Archive for the ‘Discoveries’ Category

18
Aug

Revealing the terrifying truth behind torture; ancient inventors go to great lengths to develop precision devices to exact pain; the rack; burning at the stake; Vlad the Impaler.       No matching videos

18
Aug

1. Microorganisms (1674) 2. The Cell Nucleus (1831) 3. Archaea (1977) 4. Cell Division (1879) 5. Sex Cells (1884) 6. Cell Differentiation (late 19th century) 7. Mitochondria (late 19th century to the present) 8. The Krebs Cycle (1937) 9. Neurotransmission (late 19th to early 20th century) 10. Hormones (1903) 11. Photosynthesis (1770s) 12. Ecosystem (1935) [...]

18
Aug

Join host Bill Nye as he recounts the 100 most important discoveries and explains how each one has had a hand in shaping the modern world. Watch his lively and dramatic accounts and learn how the great discoveries were made, how they impacted the development of scientific knowledge and how they touch our lives today. [...]

18
Aug

Join host Bill Nye as he recounts the 100 most important discoveries and explains how each one has had a hand in shaping the modern world. Watch his lively and dramatic accounts and learn how the great discoveries were made, how they impacted the development of scientific knowledge and how they touch our lives today. [...]

18
Aug

Explores ancient medical techniques and possible new applications in the modern era. Techniques reviewed include blood letting by leeches, reading from a torpedo fish, trepanning to relieve pressure on the brain, and Roman battlefield surgery and tools. Other items reviewed include how snake venom was used as medicine and using replica tools and virtual surgery [...]

18
Aug

Travel to Egypt to discover the mysteries of the mummified crocodiles of Kom Ombo. We’ll x-ray an ancient mummy that has held a secret for 2000 years, and reveal the lengths that people will go to to ritualize death. New discoveries at the site of the world famous terracotta army in China reveal incredible insights [...]

22
Aug

Discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something “old” that had been unknown. With reference to science and academic disciplines, discovery is the observation of new phenomena, new actions, or new events and providing new reasoning to explain the knowledge gathered through such observations with previously acquired knowledge from abstract thought and everyday [...]