Science videos and animations - audio, video and flash animation, plus more traditional science resources, for biology, chemistry and physics.

Darwin and Evolution Video (Flash)

Find out how mockingbirds from the Galapagos Islands, not finches, gave Charles Darwin his ideas about evolution.

Taxidermy Video (Flash)

Derek Frampton talks about how he became a taxidermist and the secrets of his craft.

Dinosaur Video (Flash)

A tiny dinosaur with big canine teeth shows for the first time how one of the earliest dinosaurs grew into an adult.

Fish and Their Reproductive Habits Video (Flash)

Fossilised pregnant fish was one of the first animals to have sex.

Neanderthals Video (Flash)

New evidence reveals Neanderthals ate seafood such as shellfish, mussels and even seal.

Seaweed Survey Video (Flash)

Follow Museum expert Professor Juliet Brodie as she carries out the first seaweed survey since the 1970s in Blue Anchor Bay along the Bristol Channel.

Mystery Insect Video (Flash)

An insect not seen in the UK before was discovered in the Wildlife Garden in 2008 and it baffled insect experts.

A Rather Big Insect Video (Flash)

The record for the world's longest insect has been broken by a 56.7 cm long stick-insect from Borneo which has joined the Natural History Museum's collections.

Ants and Termites Video

Join Museum entomologist David Jones to explore the dominant ecological role of ants and termites in tropical rainforests.

Find out why they deserve to be called super-organisms.

Beetles Video

Forty per cent of all described species of insect are beetles. They come in a broad array of different shapes, sizes and colours. With emeralds, electric blues and reds, their shimmering brilliance catches and excites the eye - so much so that in some cultures they are used for jewellery such as buttons and broaches.

Edible Insects Video

Museum entomologist Stuart Hine uses real insect specimens to give us the low down on the taste and nutrition of a varied bushtucker diet, from roasted slugs to crunchy crickets.

Ladybirds Video

Find out about the counting system for ladybird activity...

Reptile Predators and Scavengers Video

Museum snake enthusiast Peter Stafford looks at some of the incredible feeding behaviours of modern reptiles.

Meteorites Video

Join Museum mineralogist Caroline Smith to discover more of the secrets of meteorites.

The life cycle of a protein with narration.

Protein synthesis, chaperone protein, chaperonin, protein degradation, ubiquitin.

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Muscle contraction animation with narration.

Muscle contraction, myosin, actin, sarcoplasmic reticulum, sarcomere, troponin, tropomyosin.

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Intermediate filaments animation with narration.

Cytoskeleton, intermediate filaments, eucaryotes, intermediate filaments, microtubles, actin filaments.

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BioInteractive : Animations, Virtual Labs, Virtual Museum & Lectures on diverse biological subjects including DNA.

BrainPop - Health / Human Biology Tuition - You can sample four or more BrainPop mini videos.

Prentice-Hall - BioCoach. An interactive 'text' book, with animations & quizzes, aimed at high school level students. Includes cellular respiration, photosynthesis, mitosis, meiosis, DNA structure and replication, cell structure, transport, & more...

Lectures on metabolism, the cell & inorganic chemistry.

Squish The Fish - Great Fun - Click on the 'Enter' Link.

Biolnteractive : Direct link to sub site : DNA Interactive, which includes a timeline, lots of information on 'the code', genetic manipulation, 'the book of life' and applications of DNA science.

Short animation showing how flagella and cilia move from Northland Community and Technical College.

Virtual scanning electron microscope with samples including honey bee, house dust mite, fruit fly, cockroach, grasshopper, jelly fish, centric diatom, carpet beetle, ragweed pollen and sandstar.

Virtual laser scanning confocal microscope with samples including pollen grain, pumpkin stem, mouse intestine, mouse kidney, rat hypothalamus, medulla oblongata, leaf abscission layer and fava bean mitosis.

GCSE & A level biology resources - UK

Cracking the code of life - PBS video on DNA and genetics, cut into segments of about 4 - 9 minutes length. If the quicktime is too slow, try the realplayer version!

Animations on how cells divide. Mitosis and cytokinesis. Cell proliferation signaling pathway. Bidirectional replication of DNA.

How cells divide - flash cards to test definitions of terms such as chromatids, mitosis, aster, nucleosome, condensation, cell cycle, homologues, diploid and more...

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Interactive photosynthesis - hint to start - the photon is shown as a flashing yellow star.

Animated slides of the process of protein synthesis.

Imperial College - Chemistry Department

A selection of lecture presentations by well known chemists, including Nobel Prize winners, talking about their research. MPEG-4 audio or video.

