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Gale In Context: Science is an engaging online resource that provides contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. By integrating authoritative reference content with headlines and videos, learners see how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues, from weather patterns to obesity. Users can explore millions of full-text articles from national and global publications, 200+ experiments and projects, and top reference content.
2) Size Matters
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In this episode of Dara O'Briain's Science Club, the team and guests focus on size. They explore big data, dark matter, bacteria, stock market trading, and more. Dara O'Briain's Science Club combines lively studio discussions featuring some of the world's most eminent scientists, with exciting experiments, studio demonstrations and film reports of cutting-edge science stories. Each loosely themed episode explores the ideas that are transforming our...
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In this documentary, Horizon launches the 2014 Longitude Prize for a innovation that will respond to a 21st century scientific challenge. The original Longitude Prize was awarded 300 years ago to John Harrison for his chronometer clock, which enabled ships to determine their exact position at sea. This invention reduced the number of shipwrecks and enabled Britain's global trade to flourish. Professor Alice Roberts looks at the history of this quest...
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From Matt Damon's recent hit, The Martian, to Interstellar, Gravity and long-running favorite, Star Trek, Hollywood is obsessed with science fiction. But how accurate is it, in terms of the science? Dr. Graham grabs a bucket of popcorn and sits down with astrophysicist, Dr. Katie Mack and physicist, Professor Lawrence Krauss to review Hollywood's treatment of science. Even the not-so-plausible cartoon series, The Jetsons, gets an affectionate mention....
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It takes a thousand years to form a single inch of soil. It is a fragile layer on the surface of the land - yet essential to all life on Earth. But where did soil come from and how was it made? Gardening expert Chris Beardshaw reveals the secrets locked within soil. Traveling around in his specially-equipped mobile soil lab, he delves down into dirt to uncover its deepest secrets. He looks into the distant past to reveal the almost miraculous way...
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This program transforms the family kitchen into a chemistry lab as Lisa conducts simple experiments using common household ingredients. By linking to students' prior knowledge and life experience, the video demonstrates key scientific concepts such as the scientific method and scientific procedures in a clear and entertaining way. Topics include states of matter, chemical and physical reactions, solutions, suspensions, melting, mixing, and dissolving....
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We perceive time in terms of seconds - the length of a heartbeat. We can't even imagine events that unfold over several days and years or be aware of elementary particles that flash into existence for less than a billionth of a second without high-tech camera equipment and exceptional filming techniques. "Time Limits" uses a combination of dramatic computer animation, amazing real time images, and the latest scientific advances to give a totally new...
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Humans have finally succeeded in making the ancient dream of Greek philosophers come true-to "see" an atom. In another direction we also seem to have unlimited sight: the Hubble Telescope grants us a glimpse of remote galaxies. This documentary assesses the limits of human perception, taking us on a journey through time from quasars millions of light-years away from earth, via the wonders of our populated world, to the depths of the human genotype...
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As the rate of innovation continues to increase exponentially, the resources needed to produce the products of science are starting to take a worrying toll on our planet. This clip takes a roller coaster ride through the ages to look at some of the defining scientific breakthroughs and disasters that have impacted the world we live, resulting in an equivocal view of scientists as both heroes and villains.
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Over the last 40 years, Horizon has joined scientists as they have probed the secrets of the universe - from the origin of dark matter to the nature of gravity and even stealing a glimpse into the private life of a black hole. Dallas Campbell delves into the Horizon archive to reveal the mind-boggling discoveries that have changed the way we think about our world.
15) Myth or Science
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Whether it's an urban myth, an old wives' tales, or a health headline offering the latest advice, how much stock can we put in all the different claims we hear? Do we really lose most of our heat through are heads? Does eating fast make you gain weight? From Winnipeg to Florida, from New York City to Vancouver, molecular biologist Dr. Jennifer Gardy goes in search of the hard facts behind some popular wisdom. The results are surprising and could make...
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Above the battlefields of World War II, the simple Piper Cub aircraft served as an observation platform for the adjustment of artillery fire and helped form the concept of Army Aviation as part of the ground combat team. Since then, the aircraft have become more sophisticated, more rugged, and more powerful. This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture series shows how the "Wings at the Tree Tops" have given the soldier a dimension of mobility...
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The development of the idea of democracy in ancient Greece and where it has got to in our own times. Democracy is the hottest topic on earth you might say. Nations which adopt it far oustrip any others in human development and success. But hereditary rulers are not democratic. Familiy sturctures are not democratic. Most educational institutions are not democratic. Religions are not democratic. Most companies are not democratic. So to make headway...
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In this episode, host John Watt discovers what advances in science and technology are doing to assist unwell and elderly citizens in New Zealand. Ever Wondered? sheds light on an amazing technicolor breakthrough led by a father-and-son team from Christchurch and on a flow cytometry suite in Wellington, where lasers are used to excite fluorescent dyes in a quest to develop immune-based therapies for the treatment of a host of diseases. Back in Auckland,...
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Episode 8 of the Shedding Light on Atoms series explains how ionic bonds are formed in 3D lattice structures. Spiro Liacos, a science teacher, examines how atoms can gain or lose electrons, and how the number of electrons gained or lost depends on an atom's electron configuration. The program concludes by comparing ionic compounds with covalent compounds, explaining the difference at the atomic level.