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A is for Atom: Vintage PR Film for Nuclear Energy

Although the “Atoms for Peace” campaign was formally launched in 1957, corporate America began to promote peaceful uses of atomic energy as early as the first few months after Hiroshima. A Is For Atom,...

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The Higgs Boson

The Higgs Boson. What more need be said? Two more Higgs videos coming soon.

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Quantum Levitation

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Schrödinger’s Cat

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Visualizing Rutherford Scattering

A simple way to demonstrate back-scattering in a classroom. For more information on this and many other demonstrations of physics and astronomy, please visit us at: http://www.ap.smu.ca/demos

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Dan Cobley: What physics taught me about marketing

Physics and marketing don’t seem to have much in common, but Dan Cobley is passionate about both. He brings these unlikely bedfellows together using Newton’s second law, Heisenberg’s uncertainty...

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Open Letter to the President: Physics Education

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Rainbows and Double Rainbows

The physics of rainbows with Professor Mike Merrifield. Visit our website at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ We’re on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/sixtysymbols And Twitter at...

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Fun With Potatoes & Physics! A SciShow Experiment

Hank uses a favorite subject of the YouTube community – the potato gun – to teach us about the principles of pneumatics, which use the potential energy of compressed gas to do work in lots of useful...

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Detection of single photons via quantum entanglement

Detection of single photons via quantum entanglement

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Physics Explained Using A Balloon, The Love Of A Doting Father

We learned two things from this: a) physics can be fun, and b) it’s totally possible to entertain...

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Magnetic Moment Of The Proton Measured With Unprecedented Precision

One of the biggest riddles in physics is the apparent imbalance between matter and antimatter in our universe....

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Explained: How Does A Soccer Ball Swerve?

It happens every four years: The World Cup begins and some of the world’s most skilled players carefully...

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What Can Schrödinger’s Cat Teach Us About Quantum Mechanics?

The classical physics that we encounter in our everyday, macroscopic world is very different from the quantum physics that governs systems on a much smaller scale (like atoms). One great example of...

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A Simple Proof of Conservation of Energy

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Gravity Visualized

Wow. Just wow.

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First Photo of Light In Both Wave And Particle Forms

Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have taken the first photograph of light as both a wave and a particle.

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How we discovered ‘impossible’ material that both conducts electricity – and...

Suchitra Sebastian, University of Cambridge Metals, which conduct electricity, and insulators, which don’t, are polar opposites. At least...

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Here’s what you need to know about the Large Hadron Collider’s latest...

Gavin Hesketh, UCL The Large Hadron Collider, famous for finding the Higgs boson, has now revealed another new...

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4 Discoveries Made by the Large Hadron Collider (So Far)

Could the LHC really disprove the standard model of physics? What has it taught us about the Big Bang, quarks, and the multiverse theory?

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