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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!
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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...
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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...
TED Talks
Sara Seager: The search for planets beyond our solar system
Every star we see in the sky has at least one planet orbiting it, says astronomer Sara Seager. So what do we know about these exoplanets, and how can we find out more? Seager introduces her favorite set of exoplanets and shows new...
TED Talks
Federica Bianco: How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems
To study a system as complex as the entire universe, astrophysicists need to be experts at extracting simple solutions from large data sets. What else could they do with this expertise? In an interdisciplinary talk, TED Fellow and...
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Sarah Kay: "A Bird Made of Birds"
"The universe has already written the poem you were planning on writing," says Sarah Kay, quoting her friend, poet Kaveh Akbar. Performing "A Bird Made of Birds," she shares how and where she finds poetry. (Kay is also the host of TED's...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Silvia Moreno-García: Titan of terror: the dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft
Arcane books of forbidden lore, disturbing secrets in the family bloodline, and terrors so unspeakable the very thought of them might drive you mad. These have become standard elements in modern horror stories. But they were largely...
TED Talks
Neil Turok: My wish: Find the next Einstein in Africa
Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young Africans starved of opportunity: by unlocking and nurturing the continent's creative potential, we can create a change in Africa's future.
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SciShow Quiz Show: With the SciShow Space Reid Reimers!
Welcome to SciShow Quiz Show, where SciShow Space co-hosts Hank and Reid are back for another round!
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Active Volcanoes on Mars?
Mars is covered with the remnants of long-dead volcanoes, but one of them might have been alive surprisingly recently.
TED Talks
TED: The missing 96 percent of the universe | Claire Malone
We've misplaced the building blocks of the cosmos -- and particle physicists like Claire Malone are on a mission to find them. Despite scientists hitting a "major snag" in uncovering what exactly makes up dark matter and dark energy, she...
MinutePhysics
Can We Predict Everything
Einstein didn't like quantum mechanics because it wasn't able to make perfect predictions... but science is not about what you like, it's about what's true!
Crash Course
The Deep Future Crash Course Big History 10
Finally, after what seems like eons and eons, the end is nigh. We're talking not only about the end of Crash Course Big History, but also the end of everything. The end of humanity and the end of the universe.John and Hank Green will...
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The New Space Weather Mission
The universe gets a little weirder, and more dangerous, every time we study it. Understanding space weather, which can mess with our communications systems, will take strategic planning to monitor.
Be Smart
The Cosmic Afterglow
The lingerling radiation from the ancient universe still surrounds us to this day.
PBS
Space Used to Be Orange!!
As long as we've been around, YES. But the universe gets much more exciting, AND much BRIGHTER, as we start winding our clocks back to the early days of the universe. Near the beginning of the universe, when space was rapidly expanding,...
TED Talks
Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species?
Throughout human evolution, multiple versions of humans co-existed. Could we be mid-upgrade now? Juan Enriquez sweeps across time and space to bring us to the present moment -- and shows how technology is revealing evidence that suggests...
TED Talks
Alex Wissner-Gross: A new equation for intelligence
Is there an equation for intelligence? Yes. It's F = T ∇ Sτ. In a fascinating and informative talk, physicist and computer scientist Alex Wissner-Gross explains what in the world that means.
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Dark Energy Camera
Hank brings us news of the most sensitive digital camera in the universe, poised to help astronomers explain the mystery of why the universe is speeding up instead of slowing down as Einstein's theory of General Relativity would predict.
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NASA's Planetary Protection Job, and a Brand New Way to Study Neutrinos
The Planetary Protection Office is hiring and we've found a much easier way to study neutrinos.
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Life on a Donut Planet
We're used to talking about planets as spherical objects, but a donut-shaped planet is theoretically possible. What would life be like on one of these?
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Would Aliens Be Able to See Earth?
Scientists have worked out how likely it is that distant planets can see earth, and we are learning new ways to study the magnetic fields of galaxies.