Natural Sciences (Videos)

UNESCO Assistant Director-General and Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), talks about key issues concerning the oceans during the annual meeting of UNESCO Goodwill ambassadors at UNESCO headquarters, 26 -27 June 2013.

UNESCO Assistant Director-General and Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), talks about key issues concerning the oceans during the annual meeting of UNESCO Goodwill ambassadors at UNESCO headquarters, 26 -27 June 2013.

UNESCO Assistant Director-General and Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), talks about key issues concerning the oceans during the annual meeting of UNESCO Goodwill ambassadors at UNESCO headquarters, 26 -27 June 2013.

UNESCO Assistant Director-General and Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), talks about key issues concerning the oceans during the annual meeting of UNESCO Goodwill ambassadors at UNESCO headquarters, 26 -27 June 2013.

A film jointly produced by European Petrochemical Association (EPCA) together with UNESCO and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) on occasion of the International Year of Chemistry, 2011.

The film informs the general public that chemistry meets the world's needs, is creative and is building our future, inspires young people and celebrates the continued contribution of women to science.

The film will was shown for the first time at UNESCO headquarters during the launching of the International Year of Chemistry on 27 January 2011.

The oceans influence everything and everyone on earth, from climate to crops. Until very recently we knew incredibly little about complex oceanic systems but now the science of our seas is undergoing a revolution.

In this film Earth Reporter follows Dr Susan Wijffels, one of the world's foremost oceanographers, as she and her colleagues collect and interpret data from an array of free floating oceanic robots.

Professor Richard R. Ernst, 1991 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his methodological developments within nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, discribes science as "the best way to educate people by doing". He adds "Research is important to get honesty into people. And honesty is a basis [...] of peace

Professor Dudley Robert Herschbach is an American chemist at Harvard University. He won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"

Here he discusses the links between science and peace

professor Walter Kohn is an American theoretical physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on October 13, 1998 for his development of the density-functional theory.

He talks about his work and about the role of science in the quest for peace

According to Jean-Marie Lehn, 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, science and peace share a common ground because "scientists are supposed to be open, [they] are supposed to think rationally rather than emotionally, and to go beyond borders"