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The Most Baffling Idea in Physics, Explained
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Video title: The Most Baffling Idea in Physics, Explained
Video duration: 3m 33sVideo description: Quantum entanglement is one of the strangest and most fascinating phenomena in physics. Even Einstein didn’t believe it - he called it “spooky action at a distance” - but science has proven it true. Here’s a simple explanation of the most baffling concept in physics.
Best Way to Learn to Ride a Bike
Two centuries of bikes, and we’re still debating the best way to learn to ride one.
How to Build Your Dragon
Game of Thrones got us thinking — what would a real dragon look like?
School of the Future - Spanish Version
How can the science of learning help us rethink the future of education for all children? Airing September 14, 2016 at 9 pm on PBS
How to Find an Exoplanet
Want to find another world beyond our solar system? Here are the 5 ways you can do it.
Grow Your Own Crystals
What should you do with the borax you have leftover from making slime? Make crystals!
Flint: A Timeline
Follow the emergency in Flint from the switch in water supply to today’s health crisis.
Scandal's Joe Morton on Flint
Actor Joe Morton, narrator of “Poisoned Water,” discusses the Flint water crisis.
WannaCry Cyberattack Explained
The WannaCry cyberattack cost the economy billions of dollars. Here's why that's scary.
This Woman Helped Save Flint
LeeAnne Walters, of Flint, Michigan, helps save the city from a lead water crisis.
Meet the Gastric-Brooding Frog
These extinct frogs used to barf up their babies—and now scientists are trying to bring them back from the dead. Discover more in this episode of Gross Science.
Poisoned Water Q&A with Scientists and Filmmakers
In this special report, NOVA investigates what happened in Flint, Michigan when local officials changed the city’s water source to save money, but overlooked a critical treatment process. As the water pipes corroded, lead leached into the system, exposing the community—including thousands of children—to dangerous levels of poison. NOVA uncovers the science behind this manmade disaster.
Should You Wash Your Hands?
Gross Science explores hand hygiene, with some help from the show Clean My Space.
Front Row Seat to Saturn
For almost 13 years, the spacecraft Cassini has been in the Saturn system, documenting the planet and its moons. Cassini’s days are numbered—on 15 September, it will be sent hurtling towards Saturn. But just because it’s running out of fuel doesn’t mean it’s running out of fire. Cassini has a lot more science to do in its final chapter.
Holocaust Survival Tale: Sam
During WWII, Nazis forced Samuel Bak and his family out of their home in Vilna, Lithuania.