English : Ear cleaning has been practiced as a profession by some in Odisha. These untrained professionals mostly roam with a custom cleaning kit containing few tools, cotton and cleaning solutions. This video was shot when a man was getting his ears cleaned in Baramunda bus station, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
English : A typical courtship interaction between a virgin male (bottom compartment) and a previously mated female (top compartment) Spalangia endius. The male approaches the female and proceeds to wing-fan, after which he mounts the female and performs rapid push-ups of his whole body on the female’s dorsum. The male then retreats following heightened pheromone release, without having mated with the female.
English : Algol (β Persei) is a triple-star system (Algol A, B, and C) in the constellation Perseus, in which the large and bright primary Algol A is regularly eclipsed by the dimmer Algol B every 2.87 days. The eclipsing binary pair is separated by only 0.062 astronomical units (AU) from each other, so close in fact that Algol A is slowly consuming the less massive Algol B by continually stripping off Algol B's outer layers. This animation was assembled from 55 images of the CHARA interferometer in the near-infrared H-band, sorted according to orbital phase.
English : The President Obama and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk of Ukraine speak to the press after a bilateral meeting to discuss finding a peaceful resolution to Russia's ongoing military intervention in Crimea that would respect Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity.
English : Synthesis of MoCl4(OEt2)2. In this episode, the conversion is illustrated of commercially available MoCl5 to MoCl4(OEt2)2 using tin shot as the reducing agent.
English : A profile of the newest members of the Expedition 39 crew, NASA astronaut Steve Swanson and cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemiev, covering their educational and professional backgrounds and their reasons for pursuing a career in human space exploration.