Three Minute Thesis - Matthew Richardson “Chill Out! The Key to Recycling a Rocket”

Scientists from UVM and Tufts repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms.

People have been developing different forms of shark repellent for decades, the military even issued a chemical shark repellent called “Shark Chaser” to pilots, sailors, and astronauts(!) from the end of World War II through the start of the Vietnam War. Thing is… it didn’t really work. Learn why they bothered passing it out, or even created it in the first place.

Watch an overview featuring a demonstration of a burning candle as an example of a chemical reaction. A molecular animation shows that the atoms in the reactants come apart from one another, rearrange, and re bond to form the products.