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Lights and gauges with display screens cover the walls. Illustration of energetic reaction drawn on top. Caption: it releases a lot of energy in the form of heat.

A butterfly sits on a metal head. Caption: can see regular color images and near infrared.

A self healing reverse filter. On screen text, 1 centimeter. 1 time real time, 7 to 3 ratio, D I water to glycerol, 0.0083 M S D S. Caption: and it self heals after the object passes.

A 360 view of the clouds and the tree tops. Caption: Clouds play a pivotal role in our planet's climate,

The illustration depicts the distress signals sent by the plant, when the caterpillar munches on its leaves. On screen text, Larva, Pieris rapae. Caption: Here's a caterpillar munching through a leaf.

A graphical illustration of a star. Caption: reveal the inner workings of these rare stars,

A group of people visiting an active volcano. Caption: scientists visited New Zealand's topol volcanic zone,

A man with a shovel standing besides a water body. Caption: The team wants to see what other pollutants are recorded.

Illustrations depict a cell placed above the graphene, which is illuminated by a light bulb. Caption: The more intense the light, the faster the cells beat.

A biological skin and a bioinspired e skin. The e skin consists of synthetic layers instead of biological layers. Caption: work together to give our hands their extraordinary sensitivity.

A diagram illustrates certain traits recurring in a grain plant. Caption: Those traits remain the same generation after generation.

A needle engraved inside a downward opening capsule. Caption: This capsule contains a small biodegradable needle.

A diagram illustrates a women talking to a man using a sign language translating device on her neck. The device says, My name is Jane. Nice to meet you. Caption: It translates full sentences without the need to pause.

Human hand movement being replicated in a screen. Caption: It can help athletes improve performance.

A flying robot and a hummingbird. Caption: to decode the hummingbird hover for robotics.

illustration of Superman running. His spectacle is flying in the air. Caption: think superman and ant man combined, stronger than steel,

Artificial sea grass on low wave velocity. Caption: researchers tested artificial seagrass.

Yellow and orange rectangular boxes poke out of water beneath a beamed structure with a man standing on it. Other structures and equipment fill warehouse setting. N, S, E and Oregon State University banners in background.

Closeup of a crocodile with its mouth open. Inset of a blue, green and yellow infrared image at left.

Blurry film still of 2 geese flying with wings outstretched.

Two green plants in black containers. Red tomato floats next to one labeled, "Solanum Lycopersicum C, V dot M, 8, 2." An inset of a green tomato sits next to the other labeled, "Solanum Pennellii."

Color illustration of a T. rex with its mouth open wide toward the sky. Superimposed air conditioning unit directs wavy blue lines toward T. rex. Other dinosaurs and forest in background.

Night shot of a bug-eyed creature with mangy brown and white fur grasping a branch with long claws.

Closeup of an insect's face with bulging bronze eyes and hair-like sensors on a black body with wings.

Closeup of a bee hovering near the stamens of a bright pink flower. Out of focus flowers fill background.

Black and white mind map. Circle in center with hexagons dotted at vertices. Dashed lines radiate out to circles with images of a street, pieces of wood, a pie server, a gavel, a grid with dots, a paint can being poured, and a bottle.

Chrome robot using 4 hands, each with 2 mallets, to play a wood xylophone against a white background.

Aerial view of a rolling red rock landscape with a small arch formation in foreground.

Digital rendering of a featureless human figure standing on a path next to a segmented gray wall with a bike lane on top.

Earth floats in darkness as cracks in its surface emanate orange light.

A satellite view of North America. A red arrow from the Pacific Ocean points to the coasts of Mexico. Caption: that influences the winter US jet stream.

The microscopic image of cement particles. Caption: This new concrete replaces cement with a composite binder.

Two doctors discuss over the x ray of a human brain. Caption: could provide insights for the treatment.

A new device that helps capture and release soft bodied animals. On screen text, Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Caption: It folds up into a 12 sided, almost round box,

Three men walking through a cultivated field of green plants. Caption: Six generations of Romingers have been farming this land

Sunflowers in foreground, modern multi-story buildings in the background. Caption: (narrator) Sustainability -- that's what it comes down to.

