Browsing 120 - 130 results of 130 programs for category - Popular Science |
Solar Eclipse: Live from Turkey:Telescope Only Video (Webcast)
Running Time:
2:53:54
2:53:54
A telescope-only view of the 2006 eclipse, as seen from Turkey.
Project: Solar Eclipse: Stories from the Path of Totality | Browse All
Date: March 29, 2006
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science
Keywords: eclipse, sun, moon, earth, shadow, penumbra, corona, totality, shadow bands, bailey's beads, turkey, side,
Project: Solar Eclipse: Stories from the Path of Totality | Browse All
Date: March 29, 2006
Format: Expedition
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science
Keywords: eclipse, sun, moon, earth, shadow, penumbra, corona, totality, shadow bands, bailey's beads, turkey, side,
: The Search for Exo-Planets (Webcast)
Running Time:
00:48:40
00:48:40
Searching for extraterrestrial life: is it telephoning aliens or really complicated math equations? Join Senior Scientist Paul Doherty, NASA Ames planetary Scientist Eric Wegryn, and SETI's Senior Scientist Seth Shostak as they explore how to find planets that could support life. How many of these planets are there? How did we find them? When will we know for sure?
Project: SETI | Browse All
Date: December 10, 2005
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science
Keywords: seti, planets, stars, pulsar, space, extraterestrials, the drake equation, doppler effect
Project: SETI | Browse All
Date: December 10, 2005
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science
Keywords: seti, planets, stars, pulsar, space, extraterestrials, the drake equation, doppler effect
The Nobel Prize: 100 Years of Creativity: Awarding the Nobel Prize with Anders Bárány (Webcast)
Running Time:
01:26:20
01:26:20
Professor Anders Barany, Deputy Director of the Nobel Museum and former secretary of the physics committee that awards the Nobel Prize, speaks about how laureates are chosen and celebrated. (Audio-only webcast)
Project: The Nobel Prize: 100 Years of Creativity | Browse All
Date: June 14, 2005
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): History of Science
Keywords: nobel prize, anders barany, lecture, nobel museum, nobel laureates
Project: The Nobel Prize: 100 Years of Creativity | Browse All
Date: June 14, 2005
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): History of Science
Keywords: nobel prize, anders barany, lecture, nobel museum, nobel laureates
| Real: 45K |
Science of Gardening: Peter's Savage Garden (Clip)
Running Time:
00:05:53
00:05:53
At the age of eleven, Peter D'Amato ordered a Venus flytrap from Famous Monsters magazine; thus began a lifetime of cultivating carnivorous plants. His small apartment became an urban jungle, so he moved to Sebastopol, California, the home of California Carnivores, where he grows and sells hundreds of other-worldly plants whose traps range from those small enough to capture protozoa to those big enough to contain a rodent.
Project: Accidental Scientist: Science of Gardening | Browse All
Date: May 15, 2005
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: carnivorous plant, urban gardening, venus flytrap,
Project: Accidental Scientist: Science of Gardening | Browse All
Date: May 15, 2005
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Geology/Earth Science, Life Science/Biology
Keywords: carnivorous plant, urban gardening, venus flytrap,
| Links: | California Carnivores Website |
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Origins: Hubble: The Very Latest from Hubble (Webcast)
Running Time:
0:40:48
0:40:48
On the occasion of Hubble's 15th birthday we unveil two spectacular mosaic images from the telescope, discuss the amazing accomplishments of Hubble during the past 15 years, and look at some of the images from space.
Project: Origins: Hubble | Browse All
Date: April 26, 2005
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science
Keywords: hubble telescope, digital images, photography, planets, stars, galaxies, orbits, solar panels, atmosphere
Project: Origins: Hubble | Browse All
Date: April 26, 2005
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science
Keywords: hubble telescope, digital images, photography, planets, stars, galaxies, orbits, solar panels, atmosphere
Saturn: Titan: Up Close and Personal (Webcast)
Running Time:
00:26:34
00:26:34
Paul Doherty and Eric Wegryn explore the latest photos of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, taken from only 750 miles away by the Huygens probe.
