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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.

Still image from: Acid and Bases for Kids

Person in a science lab. One beaker contains an orange liquid, and one beaker contains a green liquid. Caption: It's orange. That means its pH is 5.

Industrial plant from a distance. Caption: That's the world's largest PLA manufacturing plant.

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

Still image from: Archaeo-Tech: Radiocarbon Dating

Person speaking. Caption: So a nanometer would be ten to the minus nine meters.

Person speaking. Caption: Nanoparticles have been used in sunscreens

Person speaking. Caption: and work on it to manage those risks.

Person speaking. Caption: We can apply an electric field or magnetic fields to them.

Person speaking. Caption: about nanobots replicating and taking over the world.

Person speaking. Caption: between one and one hundred nanometers.

Person speaking and standing next to a poster board with "Control of matter at the nanoscale" surrounded by logos from different organizations. Caption: of matter at the atomic and molecular level.

Person speaking. Caption: used for both doing diagnostics as well as theranostics.

A scientist sits and talks. Caption: So when you heat it up, it melts.

Close up of bones in a human body with a bright point of light at one of the joints. Caption: So they were named "x-rays."

Out of focus image of a spherical object surrounded in glowing light. Caption: Then, as scientists explored the nucleus,

Dark background with a small central ball of light surrounded by four irregularly placed orbiting streaks of light. Caption: And Rutherford now also knew that the atom had structure,

Multicolored streaks of light fading towards a single point in the center of the screen. Caption: Matter is made of up of tiny particles called atoms.

Hollow glass tube with roughly diamond shaped object in the center surrounded by glowing light. Caption: you get the characteristic color of this purplish-blue.

Still image from: Atoms for Kids

Illustration of a squid emitting a glowing cloud while a submarine passes closely. Vampire Squid. Caption: but some animals use it to warn or evade predators,

Blue and red spheres form a larger spherical shape. Caption: affects how they bond with other atoms.

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

Two people wearing hard hats walking on a concrete path through an infrastructure of intricate tubing and walkways. Caption: A chemical engineer figures out a way to scale that process up

Computer graphic representation of clusters double helix DNA strands. Caption: We use synthetic DNA to reprogram living cells.

Complex robotic machinery behind a mesh grate with a person standing at a control panel outside of the grated area. Caption: We have electrical engineers that focus on computers.

A conveyor belt moves rows of light colored, flat, and round objects at a high speed. Caption: but a lot of support goes into making a good product,

Still image from: Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight--Chemical Engineer

Still image from: Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight--Chemist

Still image from: Cation Exchange

Cellular respiration, the process of breaking things down. Eating the food.

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

Terraced sloping sides lead to a deep depression in a hillside of brown, gray, and red dirt. Caption: In nature, aluminum exists as various compounds.

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

Diagram of an atom with two shells displayed on a screen. Inner shell with two electrons is highlighted. Caption: because they aren't in the outermost shell.

Cube with round objects moving away from it. Sublimation. Caption: It's called sublimation and it's sublime.

Black and white picture of a man next to an illustration of a closed container half full of liquid. Henry's law. Caption: See, vapor pressure is created by gas molecules

Illustration of liquid being poured into a container with H2O. It is labeled NaOH. Caption: Sodium hydroxide is a bade made of sodium and hydroxide

Illustration of a cat knocking over stacked dominoes that then fall as one hits the next. Caption: A catalyst is a substance that jump-starts a chemical reaction without getting involved in the reaction itself.

Two moles strapped together pulling in opposite directions while a bird in a cage is balancing on their backs. Mass-mass Mole-mass. Caption: to figure out mass, find out how reactants work together,

Calorie: The amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one-degree C. Caption: (woman) That's right: calories.

Chlorine and hydrogen atoms joined. Caption: What are some of the different types of chemical compounds?