Person in a lab holding a pipette behind a plexiglass shield and working. Caption: scientists are able to create seeds that solve problems.

Two people working on an irrigation channel. Caption: to better protect the land that he loves to farm on.

A girl working in a swamp. Caption: I love doing conservation projects.

Still image from: Acid and Bases for Kids

Crash test dummy in the driver's seat of a vehicle. Caption: [tires squeal]

Object flying in the sky attached to a tether. Caption: We can capture more energy with less wind.

People feeding dried hay to goats. Caption: How can we figure out how much energy is stored in this hay?

Still image from: Animal IQ: Can Dolphins Do Just About Anything?

Still image from: Animal IQ: Elephants--Do Giant Brains Mean More Smarts?

Still image from: Animal IQ: Foxes--Dog Hardware, Cat Software

Still image from: Animal IQ: How Intelligent Are Dogs, Really?

Still image from: Animal IQ: Otters--Cute, Playful, Geniuses?

Still image from: Animal IQ: There Are No Actual "Lion Kings"

Still image from: Animal IQ: This Rat Can Drive

Still image from: Archaeo-Tech: LiDAR

Photo of deers captured in a photo trap.

Double helix of DNA with two protein strands highlighted. One strand shows proteins A and T. The other strand shows C and G. Caption "methylation". Caption: attach to a gene and block access to it,

A man talks to a woman in an office setup. Caption: I think women make excellent C E Os.

Illustration of the northeast coast of North America and a yellow cylindrical sub with fins sending and receiving signals from an orbiting satellite. Caption: What are we finding when we go below the waves?

Illustration of a cell with activity inside. Caption: It changes the function of the cell

Baby peers up from crib looking up towards a colorful mobile hanging above. Arms are outstretched, feet kicking inside a zipped baby gown.

X-ray images of 3 views of the brain. 2 smaller brain images appear below in a gallery view.

Adult man and woman with a child between them. The man and the woman are each contributing one chromosome to the child. Caption: half from your mother and half from your father.

Person standing in front of houses with children playing in the background. Caption: we discovered that matter exists in three phases.

A photo of an estate.

Closeup of tongs picking up a small piece of mold off bread contained in a glass jar. Caption: I'll take some bread mold and let it work.

A man and woman have donned helmets and are about to enter a door. Caption: Richard, this is the bending fatigue test.

A seven story pump house. Caption: Its ultimate destination is this seven story pump house,

Still image from: Bubbly Slime vs a Volcano Science Experiment

Diagram showing two pairs of dogs resulting in two dogs, each with shorter legs. Caption: so dogs with shorter legs were selected and bred.:

A person looks through the eye piece of a microscope.

Test tube with aqua liquid in the bottom is immersed in ice water. Caption: and at low temperatures, the reaction is slowed down.

A gray seal. Caption: Gray seal pups, thick with blubber, dot the island.

Tall, angular, light colored buildings with a wide central open-air walkway. Caption: What they created is alive and working today.

Two matches, one unlit, the other with the tip burned and extinguished. Chemical change. Caption: This is an example of a chemical change.

Two glow sticks immersed in separate containers of liquid. One stick is glowing much brighter than the other. Caption: The one in hot water gets brighter

A spider in the center of a web with double helix DNA strands in the background. Caption: the relationship between changes in spider genomes

Still image from: Children's Choice Book Award: Stefan Gates "Science You Can Eat"

Alex Dainis is seated in front of her book shelf. On screen text, Bite Sci-zed. Caption: I like chocolate a lot.

Person and a robot standing in front of shelves full of boxes. Caption: Kits? What's a kit?

An illustration depicts a robot talking to a bird. Caption: This one is my favorite; it's quartz.

Woman opens her mouth mid-speech and holds out her hands with palms up. Title card reads, "Collaboration in Science: Tea Break with Amor Sciendi."

Scientists working in a lab. Caption: What's distinctive about scientific knowledge?

