Name: Songs, Sweets, and Space
Uploaded: 2020-06-18 00:00:00
Duration: 19 min 59 s
Description: Two Hollywood music producers explain the science behind your favorite pop hits, an inventor who engineered a sweet twist on ice cream, and a NASA roboticist explains what it takes to drive the Mars Curiosity rover. LaurDIY shows how to make colorful “Liquid Lava” at home.

Be inspired by female STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) superstars in leading fields including social media, design and more.

Two Hollywood music producers explain the science behind your favorite pop hits, an inventor who engineered a sweet twist on ice cream, and a NASA roboticist explains what it takes to drive the Mars Curiosity rover. LaurDIY shows how to make colorful “Liquid Lava” at home.

Songs, Sweets, and Space

An expert engineer builds our self-esteem by building a toolbox, a shark expert shares freaky creatures from the deep, and the scientist uncovering the prehistoric giants hiding below one of America’s biggest cities. LaurDIY explains the science behind a chocolate shell.

Tools, Teeth, and Tusks

An engineer with a double life, a researcher’s scavenger hunt to find dangerous environmental factors in our neighborhoods, and two NASA scientists searching for the origin of life. LaurDIY makes kinetic sand.

Nets, Neighborhoods, and NASA

A Mechanical Engineer who teaches robots to dance, a Carnivore Ecologist who tracks bears, and a Paleoanthropologist who studies the evolution of the human diet by looking at the markings on million-year-old bones! Dr. Brain explains the brain science behind softball.

Bots, Bears and Bones

A Biomedical Engineer who is fixing bones with oyster shells, a Geologist shares the science behind quakes on Earth and beyond, and a data scientist explains how our information shapes our communities and lives. LaurDIY shares a mathemagical trick you can do at home.

Teeth, Tremors, and Tech

A brilliant scientist can make stars here on earth using lasers, an augmented reality game for kids to learn how to get along better, quantum computers are the future of computing, and meet a scientist who helped add new elements to the periodic table!

Fusion, Friends and Flerovium!

A shark is discovered right in the middle of a museum storage area! The secret behind writing hit songs, how your brain reacts to sports, and learn to make kinetic sand in the comfort of your own kitchen!

Best Of…Sharks, Songs, Sports, and Sand

A biomedical engineer who’s working on putting your brain on a microchip, the woman behind the amazing Mars Rover, and a bus that is really a traveling biology lab in New York City!

A Biochip, a Bot, and a Biobus

A zoologist who loves bats so much she’s dedicated her whole life to them, the former NASA Chief Scientist who is certain you’re going to mars, and a high school student who invented a new way to make a prosthetic device for a man in need.

A Night Flier, a NASA Natural, and a New Innovation

A marine biologist who helps turtle conservation (and shows us the miracle of life!), a physicist who accomplished what scientists said was impossible, and a neuroscientist who understands how your brain talks to itself.

Conservation, Crystals, and the Corpus Callosum

An engineer who saves the environment from a dangerous undersea threat, a team of superheroes who protect the planet using physics, and scientist who knows what’s science and what’s fiction in your favorite sci-fi films.

Algae, Asteroids, and Astrophysics

A robot that can show kids how to share, a scientist who studies octopi and their unlikely symbiotic friends, and a mechanical engineer who is building toys for our nation’s future female STEM stars.

Bots, Bacteria, and Building

A coach for the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team who uses science to keep her players in shape, an expert who studies singing apes, and a computer engineer who is making artificial intelligence more equitable for all people.

Athletes, Apes, and Artificial Intelligence

A forensic scientist who uses STEM to solve crimes, a bioengineer who makes playing sports safer for our bodies, and a military specialist who works on the most sophisticated radar systems in the world.

Fingerprints, Fractures, and Frequencies

A marine biologist who spends her day with baby sea turtles, a biomedical engineer who is using techniques from the Mayans to improve modern dentistry, and a dancer who is training robots to move a little more like you.

Turtles, Teeth and Technology

A statistician who shows us the math behind games of chance, a physicist who is launching a rocket to learn about the sun, and what does NASA do when a space mission doesn’t go according to plan?

Propulsion, Probability, and Perseverance

A mechanical systems engineer who knows how to make things fly, a biomedical engineer who takes us rock climbing in the name of science, and a nurse who specializes in treating radiological accidents.

Flying, Fitness, and Forensics

A scientist who uses photography to document the impact of severe weather events and climate change, cybersecurity specialists who purposefully break into the army’s computers, and a team of female firefighters who make putting out flames an exact science.

Pictures, Protection, and Pressure

A marine biologist who trains sharks, a geologist who compares Hawaiian rock to rock on the moon, and a cloud research specialist who knows exactly where your water has been.

Marine Biology, Moon Rock, and Molecules

A roboticist who helps robots learn the subtleties of human movement, a scientist who brings her high-powered microscopes on the road, and a mechanical engineer who creates toys that bring STEM to everyone.

Movement, Microscopes, and Mechanical Engineering

Scorpions that glow in the dark, life-size statues that can be made in record time, and how lasers are helping advancements in solar power.

Stingers, Statues, and Solar Power

A paleontologist shows us how to get dinosaur bones out of rock, the science behind surf, and stars that are different colors based on what they’re made of.

Big Bones, Boss Waves, and Burning Stars

Using magnets to separate specific cells in the human body; the complex world living beneath our feet, and science gets technical about water.

A Super Hero, Some Super Soil, and Several Super Shrimp!

A computer expert who makes sure everyone can be a coder, the fight to save our oceans’ coral reefs, and how science is using stretchy material to make cutting-edge electronics.

Coding, Coral, and Concoction

A Science Entertainer shows us the way to entertain- using science; over 60 “Thundercloud” reactions are set off, and we see what a recipe for boba has in common with the latest in electronics!

A Chemist, More Chemists, and a Conservationist

A photographer who uses pictures to help save the environment, we go on a scorpion hunt with an expert, and it turns out that sharks can be trained- at least a little!