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The quantum spin Hall effect is a topological state of matter characterized by sustaining gapless chiral edge states together with an insulating bulk. This phase can be triggered out by applying strong magnetic fields in a graphene sample

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Children's Buckyball Workshop in San Luis Potosi Mexico with Harry Kroto organised by Humberto and Mauricio Terrones. This group started a trend balancing Buckyballs on their heads. I hope the music background is acceptable as no one is making money ....

At 2 years and 8 months Lukas is more adept than many students!

Introduction to systematics & DIY plant preservation techniques.  In this first webisode of Do Touch, Daniel Domínguez invites young scientist and collectors to Label, love, & learn about the world. The aim of this seri....

Advert for the new 'GEOSET Studios' based in Dirac Library at Florida State University. The facility is open to all students and staff, so come in and broadcast your inspiration!

Address for  GEOSET TECHNICAL INFO www.geoset.fsu.edu/GEOSET_TECH/index.html

Richard Rogers, undergraduate at Florida State University, explains some of the exciting and novel research he has taken part in.

Phil Schlenoff gives a short introduction to the world of 3D printing.

A short film starring Ian McKellen www.theeggtrick.com Visit the Facebook page: More details | Watch now

Promo for GEOSET

A demo of Microsoft Producer

Overview of Tegrity

How to get started with Mediasite.

How to get started with Adobe Presenter.

A look at Camtasia.

Fun with general science! www.sciencewithacquah.com

What makes thunder? What makes a volcano erupt? This and many more questions....

What makes thunder? Why are fossils? This and many more questions....

Why are there waves on the sea? Why do trains lean on one side? This and many more questions.....   www.sciencewithacquah.com

Part 5, Final, Harry Kroto's lecture series: 5 Days of Opening Minds

Part 2 of Harry's '5 Days of Opening Minds' series.

Two University of Sheffield students have recorded a video of the Earth from the edge of space, using homemade equipment and on a shoestring budget.

Professor Sir Harry Kroto shows local schoolchildren in Sheffield how to build a buckyball

Staff and students at the University of Sheffield ask the Nobel Prizewinner about his life, work and science

Florence Nightingale disliked having her portrait taken as much as she hated being a celebrity, yet it was largely through the visual representations of her face and person in the press that she gained iconic status in Victorian England. Used as a mo....

Roger Boscovich (1711-1787) was a true polymath, making original contributions in science, technology and the humanities. He was born in Dubrovnik but spent much of his working life in Rome, at the Collegium Romanum. This lecture will introduce his l....

A moving personal account of living with Irritable Bowel Syndrome IBS) and how it was possible to improve life by making use of the discoveries already available, but not widely known.  Why can't all sufferers have access to the same data?

Two University of Sheffield students have recorded a video of the Earth from the edge of space, using homemade equipment and on a shoestring budget.

The science behind food and energy sustainability

The story of the artist and his paintings recounted by his daughter

This presentation will cover the topic of Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a disease that affects roughly 25 million people worldwide. MS is an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system caused by damage to the myelin sheath of nerve fibers. ....

This presentation deals with common additives in cigarettes, including nicotine, and how these affect your body.

This presentation reviews the basic history of the bicycle starting with the Hobby Horse. We discuss significant changes to the bicycle in terms of efficiency, safety and comfort. These advances in bicycle technology include lighter construction, the....

A brief look into the physical, biological, chemical and behavioral attributes that humanity shares with other members of the animal kingdom focusing on studies done on Jamaican dancers, Belding's ground squirrels, human MHC and others.

How does doing mathematics and writing stories compare? What role is mathematics playing when it is used in literature? Are stories important to understanding mathematics? Do writers have eureka moments? Marcus du Sautoy and Mark Haddon discuss the f....

Sheila Tobias gives a presentation on the role of women in science and the obstacles they must continue to overcome.

British broadcaster Sir David Attenborough talks to Nature about his obsession with birds of paradise.

Scientist or Broadcaster?

James Lovelock is best known as the father of Gaia theory; the idea that all parts of our planet form a complex interacting system, like a single organism. His new book depicts Gaia in trouble. In this interview Lovelock sounds a final warning for pl....

Evidence of reproduction by internal fertilization has been discovered in a large group of ancient jawed fish. Embryos discovered within fossils of these animals confirm that live birth in prehistoric times was much more widespread than previously th....

New interpretations of the Antikythera Mechanism reveal that it could be used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of the ancient Olympiads. The 2,000-year-old box of intricate gearwork provides a glimpse of the engineering....

The boss of CERN wants the next big experiment in particle physics after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to be built at the Geneva lab. Speaking in an interview with physicsworld.com, Rolf-Dieter Heuer said that CERN should host the experiment, which....

The English mastermind comes to us for a special lecture and presentation on the fundamental role of art in scientific processes. Kroto will urge us to continue tapping into America?s most original and steadfast resource: creativity.nAt ARTISANworks,....

This clip is about solder (a low melting point metal mixture) that can be melted using a hand-held soldering iron. The solder also has flux within it to help combat corrosion and produce a good solder joint to the components and circuitry.

This short documentary explains why the Large Hadron Collider was built and what scientists are using the collider to look for.

Chris Freeman, the founder and first director of the UK's Science Policy Research Unit introduces Bernal, the father of the protein crystallography techniques which enabled the double helix structure of DNA to be unravelled. Bernal's major impact on ....

How long can we live, and how long do we want to live? Why do we change as we get old, and is there anything we can do to stop it? In this video the panel discuss ageing and some of the recent remarkable scientific advances that suggest ageing may no....

We can now expect to live longer than ever before, and if we get ill, we expect to be made better! However new threats continue to emerge.This presentation discusses tuberculosis and flu, new dangerous versions of old diseases, smoking and other life....

Is there life out there? Either on other worlds, deep space, or even deep in our oceans that we haven't encountered yet? Our panel of experts discusses the possibilities, and if there is life, what it may be like.

We are only just developing the technology necessary to probe deep beneath our oceans. Contrary to earlier expectations, we are finding whole new ecosystems of life. Are the ocean depths the next new frontier? Over half the surface of the earth is co....

Each year some thirty or more Nobel laureates come to Lindau to give lectures and interact with around 1000 young scientists from around the world. In any one year the focus is generally on one area eg chemistry, physics, medicine or economics. The i....

Max Perutz discovered the structure of Haemoglobin (Nobel Prize 1962), and was the founder of the Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge, the birthplace of modern molecular biology. This interview shows his approach to science and his achievem....

An important and wide-ranging view of the state of the human-world's health for the Director of Disease Monitoring WHO Collaborating Centre Professor of Epidemiology University of Pittsburgh

Nobel laureate, Harry Kroto, interviews Michael Kasha, who has had a distinguished career in science. He was at Berkeley during the Manhattan Project, worked as a graduate student with G N Lewis, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and ha....

Dan gives a brief introduction into his group's discovery of a new and efficient catalyst which could be of vital importance in our search for better ways of capturing solar energy.

Charles Falco describes his and David Hockney's theory of the use of optical devices by mediaeval artists.

A short presentation discussing the economic disadvantages that Nigerians face and one possible method of attempting to alleviate them. Thomas Rush suggests the use of education to help promote an improved quality of life for the citizens outside of ....

A look at the relationship between art and science with the emphasis on carbon nanotubes and protein fibres. Transmission and scanning electron microscopes.

The experiments in 1985 that uncovered the existence of C-60