Task A. Two columns with the words red, blue, green, orange, brown, black, and yellow written in the corresponding color but different order. Caption: (boy) Red, blue, green, orange, brown, black, red, yellow,

Close up of a brown and white bunny in a cage. Caption: has been carried out on nonhuman animals.

Nighttime view of a city skyline. A beam of light shines forward from a building tower. Text on image reads, "Core Physics. Classical Physics."

A nuclear bomb explosion with a bright yellow mushroom cloud above. Text on image reads, "Core Physics. Modern Physics."

Closeup of a huge pile of kernels of dried corn. Caption: making corn the number-one crop by weight.

Map of the United States with NE, IA, KS, MO, AR, OK, NM, and TX marked. Pawnee, OK is at the epicenter of a circle indicating an earthquake. Caption: A 5.6 magnitude earthquake northeast of Oklahoma City.

Still image from: Crash Course Chemistry: The Creation of Chemistry--The Fundamental Laws

A cylindrical space craft with equipment and antennas protruding from it in relief against a large grayish-brown planet with rings in the background. Caption: We'll shoot between Saturn and its rings.

A rectangular space craft with a large, flat round disc pointed towards the planet earth, visible in the background. Caption: We've launched hundreds into low Earth orbit for years.

A hexagonal space craft with three much larger wings equally spaced around the hexagonal base flying in space with the planet Jupiter in the distant background. Caption: Juno's going to Jupiter to learn about how it was formed.

Still image from: Crazy Engineering: GRACE-FO

Still image from: Crazy Engineering: Space Claw

A roughly rectangular space craft with two solar wings approaches a much larger round spacecraft surrounded in petal-like protrusions. Caption: The one in space will be tens of meters.

Cartoon of two robots windsurfing. Caption: That's Chubasco and Khamsin windsurfing near Gusty Isle.

Three cartoon characters standing in fog, two looking dismayed. Caption: We've got fog!

Palm tree and house out of focus in foreground, wall of water from the ocean in focus in the background. Caption: to forecast when tsunamis may hit the coast

Person in gloves and a lab coat handles two mice. One is noticeably heavy. Caption: because a single gene is defective,

Microscopic image of a pale white flea with a long body and tail.

Closeup on the face of a Tsetse fly with red eyes, pale body and an elongated appendage extending out from a black bulb at the bottom of its head.

Cyberchase cartoon. A sheet of paper with several illustrations that are labeled Browns. Illustrations include dirt, straw, paper, and leaves.

Microscopic image of a cylindrical mosquito egg that's dark brown in color with hundreds of white dots that look like polka dots.

A photo depicts flies on the surface of a fruit.

Closeup of a light brown cricket camouflaged in the dirt.

Map of North and Central America. Different areas of the map are highlighted to indicate the habitat areas and 5 birds are superimposed on the map. The highlighted areas are concentrated in central Mexico, the west coast of the United states, and much of Canada and Alaska. Caption: they changed eye color from yellow to dark.

A small bird perched on a person's hand. It is gay with some brown on the wings. Caption: It's much more olive-gray, duskier gray on the head.

Closeup of 2 beakers filled with 60 milliliters of clear liquid. Next to the beakers are a brown cylindrical object a black cube. Man in the background reaches his hands towards the objects.

Line graph shows Estimated Carbon Dioxide Emission from China. Text reads, "Given the overall trend shown in the line graph, would you expect an increase or decrease in carbon dioxide over the next 5 years? The overall trend indicates an increase in carbon dioxide.

Split screen photos of a flat snowy area and the ocean. Text reads, Scientific methods. Step 1: Problem or Question. Why does the fresh water in ponds freeze before the salt water in oceans.

Digital illustration of a triple beam balance scale with a beaker filled with blue liquid. Text above reads, what is the mass of the beaker and fluid?

Cartoon character. Caption: We're going to Johan's world, yippee!

Straight rows of chicken eggs in gray cardboard trays. The left tray contains brown eggs. The right tray contains white eggs.

