Links
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Biological Facilities
- Graduate Institute of Technology
- Interesting Astronomy Links
- Laser Spectroscopy
- Mathematics and Statistics Technology Center and Math Lab
- Nanotechnology Center
- Powers of Ten
- Science Cafe Little Rock
- Dance of the Strandbeests Plastic tubing “beasts” driven by the wind
- We Use Math.org
- Largest true-color photograph
How different does the universe look on small, medium, and large scales? The most famous short science film of its generation gives breathtaking comparisons. That film, Powers of Ten, originally created in the 1960s, has now been officially posted to YouTube.
The BYU Department of Mathematics is working to help inspire young people to study mathematics by producing a series of several high-quality, short films about careers and opportunities in mathematics. The introductory segment has already been produced, and you can view it here.
Each of the remaining films will highlight a specific career area in mathematics by featuring people who work in that career, what they do, why they like their job, what kind of problems they work on, and how they came to work in that career.
See the largest true-color photograph of the night sky ever created, shot by 28-year-old amateur astrophotographer Nick Risinger using six astronomical cameras. It’s a 360-panoramic view of the sky taken by trekking 60,000 miles across the western United States and South Africa starting in March 2010. The final image is composed of 37,000 separate photographs.