The seed germination timelapse project bycontinues – now with dramatic music!
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How lasers work!
What grows on ice fields?
Can you name the four that things plants need to grow? Now imagine these resources an environment like the Arctic, where temperatures can drop below −50 °C. Sir David Attenborough explains in this video how some plants manage to survive…
Water suckers, we growing! Or, how Christmas Stars turn red
Poinsettias, or Christmas Stars, pop up everywhere once the holidays are coming closer. What looks like bright red flowers are specialised leaves, so-called bracts. Bracts turn from green to red when the plants start to flower in response to shorter…
How Santa Claus uses modern science to deliver presents
Great video and article in which Dr Larry Silverberg explains how it is possible for Santa to deliver presents across the world using a nano-toymaker and relativity clouds.
The Science of Christmas Trees
Ecologist Dr Markus Eichhorn talks about the different christmas tree species, how they cope with the central heating in your home and why he prefers natural christmas trees to artificial ones.
Keep photosynthesising!
Eat your seeds…
The Vacuole Song
Our new science music video is online! This video is a collaboration between plant cell biologists at Oxford Brookes University, the University of Warwick and the musician Cyrus Mower. We love plant organelles and we want to share our passion…
The Glucose Song
March of the Chloroplasts and a playful waterflea
This video shows chloroplast in the aquatic plant Elodea (also known as waterweed). They move around in the flow of the cytoplasm, which is called cytoplasmic streaming. I guess you could compare it to wood floating along with the currents…
What Are the Parts of a Flower?
“More Nature Songs, sung by Marais & Miranda, is part of the 6 LP set Singing Science. This set came out in the late 50s/early 60s and exposed kids to different science topics through fun and catchy little songs.”