Articles in the Category: Video
Indonesian Quake Rattles Island Nation
A major 8.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the island of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean, triggering a tsunami alert for the whole ocean and traumatizing those who lived through the 2004 9.1 earthquake that killed more than 230,000 in 12 countries.
But this earthquake was all bark and no bite....
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biology, Environment, Featured Articles, Video on 04 10th, 2012 | No Comments
General Slothpital
Twenty years ago Judy Avery Arroyo stumbled into her calling to rehabilitate injured and abandoned sloths in Costa Rica. The bed and breakfast owner from Alaska and her Costa Rican husband now run one of the largest sloth sanctuaries in the world. With over 130 sloths under their care, it all started...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Physics and Chemistry, SciArt, Scientainment, Video on 04 9th, 2012 | No Comments
Artists Probe Science in Emergence and Structure Exhibit
Abstract artists Daniel Hill and Ron Janowich say, “Art and science are both born from a sense of wonder and curiosity and a desire to understand.”
After a series of conversations about the complexity of the natural world, the two men decided to mount an exhibition, featuring the artistic...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate Change, Science Ditty Friday, Video, Weird Weather on 03 23rd, 2012 | No Comments
SDF: Tropical Spring Heatwave
Editor’s Note: It’s Science Ditty Friday. Every Friday REALscience compiles a song (generally with an accompanying video) to kick your weekend off with a musical start. Have a favorite science song? Send it to ditty@realscience.us.
Spring has barely sprung and already much of the country is...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate Change, DIY Science, Featured Articles, Marine Science, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, Video on 03 22nd, 2012 | 2 Comments
Crowdfunding Science
Who could say No to a face like this? Especially when that face is attached to a scientist doing cool research? Kevin Miklasz, Independent Scientist
Kevin Miklasz is just about to finish his PhD in Biomechanics at Stanford University. At the end of the month he’ll be one of many well-educated...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Discoveries, Featured Articles, Marine Science, Oceanography, Robotics, Video on 03 21st, 2012 | 1 Comment
New Clue Prompts Expedition to Find Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart’s disappearance has been one of the long-standing mysteries of a modern age and it has endured since the determined woman pilot vanished while trying to be the first person to fly solo around the world following the longest equatorial route. Amelia Earhart, Disappeared 1937
But...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Engineering, Featured Articles, Space, Video on 03 21st, 2012 | No Comments
Daredevil Skydiver Goes for the Record
Some would call Felix Baumgartner crazy. Others call him fearless. Either way this high-diving sky jumper wants to break the world record for highest sky dive, currently held for over 50 years by U.S. Air Force Colonel (Retired) Joseph Kittinger. He jumped from a whopping 102,600 feet.
Felix Baumgartner...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Discoveries, Featured Articles, Geology, Museum, New Species, Video on 03 19th, 2012 | No Comments
Fossil Hunters Find Camels in Panama
Paleontologists got a brief glimpse into Earth’s tropical past when the U.S. built the Panama Canal Zone almost 100 years ago. But the scientific world didn’t know what was there until the unearthed fossils housed at the Smithsonian were studied and Frank Whitmore and Robert Stewart published...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Evolution, Politics, Science & Religion, Science Ditty Friday, Video on 03 16th, 2012 | No Comments
SDF: Intelligent Designers Get the Boot
Editor’s Note: It’s Science Ditty Friday. Every Friday REALscience compiles a song (generally with an accompanying video) to kick your weekend off with a musical start. Have a favorite science song? Send it to ditty@realscience.us.
The battle over teaching evolution in biology class is still...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Health and Medicine, Space, The Brain, Video on 03 15th, 2012 | No Comments
Spaceflight May Damage Eyesight
Can you see yourself in space? Do you envision yourself traveling months or even years to explore our corner of the solar system? If so, you may want to get your eyes checked.
A new study of astronauts who have spent a lot of time in space on shuttle missions or at the International Space Station shows...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Discoveries, Engineering, Featured Articles, Geology, Inventions, Marine Science, New Species, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 03 13th, 2012 | No Comments
Ocean Explorers Plumb the Depths for Science
For the last seven years famed film director James Cameron has been working to build a tiny submarine capable of exploring the deepest reaches of the ocean. Later this month, the blockbuster creator of Titanic, The Abyss and Avatar will venture where only two men have gone before.
