SciShow
Why Inducing Hallucinations Might Be a Good Idea
Researchers have developed ways to induce hallucinations, and though it sounds weird, it could also tell us a lot about mental health.
SciShow
Invasive Mussels and Heidi Sedivy: SciShow Talk Show # 16
Welcome back to SciShow Talk Show! This week we introduce our guest, Heidi Sedivy who will be talking about invasive mussels as well as Montana native mussels.
MinuteEarth
How To Hear Halfway Around The World
Sounds in the ocean can travel more than 10,000 miles - that's halfway around the world! Here's how.
TED Talks
Jim Hudspeth: The beautiful, mysterious science of how you hear
Have you ever wondered how your ears work? In this delightful and fascinating talk, biophysicist Jim Hudspeth demonstrates the wonderfully simple yet astonishingly powerful mechanics of hair cells, the microscopic powerhouses that make...
Crash Course
Hearing & Balance: Crash Course A&P
Crash Course A&P continues the journey through sensory systems with a look at how your sense of hearing works. We follow sounds as they work there way into the ear where they are registered and transformed into action potentials. This...
TED Talks
Beardyman: The polyphonic me
Frustrated by not being able to sing two notes at the same time, musical inventor Beardyman built a machine to allow him to create loops and layers from just the sounds he makes with his voice. Given that he can effortlessly conjure the...
Be Smart
There Was No First Human
If you traced your family tree back 185 million generations, you wouldn't be looking at a human, a primate, or even a mammal. You'd be looking at a fish. So where along that line does the first human show up? The answer may surprise you
SciShow
What Makes Radiators Bang So Loudly
If you hear a loud bang in the middle of the night, it is probably your radiator. But how does a hollow hunk of metal make such a loud noise?
TED Talks
TED: A scientific approach to the paranormal | Carrie Poppy
What's haunting Carrie Poppy? Is it ghosts or something worse? In this talk, the investigative journalist narrates her encounter with a spooky feeling you'll want to warn your friends about and explains why we need science to deal with...
SciShow
9 Weird Ways Animals Communicate
We all know ducks quack, dogs bark, and birds chirp, but that barely scratches the surface of all the amazing ways animals have devised to talk to each other!
SciShow
Why Does the Wind Howl So Creepily?
You’re in the woods, there’s a full moon, and the wind begins to howl. We can’t take you out of this horror movie scenario, but we can explain why the wind sounds so spooky.
Curated Video
Is There Sound in Space?
Sound can't actually travel through a vacuum like space, but scientists have learned that there's still plenty to hear.
TED Talks
TED: A better way to talk about love | Mandy Len Catron
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. In love, we fall. We're struck, we're crushed, we swoon. We burn with passion. Love makes us crazy and makes us...
SciShow
What 'Alien Abductions' Say About Our Brains
You’re on the internet, so you probably know that people sometimes claim to have been abducted by aliens. When researchers start to look closely at these stories and where they come from, they begin to realize that there might be...
SciShow
Why Don't Whales Deafen Themselves?
Whales have a lot of the same ear parts as humans, but they are capable of making sounds that could easily shatter a human's eardrums. So why are they seemingly immune from their own sense-shattering sounds?
SciShow
Why Does Plane Food Taste So Bad?
We’ve all heard the jokes about airline food, but have you ever wondered why most everyone in the world hates it so much?
SciShow
7 Bizarre Uses for Animal Secretions
You're probably aware of lots of the things we take from animals, but for centuries, humans have been sneaking animal secretions into a bunch of things you probably didn't know about, like your Easter candy, your Mom's perfume, and even...
SciShow Kids
The Loudest Bugs in the World
Cicadas are small insects, but they're famous for being one of the loudest animals in the world!
SciShow Kids
What Would We Eat on Mars? | Let's Explore Mars! | SciShow Kids
Sam the bat would love to visit Mars one day, but he's going to need more than a few sandwiches if he's going to stay for long.
MinutePhysics
Tutorial - Creating the Sound of Hydrogen
In this tutorial I show how I synthesized the sound of hydrogen for the "Sound of Hydrogen" video using mathematica - it's a little technical, but you've been requesting it!
SciShow
Do You Really Sing Better In The Shower?
Singing in the shower seems to sound better, but what is actually happening to the sound waves in that soapy, tiled room?
SciShow
How Do Babies Become Bilingual?
Have you ever seen a kid talk to her friends in English, but to her mom in Spanish? Learning a second language can be really hard for adults, so how do bilingual babies learn two at the same time?
TED Talks
Shohini Ghose: Quantum computing explained in 10 minutes
A quantum computer isn't just a more powerful version of the computers we use today; it's something else entirely, based on emerging scientific understanding -- and more than a bit of uncertainty. Enter the quantum wonderland with TED...
TED Talks
Jared Ficklin: New ways to see music (with color! and fire!)
Designer Jared Ficklin creates wild visualizations that let us see music, using color and even fire (a first for the TED stage) to analyze how sound makes us feel. He takes a brief digression to analyze the sound of a skatepark -- and...