atoms
7:44Diatoms: Tiny Factories You Can See From Space
811K views • 7 years ago
Journey to the Microcosmos
An episode of Journey to the Microcosmos, hosted by Hank Green, about diatoms, single-celled algae with glass shells. It covers their role in producing a large share of Earth's oxygen and their uses in beer filtering, paint and kitty litter.
4:56Moving Atoms: Making The World's Smallest Movie
3M views • 13 years ago
IBM
A short IBM behind-the-scenes documentary on how researchers moved individual atoms to make the world's smallest movie. It introduces the scientists and their work on atomic memory and data storage.
7:07Feynman: What things really are like FUN TO IMAGINE 1
747K views • 17 years ago
Christopher Sykes
A clip from the 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine in which Richard Feynman explains heat as the jiggling of atoms and how we perceive it as hot and cold.
1:34A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie
28.2M views • 13 years ago
IBM
IBM's record-setting stop-motion film made by moving individual carbon monoxide molecules with a scanning tunneling microscope, illustrating atomic-scale memory research.
1:06:50HD Feynman: FUN TO IMAGINE complete (with optional Chinese subtitles)
712K views • 6 years ago
Christopher Sykes
A restored HD upload of the 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine, in which Richard Feynman talks informally about everyday science. Topics include jiggling atoms, fire, rubber bands, magnets, electricity, mirrors, seeing, big numbers and ways of thinking.
1:06:50The complete FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman
5.9M views • 8 years ago
Christopher Sykes
All six episodes of the 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine, in which Richard Feynman muses on jiggling atoms, fire, rubber bands, magnets, electricity and more. He explains how to think about nature and why imagination is fun.