Measurement device with leads attached. A rectangular box filled with fluid and a person putting a lid on the box with two leads reaching into the liquid. Caption: An important part of the electrolysis cell

Still image from: Emily Graslie's Art Lab: The Art of the Microcosmos

Rocky, flat, barren landscape with a large planet covered in bands of color on the horizon and a star in the distance. Caption: where life might be found in our own solar system

Illustration of a fish with toxicity entering from the water and through the mouth. Caption: which accumulate more toxin from the smaller fish they eat

Closeup of red-hot charcoal on a grill. Caption: creating a fuel source that works but has problems.

People sitting at a table with paper spread in front of them and people working in a science lab. Caption: Engineers apply principles of science and mathematics

A small bird perched on a plank. Caption: Somehow, there was a critical mass action that took off.

Two power cords plugged into a wall outlet. Caption: We also use electrical energy every day

Person Speaking from a podium. Caption: and why it doesn't act so well in the obese.

Still image from: Explosive Science: How to Make a Pasta Rocket

Drawing of the sun and a person with a rock in between them obscuring the rays of light from the sun. Caption: Theoretically, observers would never know it's there.

Linked hexagonal structures drawn on graph paper. Caption: Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms

Illustration of interconnected objects coming apart where light hits. Caption: The light causes the short chains to disassemble

A man with a pole collecting something off a large rock on the ground. Caption: He's collected scorpions in over two dozen countries

Silhouette of 5 people looking out on a landscape with stormy skies and an active volcano in the distance. Text on image reads, "Fierce Earth. Hurricanes."

Person stirring a white liquid in a large pot. Caption: While we're waiting for that to heat,

Milk, ice cream, butter, ranch dressing. Caption: These are all oil-and-water mixtures that don't separate:

Person marking a spot near the lip of a round plastic container. Caption: Combine 1 pound of sugar with 1/2 gallon of water

People standing side by side in a line. Caption: Step 3. Pass Potato 2 around room for all students to handle. Place in a resealable plastic bag (slightly moist) and set aside.

Three people standing. One person is chewing something. Caption: Step 3. When you unplug your nose, you should experience the flavor of mint as it rushes through the olfactory nerve.

Measuring cup with 350ml of popcorn. The soft starch inside the popcorn becomes inflated and spills out.

2 grizzly bears on the edge of a lake drinking water while snow falls. Text on the screen reads, "From ants to grizzlies. A general rule for saving biodiversity."

Still image from: Frozen Activities: Fizzy Snowflake Science Experiment

Still image from: Gallium Slime: Cool Steel Slime That Melts in Your Hands!

Close up of a mosquito with the earth as seen from space in the background. Caption: mosquito bites are tied to many viral outbreaks.

Young child reaching into a container being offered by an adult. Caption: they'll select a small number to study.

Still image from: Global Science: Green Tech--The Future of Our Planet

Still image from: Global Science: Medicine--Researching Our Next Cure

Still image from: Global Science: Robotics and A.I.--The Future of Humanity

Still image from: Global Science: Technology--Shaping Our New World

Still image from: Glowing Fireworks in a Jar Science Experiment

A group of scientists catch a gray seal in a net.

A researcher displays G F P in a graduated tube. Caption: This is G F P or green fluorescent protein.

Gloved hands working with petri dishes covered in a variety of materials. Caption: (narrator) We always look for better ways to get energy we need.

Closeup of a hand handling a small, green plant in a densely populated patch of similar plants. Caption: How do green roofs change how a building transfers heat?

Orange explosion throwing debris. Caption: And it contains a lot of energy.

Illustration of objects moving from a chamber with disk shaped spiny structures to an empty chamber. Caption: Here, we force bacteria to move electrons

Cartoon characters talking. Caption: We need something that can make our dingy float.

Still image from: Heat Activated Slime! How to make Color Changing Slime

Black and white closeup photo of Marie Curie with hair pulled back in a bun. She looks directly into camera.

Illustration of a horse with its nose pointed towards the ground. In this position the pupil of the eye is parallel to the ground. Caption: It would enhance the effective field of view

A house plant. Caption: I decided to focus on plants for my new distressing techniques.

