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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

Keywords: exploratorium, life science, life sciences, biology, exhibits, exhibit, biology exhibit, biology exhibits, bugs, termites, decay, microscope, microscopes

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

Keywords: microscope, imaging station, cell, bacteria

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

Keywords: small talk episode, nano, microscope, atom, small, liliputian

Links:	Dr. Eigler's STM image gallery
	DNA origami
	Seeing Atoms

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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

Keywords: zebrafish, microscope, embryo, imaging

QuickTime: 1.14M

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

Keywords: brownian motion floor exhibit video, atoms and particles, atomic theory, scanning tunneling microscope explanation

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