Synesthesia allows people to hear color or taste numbers,and maybe even remember some things better than the average person.

Nalini Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons -- she says both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partnership with the state of Washington, she brings science classes and conservation programs to inmates, with...

A backyard astronomer holds the world record for most supernovas found by searching manually. He's memorized what over a thousand galaxies look like.

I'm scared of spiders. I'm not afraid to admit it. I love them in a scientific sense, or from a "let me look at you from way over here" sense, but that's as close as I get. Here's a look at the science of why some of us are afraid of...

What are the origins of the Rorschach test and how does it work? Explore the inkblot tool psychologists use to test a subject’s perceptions and mental health. -- For nearly a century, ten inkblots have been used as an almost mystical...

In this video Paul Andersen explains how ray diagrams for lenses can be used to determine the size and location of a refracted image. Images may be either real or virtual images. Ray diagrams for converging and diverging lenses are...

LIGHT! Let's talk about it today. Sunlight, moonlight, torchlight, and flashlight. They all come from different places, but they’re the very same thing: light! It’s what makes it possible for us to see the world around us, so it’s worth...

Staring into the mirror in a dark room can play some nasty tricks on your brain. Like many illusions, this can tell us about how your brain processes images.

In 1955, a 14 year old boy named Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Money, Mississippi. The white men who murdered him killed him for being Black. Emmett Till's mother chose to have an open casket funeral, and show the world what had...

How do lenses work? How do they form images? Well, in order to understand how optics work, we have to understand the physics of light. In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks to us about optical instruments and how they make...

The history of discovering what DNA is, what it looks like, and how it works is... complicated. But, in this episode of History of Science, Hank Green does his best to lay out the basics so we can understand the beginnings of Biotechnology.

This week on SciShow news, strap in for a trip through the frontier of the human brain. The human connectome is a years long venture to explore and map the pathways of the human brain, and this past week scientists released two terabytes...

John Maeda, former President of the Rhode Island School of Design, delivers a funny and charming talk that spans a lifetime of work in art, design and technology, concluding with a picture of creative leadership in the future. Watch for...

To be African is to be inspired by culture and to be filled with undying hope for the future, says designer and TED Fellow Wale Oyejide. With his label Ikire Jones (you'll see their work in Marvel's "Black Panther"), he uses classic...

What does the world look like when you map it using data? Social geographer Danny Dorling invites us to see the world anew, with his captivating and insightful maps that show earth as it truly is -- a connected, ever-changing and...

French street artist JR uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out.

Native imagery is embedded in the national subconscious, whether we're paying attention or not. A new exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian is titled simply "Americans" and shows how all aspects of life have been touched...

Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The "post-black" artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new dialogue about race...

New ReviewIn this video, you will learn about Amazon Rekognition.

This instructional video introduces viewers to the concept of Creative Commons licenses and explains how they offer flexibility in using copyrighted material. The video highlights how creators can share their images, music, films, and...

This video provides a comprehensive explanation of shutter speed in photography. It highlights how shutter speed controls the amount of light that reaches the camera's sensor or film by determining the length of time the shutter remains...

This video explores the concepts of branding and visual identity, highlighting their importance in various aspects of design and marketing. It explains that branding is the perception others have of a company, product, or service, while...

In this video tutorial, you will learn how to effectively organize your notes using Google Keep on your iPhone. The tutorial covers various features such as color coding, labeling, pinning notes, inserting images and links, voice-to-text...

This video discusses the prevalence of photo manipulation in modern media, highlighting the ease with which images can be altered using editing software. It emphasizes the importance of critically evaluating images in the media,...