Illustration of Earth. Midlatitude jet stream (cool) at the top of the globe and Subtropical jet stream (warm) close to the equator. Both move clockwise. Caption: it is a powerful band of winds known for bringing winter storms

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: ATP and Respiration

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Biological Molecules--You Are What You Eat

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Carbon...So Simple

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Membranes and Transport

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Photosynthesis

Still image from: Crash Course Biology: Water--Liquid Awesome

Still image from: Crash Course Chemistry: How to Speak Chemistrian

Still image from: Crash Course Chemistry: Ideal Gas Problems

Still image from: Crash Course Chemistry: Precipitation Reactions

Still image from: Crash Course Chemistry: Redox Reactions

Still image from: Crash Course Chemistry: Stoichiometry Chemistry for Massive Creatures

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

Still image from: Crash Course Chemistry: The Electron

Still image from: Crash Course Chemistry: The Ideal Gas Law

Still image from: Crash Course Chemistry: The Periodic Table

Still image from: Crash Course Chemistry: Unit Conversion and Significant Figures

Still image from: Crash Course Chemisty: The Nucleus

Glass beaker with clear liquid. Spanish captions.

Pie chart diagram showing that the atmosphere contains 1/5 oxygen. Caption: Two ways of O2 entry. Caption: Oxygen makes about 1/5 of the atmosphere,

Cartoon character talking to a small flying insect. Caption: (Johan) Some animals' habitats are rivers, lakes, and ponds.

City sidewalk with well-lit buildings lining one side. Spanish captions.

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

Person holding a sheet of a shiny metal. Caption: An element is often thought of as a pure substance

Still image from: Eons: How We Figured Out Fermentation

4Fe+3O2+4H2O converts to 2Fe2O3*2H2O. Caption: This causes the iron to become a hydrated iron oxide,

Still image from: Everything Is Chemical

A lit match. Spanish captions.

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

Mist in the air. Caption: It's called water vapor.

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

Open flame with a piece of metal in it. Flame below the metal is blue, above the metal is orange. Ca2+. Caption: Calcium compounds show a typical orange-red coloring.

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

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.

Blocks of cheese, loaf of bread, and pickles in a jar. Caption: That's interesting because that's on the nutrition labels.

Open aluminum can. Caption: This is because gas is rushing from an area of high pressure

Still image from: Fossil Fuels

A large cylindrical machine set into the floor with various equipment attached to the round openings at either end. A walkway surrounds the mass of equipment. Caption: Gas turbines earn their excellent worldwide reputation.

Glass beaker with a hand holding a clear rod to the bottom of the beaker. A bright light emanates from the bottom of the beaker. Caption: and moved into the modern age of chemistry.

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.

Gauge in a vehicle with a range of 0 to 8. The indicator is at 1 and the gauge is labeled RPMx1000. Caption: How do electric vehicles compare with other cars?

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

Hillside covered in solar panels. Caption: collecting the sun's energy

Fine white tubes grow in the same direction. Caption: and carbon nanotubes grow like blades of grass.

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.

Large spherical object surrounded by smaller multi-sphere objects. Nova Caption: Carbon is one of the most versatile elements.

Science lab equipment with reserviors and tubing. Caption: Microorganisms in nature turn CO2 into fuel.

Round metal object underwater. Caption: is that water creates a shield for radiation.

Closeup of a man in a yellow polo with furrowed brow and lips parted mid-speech. Field of corn beneath a cloudy sky in background.

Black line drawing on light blue background. Grimacing fish points up towards broken chain and extraction equipment. Title card reads, "Cracking Hydrocarbon Chains and Environmental Concerns."

Red tractor collects corn dumped from green grain combine harvester in background.

Black and white illustration on wrinkled white background. A generating station connects to power lines, some outlined with neon pink zig zags.

Men in yellow shirts and hard hats work at an electrical station. Cars, equipment, and grassy field occupy background.

Closeup of golden french fries in bubbling cooking oil.

Aerial view of a silo complex. Paved roadways and plots of green grass run through and around it.

Rendering of a small, flowering plant that sprouts out of dirt. Grass and blue sky in background. Title card reads, "Photosynthesis."

A diagram of a longitudinal wave. Waves transport energy.

Person with a blue cylindrical container in their hands. Caption: can also be released as a result of chemical reactions.

Carbon atom with two oxygen atoms. Caption: Carbon dioxide is an example of a compound.

Illustration of two cells, one with spiky structures being overtaken by the other. Caption: how the body produces antibodies and T cells

People in kayaks paddling on the water. Spanish captions.

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

Many hot air balloons taking off into the sky.

A graph plots pressure in Pascal’s versus temperature in degrees Celsius. The horizontal axis is marked at negative 5, 0, and 100. The vertical axis ranges from 1 kilo Pascal to 100 Mega Pascal’s in increments of exponents of 10. At 1 atmospheric pressure water is in solid ice at negative 5 degrees to 0 degrees, in liquid state from 0 degrees to 100 degrees Celsius, and in vapor form above 100 degrees Celsius.

