Instructional Video3:38
SciShow Kids

Why do Planes Leave White Streaks in the Sky?

K - 5th
Have you ever seen an airplane high in the sky leave a long trail behind it? That's called a contrail! It's kind of like a cloud, or your breath on a cold day. Jessi and Squeaks explain the special circumstances that make contrails happen!
Instructional Video3:58
SciShow

Volcanic Lightning: Because Exploding Mountains Aren't Bad Enough

12th - Higher Ed
In the midst of a volcanic eruption, lightning can streak across the ash and smoke above it, but what do we think causes volcanic lightning?
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

Could We Build Weather-Controlling Satellites?

12th - Higher Ed
In some science fiction movies, satellites control the weather in disastrous, but effective ways. Here in reality, we have attempted to influence the weather, with mixed results.
Instructional Video3:27
SciShow

The Biggest Water Reservoir in Space

12th - Higher Ed
In the late 2000s, scientists looking deep into space discovered the largest known water reservoir in the universe inside a quasar, orbiting a supermassive black hole. Learn more about quasars and what this water can tell us about the...
Instructional Video3:15
SciShow

How Cold Can Earth Get?

12th - Higher Ed
These days it seems almost trivial to cool atoms down to near absolute zero temperatures in a lab, but what is the lowest possible naturally occurring air temperature on this planet?
Instructional Video3:22
SciShow Kids

Viewer Mail From London! Science for Kids

K - 5th
Join Jessi and Squeaks in their brand new fort as they answer letters from their friends in Ivydale, England!
Instructional Video14:13
SciShow Kids

The Science of Spring!

K - 5th
It's finally spring where Jessi and Squeaks live! Join them as they take a look back at some of their favorite springtime subjects like why it rains, how plants grow, and all the amazing bugs you can find in the spring!
Instructional Video5:13
Be Smart

Why Do Clouds Stay Up?

12th - Higher Ed
There's nothing wrong with having your head in the clouds
Instructional Video4:44
SciShow

An Earth-Sized Telescope Just Snapped Two Pictures

12th - Higher Ed
We may soon have a direct image of a black hole, and we have the first detection of an atmosphere on an Earth-sized exoplanet!
Instructional Video9:49
SciShow

5 Ways Humans Make It Rain

12th - Higher Ed
There are quite a few ways that humans influence the weather, and even on local levels, human activity can produce more rain. Whether by accident or on purpose, increasing rainfall isn't as far-fetched as it sounds. Chapters URBAN HEAT...
Instructional Video5:24
SciShow

The Two Asteroids That Shouldn’t Be There

12th - Higher Ed
Space Clue: 203 Pompeja and 269 Justitia in the asteroid belt with evidence of being formed outside of it. But the real mystery is how they got there! And we again return to Ganymede with new evidence suggesting even more kinds of water...
Instructional Video7:58
SciShow

The Weirdest Places Made by Carbon Dioxide | SciShow Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
Carbon dioxide is the biggest player in the climate crisis, reshaping our world in an urgent way, but that’s not the only way CO2 has changed the world. It’s also contributed to making some of the weirdest places on Earth.
Instructional Video5:21
SciShow

The Night Sky in Infrared

12th - Higher Ed
James Webb wouldn’t be equipped to look in the infrared if not for the previous missions that have allowed us to see the universe in wavelengths that the human eye can’t see!
Instructional Video4:41
SciShow Kids

How Plants Drink Fog! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Trees need water to grow, so how do Redwood trees get so big, despite the fact that it gets so dry? First Grade Next Generation Science Standards Crosscutting Concept: Structure and Function: The way an object is shaped or structured...
Instructional Video4:47
Crash Course Kids

Dinosaur Pee?

3rd - 8th
Today we continue our exploration of the Water Cycle by drinking some dinosaur pee. Yep! Well, it's a little less gross that it sounds. It turns out that all of the water on Earth is just constantly recycled in what we call a closed...
Instructional Video2:35
MinuteEarth

How Firestorms Form

12th - Higher Ed
Today's wildfires burn, on average, twice the amount of land they did in 1970. The reason? We've been working too hard to put them out.
Instructional Video11:08
MinuteEarth

MinuteEarth Explains: Water

12th - Higher Ed
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we take a look at one of Earth’s most critical - and unique - features.
Instructional Video4:58
SciShow

InSight Landed on Mars! What's Next? - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
InSight has safely landed on Mars, and astronomers have some improved theories about the TRAPPIST-1 system.
Instructional Video3:47
SciShow

Sonoluminescence: When Sound Creates Light

12th - Higher Ed
So, a mantis shrimp's claws are pretty strong... so strong that they can produce a bubble that's about as hot as the sun and collapses with a flash of light when they snap... and scientists aren't quite sure how they do it!
Instructional Video3:55
SciShow

The Ocean on Enceladus is Really Big

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow Space News, Saturn’s moon Enceladus probably has a giant ocean covering the entire world. And the year-long mission to the International Space Station just hit its halfway point!
Instructional Video5:00
SciShow

The Most Anticipated Space Missions of 2022 | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
2022 is looking like a great year for space exploration! Let's dig into three of the missions that we're really excited to watch unfold!
Instructional Video4:15
Be Smart

How Many Trees Are There?

12th - Higher Ed
It may be an impossible questions, but we can at least get close.
Instructional Video5:17
SciShow

We Found Superconductors in Meteorites!

12th - Higher Ed
We've found the first confirmed superconductors in meteorites, and our simulated atmosphere game is really heating up!
Instructional Video2:06
MinutePhysics

How to Turn Sound Into Light: Sonoluminescence

12th - Higher Ed
How to Turn Sound Into Light: Sonoluminescence