MinutePhysics
Why Masks Work BETTER Than You'd Think
Thanks to the Heising-Simons foundation for their support: https://www.hsfoundation.org (their COVID-19 grants: https://www.hsfoundation.org/grants/covid-19-response-grants/ ) Check out https://aatishb.com/maskmath to explore and for...
MinutePhysics
The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks
This video was written in collaboration with Aatish Bhatia - https://aatishb.com To learn more about using & decontaminating N95 masks: https://www.n95decon.org Thanks to Manu Prakash for useful discussion and feedback (Manu is involved...
MinutePhysics
Relativistic Addition of Velocity | Special Relativity Ch. 6
This video is chapter 6 in my series on special relativity, and it covers the topic of relativistic addition of velocity: aka, how things that are moving relative to one inertial reference frame, which is moving relative to another...
MinutePhysics
Quantum SHAPE-SHIFTING: Neutrino Oscillations
Thanks to the Heising-Simons Foundation for supporting this video: http://www.heisingsimons.org CRAZY Double Pendulum Footnote: https://youtu.be/gbJYK7q5ejY This video is about the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations, which is where...
MinutePhysics
Myths and Facts About Superintelligent AI
Join the AI conversation: http://AgeofAI.org This video was based on Max’s book "Life 3.0�, which you can find at: http://amzn.to/2iEwe6w We live in an era of self driving cars, autonomous drones, deep learning algorithms, computers...
MinutePhysics
Misconceptions Footnote †: Randomness and Feedback
Footnote to the main video here: https://youtu.be/HUti6vGctQM Feedback loops and spurious correlations! REFERENCES: Spurious correlations: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations Loopy by Nicky Case: http://ncase.me/loopy/...
SciShow
Do Animals (That Aren’t Us) Procrastinate?
Are there any non-human animals that take a task they don't want to do and think to themselves "Eh, I'll do it tomorrow"? Even if they know the task will be harder and/or more unpleasant by putting it off? One of our Patreon subscribers...
PBS
Does Antimatter Explain Why There's Something Rather Than Nothing?
The most precious substance in our universe is not gold, nor oil. It’s not even printer ink. It’s antimatter. But it’s worth every penny of it’s very high cost, because it may hold the answer to the question of why anything exists in our...
PBS
Zeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect
“A moving arrow is at rest.” This is obviously a nonsensical contradiction. But Zeno, a Greek philosopher famous for his metaphysical trolling, devised a paradox whose conclusion is just this. Here’s how it goes: if you look at an arrow...
Be Smart
Why Soap Is Our Secret Weapon Against Germs
One of the most effective things you can do to protect yourself from catching a germ and becoming a statistic, whether it’s a global pandemic like COVID-19 or just every single other day of your life, is something that people have been...
SciShow
Why Do Animals Eat Their Own Babies?
It might seem pretty dark from a human point of view, but for some animals, feasting on your own offspring is the best way to ensure you and your other babies might have a more successful life.
SciShow
New Genetic Clues to the Mystery of Your Giant Brain
Big-brained scientists have found the mechanism that may have allowed their brains (and all humans') to get so big.
SciShow
Lion's Mane Mushrooms Actually DO SOMETHING!
Turns out doing the crossword is only one way you can keep your head healthy because mushrooms can help your brain cells grow!
SciShow
What Drugging Animals Is Teaching Scientists
Drugging animals may seem like a bad idea, but you'd be shocked to learn what it can teach scientists about disease, biology & animal behavior! Join us for a new animal-focused episode of SciShow, hosted by the one and only Hank Green!
SciShow
What Really Happened the First Time We Split a Heavy Atom in Half
When scientists first split the atom, they didn’t realize what they’d done until physicist Lise Meitner figured out they had discovered what we now call nuclear fission.
SciShow
Extreme Engineering to Create the World's Stillest Rooms
There are labs so silent that most people can't stand being inside them, but that stillness lets us run some of our most sensitive experiments.
SciShow
This Flatworm Remembers Things After You Cut Off Its Brain
Planarians are flatworms most known for being able to grow a new head if it gets cut off, but perhaps even stranger is the fact that their new head retains some of the memories from the old one. Hosted by: Michel Aranda
SciShow
6 Stupid and Dangerous Things Scientists Did to Themselves
From poking their own eyes, to drinking a patient's vomit, some extremely passionate scientists have done pretty outrageous things to themselves in the name of science.
SciShow
3 World-Changing Biology Experiments
Hank tells us the stories of three experiments in biology that, with creativity and luck, changed science & the world with it in their work to solve the mysteries of the universe.
SciShow
5 Times Scientists Were Very Wrong About New Discoveries, Because of Hope
Passionate scientists constantly have revolutionary ideas, but when they seem too good to be true, they usually are. Here are 5 instances where the scientist whiffed it.
SciShow
5 Scientists Who Experimented On Themselves: High Stakes Research
It took some time for us to realize it isn’t the best idea for scientists to experiment on themselves. But along the way, sometimes at the expense of the health of scientists, we have gained crucial insights into their areas of study.
MinutePhysics
The Unreasonable Efficiency of Black Holes
This video is about how efficient various reactions are at converting mass to energy (as we know from the Einstein mass-energy equivalence of E=mc^2). Antimatter is very efficient but it is not naturally-occurring. Chemical reactions...
MinutePhysics
Where Does Complexity Come From? (Big Picture Ep. 3/5)
This video is about the difference between complexity and entropy, and how complex things like life can arise from disorder. Thanks to Google Making and Science for supporting this series, and to Sean Carroll for collaborating on it!...
MinutePhysics
The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks
This video was written in collaboration with Aatish Bhatia - https://aatishb.com To learn more about using & decontaminating N95 masks: https://www.n95decon.org Thanks to Manu Prakash for useful discussion and feedback (Manu is involved...