The word science is derived from Latin “scientia” meaning knowledge. There are two distinctive definitions of science. The older of the two states that science is a body of knowledge itself, of the type that can be rationally explained and reliably applied.
The contemporary definition is that it is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. A practitioner of science is known as a scientist.
From the classical antiquity and medieval science providing foundations for scientific method to the present day, science has been linked to a broad specter of branches until it became an all encompassing term with the definition given above.
The ever growing evolution of science in general has produced various branches or fields of expertise. The two major categories are natural and social science. The category of formal science is reserved for mathematics because it has certain elements of both natural and social categories but does not fit in either.
The documentaries and video materials complied in this category are concerned with all scientific matters, from the philosophy of science to the fringe and junk science.
Is it possible that the days of this planet are all but spent? Is the evacuation of the entire planet the only salvation of mankind? The answers to these questions are given in the documentary about the technological advance and the future plans that will enable planet scale evacuation.
The ever lingering question of the possibility of the eternal life is expected to be answered in recent future. To learn how humanity is about to defeat death, we will investigate the plans to grow replacement parts of the body in the laboratory, microscopic robots that could wipe out deadly diseases, and the possibility that aging itself may be reversed by taking a page from one of history’s darkest legends. A number of scientists, doctors, geneticists and nanotech experts-many with impeccable academic credentials insist that such a thing is possible. Find out what scientific methods and breakthroughs are behind this incredible claim. Will the gift of eternal life be finally given to mankind?
In July 1969, the American spaceflight Apollo 11 made history by being the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin were the first ...
The cosmos is another name for the Universe. Using the former implies viewing the universe as a complex and orderly system or entity. This documentary takes a look at questions like where did we origi...
The cosmos is another name we use for the Universe. Using that particular word implies viewing the universe as a complex and orderly system or entity.The cosmos and our understanding of its existence ...
Mathematics describes the real world of atoms and acorns, stars and stairs, with remarkable precision.So is mathematics invented by humans just like chisels and hammers and pieces of music? Or is math...
When Albert Einstein first published the Special Theory of relativity in 1905, he was ridiculed. People thought it was just too weird and radical to be real. Einstein wasn’t satisfied with his theor...
Thirty-five years ago string theory took physics by storm, promising the coveted unified theory of nature’s forces that Einstein valiantly sought but never found.In the intervening decades, string t...
Elon Musk has argued that we almost certainly live in a simulated reality. Is he correct? This documentary explores the philosopher Nick Bostrom’s now famous Simulation Argument,...
The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it. Of the bodies that orbit the Sun directly, the largest are the four gas and ice giant...
The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from star...
Thermodynamics is the study of the relations between heat, work, temperature, and energy. The laws of thermodynamics describe how the energy in a system changes and whether the sys...
From early childhood, we compulsively and continuously counted the objects in our environment. Whenever we could look at a moonless night sky, we wondered how we might one day coun...
The moon is far more than just a beautiful object in the night sky. Ever since its creation 4.5 billion years ago the moon has been edging away from Earth into space.Throughout its...
In 1961 when President Kennedy pledged to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, no rocket existed with the power or capability to rise to the challenge.In order to win th...
The area of study known as the history of mathematics is primarily an investigation into the origin of discoveries in mathematics and, to a lesser extent, an investigation into the...
What if your brain at 77 were as plastic as it was at 7? What if you could learn Mandarin with the ease of a toddler or play Rachmaninoff without breaking a sweat? A growing unders...
The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913. It is a referred to as bladeless turbine. Back in the days, Tesla intended for this turb...
Math is everywhere around us. Everything that happens in our life is connected to math in some way or form.This might sound astonishing and amazing, but that is the reality. You mi...
Have you ever thought how this world will end? What will happen? Do you believe in Judgment Day? Or are you more for a modern and scientific end of the world?This documentary takes...
Hot Jupiters, water worlds, Tatooine planets orbiting binary stars, diamond worlds, and much more. This list of weird planets has everything you can imagine.When we think of planet...