Still image from: It's Okay to Be Smart: Why the Heck Is Glass Transparent?

An astronaut Don Pettit talks to host Joe Hanson. A rocket is seen in the background.

Spherical object and a wavy line passing through something in the center. Caption: light particles that shoot off in opposite directions

Three glasses are filled with leaves. To the second glass, isopropyl alcohol is added. Caption: Next, cover the leaves in isopropyl alcohol.

Light waves emitting from a lightbulb. Spanish captions.

Bright glowing sphere against a blue sky. Caption: Ultraviolet technology is useful for some environmental issues,

Longitudinal waves through three mediums solid, water, and air.

Illustration of a robot with wheels on the surface of a reddish-brown planet. Caption: If Curiosity finds organics, it wouldn't prove life existed,

Person in a science lab working with complex machinery. Caption: There is almost no limit to the ways we transmute matter.

Broken pottery with a lump of metal on the ground. Caption: we find iron reduced from the iron(III) oxide.

Person pouring clear liquid into 4 beakers. Caption: Nitric acid is a very strong oxidizing agent.

Complex matrix of spherical objects next to a thermometer reading slightly above zero degrees. Caption: A low temperature indicates that the particles

Field of corn at night with a person using large machinery to spray the crop. Caption: You can spray with herbicide and your crop will survive

Gas saturation scale showing CO2 and O2 percentage of saturation. Indicator is outside of normal range on the CO2 side. Caption: The CO2 reading is going off the scale.

Spheres in a cube, lined up in an alternating positive and negative pattern. Caption: by mutual Columbic attraction in a regular pattern.

Container labelled CaO with a white powdery substance next to a dish with a granular light brown substance. A person is about to scoop out some CaO. Caption: and also sulfur and oxygen.

Person wearing a backpack and a headlamp moving through a narrow opening in a crouched position. Caption: Okay, I'm going down a slope. It looks a little slippery.

A large beaker with a substance in the bottom, a smaller beaker suspended above it. Caption: and yet their properties are so different.

Person in a yellow jumpsuit standing next to a large piece of industrial equipment. Caption: The reactor structures suffer the corrosive effects

Person holding an open beaker of a clear liquid next to an empty test tube. Caption: Acetic acid is weaker than most inorganic acids.

The periodic table of elements. A color-coded grid with letters representing each element. Caption: Each row of the table represents a pattern of chemical properties

Planet Earth with nebulous green and blue light coming towards it. Caption: except that they travel at different speeds

Beaker of liquid with a yellow substance dissolving. Caption: It was formed by the oxidation of potassium iodide.

The periodic table of elements. A grid with letters representing each element. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Periodic Table of Elements for Kids

Illustration of a stalk of corn showing roots below ground and foliage above ground. Sun Light, CO2, and Sugar are above ground and Water is below ground. Caption: What vital gas is also given off in photosynthesis?

A microscopic view of a leaf. The cells inside the cell membrane are labeled as Mesophyll cells. The cells lining the lower part of the leaf are labeled, Epidermal cells. Another bundle of cells islabeled, Vascular bundle. Caption: A leaf has many different types of cells.

Photosynthesis, it's a crazy, complicated process.

Water with chunks of ice floating in it. Caption: Freezing and melting are physical changes.

A rainbow is forms above a valley. A white band colored band is a part of the rainbow.

The extent of the Large Hardon Collider is demarcated in a satellite view. Caption: C E R N.

Man and woman walking with arms around each other's waist. Caption: humans are truly a privileged species,

Person looking at a slide in a microscope. Caption: And this is a biochemistry lab.

Person in a lab coat and gloves putting on protective glasses. Caption: For Rommie, being a chemist was just the beginning.

Two people walking next to rows of industrial tanks with piping and gauges. Caption: planning the scale-up of a new product.

Person in a lab coat and gloves pointing something out on a small white object. Caption: A lot of the science is a gradual progression,

Person holding a tool and working on something with wires. Caption: This is the first prototype of a project called BodyScape,

Rocket flying above Earth's atmosphere. Caption: and a liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen upper stage.

Gloved hand holding an electronic chip with a pair of tweezers. Caption: they call it an artificial leaf.

