Instructional Video8:59
SciShow

Richard Feynman, The Great Explainer: Great Minds

12th - Higher Ed
Like SciShow? Help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso, or hold your liquids! Chapters View all GREAT EXPLAINERS 0:26 QUANTUM MECHANICS 2:54 THEORETICAL PHYSICS 3:04 PRANKING OTHER PHYSICISTS 3:55...
Instructional Video5:53
SciShow

Bugs Aren't Brainless! | Great Minds: Charles Henry Turner

12th - Higher Ed
At the turn of the 20th century, scientists thought that insects were nothing more than tiny reflex machines. But Charles Henry Turner, who was possibly America’s first Black entomologist, ran some groundbreaking animal behavior studies...
Instructional Video5:09
SciShow

Bivalves Could Be the New Lab Rats

12th - Higher Ed
Bivalves—animals like mussels, clams and oysters—might be a more familiar sight in a restaurant than a lab. But it turns out that studying them might help us learn more about our own health.
Instructional Video4:36
SciShow

The Scientist Who Made the Internet Possible | Great Minds: Narinder Singh Kapany

12th - Higher Ed
Thanks to Qualcomm for sponsoring a portion of this video.
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TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Who is Alexander von Humboldt? - George Mehler

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Have you heard of Alexander von Humboldt? Not likely. The geologist turned South American explorer was a bit of an 18th century super scientist, traveling over 24,000 miles to understand the relationship between nature and habitat....
Instructional Video2:39
SciShow

Mind Reading

12th - Higher Ed
Hank describes some scientific advances in the field of mind reading.
Instructional Video4:13
SciShow

Great Minds: Margaret Hamilton

12th - Higher Ed
Margaret Hamilton is a pioneer for women in STEM, and her team's software saved Apollo 11's moon landing!
Instructional Video3:38
SciShow

Does Lactic Acid Really Cause Muscle Pain?

12th - Higher Ed
For decades, lactic acid has taken the blame for the muscle pain you feel when you exercise - but does it really deserve its bad reputation?
Instructional Video3:20
SciShow

Breaking News: Mars Suitable for Life

12th - Higher Ed
Earlier today, mission specialists with NASA's Mars Science Laboratory announced that they have found, for the first time, evidence of an ancient environment on Mars that could have sustained life. Hank tells us the specifics in this...
Instructional Video21:57
SciShow

Diary of a Citizen Scientist with Sharman Apt Russell

12th - Higher Ed
Sharman Apt Russell talks about her experiences with citizen science and Jessi from Animal Wonders joins the show with Fluffy the Chilean Rose Tarantula. Chapters View all SHARMAN APT RUSSELL Author & Citizen Scientist 0:18 TIGER BEETLE...
Instructional Video4:10
SciShow

Huge Sperm and Giant Tentacles: Relax, It's Marine Biology

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow shares the latest developments in science, this week including new insights into the evolution of giant sperm, and the discovery of a whole new order of animal.
Instructional Video14:17
TED Talks

Li Wei Tan: The fascinating science of bubbles, from soap to champagne

12th - Higher Ed
In this whimsical talk and live demo, scientist Li Wei Tan shares the secrets of bubbles -- from their relentless pursuit of geometric perfection to their applications in medicine and shipping, where designers are creating more efficient...
Instructional Video3:25
SciShow

The Terrifying Truth About Bananas

12th - Higher Ed
Hank loves bananas and is worried about their future, so he did some investigating and wrote this episode of SciShow to share some kinda scary banana truths with us.
Instructional Video10:56
Crash Course

Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth - Crash Course Biology

12th - Higher Ed
Hank introduces us to the relatively new field of evolutionary developmental biology, which compares the developmental processes of different organisms to determine their ancestral relationship, and to discover how those processes...
Instructional Video14:19
TED Talks

Grégoire Courtine: The paralyzed rat that walked

12th - Higher Ed
A spinal cord injury can sever the communication between your brain and your body, leading to paralysis. Fresh from his lab, Grégoire Courtine shows a new method -- combining drugs, electrical stimulation and a robot -- that could...
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 Video2:20
SciShow

Science on Trial in Italy

12th - Higher Ed
Hank has some thoughts on the news that several Italian scientists who were convicted of 29 counts manslaughter for making an "inadequate risk-assessment" before an earthquake.
Instructional Video15:21
TED Talks

Beau Lotto + Amy O'Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included

12th - Higher Ed
What do science and play have in common? Neuroscientist Beau Lotto thinks all people (kids included) should participate in science and, through the process of discovery, change perceptions. He's seconded by 12-year-old Amy O'Toole, who,...
Instructional Video3:59
SciShow

Why Do We Have Such Long Childhoods?

12th - Higher Ed
Compared to most animals in the vast kingdom, humans have one of the longest childhoods. And you might think this is so we have time to develop our advanced thinking skills, but scientists think it might not be that simple.
Instructional Video6:05
SciShow

A New Binary Asteroid (That's Also a Comet!)

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers discovered something cool about an object in the asteroid belt (2006 VW139/288P), and the European Space Agency is conducting a bed rest study that could help us get on our way to Mars.
Instructional Video2:14
SciShow

What's the Best Way to Pour Beer

12th - Higher Ed
Be the hit of your party and learn how to pour the perfect beer-- (with the additional party trick of knowing the chemistry behind why, of course!)
Instructional Video15:49
TED Talks

TED: Why science demands a leap into the unknown | Uri Alon

12th - Higher Ed
While studying for his PhD in physics, Uri Alon thought he was a failure because all his research paths led to dead ends. But, with the help of improv theater, he came to realize that there could be joy in getting lost. A call for...
Instructional Video7:07
SciShow

Cheating Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

12th - Higher Ed
Hank brings you news from around the universe, including what you can't blame on global warming, why being unfaithful is hazardous to your health, and how to watch a particularly awesome spectacle coming to a sky near you.
Instructional Video2:47
SciShow

Human Connectome

12th - Higher Ed
Hank briefs us on a fascinating project that aims to map the anatomical and functional pathways of the brain - a neural network called the human connectome.