Scientific American has taken over YouTube's Space Lab channel, relaunching it today as Scientific American Space Lab.
Scientific American and its editor, Mariette DiChristina, partnered with Space Lab in 2012, when Space Lab asked SciAm to contribute to the channel. (DiChristina had been a judge for Space Lab video competition and had appeared on the channel.)
SciAm launched a bi-weekly show called The Countdown–a round-up of the top five space stories in the news, with host Sophie Bushwick. Rachel Scheer, a SciAm spokesperson, said that "as the show flourished, the YouTube Space Lab team handed over the reins of the channel to Scientific American."
The new SciAm-branded channel features two other shows–Ask the Experts, and It happened in Space, a show that explores the history of space exploration and is hosted by the historian and blogger Amy Teitel.
In a short video, DiChristina happily announces the new channel, saying viewers should "look for some of the same things in Space Lab that you've come to expect from Scientific American's award-winning magazine and website." That's an invitation I think I'll accept.
-Paul Raeburn
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