SciShow
Pluto's Runaway Atmosphere, and Earth's 'Cousin'
According to some of the latest New Horizons data, Pluto's got flowing nitrogen ice and only half the atmosphere it had two years ago. Plus, the latest batch of exoplanets includes a world that's a lot like Earth... probably.
SciShow
How Engineers Move Medicine Around the World
Modern medicine has made great strides when it comes to treating and preventing some of the worst diseases in history. But getting that medicine from labs to remote regions presents some interesting engineering challenges.
Crash Course
Carbon... SO SIMPLE: Crash Course Biology
And thus begins the most revolutionary biology course in history. Come and learn about covalent, ionic, and hydrogen bonds. What about electron orbitals, the octet rule, and what does it all have to do with a mad man named Gilbert Lewis?...
SciShow Kids
Keeping Our Water Clean!
Where does the water on the road go after a rain day? And taking care of them can be very important! Second Grade Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core Idea: ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes - Water...
SciShow
Oh No...Is Nature Going to Make Climate Change WORSE?! | SciShow News
Photosynthesis plays a huge role in regulating the earth's CO2. But what happens when the temperature gets high enough that photosynthesis slows down?
SciShow
The Alien Egg Experiment
Hank brings us another simple experiment that demonstrates the important biochemical process of osmosis by turning a chicken egg into a frightening alien-looking thing.
SciShow
SciShow: Winter Compilation
We here at SciShow compiled a list of videos based on popular requests. Hank Green hosts with this winter themed episode!
SciShow
Bioprecipitation: How Bacteria Makes Snow
Raindrops and snowflakes generally start to form around something else in the air, like a speck of dust, but sometimes that something else is bacteria.
SciShow
The Leidenfrost Effect: How to Make a Liquid Levitate
In this video Michael Aranda explains what the Leidenfrost Effect is, and how it can cause liquid to 'levitate'.
Crash Course
How Does Disease Move? Crash Course Geography
From outbreaks of measles in the United States and cholera in Haiti to patterns of lead poisoning near gold mines in Nigeria, medical geographers play an important role in tracking disease in the landscape. Today, we're going to look at...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Do larger animals take longer to pee? | David L. Hu
A cat's bladder can only store a golf ball's worth of urine. For humans, it's a coffee mug and for elephants, a kitchen trash can. An elephant's bladder is 400 times the size of a cat's, but it doesn't take an elephant 400 times longer...
SciShow Kids
Cats and Dogs | SciShow Kids Compilation
Anthony and Squeaks are spending the day watching videos all about cats and dogs of all varieties and they’re learning all sorts of interesting things along the way!
SciShow
7 Ways to Spruce Up Your Cooking with Science
Your kitchen really is your own personal science lab, so here are some science-based cooking tricks to make tastier, healthier, and awesomer meals.
TED Talks
TED: A bold plan to protect 30 percent of the Earth's surface and ocean floor | Enric Sala
As a diver in the 1970s, marine ecologist Enric Sala saw once-lush oceanscapes reduced to underwater deserts -- but later, in marine preserves across the globe, he also witnessed the ocean's power to rejuvenate itself when left to its...
PBS
First Detection of Life
In 1990, an experiment conceived by Carl Sagan was performed using using the Galileo spacecraft. The purpose? To detect life on a planet based on measurements by a space probe. The experiment was successful, and abundant life was...
MinuteEarth
How to Make a Seashell - Just Add Water
Why do shell building living creatures live near the surface of the ocean? Learn how chemistry creates a dissolving depth for calcium and determines where shell builders can live.
SciShow
A Brief History of Life: When Life Exploded
Right at the beginning of the Paleozoic, there was a huge explosion of more complex life. And that’s when things started to get really interesting. This is our second installment on the history of life, but you can watch in any order you...
TED Talks
TED: Join the SETI search | Jill Tarter
The SETI Institute's Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate our search for cosmic company. Using a growing array of radio telescopes, she and her team listen for patterns that may be a sign of intelligence elsewhere in the...
TED-Ed
The "myth" of the boiling frog | TED-Ed
Since 1850, global average temperatures have risen by 1 degree Celsius. That may not sound like a lot, but it is. Why? 1 degree is an average. Many places have already gotten much warmer and if average temperatures increase one more...
SciShow
Antarctic Lava to Pink Snow: The Science of Winter
"If you live in the northern hemisphere, there's a decent chance you're in a winter wonderland right now. Settle in with a hot drink for this winter compilation and learn about some of the interesting things that make winter wondrous!
SciShow
5 Times Evolution Should Have Planned Ahead
Natural selection can lead to some pretty amazing adaptations, but sometimes the resulting traits aren’t the most efficient solutions to the problems at hand. With the bar set to “good enough,” here are some features that arose from...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The fish that walk on land | Noah R. Bressman
We think of fish as completely aquatic animals. But there are actually hundreds of fish species that are amphibious, meaning that they possess adaptations that enable them to survive on land. Once on land, however, they face suffocation,...
SciShow
Scientists Just Figured Out How Washing Machines Work?!
According to the math, washing machines should take several hours to get your clothes clean, but in reality it only takes a single hour or less. Now, scientists have finally figured out how they truly work.
SciShow
Cloudy With A Chance Of Aliens: How We Look for Extraterrestrial Life
What do astronomers look for when they study exoplanets for signs of alien life? Hank explains how space telescopes are already yielding tantalizing clues of what other worlds might hold -- including water! -- and how the next generation...