to the Pole | Browse All

Date: December 30, 1997
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): General Science