Celebrating Mister Rogers with a musical Google Doodle
On this date, September 21, 1967, 51 years ago, Fred Rogers walked into the television studio at WQED in Pittsburgh to tape the very first episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, which would premiere nationally on PBS...
How to make a rocket
"What's the best scientific formula for a powerful rocket with oxidizer and fuel?" In this video clip from Bang Goes The Theory Series 5, via BBC Earth Lab, we get a quick peek at the mix of chemistry and physics that...
Four levels of chocolate chip cookies: From amateur to food scientist
Learn a few professional tips of what to do (and maybe what not to do) when baking this classic: Chocolate chip cookies. Amateur baker Alina, home cook Lorenzo, and Penny, a professional chef, demonstrate how they mak...
The benefits of sea cucumber poop
There are about 1,250 different species of sea cucumber across the world's oceans. This is Thelenota anax. And yes, it's doing what you think it's doing. Sea cucumber poop is surprisingly important for the ecosystem. ...
Andreas Gursky at the Hayward Gallery
In 2018, Hayward Gallery reopened with the first major UK retrospective of the work of acclaimed German photographer Andreas Gursky. Known for his large-scale, often spectacular pictures that portray emblematic sites ...
Threads, an animated short by Torill Kove
Note: Due to licensing agreements, some European countries may not be able to view this National Film Board of Canada film. A woman follows a red thread across the sky to find a small child. Ever-moving forward in ...
iCub, IIT’s teleoperated robot toddler
iCub is a toddler-sized open-source robot by the Dynamic Interaction Control Lab at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). See the iCub robot walk across the lab and interact with a toy in the September 2018 video...
Which life form really dominates Earth?
In 2018, there are around 7.6 billion people on the planet, but weigh us all together on a giant scale and we only make up 1/10,000 of Earth’s biomass. What is biomass? And what life forms dominate the rest of the pla...