In preparing for his...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Featured Articles, Greenovation, Physics and Chemistry, Science Policy, Video on 03 12th, 2012 | No Comments
James Hansen Sounds Climate Alarm
James Hansen looks more like an Amish farmer these days — sporting a chin curtain beard, button-down white shirt and hat — than a scientist. At least that’s how the renowned climate expert appeared at the end of February, as he delivered a dire message to a room full of movers and...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Evolution, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Science & Religion, Science Ditty Friday, Scientainment, SciLebs, Space, Video on 03 9th, 2012 | No Comments
SDF: Miley Cyrus — Pro-Science Opinion Creates Controversy
Editor’s Note: It’s Science Ditty Friday. Every Friday REALscience compiles a song (generally with an accompanying video) to kick your weekend off with a musical start. Have a favorite science song? Send it to ditty@realscience.us.
Despite what some people may think 19-year-old Miley Cyrus is...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Atmospheric science, Climate Change, Video, Weird Weather on 03 8th, 2012 | No Comments
Tornado Season Off to Fast and Furious Start
Last year 1,668 tornadoes raked the U.S. causing billions of dollars in damage and claiming many lives. Winter tornadoes tend to be infrequent and weak because they rely on warm water in the Gulf of Mexico which is cooler at that time of year. But not this year. Temperatures in the Gulf are running...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Atmospheric science, Physics and Chemistry, Space, Video on 03 7th, 2012 | No Comments
Water World Becomes Newest Exoplanet on the Block
It may seem far away but astronomers have confirmed that a new planet orbiting a star 42 light years away is mostly made of water. This super Earth is much larger than our own planet and is one of several orbiting the star JG 1214, located in the constellation Ophiuchus (the serpent bearer).
The planet...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Biology, Climate Change, Geology, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 03 6th, 2012 | No Comments
Acid Oceans Spell Trouble for Sea Life
Ocean acidity is one of the most worrisome problems facing marine biologists. There is a lot that we don’t understand about the carbon cycle, including exactly how much of the carbon dioxide human activity belches into the atmosphere ultimately ends up in the ocean. Scientists think it’s...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astrobiology, Citizen science, Featured Articles, Space, Video on 02 29th, 2012 | No Comments
SETI Enlists Citizen Scientists in Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Jill Tarter has never been accused of being a small thinker. The astronomer and director of the Center for SETI Research, one of three non-profit organizations that make up the SETI Institute. The purpose as the acronym implies is to search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Astronomer Jill Tarter Makes...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Discoveries, Engineering, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 02 28th, 2012 | 1 Comment
Speed of Light Still Fastest Despite Neutrino Experiment
Antonio Ereditato was correct not to call his measurement of subatomic particles moving faster than the speed of light a discovery. And now after further scrutiny, the finding is falling apart. The high-energy particle physicists working at the European nuclear research lab CERN stunned the world last...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Science Ditty Friday, Scientainment, Video on 02 24th, 2012 | 2 Comments
SDF: Symphony of Science Takes on the Quantum World
Editor’s Note: It’s Science Ditty Friday. Every Friday REALscience compiles a song (generally with an accompanying video) to kick your weekend off with a musical start. Have a favorite science song? Send it to ditty@realscience.us.
The universe is made of 12 particles of matter and 4 forces...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Featured Articles, Geology, Video on 02 23rd, 2012 | No Comments
Himalayan Mountain Lakes Pose Growing Threat
Apa Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest 21 times and is practically a mountain goat when it comes to knowing the terrain of the Himalayas. When he first climbed the tallest peak he says there was always snow and ice for climbers to grip. Now, much of the ascent to the peak is just bare ground with loose...
Ice Age Flower Blooms Again
Squirrels bury the darnedest things. And one squirrel about 32,000 years ago buried the fruit of a tiny Arctic flower which was preserved in Russian permafrost until a few scientists discovered the cryo-preserved posey. They nurtured the plant and resurrected it using hormones and then grew new plants...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biochemistry, Bioethics, Biology, Biotechnology, Consumer Safety, Diseases, Engineering, Featured Articles, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Inventions, Plants, Video on 02 21st, 2012 | 2 Comments
Meet Test Tube Meat
The first beef created in a science lab in the Netherlands is being grown and by October physiologist Mark Post thinks it will reach the size of a golfball and be big enough to cook to see if the meat grown from cow muscle stem cells is any good. If successful this will be the most expensive hamburger...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Climate Change, Featured Articles, Politics, Science Ditty Friday, Science Policy, Scientainment, Video on 02 17th, 2012 | No Comments
SDF: Michael Jackson’s Earth Song Calls Out Apathy (Climate Denial)
Editor’s Note: It’s Science Ditty Friday. Every Friday REALscience compiles a song (generally with an accompanying video) to kick your weekend off with a musical start. Have a favorite science song? Send it to ditty@realscience.us.
Michael Jackson’s operatic opus Earth Song was described...
