NPR Contest: Send Us Your Stories Of Happy Accidents In Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYrXy9odt3A In 1928, Alexander Fleming, a British bacteriologist, escaped the London smog to take a family vacation in Suffolk. When he got back to his lab, he discovered...
View ArticlePhosphorus Starts With Pee In This Tale Of Scientific Serendipity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYrXy9odt3A The history of science is full of happy accidents — most folks have heard that penicillin was discovered in 1928, when a few mold spores landed on some...
View ArticleWhoops! 12 Tales Of Accidental Brilliance In Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdalsuscyHg Author Isaac Asimov once wrote, "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but, 'That's funny ... '...
View ArticleOur 'Golden Mole' Winner Used To Paint Wasps For A Living
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pFZtJm8uI8 Finding success in science requires smarts, determination — and sometimes a bit of luck. NPR's Skunk Bear created the Golden Mole Award For Accidental...
View ArticleWe Followed A Snowy Owl From Maryland To Ontario
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXwrB216bgE At the end of 2013, snowy owls started showing up far south of their usual winter range. The big white birds were reported in South Carolina, Georgia, even...
View ArticleFather And Daughter Circumnavigate The Globe Using A Mental Compass
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View ArticleDoes Your Body Really Refresh Itself Every 7 Years?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwfg157hejM The latest episode of the podcast Invisibilia explores the idea that personality — something a lot of us think of as immutable — can change over time.That got...
View ArticleTrading Cards: The Who's Who Of #NPRWormWeek
Worm isn't a scientific term. According to one of the Smithsonian's worm experts, Anna Phillips, a worm is just "an organism that is long and thin ... without legs ... that's not a snake."Worms span...
View ArticleWhat's In It For The Corpse Flower To Smell Like Death?
The Amorphophallus titanum is a striking plant even before you get close enough to smell it. Its scientific name means giant, misshapen phallus and it is not hard to see why. A giant column called a...
View ArticleWatch Earth's History Play Out On A Football Field
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8V_glRW1hA Grant Ernhart works with the U.S. Biathlon Team , so he spends a lot of time among snow-capped mountains. From the Canadian Rockies, he lobbed a question to...
View ArticleWhy Does A Frozen Lake Sound Like A Star Wars Blaster?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC7_zpyqCrU This winter brings the latest installment of the Star Wars franchise, full of familiar costumes, familiar villains, and the familiar "pew pew pew" of space...
View ArticleTravel To The Moon With David Bowie (360° Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCmcq1T2n1Q NPR's YouTube channel, Skunk Bear , answers your science questions. This week, we picked one in honor of David Bowie. Bowie was born on Jan. 8 and would have...
View ArticleSend Us Your Science Questions For 'Skunk Bear'
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Every so often on this show we hear a story from Adam Cole, who hosts NPR's science YouTube channel called Skunk Bear. He has told us how to...
View ArticlePeep Show: Watch Us Calculate The Speed Of Light With Stale Easter Treats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwREvdUWSKE If you just celebrated Easter, you might have some stale marshmallow Peeps lying around the house. And if you want to avoid eating those Peeps, they are the...
View ArticleHow Your Sandwich Changed The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRQEi-C5GDg What if you could go back in time and follow your food from the farm to your plate? What if you could see each step of your meal's journey — every ingredient...
View ArticleHow Eclipses Changed History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTxz_d2q7Js In July of 1878, Vassar professor Maria Mitchell led a team of astronomers to the new state of Colorado to observe a total solar eclipse . In a field outside...
View ArticleSaturn's Strangest Sights, As Captured By A Doomed Spacecraft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6y01PSb6qU Updated at 5:15 p.m. ET Sept. 14 The Cassini spacecraft's final moments are a few hours away. Early Friday morning, it will slam itself into Saturn's...
View ArticleWhy Dogs Have Floppy Ears: An Animated Tale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7flhfV31-0 Tuesday is an anniversary worth noting: On Jan. 30, 1868, Charles Darwin published a follow-up to his masterpiece On The Origin Of Species. This less-popular...
View ArticleYour Besotted Brain: A Neuroscience Love Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbFchFe1Nfo Love is complicated, scientifically speaking. There's no single, specific "love chemical" that surges through our bodies when we see our beloved, and we...
View ArticleThe Oscar For Best Snack Goes To ... Popcorn, The 6,000-Year-Old Aztec Gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MhvAFdf0eE Editor's note: As the Oscars approach, we're celebrating America's favorite movie snack by bringing back this story, first published in 2014. Popcorn is...
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