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Iron Science Teacher:  Holiday Edition: Fruitcake (Webcast)
Running Time:
00:53:29
The only thing to beat out Iron Science Halloween! Holiday madness right when you could use a laugh.... today's secret ingredient: fruitcake!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: December 17, 2004
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: teachers, experiments, demos, circumference, diameter, pi, turning fruitcake into pi, diarrhoea, fiber, constipation, measuring density, mass, volume, weight, gravity.laws of gravity, rocket fuel


Real: 225K  
Iron Science Teacher:  Salt (Webcast)
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1:09:46
Watch as the best teachers on the planet battle it out for the title of Iron Science Teacher. In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity. Tee off with this week’s “secret” ingredient-salt!

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Date: July 23, 2004
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics

Keywords: teachers, experiments, salt shaker, center of gravity, balance, table salt, sodium chloride crsytal, exponentials, diapers, osmosis, solutions, perception of taste, dna strands, cell membrane, cell structure, dna extraction


Real: 225K  
Iron Science Teacher:  Aluminum Cans (Webcast)
Running Time:
1:02:33
Watch as the best teachers on the planet battle it out for the title of Iron Science Teacher. In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity. This week’s “secret” ingredient-aluminum cans!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 16, 2004
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Physics

Keywords: teachers, demos, experiments, activities, bouyancy, volume, density, balance, center of gravity, vaccuum, condensation, change of state, air pressure


Real: 225K  
Origins: Las Cuevas:  History in a Jar (Webcast)
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0:47:31
We explore behind the scenes in the "tank room" of the Darwin Centre, where thousands of biological specimens up to 300 years old are kept.

Project: Origins: Las Cuevas - From Jungle to Lab: The Story of Life's Complexity | Browse All

Date: November 2, 2002
Format: Expedition
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology

Keywords: origins, biodiversity, tank room, london, england, darwin center, specimens, natural history, jungle, organisms, laboratories, insects, entomology


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Windows Media: 659K  
Origins: CERN:  Scientists Make Antimatter! (Webcast)
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00:25:16
Cold anti-hydrogen atoms have been made, stored, and detected for the first time at ATHENA! We talked to the ATHENA team about this groundbreaking, historic event in particle physics and learned what's next.

Project: Origins: CERN | Browse All

Date: September 20, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics

Keywords: athena experiment, atoms and particles, matter and anit-matter, antiprotons, positrons, antihydrogen production, particle accelerator, antihydrogen spectrosopy, magnetic trap, atomic transition frequencies, negative mass, charged particle detector, antihydrogen colle


Real: 256K  
Iron Science Teacher:  Shoe Boxes (Webcast)
Running Time:
1:00:09
Watch as the best teachers on the planet battle it out for the title of Iron Science Teacher. In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity. This week’s “secret” ingredient: Shoe Boxes!

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Date: July 12, 2002
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: styrofoam mass activity, styrofoam molecule, dimer polymer, acetate acid, mass wasting, angle of repose, reflection, corner reflector exhibit snack, corner reflector floor exhibit snack, corner reflector exhibit activity, mapping the sea floor activity, ocean floo


Real: 256K  
Origins: Hubble:  Preparing for Space (Webcast)
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00:35:48
In an exclusive taped interview, Hubble payload commander and astronaut John Grunsfeld discusses how astronauts who'll be servicing a telescope in space train in a giant pool at the Johnson Space Center. We'll also show an interview with space engineer Amy Ross, filmed in the space suit laboratory at Johnson.

Project: Origins: Hubble | Browse All

Date: March 3, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science

Keywords: columbia shuttle launch, rockets, rocket booster, designation sts-109 hubble space telescope service mission, goddard space center, kennedy space center, john m. grunsfeld, nasa neutral buoyancy lab, spacewalks, spacesuits, infrared light, nicmos, , space gloves


Real: 256K  
Origins: Hubble:  Last Stop Before Space (Webcast)
Running Time:
0:54:27
The first-ever live event inside the NASA clean room, where space hardware is being prepared for the Hubble Space Telescope. We'll get dressed in "bunny suits" to explore the room and show you the activities of engineers and scientists getting ready for the next Hubble servicing mission in November.

Project: Origins: Hubble | Browse All

Date: April 23, 2001
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science

Keywords: hubble space telescope, origins of the universe, cosmology, nebula, galaxy, stars, big bang, nasa, space shuttle, space telescope science institute, goddard space flight center, universe, astronomers, kathryn gaulke, goddard space flight center clean room, kevin carmac


Real: 35K  
Origins: Hubble:  Making Sense of What Hubble Gives Us (Webcast)
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0:38:20
Hubble's pictures have changed our understanding of the galaxy. Here we meet scientists who show us how their images have led to new discoveries, then check in on our own imaging project and track its progress.

Project: Origins: Hubble | Browse All

Date: April 21, 2001
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science

Keywords: hubble space telescope, origins of the universe, cosmology, nebula, galaxy, stars, big bang, nasa, space shuttle, space telescope science institute, goddard space flight center, universe, astronomers, forrest hamilton, hubble heritage team, paolo padovani, active galact


Real: 35K  
Origins: Hubble:  Getting Time on the Telescope (Webcast)
Running Time:
0:54:09
How much time does an astronomer need to get that great picture? We'll talk with scientists about how they determine their experiments, and learn what it takes to make their case for a few minutes of the telescope's time.

Project: Origins: Hubble | Browse All

Date: April 20, 2001
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science

Keywords: hubble space telescope, origins of the universe, cosmology, nebula, galaxy, stars, big bang, nasa, space shuttle, space telescope science institute, goddard space flight center, universe, astronomers, melissa mcgrath, extra-solar planet research, atmospheres, satellite


Real: 35K  
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