SciShow
What Does Polar Bear Milk Taste Like?
It's a question that entails some risks: What does polar bear milk taste like, and why does it taste that way?
SciShow
Why Do Men Have Nipples?
If men can't nurse, then why do they have nipples? The answer has less to do with evolution and more to do with your personal development as a teeny tiny embryo. Short version: We're all girls -- at least at first. Hank explains!
SciShow
Studying Polar Bears from a Monster Truck | SciShow Talk Show
BJ Kirschhoffer from Polar Bears International discusses polar bear behavior and Jessi from Animal Wonders brings on an animal that lives near polar bears, an arctic fox!
SciShow
Bad Science: Breast Milk and Formula
We've all heard, “breast is best," but is it true? What's the real science behind breast milk and baby formula?
TED Talks
TED: What we don't know about mother's milk | Katie Hinde
Breast milk grows babies' bodies, fuels neurodevelopment, provides essential immunofactors and safeguards against famine and disease -- why, then, does science know more about tomatoes than mother's milk? Katie Hinde shares insights into...
SciShow
P-values Broke Scientific Statistics—Can We Fix Them?
A little over a decade ago, a neuroscientist found "significant activation" in the neural tissue of a dead fish. While it didn't prove the existence of zombie fish, it did point out a huge statistical problem.
TED Talks
TED: How we could eat real meat without harming animals | Isha Datar
What if you could eat chicken nuggets without harming a chicken? It's possible through "cellular agriculture," says Isha Datar. In a talk about cutting-edge science, she explains how this new means of food production makes it possible to...
SciShow
SciShow QuizShow: Bad Blood and Weird Bugs
SciShow’s Executive producer Hank Green faces off against SciShow senior editor Alyssa Lerner in this Quiz Show about weird experiments and strange animal parts.
SciShow
6 Non-Mammal "Milk" Producers
When you think of milk, you might think of mammals like humans and cows, but there are other species that give food to their young, in their own weird ways. Chapters FLAMINGOS 0:56 SPIDERS 1:55 PSEUDOSCORPIONS 3:23 CAECILIANS 5:13...
SciShow
Milk and the Mutants That Love It
Got milk? Fact is, most people don't -- and shouldn't -- because for them, ice cream and milkshakes are basically toxic. So why can some people drink milk and survive? Turns out they're mutants! SciShow explains.
TED Talks
Zach Kaplan + Keith Schacht: Toys and materials from the future
The Inventables guys, Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht, demo some amazing new materials and how we might use them. Look for squishy magnets, odor-detecting ink, "dry" liquid and a very surprising 10-foot pole.
SciShow
8 Things People Get Wrong About Animals
If you watched a lot of cartoons as a kid, chances are you picked up some common animal stereotypes like "cats love milk!" or "bears can't get enough of that sweet, sweet honey!" What if we told you that everything cartoons taught you is...
SciShow Kids
Where Does Yogurt Come From?
When we think of Yogurt, we think of a tangy and sweet treat that's good at any time! But there's a tiny little ingredient in there that helps to make it what it is!
SciShow
SciShow Talk Show: Ellen Whittle on Bats, and Carlos the Sinaloan Milk Snake
This week on the SciShow Talk Show Ellen Whittle talks about her thesis research on bats and how they use artificial structures as roosts. Then Jessi from Animal Wonders joins the show with Carlos, the Sinaloan Milk Snake. Chapters View...
SciShow
How To Make Antivenom
Bitten by a venomous snake? There's hope! French scientist Albert Calmette developed the first snake antivenom in the late 1890s, and did such a good job that we use his technique to this day. Antivenom works by stimulating the...
SciShow
From Crabs to Flies: 5 of Nature’s Most Doting Parents
Being a parent requires a lot of time and energy, but some animals are extremely devoted to caring for their young, and these five might not be the ones you would expect. Chapters View all BROMELIAD CRABS 1:32 BURYING BEETLES 2:26 DISCUS...
SciShow
SciShow Quiz Show: We Eat Some Weird Stuff (Hank vs. Mike Falzone)
Longtime YouTuber and internet problem solver, Mike Falzone, goes head-to-head with Hank Green to see who is the true Quiz Show master!
SciShow
The Science of Tear Gas
There’s a lot of confusion about tear gases—what they are, what they do, and whether they can cause long-term harm. Here's what we know.
TED Talks
TED: Do kids think of sperm donors as family? | Veerle Provoost
How do we define a parent -- or a family? Bioethicist Veerle Provoost explores these questions in the context of non-traditional families, ones brought together by adoption, second marriages, surrogate mothers and sperm donations. In...
Crash Course
Cheese, Catastrophes, & Process Control: Crash Course Engineering #25
Engineering, like life, could really use a lot more cheese. This week we are looking at a cheese factory in Toronto and what it can teach us about process control systems. We’ll explore feedforward and feedback systems, and see how...
MinuteEarth
Why Does Wine Make Your Mouth Feel Dry?
Astringent plant chemicals called tannins bind proteins on mucous membrane and skin, generating a prickly, puckery mouthfeel from foods and letting us “tan” skins into leather. ___________________________________________ If you want to...
SciShow
Animal-Free Animal Products With Cellular Agriculture
Many people are looking for ways to reduce their consumption of animal products. And these days, there are a ton of plant-based alternatives to help them do that. But many companies are working on ways to make animal-free animal products...
SciShow
Why does Swiss cheese have holes? #shorts #science #SciShow
Why does Swiss cheese have holes? #shorts #science #SciShow
SciShow Kids
Let’s Make Butter!
Jessi and Squeaks are having pancakes, but first they have to make a key ingredient: butter!