Project: Saturn: Jewel of the Solar System | Browse All
Date: November 5, 2004
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science
Keywords: titan, moon of saturn, moon with atmoshpere, cassini-huygens, electromagnetic spectrum chart, visible light, infrared spectrometer, seeing infrared microwaves with a digital camera, seeing infrared with a digital camera, seeing infrared light through a garbage ba
Project: Saturn: Jewel of the Solar System | Browse All
Date: November 5, 2004
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science
Keywords: titan, moon of saturn, moon with atmoshpere, cassini-huygens, electromagnetic spectrum chart, visible light, infrared spectrometer, seeing infrared microwaves with a digital camera, seeing infrared with a digital camera, seeing infrared light through a garbage ba
| Real: 225K |
Osher Fellowship: A Live Conversation with World-Renowned Biologist/Conservationist E. O. Wil (Webcast)
Running Time:
00:33:44
00:33:44
In this archived program from 2003, join us for a conversation with Pulitzer-prize winning biologist E. O. Wilson, who introduced the term biodiversity to describe the interlocking dependence and diversity of organisms in sustaining life in biological communities.
Project: Osher Fellowship | Browse All
Date: August 28, 2003
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology
Keywords: osher fellow, biodiversity, astrobiology, diversity of life, chemical communication, watching ants, social behavior, ant society, entomology, pheremones, ants and social behavior, and communication in insects, ant colony, habitat destruction, all species surve
Project: Osher Fellowship | Browse All
Date: August 28, 2003
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology
Keywords: osher fellow, biodiversity, astrobiology, diversity of life, chemical communication, watching ants, social behavior, ant society, entomology, pheremones, ants and social behavior, and communication in insects, ant colony, habitat destruction, all species surve
| Real: 256K |
Origins: Hubble: A New View of the Universe (Webcast)
Running Time:
00:30:43
00:30:43
Join us as NASA releases the first images from the Hubble Telescope's new camera, NICMOS (the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer). We'll discuss the significance and beauty of these pictures of our galaxy with the NICMOS' Lead Scientist, Keith Noll.
Project: Origins: Hubble | Browse All
Date: June 5, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science
Keywords: infrared spectra camera, infrared astronomy, spectrometer, optical astronomy, infrared telescopes, infrared analogy with pit viper snakes,
Project: Origins: Hubble | Browse All
Date: June 5, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science
Keywords: infrared spectra camera, infrared astronomy, spectrometer, optical astronomy, infrared telescopes, infrared analogy with pit viper snakes,
| Real: 256K |
Women's Health: Breast Cancer: From Prevention to Mammography (Webcast)
Running Time:
0:59:17
0:59:17
This informative programming includes dispatches from the Young Women's Health Conference, a Webcast on breast cancer, and teen perspectives on pregnancy and gay issues.
Project: The Changing Face of Women's Health Exhibition | Browse All
Date: October 22, 2000
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Medicine
Keywords: cancer definition, definition of cancer, cell reproduction, tumor definition, definition of tumor, breast tumors, mammography, breast self examination, breast self-examination, premenopausal mammography, genetics, damaged genes, the role of industry in breast cancer,
Project: The Changing Face of Women's Health Exhibition | Browse All
Date: October 22, 2000
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Medicine
Keywords: cancer definition, definition of cancer, cell reproduction, tumor definition, definition of tumor, breast tumors, mammography, breast self examination, breast self-examination, premenopausal mammography, genetics, damaged genes, the role of industry in breast cancer,
| Real: 34K |
Revealing Bodies: Inside the Skull: Exploring the Brain (Webcast)
Running Time:
1:20:37
1:20:37
Peer inside the thinking brain, using state-of-the-art functional magnetic resonance imaging. Scientists Gary Glover and John Desmond of the Richard M. Lucas Center for Imaging at Stanford University conduct cognitive tests on an Exploratorium staffer. Imaging tools display the active areas of the brain in real time.
Project: Revealing Bodies | Browse All
Date: April 22, 2000
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Medicine
Keywords: revealing, bodies, neuroscience, mri process, medical imaging, phrenology, nuclear magnetic resonance, centers of the brain, sections of the brain, brain function, imaging the brain, functional imaging,
Project: Revealing Bodies | Browse All
Date: April 22, 2000
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Medicine
Keywords: revealing, bodies, neuroscience, mri process, medical imaging, phrenology, nuclear magnetic resonance, centers of the brain, sections of the brain, brain function, imaging the brain, functional imaging,
| Real: 34K |
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