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This Quantum Lab Makes Exotic States of Matter in Space
Atomic physicists at NASA are working to create an exotic state of matter…in space. And it turns out, the International Space Station is the perfect home base for these experiments. »Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker »Watch more Focal Point | https://bit.ly/2s0cf7w NASA’s new quantum lab is studying a bizarre and rare form of matter called Bose-Einstein condensates… and it’s doing it in space! We went inside the NASA control room that’s running these experiments to talk to the scientists behind this quest to probe the universe’s biggest mysteries. The Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) is a multi-user facility that is operating aboard the ISS producing Bose-Einstein condensates, which are clouds of ultra-cooled…
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Why You Can’t Trust Nutrition Science & Health Claims
The information in this video comes from Michael Pollan’s book, “In Defense of Food”. Over the last 2 centuries, humans have studied nutrition, but has all that science made us healthier as a species? Please consider supporting After Skool on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AfterSkool We have a book coming out very soon. Visit our site to preorder https://www.afterskool.net/ Check out the new After Skool T-shirt design! https://teespring.com/stores/afterskool If you’d like us to make a custom animation for your company, send us an email at [email protected] Go to http://www.audible.com/afterskool or text afterskool to 500-500 to get a free audiobook, 2 Audible Originals, and 30-day free trial. Just released the book on Amazon! Still…
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How Many Universes Are There?
The universe is big, but it’s peanuts compared to the eternally inflating multiverse. But just how many universes are there? What are they like? And most importantly, what can they tell us about … aliens? Imagine it: the observable part of our universe is 93 billion light years across, and that’s just a small fraction of the stuff created in our Big Bang. But in the eternal inflation picture, ours is just one among uncountable bubble universes. Bubbles that are continuously appearing and growing within a vastly larger spacetime that itself expands at an exponentially accelerating rate. A greater inflationary spacetime whose expansion never ends. We looked at the bizarre…
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Could We Terraform Mars?
Humanity’s future is glorious. As we master space travel, we’ll hop from one lifeless world to the next. Life will blossom in our path and the galaxy with shimmer with beautiful Earth-like orbs. Hmmm… maybe. This won’t sound so far fetched if we prove we can do it at least once. If we successfully terraform Mars. Support Space Time on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Check out the new Space Time Merch Store! https://pbsspacetime.com/ We already have the technology to bring humans safely to Mars and set up small settlements – or at least could do within a generation. But those settlements will need to be cocooned – shielded against the deadly cold,…
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Scientists Just Looked Inside a Quantum Matter Fireball
The HADES machine is creating quantum matter fireballs with temperatures up to 800 billion degrees Celsius, in an effort to study quarks. » Subscribe to Seeker!http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker » Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist HADES, or the High Acceptance DiElectron Spectrometer, is an internationally collaborative piece of equipment located in Germany. HADES is used by scientists all over the world to study matter as it might exist in some of the most intense events in the cosmos, like the merging of neutron stars. And it’s getting hot enough in HADES to create and analyze a fireball of quantum matter But…how? So the HADES team decided to pursue some answers with a physical experiment.…
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How Close Are We to Harnessing Synthetic Life?
Scientists are exploring how to edit genomes and even create brand new ones that never existed before, but how close are we to harnessing synthetic life? » Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker » Watch more How Close Are We | http://bit.ly/HCAWplaylist » Follow Olivia on Instagram: instagram.com/OliviaPavcoG Scientists have made major strides when it comes to understanding the base code that underlies all living things—but what if we could program living cells like software? The principle behind synthetic biology, the emerging study of building living systems, lies in this ability to synthesize life. An ability to create animal products, individualized medical therapies, and even transplantable organs, all starting with synthetic DNA…
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The International Hunt for Dark Energy Is On, Here’s What’s Coming
An international team of scientists and engineers are building a massive dark energy hunting machine to probe the far reaches of the universe for clues of this mysterious force. »Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker »Watch more Focal Point | https://bit.ly/2lXv74v When it comes to what we know about the universe, our knowledge covers approximately 5% of the entire universe, and the other 95%…well, we just don’t know. The majority of that mysterious 95% is made up of dark energy, something scientists can detect through certain measurements but have not been able to observe directly. Dark energy is a mysterious force that scientists first became aware of in the late 1990s after…
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How NASA Plans to Discover Alien Life on Jupiter’s Moon, Europa
The perfect conditions for alien life might be hidden under the icy crust of Jupiter’s moon, Europa. And a new mission from NASA plans to send the Europa Clipper to explore. » Subscribe to Seeker!http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker » Watch more Countdown to Launch: http://bit.ly/CTLplaylist The search for extraterrestrial life extends into the far reaches of the galaxy and while there are several distant candidate exoplanets, the most promising destination for alien life might be right in our celestial backyard. The perfect conditions for alien life could be hidden under the icy crust of Jupiter’s moon, Europa. And since Europa is in our solar system, we can actually visit Jupiter’s moon. A new…
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Could Injecting Carbon Into the Earth Save Our Planet?
Carbon pollution is being sucked from the sky and injected into underground rocks—will Climeworks’ ambitious plan to stop climate change work? » Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker » Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Iceland is a land of majestic waterfalls, black sands, sparkling glaciers, and possibly one of the world’s wildest solutions for solving climate change. Nestled beside the majestic hills of southwestern Iceland are giant carbon collecting machines capable of snatching CO2 straight from the air and injecting it into underground stones, where the gas can be stored safely for millennia. Our planet is heating up fast. Carbon dioxide levels now exceed 415 parts per million, higher than they’ve ever been…
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Engineered Viruses Are The New Biological Weapons, Here’s What You Need to Know
Bioweapons have been around for centuries, but with advances in synthetic biology, we’re now able to make bioweapons from scratch. »Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker »Watch more Focal Point | https://bit.ly/2M3gmbK In the world of synthetic biology, a microbe is seen as a structural frame on which to add genes & DNA. The microbe will be tested and have its performance improved, so it can hopefully do something useful for the world. But this potential to modify living organisms and steer them toward global problems is often met with a dark side. The National Academies of Science released a major report titled Biodefense in the Age of Synthetic Biology with a…
