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Why were prehistoric insects so huge?

Do you complain about dead bugs on your windshield? Well, be thankful that insects today are considerably smaller than some of their prehistoric ancestors. OK .. they were never quite this big! You...

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Video: Watch scientists excavate a giant anthill

This video clip, from a 2006 documentary (Ants! Natures Secret Power), shows the excavation of a giant colony of grass-cutter ants. Over the course of 3 days, scientists pumped 10 tons of cement into...

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Video: Timelapse of night sky over southern oceans

Here’s a video to start your week feeling relaxed. Watch the Milky Way unfurl over the Southern Ocean on the coast of Australia. This video by Alex Cherney, titled Ocean Sky, was awarded the overall...

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Video: The life of flowers

For our Northern Hemisphere friends looking forward to the season of spring, here’s a popular video by Vorobyoff Productions. Watch in timelapse as flowers surge and explode into bloom. Bottom line:...

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Video: A 1967 version of the Office of the Future

In the late 1960s, news anchor Walter Cronkite’s hosted a regular half-hour CBS documentary program called The 21st Century. Every Sunday night, viewers could tune in to see the exciting technological...

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EarthSky to cover ALMA Telescope Inauguration on March 13

March 13th will mark the inauguration of the ALMA Telescope in northern Chile. And EarthSky will be covering the event live and on site. EarthSky was recently selected to attend the inauguration of the...

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Man reunites with gorilla after five years apart

Watch what happens when conservationist Damian Aspinall reunites with Kwibi, a lowland gorilla he hasn’t seen for five years. Kwibi grew up with Aspinall at Howletts Wild Animal Park in England. When...

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Video: What type of electricity hurts more: AC or DC?

What type of electricity hurts more: Alternating Current (AC) or Direct Current (DC)? In this video, electronics hobbyist Mehdi Sadaghdar answers this question by running each type of current through...

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Powerful ALMA Telescope officially goes online

On March 13, 2013, the ALMA Telescope in northern Chile officially went online. The inauguration ceremony took place in Chile’s high desert at an altitude of 16,500 feet, or 5,000 meters. ALMA is the...

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Monument Valley timelapse

Here’s a beautiful video of shadow and light in Monument Valley. This video was shot by Les Projections de la Cabane in September of 2009. Monument Valley is a region of sandstone buttes located on the...

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Sea lion is first non-human mammal shown to keep a beat

Ronan, a sea lion at the University of California Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Laboratory is the first non-human mammal to show that she can move to the rhythms of a song, in this case the funky beats of...

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Video: Bird ballet of starlings over Marseille

This short video, shot by Neels CASTILLON shows clouds of starlings flocking over Marseille, France, at dusk. Large starling flocks often form near roosts. These dense concentrations of birds are...

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Video: The science of cute

What is cute – scientifically? This video by YouTube user Vsauce answers this question wonderfully. For example, did you know that looking at cute pictures activates the same part of the brain as using...

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Video: Meteor shower in high California desert

The Lyrid meteor shower happens the weekend of April 19-22, 2013. The peak is tomorrow morning (April 22) before dawn. Though a modest shower, it is nonetheless a great opportunity to stargaze and...

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Video: Three years of the sun in three minutes

In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s rise toward solar maximum,...

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Video: Extreme closeup of a Giant Galapagos Tortoise

Here’s something you don’t see everyday, a very up-close look at a Giant Galapagos Tortoise. YouTube’s Arlo Midgett set up his camera and tripod and lucked out when the tortoise took notice and decided...

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Why were prehistoric insects so huge?

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Alchemy, beautiful nature video

Alchemy from Henry Jun Wah Lee / Evosia on Vimeo. This beautiful video shows the power and poignancy of nature. Henry Jun Wah Lee of Evosia Studies showcases the American Southwest beautifully....

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Video for your ears: What do planets sound like?

Here’s something you don’t hear everyday. This video presents NASA Space Sounds, giving you an idea of what different objects in our solar system might sound like, if you could hear them. More...

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Two video feeds: The International Space Station in real time

By now, we all know what the Earth looks like from space. But to see our home planet from above – in real time – is truly something special. Is that what you’ll see in the live video feed below?...

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