TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What happened to antimatter? - Rolf Landua
Particles come in pairs, which is why there should be an equal amount of matter and antimatter in the universe. Yet, scientists have not been able to detect any in the visible universe. Where is this missing antimatter? CERN scientist...
SciShow
Astrobiology & the Search for Alien Life
Hank talks about astrobiology - the study of and search for life in the universe off Earth. Right now, the field has more questions than answers, but all they all seek to answer that one fundamental query: are we alone in the universe?
SciShow
5 of the Best Measurements In Science
Proving something right isn’t just about quantity. It’s also about quality and over the years, scientists have made measurements proving that we understand ridiculously well how the universe works.
SciShow
Record-Breaking Space Discoveries of 2016!
2016 was a lot of things, but for astronomers, it meant the discovery of some of the farthest, faintest, and youngest objects in the universe we've seen yet.
PBS
Scientists Have Detected the First Stars
What do the first stars in the universe, dark matter, and superior siege engines have in common?
SciShow
3 Stars That Shouldn't Exist
Based on what we think we know about the universe these stars really shouldn't exist, but they do!
SciShow
A Better Way to Study Earth, and Lessons from Jellyfish Galaxies
A new detector can use neutrinos to help us take a peek inside Earth, and a study of jellyfish galaxies can help us understand more about an unsolved problem in astronomy.
MinutePhysics
The Arrow of Time feat. Sean Carroll
Why is the past different from the future? Caltech physicist Sean Carroll explains how the arrow of time is not an intrinsic property of physics, but rather an emergent feature.
MinutePhysics
What is the Purpose of Life? (Big Picture Ep. 5/5)
This video is about how life arose and what its main function or purpose in the universe seems to be. Thanks to Sean Carroll for collaborating on it! This video is about how life arose and what its main function or purpose in the...
PBS
Does Dark Matter BREAK Physics?
In this episode, welcome in Matt O'Dowd as the new host to rigorously take you through the mysteries of space, time, and the nature of reality. We're starting off this new season with perhaps one of the most mysterious things of all -...
SciShow
Is There Really An Infinite Multiverse? - Stephen Hawking's Last Paper
Just a few days before he died, Stephen Hawking submitted one last research paper using string theory math to talk about the multiverse.
SciShow
Black Holes: The Hungriest Things in the Universe | Compilation
If you thought a hot dog eating contest was impressive to complete, imagine if a black hole entered it! They eat up everything around them, including stars! But they’re not just gluttonous blobs of the universe. Like all things in space,...
PBS
What's Wrong With the Big Bang Theory?
Let's look further into what we don't yet know about the Big Bang, and how the theory could progress in the future. Since there is a discrepancy between general relativity and quantum mechanics, we continue to search for a grand unifying...
TED Talks
Kevin Kelly: How technology evolves
Tech enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks "What does technology want?" and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolution of life.
PBS
Escape The Kugelblitz Challenge
In the last episode Matt discussed how the Penrose Diagram enabled you to map how black holes affect Space Time. In this episode you can use that knowledge to stop an all-too-real threat to our planet. Aliens are trying to destroy the...
PBS
How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole
Find out how time and space switch roles when we move beyond the event horizon of the black hole.
SciShow
Citizen Astronomy FTW
This week, some rather confusing news from the Moon, and details about how ordinary folks like you helped classify 2 million celestial objects in just five days!
TED Talks
Honor Harger: A history of the universe in sound
Artist-technologist Honor Harger listens to the weird and wonderful noises of stars and planets and pulsars. In her work, she tracks the radio waves emitted by ancient celestial objects and turns them into sound, including "the oldest...
SciShow
Dark Matter
Physicists estimate that dark matter accounts for about twenty three percent of the known universe - the only problem is that no one really knows what it is...
SciShow
This Stellar Blast Showered the Universe with… Calcium | SciShow News
We knew some stars created large amounts of calcium, but no one really ever knew how...until now! Plus, astrophysicists believe they’ve finally seen evidence of the star that created one of the most important supernovas ever!
TED Talks
Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse
Cosmologist Sean Carroll attacks -- in an entertaining and thought-provoking tour through the nature of time and the universe -- a deceptively simple question: Why does time exist at all? The potential answers point to a surprising view...