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The Biggest Volcano Ever is in Space! | SciShow Kids
New ReviewJessi and Sam the Bat talk about the biggest volcano ever that we know of. And it's not on Earth. It's Olympus Mons, on the planet Mars!
SciShow Kids
Iceland: A Land of Ice AND Fire! | SciShow Kids
New ReviewSqueaks is back from his trip around the world! In this episode, he and Jessi discuss the final stop on his trip: Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland.
PBS
What if Humans Are Not Earth's First Civilization? (Silurian Hypothesis)
New ReviewWe’re almost certainly the first technological civilization on Earth. But what if we’re not? We are. Although how sure are we, really? The Silurian hypothesis, which asks whether pre-human industrial civilizations might have existed.
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What Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?
New ReviewWe spend a lot of time here on Eons looking backwards into deep time, visiting ancient chapters of our planet’s history. But this time, we’re taking a look towards the deep future. After all, the story is far from over.
PBS
How Asteroids Set the Stage for Life on Earth
New ReviewWe may have planet-shattering asteroids to thank for the origin of life on Earth.
PBS
The Graveyard at the Center of the Earth
New ReviewScientists have been trying to solve the mystery of why plate tectonics works the way it does for over a hundred years. And they might have just uncovered a key to cracking it.
Be Smart
The Great Oxygenation
New ReviewLife’s been around on Earth for at least 3.7 billion years. But for most of that time, it was incredibly boring — just simple little cells squirming around in water. It only got interesting in the last few hundred million years. And that...
Be Smart
The Sun is Not the Center of the Solar System
New ReviewDespite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT in fact the center of the solar system. And it won’t be until 2027… But this being a science channel, you might be thinking “What the heck is this guy talking about? Of...
SciShow
The Mystery Of Earth's Diamond Elevators
New ReviewDiamonds are cool, but they form really far below the Earth's crust, and the main way they get to the surface(ish) is through rock formations called kimberlites. And these kimberlites are really rare and really weird. So let's talk about...
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What Made This Huge Hole Under Greenland?
New ReviewIn the mid-2010s, researchers discovered something odd underneath Greenland - there was a giant hole under a glacier, and they had no idea what had caused it. More confusing still, other researchers were searching for the cause of a mini...
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We're About to Visit the Second Best Place for Life
New ReviewThis October, the launch window opens for NASA's Europa Clipper mission. When it arrives in the Jovian system, this spacecraft will probe the icy moon...and its ocean buried kilometers beneath the surface...for the ingredients of life as...
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Earth's Largest Crater Is Hiding in Plain Sight
New ReviewAn asteroid nearly twice the size of the one that killed the dinosaurs left a record-setting crater in South Africa. If you look closely, you can still see it today, 2 billion years later. Hosted by: Jaida Elcock (She/her)
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JWST Made a Cosmological Crisis Worse
New ReviewAstronomers have two main ways to calculate how fast the universe is expanding. Unfortunately, they don't agree with one another. The JWST was supposed to help solve this discrepancy, known as "The Hubble Tension" or "The Crisis in...
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This Giant Space Flower Could Help Us Find A New Earth
New ReviewOver the past three decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of planets beyond our solar system. But while some of them might be the right size and mass to be some kind of Earth 2.0, we don't know if any of them is truly...
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The Heaviest Things Humans Have Ever Built
New ReviewFrom the Great Pyramid at Giza, to one-quarter of the Netherlands, to continent-spanning electrical grids, humans are great at making really BIG things. Hosted by: @NotesByNiba (she/her)
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So You Want to Carve an Ad Into the Moon
New ReviewIn 2020, students from the University of Texas proposed sending a fleet of rovers to the Moon that, for a price, would carve words and symbols into the surface for *you*, random human. And that got us thinking, how big would such a...
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What Made These Rainbow Mountains?
New ReviewChina's Zhangye Danxia National Geopark is home to strikingly beautiful rainbow mountains -- yes, what you're seeing is real! But the secret to this amazing sight might be something incredibly humble: dirt. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him)
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Space, Goats, and Climate Change
New ReviewSupport for this video provided by Gates Ventures. Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him)
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Permafrost Is Not What You Think It Is
New ReviewIf you've ever heard about things like mammoths being found in permafrost, you may have an image in your head of what that looks like. But you might be wrong! So let's talk about what permafrost really is, why it's so important, and why...
TED Talks
Are we alone in the universe? We're close to finding out | Lisa Kaltenegger
Astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger explores the thrilling possibility of discovering life beyond Earth, highlighting how cutting-edge technology like the James Webb Space Telescope lets us analyze distant planets for signs of life in...
TED Talks
Don't fear superintelligent AI | Grady Booch
New tech spawns new anxieties, says scientist and philosopher Grady Booch, but we don't need to be afraid an all-powerful, unfeeling AI. Booch allays our worst (sci-fi induced) fears about superintelligent computers by explaining how...
TED-Ed
Rocks could save the world (Yes, rocks) | Elise Cutts
Mount Teide is one of the world’s largest active volcanoes, and there may be a way to use the basalt rock inside it to save humanity. Obviously, destroying an ancient volcano would cause catastrophic and unpredictable ecological fallout....
TED Talks
Why joy is a serious way to take action | Pattie Gonia
While doom and gloom may wake people up, joy keeps them in the fight, says drag queen and environmentalist Pattie Gonia. With humor, creativity and a dress made of thrifted shower curtains and upcycled pink flamingo pool floaties, Pattie...
MinuteEarth
Why There Are No King Bees
Beehives always have a queen, who is the mother of the entire hive. But have you ever wondered, what happened to the king, if there was ever any? Can a male bee become a king?