MinutePhysics
The Wave-Particle Duality - Part 2
In this episode, I revisit the wave particle duality and present an intuitive analogy for understanding how it works.
SciShow Kids
Create Your Own Asteroid Impact!
A meteor shower happens when rocks from space burn up in the atmosphere and make a beautiful light show! Lately, though, Squeaks has been wondering what would happen if one of those space rocks made it through the atmosphere to the...
SciShow
Were the Planets Always in the Same Order?
Four rocky inner planets and four gaseous outer planets - makes sense, right? But when astronomers turned their eyes to planets beyond our star system they found out that many systems are set up differently. Why?
Crash Course
The Sun & The Earth Crash Course Big History 3
In which John Green, Hank Green, and Emily Graslie teach you about our Sun, and the formation of the planets. We're going to focus on the formation and development of the Earth, because that's where people live. You'll learn about the...
SciShow Kids
Why Do We Blink?
Ever have a staring contest? Why is it so hard?! Jessi answers a question from a curious SciShow Kids viewer: Why do we blink?
SciShow
First Results from the Probe That Went to the Sun
Scientists have revealed the results of the Parker Solar Probe’s first two flybys of the Sun, and LIGO has a new instrument called the quantum vacuum squeezer!
SciShow Kids
What are Boogers?
What’s that stuff up your nose? Does it do anything? SciShow Kids explains the science of boogers!
SciShow
How African Dust Feeds Florida's Crops
Massive amounts of dust manage to travel all the way across the ocean, creating some powerful and surprising global effects!
SciShow
Moon dust tricky squid and the worlds biggest telescope
Hank explains the enormity of the Giant Magellan Telescope, possibly the biggest telescope ever built, as well as updates about NASA's new mission to the moon, and an unusual discovery about the habits of deep-sea squid.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The dust bunnies that built our planet - Lorin Swint Matthews
Investigate the theories surrounding cosmic dust bunnies and discover how the tiny particles could hold the key to the formation of life on Earth. -- Consider the spot where you’re sitting. Travel backwards in time and it might’ve been...
SciShow Kids
Explore Saturn's Rings
There's a lot more to Saturn's rings than just looking awesome! Find out why!
SciShow
We Found a Planet That Orbits Three Stars..Maybe?
New simulations of a triple-star system in the constellation Orion suggest that a planet might be orbiting three stars, which could drastically increase the amount of the solar systems we believe are out there forming planets! And the...
SciShow
Volcanic Lightning: Because Exploding Mountains Aren't Bad Enough
In the midst of a volcanic eruption, lightning can streak across the ash and smoke above it, but what do we think causes volcanic lightning?
SciShow
Updates on the Hunt for Dark Matter - SciShow Space News
The hunt for dark matter is still on, and the candidates for it could be primordial black holes as massive as Earth, or axions, as tiny as the smallest subatomic particles in existence!
SciShow
This Planet Used to Be the Core of a Gas Giant? | SciShow News
Scientists may have found the light from two merging black holes, and a gas giant, without the gas.
SciShow
The Chemist Decoding Our Cosmic Origins | Great Minds: Ewine van Dishoeck
The apparent void in the darkness of space is not as empty as you might think. In fact, it somehow holds the key to creating stars, planets, and even us! And Dutch super-scientist Ewine van Dishoeck made it her life's work to figure out...
SciShow
What’s Hiding Inside The Crab Nebula?
The Crab Nebula is one of the most studied things in the sky, but it took glimpses through various wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum to get a full picture of what’s hiding inside!
TED Talks
Juan Enriquez: The age of genetic wonder
Gene-editing tools like CRISPR enable us to program life at its most fundamental level. But this raises some pressing questions: If we can generate new species from scratch, what should we build? Should we redesign humanity as we know...
TED Talks
TED: A new perspective on the journey to net-zero | Amina J. Mohammed
Climate action can be a vehicle to deliver dignity, opportunity and equality for all. UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed invites us to reimagine what the journey to net-zero could look like if we invest in people's climate...
TED Talks
Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species?
Throughout human evolution, multiple versions of humans co-existed. Could we be mid-upgrade now? Juan Enriquez sweeps across time and space to bring us to the present moment -- and shows how technology is revealing evidence that suggests...
SciShow Kids
What's a Meteor Shower?
Have you ever looked up at night and seen a streak of light flash across the sky? Some people call that a "shooting star," but it's not actually a star at all! Join Jessi and Squeaks to learn what shooting stars really are and how they...
SciShow
This Collision Could Have Created the Solar System | SciShow News
A dwarf galaxy crashing through the Milky Way billions of years ago could have set off periods of star formation, and astronomers recently captured a rare flashing phenomenon that only shows up in the sky for a few days!
TED Talks
TED: How the James Webb Space Telescope will unfold the universe | John C. Mather
The James Webb Space Telescope is a miracle of modern science and engineering. With a 21-foot, gold-coated mirror protected by a sunshield that's the size of a tennis court, it's the world's most powerful telescope and humanity's latest...
TED Talks
TED: How to land on a comet | Fred Jansen
As manager of the Rosetta mission, Fred Jansen was responsible for the successful 2014 landing of a probe on the comet known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In this fascinating and funny talk, Jansen reveals some of the intricate...