What would it look like to plunge into a supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy? Goddard scientists visualized this hypothetical journey in the video above with NASA’s D...
Imagine spending three weeks high up in a tree. For dedicated cameraman Josh Aitchison, this wasn’t just a feat of endurance, but also an incredible opportunity to capture an extraordinary phe...
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Written by Cynthia Erivo, Remember to dream, Ebere celebrates big dreams and big imaginations, and the families who help foster them. The Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award winning author reads her de...
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How did Wild West safe crackers break into the bank safe mechanical combination locks? And what goes into the engineering inside the everyday combination locks like the ones we use on lockers? I...
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“I smelted iron from iron bacteria,” John Plant writes in the caption of this Primitive Technology video, “and then cast the iron in a mold to form a rudimentary knife, making this the fir...
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Horsetails, also known as Equisetum, are an ancient fern ally with some fascinating features. When it’s time for them to reproduce, tiny spherical spores with four bendy “arms,” a bit like...
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Spend 3.5 minutes with a bright yellow male Baya Weaver, a weaverbird found across the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. These skilled builders are known for their well-designed dangling n...
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George Zaidan set out to capture the intricate process of water freezing into crystal clear ice. Instead, his experiment in slowly freezing a drop of water reveals a phenomena he didn’t expect...
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What are tapirs? How does protecting tapirs help their rainforests thrive? And how does captive breeding in zoos help these endangered animals in the wild? In this episode of First Chance to See...
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Zoom, zoom, zoom into “the sharpest infrared images to date” of the iconic Horsehead Nebula, a dark nebula located approximately 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Orion. Also known...
Linocut artist Elina Adrshina crafted this Sunflowers print with nine colors carefully layered one on top of the other. In the video above, Adrshina showcases the technique of reduction printing...
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In the cold forest canopy, small mammals with large dark eyes glide effortlessly from tree to tree. These are Siberian flying squirrels, fantastic creatures with furry membranes that stretch fro...
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Filmmaker Andrew Lavers uses his passion for editing in digital and analog ways, including creating YouTube films, mixing tactile activities into his digital work, and turning articles into poem...
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-to-make-newspaper-blackout-poetry
Axel Scheffler’s illustrations come to life in this animated read aloud of children’s author Julia Donaldson’s picture book The Snail and the Whale by the Belgium-based Moving Stories YouT...
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“In the 1930s, hundreds of thousands of Americans were recruited across the United States to protect and preserve the country’s forests, parks, and fields,” this Untold History video summa...
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