Quantum physics is one of the most complicated terms to understand. To put it simple, it is the physics that explain how everything works.Quantum physics is the description we have...
Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles.Quantum me...
What is the quantum world? It is the world that is smaller than an atom. Things at this scale don’t behave the same way as objects on the scale that we can see.Is the quant...
Math is an integral part of live. You might not know it, you might not see it, but math has an impact on everything we do in life. And everything that has happened in the pas...
How much do you know about the human body? The story of a human life is a long and complex one. It starts with the first cry after birth, and ends with a final breath.What ha...
What happens when you go to sleep? Well, that is an interesting question. We all know we dream when we go to sleep. But what happens with our mind?We spend one third of our live...
Do we live in a virtual reality? Is the universe emerging from an information processing system? And we can tell it? Can you hack the system and change reality?Those are all ...
The multiverse is a hypothetical group of multiple universes. Together, they compromise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and ...
Forensic science, or sometimes referred to as criminalistics, is the application of science to criminal and civil laws. Usually, forensic science comes at use during criminal...
The human brain is the command center for the human nervous system. The purpose of the brain is to receive signals from the body’s sensory organs and outputs information to...
A couple of thousand years ago, China closely guarded the secret of how to make silk and raise silkworms. The reason was simple. Silk made up most of the wealth of China. The...
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken thousands of incredible and inspiring images in the name of science. Yet, the one taken back in 1995 is the most important one.Most of us...
The race to the Moon marked the battle between the Soviet Union and the United States in the 1960s. It was right in the middle of the Cold War.The United States were the firs...
The definition of lust is a strong sexual desire. It is a psychological force producing intense desire for an object, or circumstance fulfilling the emotion. Lust can take an...
A Venn diagram is a diagram showing all possible logical relations between a finite collection of different sets. They depict elements as points in the plane, and sets as reg...
Greg Foot takes you on a scientific adventure diving down into the deep dark ocean. The documentary starts on the deck of the Baseline Explorer, and from there you go into th...
The Fibonacci sequence is one of the most famous formulas in mathematics. Each number in the sequence is the sum of the two numbers that precede it.Therefore, the sequence go...
Gravity or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy, are brought toward one another. On Earth, gravity gives weight to physical objects. G...
Our brain contains billions of nerve cells arranged in patterns that coordinate thought, emotion, behavior, movement, and sensation. All parts of the brain work together, but ...
Marino Morikawa is a special person. He used his PhD degree to clean his childhood lake. When he came back to the Cascajo wetlands in 2010, his father told him that they were...
Space nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium, and other ionized gases. The term was originally used to describe any diffuse astronomical object, including ...
Laboratories serve as a way to learn more about bacteria, viruses, and other dangerous forms that can alternate our life. In order to find a way to prevent and fight off viru...
The Universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all forms of matter and energy.That is the simplest way to describe the unive...
How many times have you seen superheroes do amazing things in movies, and thought, WOW, I want to be able to do that as well.Well, sadly, these fiction superpowers are exactly...
When it comes to innovations and science, the Islamic world is rarely mentioned. In fact, we rarely think that the Islamic World has given us many firsts.But the reality is q...
LIGO stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. It is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory with a purpose to detect cosmic gravitational wave...
William Maillis is one of the youngest people to graduate from a public high school. He did it at the age of 9. When he was just five years old, he was able to solve circumfe...
Has hunger ever changed your mood? If the answer is yes, you know that what we eat, or do not eat, directly affects our mental health.Our belly and brain are physically and bi...
The human body is made of between 55% and 60% water. That is the adult body. Children have higher water percentage.About 71% of the Earth’s surface is water-covered. Oceans ...
In theories of quantum gravity, the graviton is the hypothetical elementary particle that mediates the force of gravity. While there is no complete quantum field theory of gr...
Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Pythagoreanism movement. He is known mostly for his Pythagoras theorem, which can be ap...