Science Sparks
Alka Seltzer and Water
Alka seltzter and water reaction, can you guess which jar contains the warmest water?
Science Sparks
Easy Paper Spinners
Instructions for making easy paper spinners. These spin and fly amazingly well. Try adding more weight or making them difference sizes to see how it affects the fall.
Curated Video
The Fascinating World of Helium
This video provides a comprehensive overview of helium, covering its properties, discovery, and various applications. It explains how helium's unique characteristics make it ideal for cryogenic purposes, such as preserving food and...
Curated Video
Comparing Theoretical and Empirical Results
In this video, the concept of probability is explained using the example of flipping a coin. Theoretical and empirical probability are discussed and compared. The video emphasizes the importance of comparing theoretical and empirical...
Curated Video
How to Determine Specific Heat Capacity of Substance - Physics Experiment
This video is a physics tutorial on how to determine the specific heat capacity of a substance, using the example of aluminum. The narrator explains the concept of specific heat capacity and the equation used to calculate it. The...
Learning Mole
What are Detergents
This human body video lesson is all about detergents and how they work. Students will love this engaging and interactive video as they learn about science they can do at home.
Brave Wilderness
Bitten by 1000 Deadly Mosquitoes!
In this episode, Coyote’s eaten alive by the world’s deadliest animal: the mosquito. Mosquito bites can leave behind much more than an itchy, swollen welt. These bloodsucking insects carry diseases responsible for more than 1,000,000...
Physics Girl
5 weird ways to put out a candle
What happens when you pour liquid nitrogen on a flame? What about when you blow on the flame with a cup in the way? Try these five unusual ways to extinguish a candle. Pour out the flame with CO2. Cut off the oxygen supply to the flame...
Physics Girl
DIY Lightning Experiment! Make a SHOCKING Capacitor
Create "lightning" in your living room! Make giant sparks by building up static charge on a homemade 2-plate capacitor, and discharging through a grounded rod. Watch as my friend Ashley agrees to touch the charged-up capacitor. How is it...
The Wall Street Journal
Experimenta In Extreme Living
Joaquin Ruiz, vice president for innovation and director of Biosphere 2 at the University of Arizona, speaks with The Future of Everything Editor Stan Parish about what it's like inside Biosphere 2, the largest closed system in the world.
msvgo
Random Variables and its Probability Distributions
It defines and explains random variable and its probability distributions. Further it elaborates the concept of mean, variance and standard deviation of a random variable.
Curated Video
Rates of Respiration Experiments with Maggots: Investigating the Relationship between Temperature and Respiration
The video is a lecture presentation on an experiment to investigate the relationship between temperature and the rate of respiration in maggots. The presenter explains the hypothesis, the setup of the experiment, the theory behind the...
Curated Video
Introduction to Probability and Relative Frequency
In this video, the teacher explains the concepts of relative frequency and probability using real-life examples and experiments. The students learn how to find relative frequencies, use experimental and theoretical probabilities, and...
Physics Girl
MIND-BOGGLING HIKER RIDDLE ft Anne Wojcicki
I ask Anne Wojcicki, founder and CEO of 23andMe to answer some logic and physics riddles. Yes, it's mean and fun.
ShortCutsTv
The Birth of Epigenetics: the Agouti Mouse Study
Could you really be what your mother ate? A groundbreaking experiment by Jirtle & Waterland provided the first scientific evidence of the influence of maternal diet on offspring health. It was not only the first demonstrated of foetal...
Science Sparks
Chain Reaction Challenge
Chain Reaction Challenge taken from The Holiday Makers, in association with Year of Engineering. We set up a chain reaction or Rube Goldberg machine which is started off by a fan and ends up bursting a balloon.
Physics Girl
World’s Easiest DIY Electric Train
How do you take copper wire, a battery and magnets and make electric train? With science! This super simple DIY physics demo uses electromagnetic induction to propel a train made of magnets and batteries.
Physics Girl
How Fluid Can Climb Upward! SLIME EXPERIMENT
Slime exhibits some crazy unusual properties, like viscoelasticity, because it's a non-newtonian fluid. We can use non-newtonian properties to make the fluid "defy gravity" and climb up a spinning rod. This is called the Weissenberg effect.
Next Animation Studio
Nuclear fusion breakthrough: Researchers at the Joint European Torus generate record heat
The U.K.-based Joint European Torus laboratory has broken its own world record for the largest amount of energy extracted from a nuclear fusion reaction.
Institute of Human Anatomy
Anatomy of the Eye: Can Eyeballs Really Bounce?
In this video, the presenters dissect cow eyes to explore the anatomy of the eye and test its strength by dropping them from different heights. They also discuss the importance of the eye's outer layer, the fibrous tunic, in protecting...
Physics Girl
How does laser cooling work?
Lasers are known to burn things, fix eyes, and dance on powerpoint presentations. But they can also be used to cool objects to some of the coldest temperatures in the universe.
Science360
Antarctic seals may use the Earth's magnetic field to survive while hunting
Antarctica's Weddell seals have biological adaptations that allow them to dive deep—as much as of hundreds of meters—while hunting, but also an uncanny ability to find the breathing holes they need in the surface of the ice that covers...