Instructional Video20:27
SciShow

Cost-Effective Household Items | SciShow Quiz Show

12th - Higher Ed
Today Hank and Sam figure out if medical side effects could help you "do crimes" and whether you can have a "gentle hate."
Instructional Video4:38
SciShow

Sensory Deprivation Tanks, and Other Overblown Human Closets

12th - Higher Ed
Sensory deprivation tanks, oxygen therapy chambers and unbelievably cold saunas - oh my! These machines are used to reduce stress, ease pain and could be useful in doing that, but these machines are generally meant to be used in very...
Instructional Video8:44
SciShow

The Future of Our Sun and Earth

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space gives you a blow by blow account of what's going to happen to the sun -- and Earth.
Instructional Video5:15
SciShow

Looking for Life During a Lunar Eclipse | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers took advantage of a lunar eclipse to study Earth as if it were an exoplanet, and Mars's Insight lander used seismic data to reveal for the first time boundaries between different layers of Mars.
Instructional Video18:55
SciShow

Accomplishing the Impossible Task of Taking Animals out of Meat

12th - Higher Ed
When it comes to creating vegetarian meat substitutes, flavor is only one hurdle—smell and texture are also major factors, and scientists have been making breakthroughs on creating a convincing meatless meat experience. We also got some...
Instructional Video22:45
SciShow

Here's What It Took to Put Humans on the Moon | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
To freshen up your Apollo knowledge, here is a good dive into the science and engineering that put people on the moon.
Instructional Video8:01
SciShow

Crabs Keep Turning Into Land Animals!

12th - Higher Ed
When a species evolves from living in water to living on land it’s called terrestrialization, and it’s not an easy task. Yet crabs keep making the jump from sea to shore. Why? And how do they do it?
Instructional Video15:45
TED Talks

Garik Israelian: How spectroscopy could reveal alien life

12th - Higher Ed
Garik Israelian is a spectroscopist, studying the spectrum emitted by a star to figure out what it's made of and how it might behave. It's a rare and accessible look at this discipline, which may be coming close to finding a planet...
Instructional Video4:02
SciShow

Estivation: How Mucus Saved My Life

12th - Higher Ed
Learn how some animals have adapted to survive in some of the hottest and driest environments in the world, by covering themselves in mucus and calling it good.
Instructional Video9:24
SciShow

Without Volcanoes, Earth Might be Dead

12th - Higher Ed
You might think of plate tectonics as destructive since it's the ultimate force behind earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. But the slow movement of our planet's surface does a lot more than shake things up now and then. Some...
Instructional Video3:54
Be Smart

How Ingenious Animals Have Engineered Air Conditioning

12th - Higher Ed
Are humans nature's greatest architects? When we look elsewhere in nature, we find some pretty amazing animal architects. Species like ants, termites, prairie dogs, birds, and more have engineered some incredible structures. This week we...
Instructional Video10:59
Crash Course

Everything, The Universe ...And Life

12th - Higher Ed
Here it is, folks: the end. In our final episode of Crash Course Astronomy, Phil gives the course a send off with a look at some of his favorite topics and the big questions that Astronomy allows us to ask.
Instructional Video6:00
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can the ocean run out of oxygen? | Kate Slabosky

Pre-K - Higher Ed
For most of the year, the Gulf of Mexico is teeming with marine life, from tiny crustaceans to massive whales. But every summer, disaster strikes. Around May, animals begin to flee the area. And soon, creatures that can't swim or can't...
Instructional Video5:27
SciShow

How Earth's Rotation Affects Our Oxygen | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Oxygen is crucial for life as we know it, but before it could build up in our atmosphere, earth had to slow down.
Instructional Video3:17
SciShow

What Happens if Your Body is Exposed to the Vacuum of Space?

12th - Higher Ed
Hank answers a SciShow viewer's most pressing question about what happens if the human body gets exposed to space. Would your head really explode?
Instructional Video2:39
SciShow

Why Smoking Makes It Harder to Heal

12th - Higher Ed
If a doctor has told you to quit smoking, that's not just because they're worried about lung cancer. Those cigarettes are messing up your body's natural healing process in more ways than one.
Instructional Video4:32
SciShow

This Reaction Could Let Us Live on Mars

12th - Higher Ed
There is a chemical reaction discovered a century ago that could be the key to creating everything from fuel to shelter on Mars!
Instructional Video5:10
SciShow

How "Cold-Blooded" Animals Survive the Cold

12th - Higher Ed
We humans can rely on our internal body heat to help keep us warm. But what can cold-blooded animals do when faced with the threat of freezing? Here are three creatures that have come up with some...“cool” solutions.
Instructional Video4:03
SciShow

Bacteria Could Someday Power Our Cell Phones

12th - Higher Ed
Unlike most living things, there are species of bacteria that can harness electrons directly and even shuttle them around from place to place like living wires.
Instructional Video4:38
SciShow

The Sensor That Dissolves in Your Brain

12th - Higher Ed
In this week's SciShow News, we discuss two new types of sensors being developed. One tracks the content of certain molecules in your sweat while you exercise and the other is a brain implant that can be resorbed once it has finished its...
Instructional Video18:10
TED Talks

TED: Suspended animation is within our grasp | Mark Roth

12th - Higher Ed
Mark Roth studies suspended animation: the art of shutting down life processes and then starting them up again. It's wild stuff, but it's not science fiction. Induced by careful use of an otherwise toxic gas, suspended animation can...
Instructional Video6:13
SciShow

Making Reactions Go Faster Since the 1700s | Great Minds: Elizabeth Fulhame

12th - Higher Ed
The chemical process of catalysis happens in a myriad of places in our modern world - from industry to inside your cells. Our knowledge of catalysis today springs from Elizabeth Fulhame, who over 225 years ago became the first person to...
Instructional Video3:47
SciShow

The Real Mayan Apocalypse

12th - Higher Ed
There are just six weeks left until the celestial odometer that is the Mayan calendar clicks over to the next b'akt'un, but in the meantime, scientists have been trying to solve the mystery behind the collapse of the Mayan civilization....
Instructional Video7:14
SciShow

Space Exploration Isn’t Great for the Earth (But It Could Be)

12th - Higher Ed
Building and launching rockets to learn about other worlds hasn't been great for Earth, but environmental engineers are working on changing that legacy.