Instructional Video15:59
SciShow

Anal Jets and Frog Urine | SciShow Quiz Show

12th - Higher Ed
Stefan returns to challenge Hank on Quiz Show, and the rest of the SciShow Tangents crew decided to join in the fun!
Instructional Video5:30
SciShow

We Live in a Chimney

12th - Higher Ed
There are some captivating things when you look up at the night sky, but our location in the Milky Way may be fogging up our view.
Instructional Video6:05
SciShow

Found: The Missing Link of Black Holes | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers have been trying to figure out black holes for hundreds of years, and newly published research may hold some big clues! Plus, rust isn’t supposed to happen in dry and airless places like the Moon. Could the elements that...
Instructional Video4:14
SciShow

3 Awesome Discoveries Made by Curiosity

12th - Higher Ed
Happy birthday, Curiosity! Michael Aranda and SciShow News celebrate the first anniversary of the Mars Science Laboratory landing on Mars with 3 awesome discoveries that the universe's coolest rover has made so far. Hints: they involve...
Instructional Video4:38
SciShow

We Know More About That Underground Lake on Mars | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists have taken a look at the underground lake found on Mars in 2018, and it might not be the only one! Plus, new clues might help us understand why the Sun’s atmosphere is so much hotter than the surface!
Instructional Video3:13
MinuteEarth

How Fighting Wildfires Makes Them Worse

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. Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here's a keyword/phrase to get your googling...
Instructional Video14:06
TED Talks

Gian Giudice: Why our universe might exist on a knife-edge

12th - Higher Ed
The biggest surprise of discovering the Higgs boson? That there were no surprises. Gian Giudice talks us through a problem in theoretical physics: what if the Higgs field exists in an ultra-dense state that could mean the collapse of all...
Instructional Video9:57
TED Talks

TED: Why design should include everyone | Sinead Burke

12th - Higher Ed
Sinead Burke is acutely aware of details that are practically invisible to many of us. At 105 centimeters (or 3' 5") tall, the designed world -- from the height of a lock to the range of available shoe sizes -- often inhibits her ability...
Instructional Video15:25
TED Talks

TED: How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies | Natasha Hurley-Walker

12th - Higher Ed
Our universe is strange, wonderful and vast, says astronomer Natasha Hurley-Walker. A spaceship can't carry you into its depths (yet) -- but a radio telescope can. In this mesmerizing talk, Hurley-Walker shows how she probes the...
Instructional Video28:24
SciShow

Genesis, IBEX, and Cassini: SciShow Talk Show

12th - Higher Ed
Dan Reisenfeld from the University of Montana joins us this week to talk about his work with three different NASA missions (Genesis, IBEX, and Cassini), and Jessi from Animal Wonders brings along Ginger and Maui the Green Cheek Conures!
Instructional Video4:00
SciShow

The United Nations' First Space Mission

12th - Higher Ed
With a recent announcement from the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, the doors to space research have been opened for many new countries.
Instructional Video4:21
SciShow

Could We Really Visit Other Stars?

12th - Higher Ed
We might be getting a little closer to making interstellar travel a reality just not for humans.
Instructional Video5:00
SciShow

A Runaway Supermassive Black Hole

12th - Higher Ed
Black holes are a wondrous force of the universe! Hank explains how we found a supermassive rogue black hole & how DNA behaves in space!
Instructional Video2:06
MinutePhysics

Shells of Cosmic Time (ft. @AstroKatie)

12th - Higher Ed
Thanks to @AstroKatie (http://astrokatie.com) for the collaboration! This video is about the cosmic distance scale and how we see objects farther away in space (ie at higher red shift) farther back in time because light takes time to...
Instructional Video5:25
SciShow

Cassini’s Last Hurrah & Hints About Saturn’s Rings

12th - Higher Ed
Cassini is about to take its final dive into the rings of Saturn, and scientists are still debating the status of water on our moon.
Instructional Video6:20
SciShow

Spotted One of the Fastest Pulsars Ever Seen SciShow News.mp4

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers have found a new celestial object, and it's moving really, really fast!
Instructional Video4:21
SciShow

We're Sending a Drone to Saturn's Moon Titan! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
NASA is sending a robot to Saturn’s giant moon Titan and instead of landing, orbiting, or driving when it gets there, this mission will fly.
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

Life Beyond Neptune The Kuiper Belt & Scattered Disc

12th - Higher Ed
The solar system is enormous, and includes the Kuiper Belt and the Scattered Disc, both of which turn out to be really weird in some pretty awesome ways.
Instructional Video4:23
SciShow

Cruithne, the Asteroid With a Horseshoe Orbit

12th - Higher Ed
There’s a small asteroid that appears to orbit Earth in a horseshoe shape. Sometimes referred to as Earth’s second moon, but it's orbit is much weirder than that.
Instructional Video6:00
PBS

Suicide Space Robots

12th - Higher Ed
Let's take a moment to remember the selfless sacrifices made by some amazing robotic explorers.
Instructional Video5:55
SciShow

What to Do With All This Space Poo?

12th - Higher Ed
There are so many things we can do with poo! Waste is the enemy in matters of space exploration, but there are plenty of ways to use that waste to help make a mission successful.
Instructional Video5:13
SciShow

We're Getting Closer to Predicting Solar Flares | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
A new model has been able to predict solar flares with up to about 20 hours of warning, and our galaxy is farting blobs of cold gas inside the Fermi Bubbles!
Instructional Video5:16
SciShow

3 Times We Intentionally Crashed into Other Worlds

12th - Higher Ed
Most of the time, it’s not great when an expensive spacecraft slams into an extraterrestrial body. But now and then mission control intentionally crashes a spacecraft for science!
Instructional Video18:23
TED Talks

TED: How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets | Dimitar Sasselov

12th - Higher Ed
(NOTE: This talk was given in 2010, and this field of science has developed quickly since then. Read "Criticisms & updates" below for more details.) Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth-like planets that may,...