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Drumroll Please! A Performance For The Solar Eclipse
A local percussion section in Akron, Ohio, performed a drumroll for the solar eclipse.
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A local percussion section in Akron, Ohio, performed a drumroll for the solar eclipse.
Be a scientist with four easy ways to observe the total solar eclipse and report your results to researchers.
It’s something of a cosmic accident that total solar eclipses happen at all. Over time, the moon’s widening orbit will make them impossible.
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On August 21st, millions of Americans stopped what they were doing and looked up. Science Friday was there.
Researchers say fast-tracked drugs are not being rigorously tested after the approval process. Plus, modern evolutionary science has some advantages Darwin did not. What are we learning from DNA, experimentation, and more? And how researchers are using sound and vibrations to describe the eclipse to visually impaired viewers.
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Instead of pinhole cameras and solar filter lenses, researchers are using sound and vibrations to describe the scenes on August 21 to blind and low vision eclipse chasers.
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NASA Eclipse Ballooning Project hopes to livestream the solar eclipse from weather balloons across the country.
No eclipse glasses? No problem. Here are five other ways to safely observe a solar eclipse.
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The latest SciFri Science Club has a challenge for you: Tell us what’s happening with the solar eclipse, how to view it, and why we shouldn’t miss it.
Few astronomical phenomena are as exciting as a solar eclipse! Discover the science behind this cosmic event and learn to view it safely.