Metal shipping containers on the deck of a cargo ship. Caption: The ship's metal is more dense than water,

Three different sized wheels lined up together. Caption: You can change the wheel size, the wheel diameter,

Diagrams of what food ants may prefer. Caption: Include pictures of yourself in action,

Four different styles of winged planes. Caption: Do this for all wing designs, then compare your distances

Graph of pulse rate and consumption of water. Caption: There might be one person that doesn't quite fit the trend.

Digital airplane. Caption: The airplane goes through a different medium.

Diagram of creating a science fair project. Caption: Did you prove of disprove your hypothesis?

Still image from: How to Make a Cloud in a Bottle

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Still image from: How to Make Fizzy Fruit: Edible Science Experiments!

Still image from: How to Make Fun Bubbling Slime!

Still image from: How to Make Giant Bubbles!

Still image from: How to Make Giant Oobleck Stress Balls!

Still image from: How to Make Kinetic Sand Slime With Sparkly Glitter!

Still image from: How to Make Snow

Still image from: How to Make the Biggest Fluffy Slime!

Test tube with a clear substance on the bottom. At the top of the substance is a light-yellow patch. Caption: it does not dissolve and floats on the water.

Narrow curving tube exits into a wider tube. Both are underwater. Caption: whether hydrogen has a higher or lower density than air.

Micros images of an insect.

A diagram illustrates a lot of microbes in the blood, high temperature and a human skeleton.

An illustration of an ice core with years labeled, from top to bottom, 0, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, and 100,000.

Igloos and tents are built on a glacier.

Illustration of a flat, narrow animal with a tube exiting from the bottom of the body toward the back. Caption: So what is the key to Planaria regeneration?

Microscopic view of an irregularly shaped organism. Spanish captions.

Closeup of a small, shelled animal being eaten by a somewhat larger shelled animal while in a bed of grass. Caption: (male) The horse conch eats other snails.

Map of the Southeast United States. Most of the coastline of Florida is highlighted in a narrow band. Matanzas Reserve is at the upper eastern edge. Black Mangrove historical range (approximate). Caption: If there is a sustained freeze, typically they will die.

Buckets filled with water, mesh fabric covering the top. Tubes running down the center of two adjacent rows, a cord running into the water of each bucket. Caption: Hearing experiment Phase 2 They needed to investigate if mud crabs can hear.

Crabs, various grasses, snails, and broken shells. Caption: The marsh can be a rough place for plants to live.

Spat on a tray. MB Masonboro Inlet North Carolina. Caption: Spat from each family was placed on test reefs.

Close up of an opened oyster shell with a fork in the flesh. Caption: We're talking about Apalachicola oysters.

Conical shell in sand and seagrasses. Caption: (Hughes) In many world areas seagrasses are declining.

Area of high density wrack is mostly dry while low density wrack has standing water. Caption: They set up almost 100 plots comparing densities of wrack.

Person standing in ankle deep water and grass holding a clipboard leans down and reaches into the water. Caption: She is researching coastal salt marshes.

Open expanse of water dotted with small, flat grass-covered islands. Cedar Key, Florida. Caption: They pretty much lost all their mangroves.

Map of coastline showing St. Joseph Bay, Apalachicola, Carrabelle, Pancea and others. Study site marked inland. The forgotten coast. Caption: It is an ideal setting for studying coastal ecosystems.

Rollercoaster with cars in the apex of loop. Spanish captions.

Illustration of an old gas stove. Spanish captions.

Illustration of a guitar. Spanish captions.

Illustration of an egg with the egg white and yolk solid next to a thermometer showing 70 degrees Celsius. Spanish captions.

Person on stage playing a guitar with a machine measuring the vibration coming out of a speaker. Spanish captions.

Illustration of a soccer ball with lines moving away at 90, 0, and 315 degrees. Spanish captions.

Two different types of bacteria are seen all over a human outline. Caption: 37.2 trillion and 39 trillion.

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