This week's SciShow news has Hank bringing us a primer on the science behind various illegal and illicit ways in which athletes "improve" their bodies, proof of general relativity that we can actually see, and a new way to measure how...

There are a lot of brightly colored fish in the world, but lingcod, which are usually brown and white, can sometimes end up quite blue, and not just on the outside.

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Two long-time SciComm powerhouses face off to find out if either of them retained any relevant random facts from the many, many videos they’ve each produced.

After the Lumiere brothers and Thomas Edison got the ball rolling with Vaudeville acts and Actualites, the time was coming for movie magic and fiction to make an appearance. The time was coming of filmmakers like Georges Melies and Alice...

Aatish Bhatia helped write this video! A big thanks for his help! Here's his blogref='http://www.empiricalzeal.com' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>blog The universe is expanding – this we know from looking at red shifts of distant...

At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos -- with its giant webs of dark matter and mysterious gaping voids -- got built this way.

One of a dozen Pakistanis who came to TEDIndia despite security hassles entering the country, TED Fellow Asher Hasan shows photos of ordinary Pakistanis that drive home a profound message for citizens of all nations: look beyond...

We don't think of pocket calculators as being all that special these days, but in reality their rise coincided with many of the innovations we take for granted today.

We’ve talked about deviance more broadly, but today we’re focusing on crime, specifically in the US. We’ll start with legal definitions of crime and use FBI data to get an idea of the amount and kinds of crime committed in the US. We’ll...

Make a city beautiful, curb corruption. Edi Rama took this deceptively simple path as mayor of Tirana, Albania, where he instilled pride in his citizens by transforming public spaces with colorful designs.

At least one entire class of dinosaurs seems to have had feathers, including velociraptors, and probably T. rex. Find out how we know, and how we even know what color some of them were!

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El estrés es una de las mayores plagas de los lugares de trabajo modernos. El psicólogo Leonardo Medrano describe los síntomas y signos comunes que tenemos que tomar en cuenta cuando el...

We're pretty good at inventing things, but stealing from nature is a great way to solve some problems!

There are three types of color receptors in your eye: red, green and blue. But how do we see the amazing kaleidoscope of other colors that make up our world? Colm Kelleher explains how humans can see everything from auburn to aquamarine.

Nothing says "nature" like a lush green forest. But why are plants green in the first place?

Have you ever wondered what the sun is made of? Dr. Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin wondered that, too, and she used science to figure out the answer! Find out how she did that and more about her amazing life and...

Imagine a neuroscientist who has only ever seen black and white things, but she is an expert in color vision and knows everything about its physics and biology. If, one day, she sees color, does she learn anything new? Is there anything...

Angelica Dass's photography challenges how we think about skin color and ethnic identity. In this personal talk, hear about the inspiration behind her portrait project, Human_, and her pursuit to document humanity's true colors rather...

Someday, the information in our genome could transform healthcare as we know it, but one major hurdle we have to get over is the lack of diversity in our studies.

Today we continue our unit on identity by asking where the mind resides. Hank explains the mind body problem and several approaches to the question of where our minds reside, including reductive physicalism, substance dualism, and...

Unicorns may not exist on this planet, but Earth does have plenty of one-horned creatures that are just as remarkable, if not quite as majestic.

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Mister Brown and Squeaks learn all about the awesome flamingo - and find out what makes them pink!



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Women have made enormous progress over the last century -- challenging the status quo, busting old taboos and changing business from the inside out. But when it comes to political representation, there's still a long way to go, says...