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QUEST: Science and Nature

QUEST: Science and Nature

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Career Spotlight | The Planet-Searching Physicist

Career Spotlight | The Planet-Searching Physicist

Growing up in a small town in New Mexico, Elisa Quintana didn't even think about science. She grew up in a household tha... Read more

8 Jan 2016

2mins

Ranked #2

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How to Build a Model of a Future Space-Exploring Robot | Science Spotlight

How to Build a Model of a Future Space-Exploring Robot | Science Spotlight

Researchers at NASA Ames and the University of California, Berkeley are designing what may be the next generation of spa... Read more

8 Jan 2016

3mins

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Exploring Space with Shape-Shifting Robots | Engineering Is

Exploring Space with Shape-Shifting Robots | Engineering Is

Alice Agogino's lab at the University of California, Berkeley and Vytas SunSpiral's team at the Dynamic Tensegrity Robot... Read more

8 Jan 2016

5mins

Ranked #4

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3-D Mapping Your World with a Backpack | Engineering Is

3-D Mapping Your World with a Backpack | Engineering Is

Hyper-realistic video games. They're made using a technique called 3-D mapping. In the real world, 3-D mapping indoors i... Read more

8 Jan 2016

4mins

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Career Spotlight | Spatial Interaction Engineer

Career Spotlight | Spatial Interaction Engineer

Alex Okita teaches computers to see like we see. He designs and develops tools and games for the Structure Sensor, an at... Read more

8 Jan 2016

2mins

Ranked #6

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Poop | Science Spotlight

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Poop | Science Spotlight

Poop contains a lot of interesting stuff, including all kinds of microbes. Learn what these microbes do and how they can... Read more

4 Dec 2015

1min

Ranked #7

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Cleaning Poop from Drinking Water | Engineering Is

Cleaning Poop from Drinking Water | Engineering Is

Here in the US, we take clean drinking water for granted. In many parts of the world, however, modern water treatment si... Read more

4 Dec 2015

4mins

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Bending Light with a New Kind of Microscope | Science Spotlight

Bending Light with a New Kind of Microscope | Science Spotlight

Manu Prakash, a bioengineer at Stanford University, has created a fully functional microscope out of waterproof paper th... Read more

3 Dec 2015

3mins

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Diagnosing Diseases with Origami Microscopes | Engineering Is

Diagnosing Diseases with Origami Microscopes | Engineering Is

Manu Prakash and his lab at Stanford University have designed an origami based paper microscope, called a Foldscope. The... Read more

3 Dec 2015

5mins

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How Your Smartphone Knows Where You Are

How Your Smartphone Knows Where You Are

Quantum physics, Einstein’s theory of relativity and atomic clocks that are accurate to one billionth of a second -- all... Read more

16 Nov 2015

3mins

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Career Spotlight: Research Scientist and Mechanical Engineer

Career Spotlight: Research Scientist and Mechanical Engineer

Meet Dr. Vi Rapp. She is a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She has a Ph.D. in mechanical en... Read more

21 Oct 2015

3mins

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Science Spotlight: The Combustion of Wood

Science Spotlight: The Combustion of Wood

What is combustion? What happens when wood burns? Learn about the chemistry of combustion in this animated explainer.Thi... Read more

21 Oct 2015

1min

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Science Spotlight-Fish, Swim Bladders and Boyle's Law

Science Spotlight-Fish, Swim Bladders and Boyle's Law

Boyle’s Law describes the relationship between pressure and volume of a gas. Matt Wandell, a biologist at the California... Read more

21 Oct 2015

2mins

Ranked #14

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Explaining Earthquakes

Explaining Earthquakes

An earthquake generates a series of seismic waves that travel through the interior or near the surface of the Earth. The... Read more

21 Oct 2015

4mins

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Big Solar Comes of Age

Big Solar Comes of Age

California and Arizona share the Mojave Desert, one of the world’s best locations for solar installations. As Californi... Read more

3 Jul 2014

7mins

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Follow That Nutrient

Follow That Nutrient

Meet the underwater characters that make a living cycling nutrients through the watershed. Learn how the physical, chemi... Read more

16 Jun 2014

5mins

Ranked #17

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Underwater Observatory Unlocks Ocean Secrets

Underwater Observatory Unlocks Ocean Secrets

The oceans cover 70 percent of Earth’s surface, they drive global climate and are critical to life on the continents. An... Read more

28 May 2014

1min

Ranked #18

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Otters v. Climate Change

Otters v. Climate Change

A recent scientific study shows sea otter activity off the coast of Washington State has removed CO2 from the atmosphere... Read more

28 May 2014

7mins

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The Ecology of Fear

The Ecology of Fear

We journey to Washington State’s Cascade Mountains, where the return of wolves could have a profound impact on this vast... Read more

28 May 2014

7mins

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Groundwater, Beneath the Surface

Groundwater, Beneath the Surface

This lighthearted animation takes us beneath the surface to see groundwater in action. Watch anthropomorphized drops of ... Read more

20 May 2014

5mins

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