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2:25 Instant Egghead - What's the Difference Between a Comet and an Asteroid? SciAmerican 366 views 1 week ago If you answered "one of Santa's reindeer" and "a popular video game from the 80s" --this episode of Instant Egghead is for you. Scientific American editor John Matson expla...
2:06 Instant Egghead - What's the Longest You Can Hold Your Breath? SciAmerican 1,332 views 2 weeks ago Professional 'free divers' have no trouble holding their breath for minutes at a time. What stops us from doing the same? In this episode, Scientific American's Katherine H...
2:33 Instant Egghead - What's the Difference Between Fission and Fusion? SciAmerican 641 views 2 weeks ago In an energy-hungry world, nuclear fission and fusion are often mentioned as alternatives to fossil fuels. But which one is better? In this episode, Scientific American's M...
3:06 Social Cues in the Brain - by Scientific American SciAmerican 2,711 views 2 months ago Reading the emotions of others is essential for even the most basic social skills. Here's how our brain combines information from multiple senses to decipher another person...
4:41 Your Brain in Love and Lust - by Scientific American SciAmerican 25,338 views 2 months ago Scientific American traces the flow of chemicals in the brain during different phases of romance and describes surprising insights from the science of attraction. -- ...
5:17 Illustrating the Lost Continent - by Scientific American SciAmerican 1,253 views 2 months ago Go behind the scenes with artist James Gurney to see how he created the illustrations for "Dinosaurs of the Lost Continent", a feature article in the March issue of Scienti...
1:06 Enter Now: Science in Action at Google Science Fair SciAmerican 3,392 views 3 months ago Time is running out to enter your science-fair project for the Science in Action Award and Google Science Fair. Entries are due April 1. Mariette DiChristina, editor in chi...
9:09 Quantum Entanglement : The Movie - by Scientific American SciAmerican 3,251 views 3 months ago Quantum-entangled twins or hoaxsters? In this dramatized film Scientific American editors George Musser and John Matson try to convince a colleague that their brains are en...
6:01 NYC's Ring of Steel pt 3: Motion Capture - by Scientific American SciAmerican 3,738 views 7 months ago What new technologies might be incorporated into New York City's surveillance network, the 'Ring of Steel'? Computer scientist Chris Bregler thinks that detecting motion si...
1:30 Journey to the Exoplanets iPad app (preview) SciAmerican 12,179 views 8 months ago Explore the mysterious planets outside our Solar System in this new immersive iPad app from Scientific American and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Journey to the Exoplanets ...

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