Instructional Video4:07
SciShow

SpaceX's Awesome New Craft, and 'Mega-Earth' Discovered

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space gives you the latest news from around the universe, including the discovery of a new class of exoplanet dubbed a "mega-Earth," and a tour of SpaceX's new crewed vehicle, the Dragon V2.
Instructional Video2:06
MinutePhysics

Shells of Cosmic Time (ft. @AstroKatie)

12th - Higher Ed
Thanks to @AstroKatie (http://astrokatie.com) for the collaboration! This video is about the cosmic distance scale and how we see objects farther away in space (ie at higher red shift) farther back in time because light takes time to...
Instructional Video18:23
TED Talks

TED: How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets | Dimitar Sasselov

12th - Higher Ed
(NOTE: This talk was given in 2010, and this field of science has developed quickly since then. Read "Criticisms & updates" below for more details.) Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth-like planets that may,...
Instructional Video16:43
SciShow

Our Expanding Universe | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
The universe is expanding. But how much is it expanding? Is it doing expanding the same way everywhere? And can physics actually explain the expansion?
Instructional Video5:20
MinutePhysics

The Twins Paradox Hands-On Explanation | Special Relativity Ch. 8

12th - Higher Ed
This video is chapter 8 in my series on special relativity, and it presents a hands-on explanation of the resolution to the Twins Paradox using the mechanical minkowski diagram, aka mechanical Lorentz transformation, aka spacetime globe....
Instructional Video3:45
SciShow

Zeroing in on Dark Matter

12th - Higher Ed
In an effort to find Dark Matter, what did we find? Let's zero in on the matter.
Instructional Video4:58
Be Smart

The Far Future of the Universe

12th - Higher Ed
SPOILERS: It doesn't end well.
Instructional Video13:42
TED Talks

TED: The untapped genius that could change science for the better | Jedidah Isler

12th - Higher Ed
Jedidah Isler dreamt of becoming an astrophysicist since she was a young girl, but the odds were against her: At that time, only 18 black women in the united States had ever earned a PhD in a physics-related discipline. In this personal...
Instructional Video3:45
SciShow

The Mysterious "Space Roar"

12th - Higher Ed
We here at SciShow like to start things off with a "Boom" for yet another season! Hank talks about the mystery behind the "Space Roar" and why it is we can't really hear it.
Instructional Video9:38
PBS

The Oh My God Particle

12th - Higher Ed
In 1991 a single atomic nucleus slammed into our atmosphere with the intensity of a macroscopic object. It's been named The Oh-My-God particle.
Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

Will We Ever Find Intelligent Alien Life?

12th - Higher Ed
What can an equation tell us about whether or not we're alone in the universe?
Instructional Video7:03
MinutePhysics

Time Travel in Fiction Rundown

12th - Higher Ed
For ages I’ve been thinking about doing a video analyzing time travel in fiction and doing a comparison of different fictional time travels – some do use wormholes, some relativistic/faster than light travel with time dilation, some...
Instructional Video4:19
TED Talks

Jedidah Isler: How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe

12th - Higher Ed
Jedidah Isler first fell in love with the night sky as a little girl. Now she's an astrophysicist who studies supermassive hyperactive black holes. In a charming talk, she takes us trillions of kilometers from Earth to introduce us to...
Instructional Video4:34
SciShow

Space Particles Are Flying Through You Right Now!

12th - Higher Ed
Tiny remnants of extreme nuclear reactions in space are flying through your body right now. And astronomers are hunting them to learn more about some of the most energetic and violent objects in the universe.
Instructional Video4:15
SciShow

Space-Grown Vegetables, and the Ring That Shouldn't Exist

12th - Higher Ed
Astronauts ate some space-grown lettuce, and astronomers discovered a ring of galaxies that's so big it defies the laws of physics.
Instructional Video4:34
SciShow

Has Stephen Hawking Solved a Black Hole Paradox?

12th - Higher Ed
Stephen Hawking recently announced that he'd come up with an answer to one of the biggest questions in physics. But it'll probably be a while before we know exactly what it is.
Instructional Video5:39
SciShow

Are There Planets More Habitable Than Earth?

12th - Higher Ed
Earth probably isn’t the best place in the universe. It turns out there might be even better places to live that are even more suitable for life: superhabitable planets.
Instructional Video4:45
SciShow

To Study the Universe, This Town Still Bans Cell Phones

12th - Higher Ed
Part of being very far away from the rest of the universe is that the signals are very faint, so sometimes you need a nice, quiet spot to listen from.
Instructional Video2:46
MinutePhysics

How to Build a Teleporter with Aliens

12th - Higher Ed
The first 200 people to use http://skl.sh/minutephysics30 get 30% off a premium Skillshare subscription. This video is about the international system of units (SI), the international prototype kilogram (the IPK or "le grande k"), and...
Instructional Video4:35
TED-Ed

TED-ED: The origin of countless conspiracy theories - PatrickJMT

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Why can we find geometric shapes in the night sky? How can we know that at least two people in London have exactly the same number of hairs on their head? And why can patterns be found in just about any text - even Vanilla Ice lyrics?...
Instructional Video4:52
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Particles and waves: The central mystery of quantum mechanics - Chad Orzel

Pre-K - Higher Ed
One of the most amazing facts in physics is that everything in the universe, from light to electrons to atoms, behaves like both a particle and a wave at the same time. But how did physicists arrive at this mind-boggling conclusion? Chad...
Instructional Video12:16
TED Talks

TED: You owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse | David Baron

12th - Higher Ed
On August 21, 2017, the moon's shadow raced from Oregon to South Carolina in what some consider to be the most awe-inspiring spectacle in all of nature: a total solar eclipse. umbraphile David Baron chases these rare events across the...
Instructional Video3:38
SciShow

Understanding the Most Extreme Numbers in the Universe

12th - Higher Ed
Humans are great at understanding medium-sized things, like how far the supermarket is from your house, or how to find the bathroom in the dark. But imagining distances in light-years is a lot harder -- so you'll have to use a trick or two.
Instructional Video4:36
SciShow

Could We Hide The Earth?

12th - Higher Ed
Theoretically, we could hide the Earth from faraway telescopes, using a properly placed laser pointer.