Instructional Video10:16
PBS

Black Holes from the Dawn of Time

12th - Higher Ed
Primordial black holes may be lurking throughout our universe. How large are they, how many are out there and what would happen if they moved through our solar system?
Instructional Video6:14
PBS

How to Signal Aliens

12th - Higher Ed
Everyone has their own opinion as to whether or not aliens exist. But let's assume they do for a second and we wanted to let them know we're here!!!! How should we signal our species' existence through the expanse of space? There are a...
Instructional Video9:01
TED Talks

TED: How we're saving one of Earth's last wild places | Steve Boyes

12th - Higher Ed
Navigating territorial hippos and active minefields, TED Fellow Steve Boyes and a team of scientists have been traveling through the Okavango Delta, Africa's largest remaining wetland wilderness, to explore and protect this near-pristine...
Instructional Video7:31
SciShow

The Nicest Neighborhoods in the Universe

12th - Higher Ed
What does it really take for a planet to be habitable? It turns out, certain parts of a star system, a galaxy, and even the universe as we know it, are more habitable than others. Get to know them as Hank takes you on a tour of some of...
Instructional Video3:50
SciShow

Curiosity: Mars' Next Visitor

12th - Higher Ed
Plutonium powered robot car! With a laser gun! That's (kind of) what's hurtling through space right now as part of NASA Mars Science Laboratory heads for the Red Planet. Hank walks you through this historic mission, with the help of some...
Instructional Video5:15
SciShow

We Almost Didn't See the North Pole Space Hurricane | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Astrophysicists have discovered an exoplanet that lost its atmosphere, but then, somehow, grew it back! Also, astronomers used satellite data to find a magnetic hurricane above the north pole that we almost missed!
Instructional Video6:12
SciShow

The First Time We Saw All of Venus: The Magellan Mission

12th - Higher Ed
NASA’s Magellan mission gave us unprecedented insight into Venus’s rocky surface, and even now, more than 25 years after the mission ended, it’s still one of our main tools for learning about our mysterious, next-door neighbor.
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

The First-Ever Map of Mars’s Interior

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve done a surprising amount of exploration on Mars, from its atmosphere, to its surface, and miles deep into its canyons. But mapping its insides has been a quandary that we hadn’t been able to solve until last week!
Instructional Video4:48
SciShow

Could Life Be Older Than Earth?

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space explores new theories about the timing of the development of life on Earth, and elsewhere in the universe.
Instructional Video5:05
Be Smart

Can Coral Reefs Survive Climate Change? #OursToLose

12th - Higher Ed
The #OursToLose YouTube campaign sheds light on climate change and the environment.
Instructional Video6:14
SciShow

How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
For the first time ever we have visual confirmation that black holes actually exist and we got it with a telescope the size of our planet.
Instructional Video6:01
SciShow

How Going to Space Changes the Way You Think Forever

12th - Higher Ed
A trip into space produces physiological effects in human beings, but it can also change a person in a profound, psychological way.
Instructional Video5:14
SciShow

We May Have Found the First Exomoon! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve discovered what appears to be the first known moon outside of the solar system and new models of Europa’s surface predict the presence of ice blades!
Instructional Video4:54
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Why should you read “Dune” by Frank Herbert? - Dan Kwartler

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A mother and son trek across an endless desert. Wearing special suits to dissipate heat and recycle moisture, the travelers aren’t worried about dying of thirst. Their fears are much greater. Soon, the sound of the desert is drowned out...
Instructional Video4:35
SciShow

It’s Probably Not Aliens on Venus… But It Could Be | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Is there life on Venus? If there is, it would have to be unlike anything we’ve ever seen! New evidence means the possibility of life there is in question, but it could also mean a few other things.
Instructional Video11:28
TED Talks

TED: How to stop banks from investing in dirty energy | Lucie Pinson

12th - Higher Ed
Money is pollution's biggest driving force -- particularly, the cash invested in dirty energy projects, says financial responsibility campaigner Lucie Pinson. She shares a three-pronged approach to stop banks from funding fossil fuel...
Instructional Video5:08
SciShow

Snowstorms on Mars!

12th - Higher Ed
New research looks into how snow falls on Mars, and scientists have been looking into other things falling from the sky onto planets: diamonds!
Instructional Video2:27
MinuteEarth

Why Are Leaves Green? Part 2

12th - Higher Ed
Still wondering why leaves are green and not purple or even black? CHLOROPHYLL! It's how leaves work.
Instructional Video3:34
SciShow

New Earth-Size Planet and a Solar Eclipse

12th - Higher Ed
Caitlin Hofmeister gives you the latest news from around the universe, including Kepler's latest exoplanet discovery, an upcoming solar eclipse, and a breathtaking image from Hubble.
Instructional Video4:04
SciShow Kids

The Farthest We’ve Ever Gone in Space

K - 5th
Humans have never visited another planet, but we can send special spacecraft called probes to visit them for us! One of those probes, called Voyager 1, has gone deeper into space than any other, and it's sent us some amazing pictures...
Instructional Video5:57
PBS

What Planet Is Super Mario World?

12th - Higher Ed
We've run, jumped, and stomped all over the world of Super Mario, but, where in the universe is Super Mario EXACTLY? It's virtual so it obviously DOESN'T exist but if it did, could Super Mario world be in our solar system? And what do...
Instructional Video16:37
TED Talks

Will Wright: Spore, birth of a game

12th - Higher Ed
In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces.
Instructional Video7:07
TED Talks

Nathan Wolfe: What's left to explore?

12th - Higher Ed
We've been to the moon, we've mapped the continents, we've even been to the deepest point in the ocean -- twice. What's left for the next generation to explore? Biologist and explorer Nathan Wolfe suggests this answer: Almost everything....
Instructional Video5:40
SciShow

These Icy Rocks Might Be from Another Solar System | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
New research suggests that Venus’ patterned crust might currently be more active than we thought! Astrophysicists have also modeled the orbits of mysterious objects between Jupiter and Neptune, and found that they could have come from...