Bozeman Science
Thermodynamics and P-V Diagrams
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the First Law of Thermodynamics applies to an ideal gas in a piston. A pressure-volume graph can be used to determine the type of thermodynamic process. Included is a discussion of and P-V diagram...
SciShow
When You Burn Fat, Where Does it Go?
When you burn fat, where does it go? Many people, even some doctors, think it's just "burned up." But that's not possible! Find out where your fat really goes!
Amoeba Sisters
Mitosis: The Amazing Cell Process that Uses Division to Multiply! (Updated)
Updated Mitosis Video. The Amoeba Sisters walk you through the reason for mitosis with mnemonics for prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. Table of Contents: 00:00 Intro 0:44 Why is Mitosis Important? 2:00 Why Don't You Want...
Crash Course
The Editor: Crash Course Film Production
The Editor is yet another unsung hero in the filmmaking process. For a century of film history, Editors have taken raw footage and worked to transform it into a cohesive whole. Basically making one thing from many. But, how do they do...
SciShow
Performance Enhancing Drugs
You've heard about them, but do you how they work? Or why they suck? Hank explains the science behind performance enhancers, including steroids, blood doping, and that stuff supposedly made out of deer antlers. You'll never look at...
Crash Course
Intro to Algorithms: Crash Course Computer Science
Algorithms are the sets of steps necessary to complete computation - they are at the heart of what our devices actually do. And this isn’t a new concept. Since the development of math itself algorithms have been needed to help us...
SciShow
Are Viruses Alive?
Viruses all around us, they evolve, grow, and can be killed. But are they alive?
TED-Ed
TED-ED: A brief history of alcohol - Rod Phillips
Nobody knows exactly when humans began to create fermented beverages. The earliest known evidence comes from 7,000 BCE in China, where residue in clay pots has revealed that people were making an alcoholic beverage from fermented rice,...
TED Talks
TED: Is life really that complex? | Hannah Fry
Can an algorithm forecast the site of the next riot? In this accessible talk, mathematician Hannah Fry shows how complex social behavior can be analyzed and perhaps predicted through analogies to natural phenomena, like the patterns of a...
SciShow
We Taught Birds to Sing by Altering Their Brains SciShow News
We can now implant memories into birds’ brains to teach them how to sing, and human fetuses have a couple muscles that disappeared from our adult ancestors over 200 million years ago.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Meet the microbes that could eat your trash | Tierney Thys and Christian Sardet
Each year humanity produces roughly 400 million tons of plastic, 80% of which is discarded as trash. Of that plastic waste, only one-tenth is recycled. 60% gets incinerated or goes into the landfills, and 30% leaks out into the...
SciShow
In Space, No One Can Stop You From Welding
The welding process usually involves pretty extreme levels of heat. But it turns out that in the cold vacuum of space, metals can weld together... automatically.
SciShow
Supersonic Free Fall and the New Element: Hankium?
Hank brings you the news of a newly discovered dinosaur he is kind of afraid to look at, a way to sequence your genome in less time than it takes to get your clothes dry cleaned, & two new adventures that will take place in space - one...
Bozeman Science
The Central Dogma: Transcription and Translation
Mr. Andersen explains the Central Dogma of biology. He shows how DNA is transcribed to form mRNA and how mRNA is translated into a protein.
SciShow
Having Six Fingers Is a Dominant Trait
Genetics are extremely complicated—so complicated that having an extra finger or toe, for example, is exceedingly rare despite it being caused by a dominant gene.
Crash Course
How We Make Memories - Crash Course Psychology
Remember that guy from 300? What was his name? ARG!!! It turns out our brains make and recall memories in different ways. In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank talks about the way we do it, what damaging that process can do to...
SciShow
Does Alcohol Kill Brain Cells?
Quick Questions explains what alcohol does -- and doesn’t do -- to your brain cells. Enjoy this episode responsibly!
Crash Course Kids
The Great Aqua Adventure
Water travels... a lot. In fact, the water cycle is amazing and takes water all over the planet by using evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how the water cycle works and...
Crash Course
Reproductive System, part 4 - Pregnancy & Development: Crash Course A&P
We've reached the grand finale of our four part series on human reproduction: BABIES! Today Hank walks you through the stages of pregnancy, beginning with how a zygote develops into blastomeres to a morula to a blastocyst and finally to...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What makes tattoos permanent? - Claudia Aguirre
The earliest recorded tattoo was found on a Peruvian mummy in 6,000 BC. That's some old ink! And considering humans lose roughly 40,000 skin cells per hour, how do these markings last? Claudia Aguirre details the different methods,...
Be Smart
Science of Marathon Running
So maybe we can't outrun cheetahs or antelope, but humans are uniquely adapted for long distance running. What does science have to say about marathon running? To find out, (and because I was feeling a little crazy) I decided to run one!...
Crash Course
Intro to History of Science: Crash Course History of Science
Intro to History of Science: Crash Course History of Science #1
Crash Course
Blood, Part 2 - There Will Be Blood: Crash Course A&P
It's time to start talking about some of the terrible things you can do to your own body, like blood doping. We'll start by explaining the structure and function of your erythrocytes, and of hemoglobin, which they use to carry oxygen....
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Where does gold come from? - David Lunney
Did you know that gold is extraterrestrial? Instead of arising from our planet's rocky crust, it was actually cooked up in space and is present on Earth because of cataclysmic stellar explosions called supernovae. CERN Scientist David...