Whether you're killing time in line at Starbucks or scrolling through an endless meme stream on Twitter, your smartphone is trying to seduce you. Former Google employee Tristan Harris felt something needed to be done to combat tech...

Whether you're killing time in line at Starbucks or scrolling through an endless meme stream on Twitter, your smartphone is trying to seduce you. Former Google employee Tristan Harris felt something needed to be done to combat tech...

In the past, some experiments were run in scary and unethical ways. From using children to unknowing subjects, these five experiments left people affected for the rest of their lives.

Today from SciShow World News Headquarters (Hank's office) - news about radiation risks, the most hi-def astronomy ever, and the truth about aquatic humanoids.

Daniel Kraft demos his Marrow Miner -- a new device that quickly harvests life-saving bone marrow with minimal pain to the donor. He emphasizes that the adult stem cells found in bone marrow can be used to treat many terminal conditions,...

Sebastian Thrun helped build Google's amazing driverless car, powered by a very personal quest to save lives and reduce traffic accidents. Jawdropping video shows the DARPA Challenge-winning car motoring through busy city traffic with no...

Autonomous cars are coming -- and they're going to drive better than you. Chris Gerdes reveals how he and his team are developing robotic race cars that can drive at 150 mph while avoiding every possible accident. And yet, in studying...

Hundreds of thousands of people have clicked a button on reddit. Turns out that when you click can reveal a lot about your brain, and human nature.

The Stanford prison experiment was a psychological experiment conducted in the summer of 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behaviors.

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This video introduces soft robots made from flexible materials like plastic tubing, which differ from traditional robots made of metal or wood. These robots, powered by compressed air, demonstrate unique locomotion techniques, such as...

Scientists at Stanford University Medical Centre are using cutting-edge imaging technology to investigate the cause of death of a young Egyptian child who lived around 2000 years ago. By utilizing computerized axial tomography and...

The Stanford prison experiment was a psychological experiment conducted in the summer of 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behaviors.

AI seems like it can do anything, but what can’t it do? Today we’re talking about the areas where AI tends to perform poorly.

Can we use machine learning to read your mind?

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford) discusses the film that was produced about his notorious Stanford Prison Experiment.

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford) reveals his strategy, and associated difficulties, with retelling the tale of his famous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment.

Former Harvard and Stanford psychologist Stephen Kosslyn describes his excitement at becoming Founding Dean of Minerva Schools.

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford) describes the importance of combining compassion with concrete action.

UC Irvine psychologist Elizabeth Loftus describes her personal turning point towards a research career in legal applications of memory that began with a transformative lunch meeting with a cousin.

Neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector (Stanford) describes a discovery she made with her graduate student of a certain region of the brain.

Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford) discusses how he was forced to revisit his notorious Stanford Prison Experiment decades later and the effect that it had on him.

Neuroscientist Kalanit Grill-Spector (Stanford) describes the intriguing implications of a rare condition called Williams syndrome for our understanding of the effect of genetics and the environment.

The Supreme Court’s responsibility is to interpret all laws and ensure that they do not conflict with the founding principles of the Constitution. This video looks at how the Dred Scott vs Stanford court case added tensions to that which...