SciShow
Great Minds: Tycho Brahe, the Astronomer With a Pet Elk
In the late 16th century, Tycho Brahe built an observatory on an island and collecting some of the most accurate data ever. He also lost his nose in a duel with a classmate -- over who was the better mathematician.
SciShow
The Fiery, Pitch-Black Egg-Planet
Last week, the Cassini probe dove into Saturn, never to be heard from again, but thankfully, Cassini wasn't the only probe out there. And we've also found an exoplanet that might be even darker and stranger than we thought.
SciShow
Mission to Europa Unveiled!
NASA has announced the scientific instruments for the Europa Clipper mission, and Cassini has passed Hyperion, the so-called “spongy moon,” for the last time.
SciShow
Marshes are superheroes. #shorts #science #SciShow #ClimeworksTeamEarth #climatechange #climeworks
Marshes are superheroes. #shorts #science #SciShow #ClimeworksTeamEarth #climatechange #climeworks
TED Talks
TED: The billion-dollar pollution solution humanity needs right now | Stacy Kauk
Could the same mechanism used to accelerate vaccine development work for spurring solutions to the climate crisis? Sustainability innovator Stacy Kauk introduces the billion-dollar fund to supercharge the carbon removal market, which...
PBS
The End of the Habitable Zone
The Sun is getting brighter and the planets in our solar system that are habitable are changing.
Crash Course
What is Weathering? Crash Course Geography
Weathering breaks down rocks and creates sediments which become the raw materials for other rocks and the formation of our soils. And we call the process of moving that sediment erosion. In today's episode, we're just going to focus on...
TED Talks
TED: Why earth may someday look like Mars | Anjali Tripathi
every minute, 400 pounds of hydrogen and almost 7 pounds of helium escape from earth's atmosphere into outer space. Astrophysicist Anjali Tripathi studies the phenomenon of atmospheric escape, and in this fascinating and accessible talk,...
SciShow
Future Space News of 2016
Hank Green brings in 2016 with some space missions to look forward to!
SciShow
Landing on Europa!
NASA has proposed a mission that would land on Europa to search for signs of life & we've learned something sad about one of our neighbors, Proxima b.
SciShow
How Scientists Found the First Type of Molecule in the Universe - SciShow News
Around a quarter of a million years after the Big Bang, the very first molecule, helium hydride was formed. Now scientists have confirmed that molecule is still being made, and they found it with some help from a high flying airplane.
SciShow
3 Extreme Climate Fixes
Hank talks about a few - maybe crazy, maybe reasonable - geoengineering schemes that some scientists have come up with in order to "fix" climate change, including designer clouds, ocean fertilization, and stratospheric shading with...
SciShow
3 Epic Space Mission Fails
Space missions are difficult. Reid describes three epic space mission fails!
SciShow
3 Weird Meteorites (Whose Weirdness Was Instructive)
Meteorites are extraterrestrial rocks that have ended up on earth. All of them are literally 'out of this world,' but here are three of the strangest of these aliens.
SciShow
Found Dozens of Ancient Cryovolcanoes on Ceres! SciShow News
Scientists may have discovered up to 31 more cryovolcano remnants on Ceres, and the Iridium flares are slowly being allowed to burn up in our atmosphere, so see them while you still can!
Crash Course
Europe in the Global Age: Crash Course European History
In which John looks at what it even means to live in a global age, as we've been talking about Europe's role in the gobal community for 47 episodes now. But, pedantry aside, the world is more connected than ever, and that has had effects...
Crash Course
Life Begins: Crash Course Big History
In which Hank and John Green teach you about life on Earth. They won't be giving advice on how life should be lived, because this is a history series. Instead, they'll teach you about the earliest forms of life on Earth, and some of the...
SciShow Kids
Are There Other Planets Like Earth?
Earth is unique in that it's the only planet we know of that can support life. But could there be another planet like ours somewhere far away?
TED Talks
Sean Davis: Can we solve global warming? Lessons from how we protected the ozone layer
The Montreal Protocol proved that the world could come together and take action on climate change. Thirty years after the world's most successful environmental treaty was signed, atmospheric scientist Sean Davis examines the world we...
PBS
Is an Ice Age Coming?
We're living in a brief window of time where our planet isn't frozen underneath a giant layer of glaciers. How much longer will the moderate climate that we've come to know as "normal" continue? This episode looks at how the changes in...
TED Talks
TED: How biochar removes CO2 from the air -- and helps farmers thrive | Axel Reinaud
Biochar is a kind of charcoal that removes CO2 from the atmosphere, helping yield healthy crops and even producing abundant renewable energy in the form of electricity as it's made. This exciting climate change fighter is ready for...
SciShow
The Gamma Ray Burst of 775
About 1200 years ago, Earth may have experienced one of the rarest and most powerful cosmic events a planet can be exposed to: a gamma-ray burst. If it did, well, let's just say that we, as living things on Earth, are lucky it wasn't worse.