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Asteroid Closely Passes Earth

Learn about Earth's close encounter with asteroid 2012 DA14 on February 15, 2013, in this video from NASA. Asteroid 2012 DA14 passed safely about 17,000 miles (27,000 kilometers) from Earth's surface. Its orbit was well known and scientists were not worried about a possible collision. NASA observes

ScienceCasts: Close Encounters with Jupiter

On March 8th, 2016 Earth and Jupiter will have a close encounter. The giant planet will be "up all night," soaring almost overhead at midnight and not setting until the sky brightens with the twilight hues of sunrise on March 9th. In July, the Juno mission will give us an even closer look. Visit ht

ScienceCasts: Close Approach Comets

In 2017 and 2018, three comets will pass near the Earth providing the opportunity to observe and study these icy interlopers. Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. 4*P Morphology Campaign: http://www.psi.edu/41P45P46P

How Can Parker Solar Probe Get So Close to the Sun?

Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/NASA NASA's Parker Solar Probe is getting closer to the Sun than any human-made object ever before. If you put Earth and the Sun on opposite ends of an American football field, Parker Solar Probe would get within four yards of the Sun's end zone. Le

Wild-Inspired Robotic Arms

Learn how one company took inspiration from nature to reinvent the robotic arm in this video excerpted from NOVA: “Making Stuff Wilder.” Host and technology columnist David Pogue meets with engineer Heinrich Frontzek to find out about the Bionic Handling Assistant—a machine modeled after an elephant

How You Learn to Shoot Better Photos

Click here to see more videos: https://alugha.com/mysimpleshow Taking great pictures like a pro is as easy as ABC! Have you ever wondered why some of your photos turn out well while others don't? And what exactly creates the picture inside your camera? Watch this simpleshow – and dive into the basi

How Cancer Cells Grow and Divide

Discover the role of oncogenes in uncontrolled cancerous growth and depicts the journey of cancer cells from where they originate, into the circulatory system, and then on to other parts of the body. This video is available in both English and Spanish audio, along with corresponding closed captions.

Human Genome Project

In this video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life," Eric Lander of MIT's Whitehead Institute explains the effort to decode the human genome—from motivation to process to importance—and explains what a genome map can and cannot yet do for science. This video is available in both English and

How DNA Replicates

This narrated animation from Interactive NOVA: "The Secret of Life" shows the double helix structure of DNA and how the molecule replicates. The segment illustrates how DNA "unzips" to form templates for the new strands and how complementary nucleotides bind together like the rungs of a ladder. This