Wild ice skating on Alaska’s remote lakes
Ice Rescue Instructor Luc Mehl spends his work and play time outdoors in Alaska where he grew up. In the 1m37s video above, he films his wife and friends skating across different textures of refrozen...
View ArticleWhat happens to matter under extreme pressure? Something weird…
With the colossal Omega EP laser, the team at NSF’s Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures (CMAP) are simulating the intense pressures inside planets and stars. “Scientists from around the world queue...
View Article4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour: Kurzgesagt animates “All of History”
“Earth is 4.5 billion years old – which is approximately the same amount of time it took us to create this video,” the Kurzgesagt team jokes about their animated one hour movie, an epic video that...
View ArticleHow to build a colorful ice igloo, a time-lapse and tutorial
Rainbow igloos can be built with “snow cement” and a lot of ice mixed with food coloring. This ABC Allred time-lapse from the winter of 2021-22 shares how Matt Allred, a Rexburg, Idaho OB-GYN, built a...
View ArticleSpacecraft Makers: Building the Europa Clipper at NASA JPL
In October 2024, NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will begin its mission to discover if there’s a global ocean of H2O below the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter’s 80 to 95 moons. Europa is...
View ArticleOcean Worlds: Does Jupiter’s moon Europa have an ocean? And life?
Is there life beyond Earth? Scientists have searched for environments that might support life on exoplanets beyond our solar system since the 1990s—and they’ve found more than 5,000 so far—but there...
View ArticleIce Merchants, the Academy Award-nominated film by João Gonzalez
A father and son live in a house attached to a cliff. Every day, they make and harvest ice, parachuting off their deck to sell it in the village far below. When they return, they make more ice and wait...
View ArticleTesting out EELS, JPL’s new snake robot
What kind of robot might you design and build to explore the narrow, geyser-spewing vents below the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus? Meet EELS, short for Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor. This...
View ArticleFigure Eight – Schoolhouse Rock
Daydream about the Figure Eight with jazz vocalist Blossom Dearie and some help from renowned Schoolhouse Rock composer Bob Dorough, in this 1973 Multiplication Rock animated short. The educational...
View ArticleScience deep beneath Svartisen Glacier
“The Svartisen glacier in Norway is one of the few places on earth where ice can really be seen in action… not just from the outside, but from the inside. Deep beneath the glacier, in a chamber at the...
View ArticleIce Age mummies frozen in Arctic ice and permafrost
“In June 2022, a gold miner in the Canadian Yukon made a remarkable discovery. While working on the traditional lands of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation, he uncovered the exceptionally...
View ArticleA chunk of the Perito Moreno Glacier breaks off and flips
A massive chunk of glacial ice breaks off—calves—from Perito Moreno Glacier in this 2.5 minute video shared by Licet Studios. A popular tourist destination, the freshwater glacier’s terminal wall can...
View ArticleWild views from a Minnesota beaver dam cam
Who might you see living around a beaver dam in the late autumn and early winter of Minnesota? Watch the wolves and otters, plus a red fox and a beaver, all captured on camera by the Voyageurs Wolf...
View ArticleIce grizzlies of Canada’s Yukon
Not all bears start hibernating at the same time. For grizzly bears in Canada’s Yukon territory, late salmon migration make it possible for hungry out-of-season bears to catch a few extra energy-rich...
View ArticleGeysers and Springs of Yellowstone
Turn the sound up, then sit back and relax for footage of geysers and springs in Yellowstone National Park. This National Geographic video shares real-time, slow-motion, and hyper-lapse shots of steam,...
View ArticleHow can clams, crystal balls, and Scotland’s snow patches help us tackle...
“Understanding the trends of weather patterns can help us to see when one-off events become patterns of climate change.” But how have we marked and measured that weather data? Would you believe that...
View ArticleSoap bubbles freeze in the snow, a macro 4K video
The surfaces of these soap bubbles are transformed by freezing cold temperatures in this macro 4K video by Russia-based photographer Anton Maltsev at Macro Motion. Watch as ice crystals grow into...
View ArticleLearning about mindfulness from emperor penguins
“Penguins are some of the most improbable animals on the planet,” explains science writer Carl Zimmer in 2005. “They have wings and feathers but cannot fly. They are not fish, but they have been...
View ArticleA 1,300-year-old wooden ski found in Norwegian ice
High in the mountains on the Digervarden Ice patch in Norway, a pair of wooden skis were lost… 1,300 years ago. Who wore them? What was their life like? And what would they think of archaeologists...
View ArticleMade of Glass, an art lesson at the Speed Art Museum
Glass art is full of contradictions. It’s strong and fragile. It’s smooth and sharp. It’s solid and liquid. When we look closely at glass, we learn to appreciate all the things that don’t fit into...
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