Total Solar Eclipse 2017
From NASA: On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun. Anyone within the path of totality can see one of nature’s most awe inspiring sights – a total...
View ArticleAstronaut Chris Hadfield Debunks Space Myths
Former astronaut Chris Hadfield helps debunk (and confirm!) some common myths about space. Is there any sound in space? Does space smell like burnt steak? Is NASA working on warp speed?
View ArticleRichard Feynman – The Character of Physical Law
The wonderful Richard Feynman lectures at Cornell on The Character of Physical Law – Part 1 The Law of Gravitation
View ArticleVideo: Tour of the Moon in 4K
Take a virtual tour of the Moon in all-new 4K resolution, thanks to data provided by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. As the visualization moves around the near side, far side, north and...
View ArticleLockitch: Spacetime, Black Holes, and Gravitational Waves
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the first-ever detection of gravitational waves, confirming a 100-year-old prediction of Einstein’s. The discovery, announced in 2015, launched a new era...
View Article300 Years of Element Discovery in 99 seconds
In the past 300 years we’ve discovered 105 elements. What would the periodic table have looked like as we added element after element?
View ArticleLecture on Climate Sensitivity by Professor Emeritus Richard Lindzen
Lecture on Climate Sensitivity by Atmospheric Scientist Professor Emeritus Richard Lindzen delivered in Europe in April, 2014. Prof Lindzen has been at the top of this field for decades, and was a lead...
View ArticleDarwin and the Discovery of Evolution
The theory of evolution is often disparaged by its opponents as being “just a theory” — i.e., a speculative hypothesis with little basis in hard, scientific fact. But this claim carries with it the...
View ArticleFurther Truths About Climate Change
By Andrew Bernstein In 2017, I published an essay, “The Truth About Climate Change,” showing the evidence that climate periods cycle–and that climate change is natural, on-going, and likely incessant....
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