SciShow
Crypto and NFTs Are Environmental Disasters...But Do They Have to Be?
The world of cryptocurrency and NFTs is riddled with controversy, but somewhere amid all of that blockchain there's some reckoning with reality that must be done.
MinuteEarth
How To Turn Poop Into Power
We could generate a lot of usable energy from human and animal poop through greater adoption of a process for using microbes to break down poop into methane gas. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your...
SciShow
Growing Lambs in High-Tech Plastic Bags
We're closer than ever to growing life in artificial wombs, and we've learned a bit more about how glucose and protein affect exercise endurance.
SciShow
Weird Places: Movile Cave
In 1986, a prospecting crew in southern Romania was looking for a good place to build a geothermal power plant, when they accidentally discovered one of the oddest caves of all
SciShow
Why Don't Sharks Have Bones?
Eat facts, Shark Week! Hank takes you on a tour of the shark's amazing anatomy, including the many adaptations that made it a great predator -- despite not having any bones.
SciShow
Facts About Fracking
Hank gives us a summary of the important facts about fracking: what it is, why we do it, and how it actually isn't all butterflies and cupcakes.
TED Talks
TED: The case for optimism on climate change | Al Gore
Why is Al Gore optimistic about climate change? In this spirited talk, Gore asks three powerful questions about the man-made forces threatening to destroy our planet -- and the solutions we're designing to combat them. (Featuring Q&A...
TED Talks
Michael Green: Why we should build wooden skyscrapers
Building a skyscraper? Forget about steel and concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of … wood. As he details in this intriguing talk, it's not only possible to build safe wooden structures up to 30 stories tall (and,...
TED Talks
Bill Stone: Inside the world's deepest caves
Bill Stone, a maverick cave explorer who has plumbed Earth's deepest abysses, discusses his efforts to mine lunar ice for space fuel and to build an autonomous robot for studying Jupiter's moon Europa.
MinuteEarth
Why Wolves Don't Chirp
Sounds that animals make can be really different, and it turns out that there's a reason why some species communicate with certain sounds.
SciShow
The Weirdness of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
It's Jupiter's beauty mark - but do you know where the Great Red Spot came from, or how long it's been there, or how long it'll continue to exist? Well, neither do scientists, really.
Bozeman Science
Conservation of Linear Momentum
In this video Paul Andersen explains how linear momentum is conserved in all collisions. In completely elastic collisions the kinetic energy of the objects is also maintained. Several examples and demonstrations are included.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan
Sloths spend most of their time eating, resting, or sleeping; in fact, they descend from their treetops canopies just once a week, for a bathroom break. How are these creatures so low energy? Kenny Coogan describes the physical and...
TED Talks
TED: What a driverless world could look like | Wanis Kabbaj
What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we can find inspiration in the genius of our biology to design the transit systems of the...
TED Talks
Brian Cox: What went wrong at the LHC
In this short talk from TED U 2009, Brian Cox shares what's new with the CERN supercollider. He covers the repairs now underway and what the future holds for the largest science experiment ever attempted.
MinuteEarth
Dangerous Marshmallows?!
Burning a marshmallow can release more energy than detonating an equal mass of TNT...so why isn't a marshmallow as dangerous?
MinuteEarth
The Great Acceleration
We’re in the middle of a rapid, unprecedented, and world-changing increase in the intensity and scale of human activity on this planet.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What is the rarest color in nature? | Victoria Hwang
Plants, animals, or minerals found in nature bear almost every color imaginable. There are two factors that influence what hues you see in the wild: physics and evolution. So, which colors are you least likely to see in the natural...
SciShow Kids
The Science of Fall | Compilation | SciShow Kids
The leaves are falling from the trees and the air is getting chilly where Jessi and Squeaks live, which can only mean one thing: it's fall! And to celebrate the season, they've put together a bunch of videos about all the fun things you...
TED Talks
TED: Have we reached the end of physics? | Harry Cliff
Why is there something rather than nothing? Why does so much interesting stuff exist in the universe? Particle physicist Harry Cliff works on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and he has some potentially bad news for people who seek...
Crash Course
Conjugation & UV-Vis Spectroscopy: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Carrots get their orange-y color from, you guessed it, an organic chemical. This chemical, called beta carotene, gets its pigment from its conjugated electron system. We’ve talked some already about conjugation, but in this episode of...
SciShow
Space Superlatives of 2015!
Let's talk about some of the awesome stuff that happened in 2015! Caitlin Hofmeister tells us all about some pretty nifty black holes and the biggest rocket created by NASA.