Instructional Video4:23
Crash Course Kids

Weather vs. Climate

3rd - 8th
So we have Weather and Climate... but are they the same thing? No, no they are not. But they are both super important to how the geosphere is shaped. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina chats with us about the differences...
Instructional Video4:16
Crash Course Kids

Severe Weather

3rd - 8th
So, what's the difference between 'weather' and 'severe weather'? Is it just how hard the wind is blowing? Is it just thunder and lighting? Well, it can be some or all of those things. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks...
Instructional Video9:54
TED Talks

TED: AI that connects the digital and physical worlds | Anima Anandkumar

12th - Higher Ed
While language models may help generate new ideas, they cannot attack the hard part of science, which is simulating the necessary physics, says AI professor Anima Anandkumar. She explains how her team developed neural operators — AI...
Instructional Video15:38
TED Talks

TED: How farmworkers are fighting extreme heat | Jon Esformes and Gerardo Reyes Chávez

12th - Higher Ed
Farm labor is hot, backbreaking and dangerous work. To protect workers from extreme heat and workplace exploitation, farmworker Gerardo Reyes Chávez has teamed up with farm manager Jon Esformes for a unique partnership. Learn how their...
Instructional Video6:47
SciShow Kids

The Rainiest Places on Earth | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
In this episode of SciShow Kids, Jessi and Squeaks learn about places with record-breaking rainfall.
Instructional Video5:47
SciShow Kids

The Driest Places on Earth | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
In this SciShow Kids episode, Jessi and Squeaks learn about amazing places where it almost never rains.
Instructional Video11:59
SciShow

The Alien Storm That Ate Itself

12th - Higher Ed
From cyclones to snowstorms, Earth is home to some spectacular weather events. But they're nothing compared to what you can find on the other planets in our solar system. Magnetic tornadoes? Ammonia mushballs? Let's (not literally) dive...
Instructional Video6:45
SciShow

We Discovered a New Natural Cycle!

12th - Higher Ed
So we all know about the carbon cycle, and the water cycle, and maybe even the nitrogen cycle. But new research has figured out there's a salt cycle, too. Problem is, that same research has found that we already broke it. Here's what...
Instructional Video3:12
SciShow

Plasma, The Most Common Phase of Matter in the Universe

12th - Higher Ed
Get to know plasma, the most common, but probably least understood, phase of matter in the universe!
Instructional Video6:12
SciShow Kids

How Will We Get To Mars? | Let's Explore Mars! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Mars has a ton of amazing features waiting to be explored, but we have to get there first. Thanks to our partners at the Boston Museum Of Science for helping us think about everything we need to plan a trip! Squeaks and Jessi would love...
Instructional Video21:18
SciShow Kids

Journey to Mars! | SciShow Kids Compilation

K - 5th
Put on your spacesuits, because we’re off to explore Mars! We’ll learn all about how we could live there, and meet the robots that already do! ----------
Instructional Video11:51
Be Smart

Inside a Machine That Can Recreate Hurricanes (for Science)

12th - Higher Ed
Hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical cyclones are Earth’s most powerful storms, capable of unleashing destruction and death on coastal areas worldwide. As climate change warms Earth’s oceans, we face more risk of storms rapidly...
Instructional Video10:42
TED Talks

TED: The growing megafire crisis -- and how to contain it | George T. Whitesides

12th - Higher Ed
Megafires, or fires that burn more than 100,000 acres, are becoming more frequent worldwide, wreaking havoc on landscapes and communities -- and fire experts say the problem is only going to get worse. George T. Whitesides is focused on...
Instructional Video10:15
TED Talks

TED: An extreme weather report from America's weatherman | Al Roker

12th - Higher Ed
It's not just you: the weather is getting worse. And if there's one person who would know, it's "America's weatherman," Al Roker, who's spent decades reporting live from some of the worst storms and natural disasters in history. He...
Instructional Video5:21
TED Talks

TED: An economy powered by sun and wind -- it's almost here | Kala Constantino

12th - Higher Ed
With some of the highest energy bills in Southeast Asia and extreme weather to match, the Philippines experiences the climate crisis -- and climate activism -- as a part of daily life. Clean energy advocate Kala Constantino highlights...
Instructional Video5:16
SciShow

How Can Microbes Protect Crops From Drought?

12th - Higher Ed
Solving food shortages caused by droughts is a big challenge that may benefit from a tiny ally. Turns out that the microbes living in the soil around plants can give them a boost when water's scarce, which means more food for us, which...
Instructional Video5:43
SciShow

The Southern Hemisphere is Colder, Stormier, and... Cleaner?

12th - Higher Ed
You'd think that the Northern and Southern Hemispheres would be basically symmetrical -- that since our planet is a ball, the climate, temperature, and weather patterns would be the same on top as on the bottom. But there are some...
Instructional Video5:50
SciShow

The Weird Reason More Bridges Are About to Fail

12th - Higher Ed
While they are incredible engineering marvels, we don't think about bridges all that much. But there's a good reason we should all be thinking about our bridges, since there's a weird reason that more of them might be at risk of failure...
Instructional Video3:32
MinuteEarth

Why Most Fossils Are Incomplete

12th - Higher Ed
In 1990, fossil collectors in South Dakota stumbled across a dinosaur that turned out to be a really big deal. Not just because it was a T. rex – basically the most popular dino out there – or because it ended up in Chicago’s famous...
Instructional Video2:49
MinuteEarth

Why Weather Forecasts Suck

12th - Higher Ed
There are two types of rain, and one of them is almost impossible to forecast.
Instructional Video5:25
MinutePhysics

The Problem With The Butterfly Effect

12th - Higher Ed
One Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in one minute!
Instructional Video2:17
SciShow

Coriolis Effect: IDTIMWYTIM

12th - Higher Ed
Does your toilet water drain differently than in the other hemisphere? Is it because of the Coriolis effect? Hank has some things to clarify about these questions, and more in this edition of I Don't Think It Means What You Think It Means.
Instructional Video3:23
SciShow

Everest Doesn’t Always Feel Like the Tallest Mountain

12th - Higher Ed
Mount Everest is unquestionably the highest point on earth, but it doesn't always feel that way.
Instructional Video2:59
SciShow

Antarctica's Weird Warming

12th - Higher Ed
Hank gets to the bottom of two studies reporting high sea ice coverage and snowmass in Antarctica in the same year that the Arctic has reported a record low of sea ice. What is going on here?