Science Friday Videos

For nearly two decades, Don Hampton has been monitoring the Northern Lights in Alaska to understand the energy pouring down from auroras.

Artist Jennifer Angus creates a celebration of cicadas and insects in her eye-catching collages and dioramas.

Blending chemistry, physics, and animation, artist Maria Constanza Ferreira grows tiny gardens of crystals to create dazzling images.

Climate change is threatening Maine's native blueberries. These researchers are looking to provide solutions—and help farmers in the process.

Learn how conservationists live on an isolated island to study Maine's puffin population, and how the birds are dealing with warming seas.

A computer programmer and artist discovers inspiration in biological growth processes.

Discover how Audrey Dussutour is breaking new ground in our understanding of animal cognition from an unexpected source: slime molds.

Discover how earth scientist Africa Flores-Anderson uses satellite data to help underserved communities.

Learn about how astrophysicist Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil has defied odds—breaking cultural conventions and discovering a completely new kind of galaxy.

Follow Bianca Jones Marlin as she uses cutting-edge neuroscience to uncover how the effects of trauma can be passed down from generation to generation.