Instructional Video13:44
PBS

How to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse

12th - Higher Ed
In the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the universal wavefunction is the reality, encompassing all possible histories and futures and all exist. But we are only sensitive to a slice of the wavefunction corresponding to...
Instructional Video12:50
PBS

Sound Waves from the Beginning of Time

12th - Higher Ed
Invisible to the naked eye, our night sky is scattered with the 100s of billions of galaxies the fill the known universe. Like the stars, these galaxies form constellations – hidden patterns that echo the reverberations of matter and...
Instructional Video9:08
PBS

When Crocs Thrived in the Seas

12th - Higher Ed
While dinosaurs were dominating the land, the metriorhynchids were thriving in the seas. But taking that plunge wasn’t easy because it takes a very special set of traits to fully dedicate yourself to life at sea.
Instructional Video5:05
TED Talks

TED: How AI art could enhance humanity's collective memory | Refik Anadol

12th - Higher Ed
With data as his paintbrush, media artist Refik Anadol trains AI algorithms to visualize the disappearing wonders of nature. He gives a beautiful tour of his recent work -- imagery of artificial coral reefs, flowers, rainforests -- and...
Instructional Video13:47
TED Talks

TED: Could an orca give a TED Talk? | Karen Bakker

12th - Higher Ed
What if we could hear nature's ultrasonic communication -- and talk back? From a bat's shrill speech to a peacock's infrasound mating call, conservation technology researcher Karen Bakker takes us through a sound bath of animal noises...
Instructional Video12:06
SciShow

The Wildest Noises in Wildlife… and Dunes

12th - Higher Ed
Nature can be pretty noisy, but there's some stuff that's just quiet all the time - right? Well, thanks to advances in audio equipment, researchers are finding out that everything from plants to bacteria have a lot more to say that we...
Instructional Video4:07
SciShow

What Do Parrots Think They’re Saying?

12th - Higher Ed
You ever see a parrot mimicking humans words, and wonder if they really get what they're talking about? They're smarter than they look - there's a lot of meaning in every squawk and chirp that parrots make. Not bad for a bird brain.
Instructional Video2:55
SciShow

There's Water on...the Sun?

12th - Higher Ed
With an effective surface temperature of roughly 5,500 degrees Celsius, you might think water couldn't survive on the Sun. Well, scientists debated whether or not it was there for nearly a century, and it turns out, it can!
Instructional Video2:42
MinuteEarth

When 90dB is LOUDER than 120dB

12th - Higher Ed
We often use decibels, a measure of sound pressure, to describe how loud something is - but loudness is caused by how we perceive sounds, and the two often don't line up.
Instructional Video4:16
TED Talks

TED: Your identity is your superpower | America Ferrera

12th - Higher Ed
A clip from America Ferrera's TED Talk "My identity is a superpower -- not an obstacle" from TED2019 Hollywood needs to stop resisting what the world actually looks like, says actor, director and activist America Ferrera. Tracing the...
Instructional Video5:32
SciShow

Could a Shirt Hear Your Heartbeat? | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Microphones keep getting smaller and smaller, but have you ever asked what it would be like to have a bigger one in the form of a shirt? And though we tend to incorrectly think that we’re having two-way conversations with our pets, we...
Instructional Video2:55
SciShow

Placebos & Nocebos: How Your Brain Heals and Hurts You

12th - Higher Ed
You've probably heard how some drugs and treatments make people feel better, even when they turn out to be fake. That's the placebo effect, but how does it work? And could the same effect backfire, causing your brain to make you feel...
Instructional Video9:34
SciShow

Wheezy Waiter on Movie Science, Mutant Flu Facts, and 2 Sounds You've Never Heard!

12th - Higher Ed
Wheezy Waiter announces the SciShow nominees for "Worst Science in a Film," & Hank talks about the bird flu and shares two sounds that had never been heard by human ears until very recently.
Instructional Video3:39
SciShow

Why Viruses are Good for Wasps

12th - Higher Ed
Contracting a virus is generally a bad thing, but among certain parasitic wasps, passing a virus to their offspring is actually key to their survival.
Instructional Video5:22
SciShow

Why Aren't Commercial Jets Getting Faster?

12th - Higher Ed
Airplanes are one of the quickest ways to get anywhere, but commercial jets haven't gotten much fast since the 1950's. Why is that?
Instructional Video2:08
SciShow

What Makes Your Ears Ring?

12th - Higher Ed
What's happening inside our ears when we can hear that ringing? What's happening inside our brains? Sit back, clean the wax out of your ears, and let Michael Aranda explain! ----------
Instructional Video2:00
SciShow

What Does Ultrasound Gel Do?

12th - Higher Ed
You may have had an ultrasound before, and wondered what that gel does. Well, that weird alien goop has a purpose, and it has to do with being like our weird human skin.
Instructional Video2:31
SciShow

Ghost Crabs Take Stomach Growling to a Whole New Level

12th - Higher Ed
You think your tummy rumbles? Meet the ghost crab — it growls using teeth inside its stomach, and not because it’s feeling peckish!
Instructional Video5:13
SciShow

Finally, Some Good News About Corals | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Corals might have a fighting chance against bleaching, and fuzzy moths aren't just sporting their fur because it's adorable. Hosted by: Hank Green
Instructional Video5:47
SciShow

Extreme Engineering to Create the World's Stillest Rooms

12th - Higher Ed
There are labs so silent that most people can't stand being inside them, but that stillness lets us run some of our most sensitive experiments.
Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

Doggerland: A Real-Life Atlantis

12th - Higher Ed
Though we probably won’t find a literal Atlantis beneath the sea, that doesn’t mean that a human settlement hasn’t ever been lost to the water. Meet Doggerland.
Instructional Video2:24
SciShow

Do You Really Sing Better In The Shower?

12th - Higher Ed
Singing in the shower seems to sound better, but what is actually happening to the sound waves in that soapy, tiled room?
Instructional Video5:24
SciShow

Birds Are A Quick Fix For Your Anxiety

12th - Higher Ed
Tweeting may not decrease your stress, but the twitter of some birds just might. And can we make people forget their memories?
Instructional Video4:08
SciShow

A Surprisingly Simple Secret to Supersonic Flight

12th - Higher Ed
Making a faster plane takes more than building better engines and structures. To go supersonic, engineers had to solve hundreds of problems -- including ditching one of the biggest assumptions in aerodynamics!