EXPLO.TV - Webcasts, Video Clips, and Podcasts from the Exploratorium

Origins: CERN: Scientists Make Antimatter! (webcast)

Running Time:
00:25:16

Cold anti-hydrogen atoms have been made, stored, and detected for the first time at ATHENA! We talked to the ATHENA team about this groundbreaking, historic event in particle physics and learned what's next.

Project: Origins: CERN | Browse All

Date: September 20, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Physics

Iron Science Teacher: Zip-Lock Plastic Bags (webcast)

Running Time:
00:36:24

Watch as the best teachers on the planet battle it out for the title of Iron Science Teacher. In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity. This week’s “secret” ingredient: Zip-Lock Plastic Bags

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: August 29, 2002
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Chemistry

Seeing: Visual Literacy: A Talk With James Elkins (webcast)

Running Time:
1:24:22

What is visual literacy--and who is literate? Join guest lecturer James Elkins in an evening of commentary on the many ways we "read" the visual world and assign meaning to what we see.

Project: Seeing Exhibition | Browse All

Date: August 21, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Arts

Return to Mars: Preparing for Mars: FIDO in the Desert (webcast)

Running Time:
1:03:16

In preparation for the 2004 landing of the Mars Exploration Rovers, NASA engineers and scientists tested their remote operation procedures using a rover called FIDO (field integrated design & operations rover). Our remote team traveled to the desert test site to see what they learned in the desert and what they hoped to learn on Mars.

Project: Return to Mars | Browse All

Date: August 19, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science, Geology/Eath Science

Iron Science Teacher: Pencils (webcast)

Running Time:
00:53:13

Watch as the best teachers on the planet battle it out for the title of Iron Science Teacher. In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity. This week’s “secret” ingredient: Pencils

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: August 2, 2002
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Iron Science Teacher: Eggs (webcast)

Running Time:
1:00:51

Watch as the best teachers on the planet battle it out for the title of Iron Science Teacher. In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity. This week’s “secret” ingredient: Eggs!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 19, 2002
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Iron Science Teacher: Shoe Boxes (webcast)

Running Time:
1:00:09

Watch as the best teachers on the planet battle it out for the title of Iron Science Teacher. In this zany competition teachers will have ten minutes to create a science activity. This week’s “secret” ingredient: Shoe Boxes!

Project: Iron Science Teacher | Browse All

Date: July 12, 2002
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Solar Eclipse: Eclipse 2002: The View from the Exploratorium's Porch (webcast)

Running Time:
1:14:47

Join us from the front porch of the Exploratorium as we check out today's partial solar eclipse. Learn safe viewing practices, then go outside and watch for yourself!

Project: Solar Eclipse: Stories from the Path of Totality | Browse All

Date: June 10, 2002
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Science in Action
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science

Origins: Hubble: A New View of the Universe (webcast)

Running Time:
00:30:43

Join us as NASA releases the first images from the Hubble Telescope's new camera, NICMOS (the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer). We'll discuss the significance and beauty of these pictures of our galaxy with the NICMOS' Lead Scientist, Keith Noll.

Project: Origins: Hubble | Browse All

Date: June 5, 2002
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Science
Subject(s): Astronomy/Space Science

Science Wire: Echo-Logic (webcast)

Running Time:
00:41:34

Produced by students from San Francisco's Aim High Program. Today they ask, how do our ears work? Can we communicate without words? How do whales communicate under water? Why don't bats slam into trees as they fly? Middle school students will interview Exploratorium Educator Ken Finn and Biologist Dr. Karen Kalumuck, plus special surprise guests!

Project: Science Wire | Browse All

Date: May 18, 2002
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): Life Science/Biology