If the earth is spinning to the east at 1000 miles per hour... why can't we fly west more easily?

The moon may be 1.3 light-seconds away, but why on earth do we measure distances using time?

Strange geologic landmarks in the Pacific Northwest are the lingering remains of a mystery that took nearly half a century to solve. These features turned out to be a result one of the most powerful and bizarre episodes in geologic...

Hank takes us on a journey to center of the Earth to explain both how the solid core formed and why it is so important for life as we know it.

In the Serengeti region in Tanzania, conflict can arise between humans and the elephants that graze on their crops. The U.S.-based nonprofit RESOLVE is testing a new way to reduce these clashes while protecting both elephants and humans:...

Astronomers have identified seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a star that's just a mere 230 trillion miles from our own planet, raising the tantalizing prospect of life in a solar system beyond our own. Science correspondent Miles...

The tourist mecca of Miami is also a hotbed of HIV transmission. While city and state officials have launched an ambitious plan to tackle the crisis, William Brangham and Jason Kane join Jon Cohen of Science magazine to look at how and...

Book: Empire Falls

In addition to recovering and rebuilding after a brutal war with ISIS, Iraq is facing a dire water shortage. Levels in the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers have plummeted, in part because neighboring Turkey built a dam upstream that restricts...

It's not part of Cancun that tourists travel to see: heavily armed police

working to stop a soaring homicide rate. The fallout of Mexico's camp
aign
targeting drug cartel leaders is spilling onto the periphery of t
he famous...

A new initiative by the University of California system uses first-generation faculty to guide first-generation students, with the goal of decreasing dropout rates. As part of our series Rethinking College, Hari Sreenivasan visits UCLA...

By 2050, Earth’s population is expected to rise to 10 billion, while the

resources on the planet continue to shrink. Researchers in the Netherl
ands
are experimenting with one way to feed more people with less: grow
ing crops...

Hank gets to the bottom of an exciting, and kinda weird, announcement from Russian scientists at the Vostok Research Station in Antarctica. Have they reached a 20-million-year old underground lake? Maybe! Is there a hoard of Nazi secrets...

Computer skills aren't what's stopping people from breaking into the tech industry, says social entrepreneur Irma L. Olguin Jr. More often, the biggest hurdles are things like access to childcare, transportation and financial stability....

Fun with Ferrofluid

Coral reef fish, like the yellow tang surgeonfish, begin life in a fascinating and weird way - as tiny floating larvae! These babies are capable of drifting thousands of miles on ocean currents, far from the reefs where they were born....

Significant pieces of the globe are literally not on the map: they're missing from the most widely used mapping platforms, like Google Street View, leaving communities neglected of vital services and humanitarian aid. In this...

If the earth is spinning to the east at 1000 miles per hour... why can't we fly west more easily?

The moon may be 1.3 light-seconds away, but why on earth do we measure distances using time?

Hank reveals the details about the giant volcano in Yellowstone National Park.

There is more than one way to measure the same thing! Jessi and her friend The Giant Squidstravaganza (Squid for short) explore the differences between the Metric System and the Imperial System.

In this shorts video we will answer a standardized math test question by comparing rates in miles per hour. We will read the information provided. We will determine the miles per hour from a graph. We will understand the graph shows a...

Why do salmon use Earth's magnetic field to find their birth stream, only to die after spawning? Why do caribou traverse thousands of miles? This is the dramatic story of animal migration—a tale of life, death, and the survival of future...

In this math video we will learn how to interpret, use and write an equation. We will review how an equation represents a real world relationship where y represents miles and x represents hours. We will also review that the coefficient...