Research
Questions
1. How important is research?
2. What would you like to research?
3. What would you like your government to spend more money on researching?
4. Would you like to work as a researcher?
5. What was the most important discovery in your lifetime?
6. How has the discovery of electricity changed the world?
7. Would you like to discover an island? What would you name it?
8. Do you think we will discover life on another planet soon?
Videos
Humankind has been looking for the giant squid (Architeuthis) since we first started taking pictures underwater. But the elusive deep-sea predator could never be caught on film. Oceanographer and inventor Edith Widder
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shares the key insight — and the teamwork — that helped to capture the squid on camera for the first time.
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Category: Nature & Environment | Science
Imagine something small enough to float on a particle of dust that holds the keys to understanding cancer, virology, and genetics. Luckily for us, such a thing exists in the form of trillions upon trillions of human, lab-grown cells called HeLa. But where did we get these cells? Robin Bulleri tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, a woman whose DNA led to countless cures, patents, and discoveries.
Lesson by Robin Bulleri, animation by Brandon Denmark.[/show_more]
Lesson by Robin Bulleri, animation by Brandon Denmark.[/show_more]
Category: Science
Keywords: Immortality | Research