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00:23:00

REU Workshop – Light + Polymers: A Match Made in Lab

by GEOSET
REU Workshop – Light + Polymers: A Match Made in Lab
for 18-22 and upwards,
Workshops | 18-22 and upwards | 5 years ago | 6414 views
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Workshop

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00:04:00

Test Tube Babes

by Clara Wade
Test Tube Babes
for 14-19 and upwards,
Highschool presentations | 14-19 and upwards | 7 years ago | 0 views
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A (fairly) light-hearted explanation of the process of in vitro fertilisation in humans. Winner of the Kroto Prize for Innovative Use of Technology in Science Learning 2016.

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00:14:00

The Enlightenment is Under Threat and Lindau Alumni for Humanitarian Action (LAHA) Can Save It

by Harry Kroto
The Enlightenment is Under Threat and Lindau Alumni for Humanitarian Action (LAHA) Can Save It
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1735 views
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Kant, in possibly his most celebrated essay, defined the Enlightenment as: Man’s emergence from his self-imposed period of immaturity. This immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. Without the freedom t....

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00:33:00

What About Redefining Time Using a Stable Laser?

by John Hall
What About Redefining Time Using a Stable Laser?
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1385 views
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Several laser-based Atomic Clocks now have an accuracy potential of ~2 x10-18, a hundred-fold better than the best achieved after more than 60 years' experience with rf resonances in Cs atoms. Still, this long attention span documents that the Cs Fou....

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00:30:00

Gamma Ray Bursts: Windows on the Universe

by George Smoot
Gamma Ray Bursts: Windows on the Universe
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1675 views
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Gamma-Ray Bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe. They happen about once per day in the visible universe. Their fantastic engines pump out as much energy in a matter of seconds as all the stars in a galaxy do in a billion years. This....

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00:35:00

The International Year of Light: Celebrating Fifty Years of Laser Revolution in Physics

by Serge Haroche
The International Year of Light: Celebrating Fifty Years of Laser Revolution in Physics
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1310 views
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The year 2015 has been named the International Year of Light, to mark milestones in the science of light which occurred 1000, 200, 150, 100 and 50 years go. I was a young student in physics in 1965, when the cosmic radiation background was discovered....

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00:39:00

Light Quanta and Their Idiosyncrasies

by Roy Glauber
Light Quanta and Their Idiosyncrasies
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1653 views
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Maxwell's electromagnetic theory (now 150 years old) seemed in its comprehensive way to be capable of answering all of the questions one might ever pose about the theory of light. But that spell was broken in 1900 by Planck's discovery that light bea....

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00:35:00

Science with Combs of Light

by Theodor Hänsch
Science with Combs of Light
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1569 views
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The spectrum of a frequency comb, commonly generated by a mode-locked femtosecond laser, consists of several hundred thousand precisely evenly spaced spectral lines. Such laser frequency combs have revolutionized the art of measuring the frequency of....

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00:11:00

askFSU 1 : speed of light, tachyons, solar sails, and black holes

by Jeff Owens
askFSU 1 : speed of light, tachyons, solar sails, and black holes
for 14-19 and upwards,
Interviews | 14-19 and upwards | 8 years ago | 0 views
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Joining Philip Schlenoff is Dr. Jeff Owens, from the Physics department at Florida State University, to answer some physics and astrophysics-related questions!

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00:33:00

Nanoscopy – allowing molecules to be examined inside living cells

by Eric Betzig
Nanoscopy – allowing molecules to be examined inside living cells
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 2861 views
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Eric Betzig shared the 2014 Chemistry Nobel prize with fellow American William E. Moerner and Romanian-German Stefan W. Hell for revolutionising science through the development of super-resolved fluorescence to exceed the accepted limits of tradition....

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00:32:00

Fun with Light and Single Molecules

by William Moerner
Fun with Light and Single Molecules
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1237 views
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More than 25 years ago, single molecules were first detected optically, but how do we really detect a single molecule today, and what good is it? It is an amazing fact that you can even detect single molecules with your own eyes. When a new regime of....