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Interactive Periodic Table with linked audio/written descriptions of the elements from WebElements.

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Comics with Chemical References - A little fun! (read the text to get the real science where available!)

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A Closer Look at Water

Short animation on the polarity of water and hydrogen bonds.

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The Structure of Water. A detailed explaination of this important molecule.

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A quick animation looking at how ionic compounds dissolve.

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A molecular view of solution formation. Short narrated animation.

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An explanation of the PH scale. The PH 'slider' on the third slide is a nice scientific toy to play with!

Buffers - a short narrated animation.

Radiocarbon dating, and many more ways to date, such as dendrochronology and potassium-argon dating. Includes bomdardment. reactions, diffusion, ingestion, C-14 decay profile, C-14 processing ...

Rutherford's experiment & the resulting model of the atom, animation with narration.

Learn about cirality with this fun animation & game from the Nobel organisation.

The four types of chemical reactions. An eight slide flash animation.

Short animation showing the transition from ice to vapour.

GCSE & A level chemistry resources - UK

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Earth and Sky - short almost daily audio clips on various science subjects. Includes PodCasts for download.

Science talks and lectures from the University of California. Subjects include : Brain Development, E=mc2, The Origin of the Human Mind, a number of talks on ocean and marine science, Breaking and Making Chemical Bonds, and many more science related videos.

CNN and Harcourt Publishers - Short Videos for Science and Social Studies. Includes Battle for Bones, Benefits of Space, Biggest Extinction, Bionic Eye, Fossil Diving, Geomagnetic Storms, Glow Fish, Neanderthal Man, Nose Knowledge, Sue the Dinosaur...

BrainPop - Science Tuition - You can sample five or more BrainPop science mini videos.

Earth Revealed. A documentary type lecture series on geology. Covers plate dynamics, mountain building, earthquakes, evolution, volcanoes, weathering, rivers, erosion and deposition, deserts, glaciers and more. Free registration required.

Harcourt - Science for grades K to 6 (About age range 5-11)

National Geographic Kids.

National Geographic - Activities

National Geographic - Nature and Pulse of the Planet. 2 minute audio clips on various subjects. For example Lobsters: Making a Home...

National Geographic - MiniVideos. Click the Browse All Videos link below the search box for the complete listing... This page may not load properly if you do not have broadband

CERN - Mixed lectures / talks for those of you interested in particle physics ... - Click on University link, then on CERN lectures link.

The Mechanical Universe... and beyond documentary style lectures. Includes Newton's Laws, Gravity, Electricity, Magnetism, Conservation of Energy, Harmonic Motion, Resonance, Particles and Waves, Electric Circuits, The Atom, Kepler to Einstein... Free registration required to watch the videos.

The Multimedia Physics Studio. Covers 1-Dimensional kinematics, newton's laws, vectors and projectiles, momentum and collisions, work and energy, special relativity, static electricity, ray optics. Circular, satellite and rotational motion. Waves, sound and light.

Fermilab Advanced (Post Grad) Lectures (Practical Statistics for physicists, neutrinos etc).

Visual Media Services - Physics for Everyone and other lectures, please note, most of these lectures are not available on the new site, which is advertised on the pink bar, so ignor it!

Physics 2000 from the University of Colorado. It is recommended that you allow pop up windows with this site, as they appear to have an effect on the ability to navigate!

GCSE & A level physics resources - UK

Physics animations. Areas covered are chaos, classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, micrometer caliper, nuclear, optics, oscilloscope, quantum mechanics, relativity, sound waves, vectors, and waves.

Galileo - Battle for the Heavens. Interactive activities - Falling objects, projectiles, inclined planes plus pendulums. Also his life timeline, his place in science, his telescope, and his big mistake. From PBS.

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Nobel lecture in physics 2005 by Roy J. Glauber. The subject was quantum optics, and the lecture was called 100 Years of Light Quanta. The lecture slides in PDF format are also available.

Nobel lecture in physics 2005 by John L. Hall. This lecture was called Defining and Measuring Optical Frequencies. The lecture has a rather rambling 3 and a half minute introduction before it really gets going... The lecture slides in PDF format are also available.

NASA web site. Earth, Moon, Mars & Beyond.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Space related videos & lectures covering Earth, the Solar System, Stars & Galaxies, & Technology. Also includes interactive activities, audio streams & free wallpapers.

NASA Space Place. Great games, animations and activities to interest the younger audience, and many others!

BrainPop - Technology Tuition - You can sample four or more BrainPop mini videos.