NASA ScienceCasts
NASA Science news is too exciting for plain text. Educational "ScienceCast" videos are fun, lively, entertaining--anything but plain. Join us for a new episode weekly as we look into the science behind discoveries on Earth, the Solar System, and beyond...
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ScienceCast 182: Roundworms Have the Right Stuff
The common roundworm shares a surprising amount of genetic material ...
The common roundworm shares a surprising amount of genetic material with humans - enough, in fact, to make them the good substitutes for astronauts in low-gravity medical studies.
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ScienceCast 181: The First Martian Marathon
On Earth, a fast runner takes a few hours to ...
On Earth, a fast runner takes a few hours to complete a marathon. On Mars, it's taken 11 years. NASA's Opportunity rover crossed that finish line in 2015.
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ScienceCast 180: Desert Dust Feeds Amazon Forests
The Amazon rainforest and the Sahara desert seem utterly different. ...
The Amazon rainforest and the Sahara desert seem utterly different. Yet NASA satellites have discovered a surprising connection that intimately links these two disparate parts of our planet.
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ScienceCast 179: Earth Day Meteor Shower
At the end of a day devoted to Earth, people ...
At the end of a day devoted to Earth, people can look to the heavens for a beautiful shower of Lyrid meteors
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ScienceCast 178: Total Eclipse of the Moon
Citizen scientists scanning images from a NASA observatory have found ...
Citizen scientists scanning images from a NASA observatory have found "yellow balls" in space that may hold important clues to the mysteries of starbirth
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ScienceCast 177: Total Eclipse of the Moon
On Saturday morning, April 4th, sky watchers in the USA ...
On Saturday morning, April 4th, sky watchers in the USA can see a brief but beautiful total eclipse of the Moon.
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ScienceCast 176: The Mystery of Nanoflares
Tiny solar flares on the sun may be having an ...
Tiny solar flares on the sun may be having an outsized effect on the temperature of the sun's atmosphere. To investigate, scientists will observe these "nanoflares" using a space telescope built for black holes.
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ScienceCast 175: Studying Earth's Magnetic Personality
NASA is about to launch a fleet of spacecraft to ...
NASA is about to launch a fleet of spacecraft to investigate the mystery of "magnetic reconnection," which is making things explode across the cosmos.
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ScienceCast 174: Subtracting Gravity from Alzheimer's
The key to unraveling the mysterious cause of Alzheimer's disease ...
The key to unraveling the mysterious cause of Alzheimer's disease may not lie in the recesses of the human brain, but rather in the weightless expanses of outer space.
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ScienceCast 173: Mud Matters
NASA has launched SMAP, a new satellite to study water, ...
NASA has launched SMAP, a new satellite to study water, not in oceans or lakes but in the soil beneath our feet. This often overlooked repository of water can have big effects on weather, climate, drought and agriculture.