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00:29:00

Electron Transfer Theory in Single Molecule Studies of Intermittent Fluorescence of Quantum Dots and in Initial Steps in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

by Rudolph Marcus
Electron Transfer Theory in Single Molecule Studies of Intermittent Fluorescence of Quantum Dots and in Initial Steps in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1504 views
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Intermittently fluorescing single molecule systems are found in many materials, including semiconductor quantum dots (QD), dyes on crystalline or nanoparticle film surfaces, and biological systems. The QD's show a ~ -3/2 power law for the distributio....

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00:30:00

Quasi-Periodic Crystals

by Dan Shechtman
Quasi-Periodic Crystals
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1580 views
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Quasicrystals - or, as Shechtman would prefer, quasi-periodic materials - now have scientists thinking about matter in a new light, but they also have many possible practical applications. Because of their uneven structure, quasicrystals do not have ....

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00:28:00

Optical Microscopy – the Resolution Revolution

by Stefan Hell
Optical Microscopy – the Resolution Revolution
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1245 views
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Throughout the 20th century it was widely accepted that a light microscope relying on conventional optical lenses cannot discern details that are much finer than about half the wavelength of light (200-400 nm), due to diffraction. However, in the 199....

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00:05:00

Solar Energy

by Various Presenters
Solar Energy
for 11-14 and upwards,
Highschool presentations | 11-14 and upwards | 8 years ago | 1579 views
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Sophie and Stephanie take a light-hearted look at solar energy.

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00:07:00

Can nanocrystals stop the climate change?

by Frank Riehle
Can nanocrystals stop the climate change?
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 8 years ago | 2711 views
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Fossil resources are limited and their CO2 emission strongly contributes to the global warming which is mainly responsible for the increasing appearance of natural catastrophes. Renewable biomass which can be converted into various forms of usable en....

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01:09:00

Green Fluorescent Protein: Lighting up Life

by Martin Chalfie
Green Fluorescent Protein: Lighting up Life
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1470 views
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The accidental discovery of this wonderful tool has changed the face of biology.

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00:35:00

Science – Lost in Translation?

by Harold Kroto
Science – Lost in Translation?
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1718 views
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This presentation explores the way in which the ideas and advances of people like Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler to Newton and Leibniz laid the foundations of Science.  The Enlightenment was a byproduct of this philosophical breakthrough and right f....

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01:04:00

Communicating with light

by Polina Bayvel
Communicating with light
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1381 views
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Most of the data we generate and receive (whether emails, tweets, videos or mobile calls) are now carried by optical fibres, which use light to transmit vast quantities of information over trans-oceanic distances. The use of hundreds of wavelengths ....

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00:31:00

HIV, a Discovery Highlighting the Global Benefit of Translational Research

by Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
HIV, a Discovery Highlighting the Global Benefit of Translational Research
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1498 views
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The fantastic progress made in medicine led the scientific community to hope about the complete eradication of infectious diseases in the middle of the 20th century. The sudden emergence of AIDS in the early 80's cruelly reminded us that this dream ....

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00:36:00

The Individuality of Light Quanta

by Roy Glauber
The Individuality of Light Quanta
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1337 views
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Light quanta are the fundamental units of radiant energy. When propagating freely they travel at the fastest attainable speed and live forever. These properties recommend them as the ideal messengers for communication of all sorts. Ordinary light ....

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00:40:00

The Beginning and Development of the Universe

by George Smoot
The Beginning and Development of the Universe
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1518 views
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By careful investigation of relic left on the cosmic scene we have very good evidence and constraints on what has occurred since the beginning of the Universe. This talk reviews the evidence including images and information from the very first light....

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00:33:00

Cold Atomic Gases: the Intersection of Condensed Matter and Atomic Physics

by William Phillips
Cold Atomic Gases: the Intersection of Condensed Matter and Atomic Physics
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1556 views
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During the past decade laser cooling and evaporative cooling of atoms have produced quantum degenerate gases both of bosons (Bose-Einstein condensates) and of fermions (gases with temperatures below the Fermi temperature). Such gases can provide ana....

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00:33:00

Molecules Against Cancer or for Long-Term Memory Storage

by Roger Tsien
Molecules Against Cancer or for Long-Term Memory Storage
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1556 views
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For cancer diagnosis and therapy, we are developing activatable cell-penetrating peptides (ACPPs), synthetic molecules with a novel amplifying mechanism for homing to diseased tissues. ACPPs are polycationic cell-penetrating peptides whose cellular ....

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