Multiple images showing a progression of yellow to red circles appearing on a dark background. Caption: Then, a series of images are collected at regular intervals.

A beaker full of murky liquid. Caption: a chemical reaction takes place

Four test tubes. Three are labelled as Fe3O2, PbO2, and MnO2. The fourth is unlabeled and a beaker of colored liquid is being poured into it. Caption: To make the production of oxygen more visible,

Two rectangular batteries with positive and negative leads. Caption: An automobile battery is an example of a wet cell.

Clear water in a pebbled riverbed. Light reflects off the surface of the water. Caption: In this case, you see how light passes through an object

Illustration of the Earth with a glowing aura and streaks of light. Caption: Today, we'll explore a strange and invisible force

Beakers and test tubes with colored liquid. Caption: Some chemicals irritate and damage

Beakers labelled 1M KOH, ind. and 1M HCI. Another beaker with a greenish liquid has a tube with a nozzle at the mouth of it. Caption: The neutral solutions will be changed

Illustration depicts glycerol in zig zag fatty acid chains.Caption: of three fatty acid chains stuck onto a glycerol molecule.

Black and white photo of man's face and that man in a science lab. Spanish captions.

Person sitting at a computer. Spanish captions.

Person pouring fluid from a 5-gallon bucket into a large metal vat. Caption: Most people don't think about the chemistry

Woman in a white lab coat and protective goggles holds up a dropper over a beaker filled with a green color liquid.

Geometric block with holes. Caption: It's time to print something, well, a lot harder: metal.

Cluster of nerve fibers. Caption: that can image deep into biological tissue,

Gloved hand holding a round plastic object and putting an electronic chip into it. Caption: to incorporate nanotechnologies into the process.

Person holding a tubular instrument to their eye. Caption: (narrator) You might say the chemiscope of an agent of change,

Person picking up wood chips and putting them into a plastic bag. Caption: (Huber) Cellulose is basically stored solar energy

3D model of the connection of polymers. Caption: the molecules that gave rise to the first polymers of life,

Gloved hand holding two small dark discs. Caption: to bring ultra-high-temperature ceramics to marketplace.

Clear vial with a glowing pink liquid. Caption: may one day make treating cancer easier

Microscopic view of a hexagonal structure with arms hovering above a spherical object. Caption: Cell-sized micro grippers retrieve tiny objects,

Magnified view of intricate metal work. Caption: creating a protective barrier.

Four soldiers in a desert. Caption: in Kevlar-like body armor.

Person holding a lid. Caption: sees bio-inspired surfactants gaining market share,

Computer screen showing a line graph of multiple measurements taken at different times. Caption: to add the ultra-fine layers of semiconducting materials

Illustration of human body. Caption: Enzymes, antibodies, even our muscles are all protein based.

A sliced bread and few bread crumps. Caption: We've been making it for more than 4,500 years.

Milk is added to a breakfast cereal. Caption: You're staring at the birth of the health food movement,

A corn mixture travels in a conveyor belt. Caption: Starch and gluten are separated from the germ.

A bull's eye egg in a pan. Caption: that eggs contain lecithin and other ingredients.

Hamburger with patty, tomato, lettuce, and onion. Caption: How it gets there owes a great deal to science.

A scoop of chocolate flavored icecream in a glass bowl. Caption: Dr, Schwarcz, Everybody has a favorite ice cream,

Tomato ketchup is prepared in a large container. Caption: The kind you get cooking tomatoes into paste.

A glass of soft drinks with effervescence popping on its surface. Caption: So what's the real deal. What's the skinny on the fizzy.

Two dip tea bags are inside a transparent glass with water. Caption: This is the second most popular drink in the world.

Grape fruit. Two grape pulps with their skin peeled are zoomed in. Caption: because they are fermented with the grape skins.

Child in a field smelling flowers. Caption: People breath air to get the oxygen they need.

View of Earth in space. Spanish captions.

Three diamonds. Caption: is the diamond form, which creates a structure.

Three diamonds. Spanish captions.

An orange cut in half. Caption: Another good word for balance is symmetry.

Woman walking on a tight rope. Spanish captions.

Hummingbird hovering in the air. Caption: And they get this energy by eating and digesting food.

View of cells under a microscope. Spanish captions.

Diagram of three phases of matter. Caption: If matter shifts from one of these phases to another,