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Is Earth's Most Important Ocean Current Doomed?
Ocean currents are our planet’s circulatory system, and they keep everything from ecosystems to the climate healthy. But we’re changing Earth in ways that threaten to disrupt and even break critical ocean currents like the planet-wide...
SciShow
The Earth's "Boring Billion" Years Were Anything But
About 1.8–0.8 billion ago, the Earth went through a period known as the Boring Billion, where not a lot changed in terms of geology, evolution, or even the number of hours in a day. Some scientists call it “the dullest period in Earth’s...
MinutePhysics
How to Simulate the Universe on your Laptop
One Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in one minute!
SciShow
3 Secrets About Ancient Earth, Hidden in Marine Fossils
Fossils can provide clues to the conditions that ancient species lived in, like what their environments felt like, how deep in the water some species lived, or even how long the Sun was out!
SciShow
Our Boats Are Changing the Tide
We often think of the ocean’s tide as a simple rise and fall, connected to the motion of the Moon. But on any given shore, the reality is much more complex and oceanic scientists have realized recently that there’s another, more...
SciShow
What Actually Happens on the Full Moon? | 8 Full-Moon Myths & Facts
From menstrual cycles to rainfall, there are lots of claims about the moon's influence. In today's episode, Hank is here to set the record straight with 8 myths & facts about our moon.
Curated Video
FRANCE : CALAIS : STENA CHALLENGER PULLED OFF BEACH BY TUGS
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Tugboats Wednesday evening managed to pull a cross-Channel ferry from a sandbank off Calais where it had been stranded for nearly 24 hours.
The Stena Challenger and its 245 passengers and crew were pulled into open sea almost...
SciShow
Weird Places: The Bay of Fundy
SciShow takes you on a tour of Canada's Bay of Fundy, home of the largest tidal range in the world.
SciShow
Weird Places The Bay of Fundy
SciShow takes you on a tour of Canada’s Bay of Fundy, home of the largest tidal range in the world.
SciShow
How Earth’s Tides Gave Us Life As We Know It
While astronomers are busy searching for life beyond Earth, they’ve also started asking another question: If life seems so difficult to find, then why is our world so full of it? One answer might be overhead right now: the Moon!
SciShow
3 Secrets About Ancient Earth, Hidden in Marine Fossils
Fossils can provide clues to the conditions that ancient species lived in, like what their environments felt like, how deep in the water some species lived, or even how long the Sun was out!
SciShow
8 Truths and Myths About the Full Moon
With so many claims about the moon’s influence over everything from menstrual cycles to rainfall, SciShow is here to set the record straight with these 8 truths and myths about our moon. CHAPTERS View all HUMANS GET LESS SLEEP 1:27...
SciShow
The Ridiculous Reasons It's Hard to Measure Sea Level
From problems with the moon, to the lumpiness of earth, sea levels aren't quite as exact as we have them figured out to be.
SciShow
Don't Worry About That Asteroid That Might Hit This Year | SciShow News
That asteroid the headlines have been warning people about isn't likely to actually hit us, and scientists might have solved a mystery that could save lives: the relationship between tides and earthquakes.
MinutePhysics
Extraterrestrial Cycloids - Why Are They on Europa?
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting this video. This video is about the cycloid curves on Jupiter's moon Europa - they're ridges or valleys in the icy surface that formed...
SciShow
The Mysterious Leap Second
Leap Day's got nothing on the Leap SECOND! Hank explains why a second is being added to 2012 and why some are upset about it.
SciShow
Our Boats Are Changing the Tide
We often think of the ocean’s tide as a simple rise and fall, connected to the motion of the Moon. But on any given shore, the reality is much more complex and oceanic scientists have realized recently that there’s another, more...
TED Talks
Laura Snyder: The Philosophical Breakfast Club
In 1812, four men at Cambridge University met for breakfast. What began as an impassioned meal grew into a new scientific revolution, in which these men -- who called themselves “natural philosophers” until they later coined “scientist”...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How do ocean currents work? - Jennifer Verduin
Dive into the science of ocean currents (including the Global Conveyor Belt current), and find out how climate change affects them. -- In 1992, a cargo ship carrying bath toys got caught in a storm. Shipping containers washed overboard,...
SciShow
Why Florida's Red Tide Is Killing So Many Animals | SciShow News
For weeks now, thousands of dead fish, turtles, manatees, and dolphins have been washing up on beaches in southwest Florida.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Building the impossible: Golden Gate Bridge | Alex Gendler
Stretching 227 meters tall, two towers were assembled to support California's Golden Gate Bridge. They were just one of the challenges facing engineers Charles Ellis and Joseph Strauss. Even before construction began, many thought the...
TED Talks
TED: Climate change isn't a distant threat -- it's our reality | Selina Neirok Leem
Every year, ocean levels rise and high tides flood the low-lying Marshall Islands in the Pacific, destroying homes, salinating water supplies and disrupting livelihoods. In a stirring poem and talk, youth climate warrior Selina Neirok...
SciShow
What Would Earth Be Like Without a Moon?
SciShow Space takes to you a world where the night is always dark, the tides are paltry -- and the days are only 8 hours long. See how different Earth would be if there were no moon!
SciShow
Jupiter's Moons May Keep Each Other Warm
As small as Jupiter's moons are in comparison to the giant planet, they may actually have an important role to play in keeping each other warm, heating the moons enough to have liquid oceans!