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Chief Scientist of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Jim Garvin, takes us on a journey to Mercury, Venus, Earth, the moon, near-Earth objects, and Mars. Why does space matter? Why is exploring th... More

Jeff Herbst, VP of Business Development for Nvidia, talks to us about the 2010 Emerging Companies Summit, which is the premier event for emerging companies to show off software applications that are bu... More

PyConAU 2010 KeyNote Presented by Mark Pesce Although Mark Pesce does know Python, he doesn't consider himself any sort of expert so he won't be talking about Python, except to whinge that his fr... More

This is Part 4 of the interview with Randolph Nesse from "The Genius of Charles Darwin", presented by Richard Dawkins. In it an important question is asked: "Why has natural selection left our bodi... More

"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majo... More

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is made up of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation,... More

Does life exist elsewhere in the Universe? Perhaps. In August 2009, scientists announced the discovery of the amino acid, glycine, on the comet Wild 2. Amino acids provide key components for life here ... More

In this popular video series, real astronomers answer common questions about astronomy. Part 1: "Where Is the Center of the Universe?" Dr. Varoujan Gorjian explains the mind-boggling expansion of the U... More

Richard Feynman (1918-1988) was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluid... More

Kokoro Co. Ltd.'s Actroid-F (previously unveiled by ATR as Geminoid-F) is shown close-up in this short video preview....

How do you give a robot a sharper sense of smell? By using genetically modified frog cells, according to Shoji Takeuchi, a bioengineer at the University of Tokyo in Japan....

Robisuke is a conversational robot developed at Waseda University's Kobayashi Lab to interact using natural language communication....

Researchers at ETH Zurich's Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems have used a fruit fly to steer a mobile robot through an obstacle course. They call it the Cyborg Fly. ...

Star Size Comparison: The biggest/largest known stars in the Universe....

John Oliver presenting at the Economist's World in 2010 Festival...

Interview with Jason Jones and Tim Greenberg from Daily Show with Jon Stewart on their trip to Iran. ...

Participants spoke about the state of the economy, economic and business innovation, and opportunities for growth. Among the topics they addressed were use of technologies, alternative energy uses, and... More

A synthetic cornea has been used to treat patients for the first time. WARNING: This video contains graphic images....

Clip of an interview with world renowned linguist/political activist Professor Noam Chomsky for Slowboat Films' 'The Kingdom of Survival', set for release in late 2010/early 2011. ...

Astronomers using ESO's world-leading HARPS instrument have discovered a planetary system containing at least five planets, orbiting the Sun-like star HD 10180. The researchers also believe the system ... More

Andrew Hessel is a speaker, consultant, and catalyst for open source biology, synthetic biology, DIYbio, and the international Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) program....

UsefulProgress uses NVIDIA GPUs to help physicians diagnose and repair anomalies in the brain and heart....

A CT scan of a patient's heart is rendered in 3D, allowing doctors to diagnose an abnormality of the coronary artery and to plan for surgical intervention. In the case of the brain scan, a catheter has... More

Lawyers for Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, are set to meet with prosecutors in Sweden to press for molestation charges against their client to be dropped....

Terrific documentary which took 8 years to produce. Comprehensive and informative, a must watch in my opinion (23 part youtube playlist)....