SciShow
Vikings, Volcanoes, and Sheep: How Geology Rewrites Ancient History
Vikings, volcanoes, and sheep don’t immediately seem like they should all be connected, but this unlikely trio is actually informing our knowledge of global history.
SciShow
Space Trash: The Next Big Pickle
Earth's orbit has a bit of a litter problem. Hank outlines a few ways scientists have thought of to help clean things up.
SciShow
5 Things We Still Don't Know About the Solar System
We've already learned a lot about the solar system, but sometimes the most fascinating things are what we DON'T know.
SciShow
What We've Learned from the Pluto Flyby!
New Horizons is teaching us all about Pluto! And it's definitely not what we were expecting.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The moon illusion - Andrew Vanden Heuvel
Have you noticed how the full moon looks bigger on the horizon than high overhead? Actually, the two images are exactly the same size -- so why do we perceive them differently? Scientists aren't sure, but there are plenty of intriguing...
SciShow
We Found Water on a Habitable Zone Exoplanet
Researchers found water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet about 110 light-years away, and there's another rock from interstellar space flying through our solar system!
TED Talks
TED: The fingerprints of life beyond Earth | Clara Sousa-Silva
Is there life on Venus? Quantum astrochemist Clara Sousa-Silva makes the case for a new way to seek and possibly discover habitable planets -- and shares her research into a poisonous, smelly molecule that might signal life beyond Earth.
Crash Course
Meteors
Today Phil helps keep you from ticking off an astronomer in your life by making sure you know the difference between a meteor, meteorite, and meteoroid. When the Earth plows through the stream emitted by a comet we get a meteor shower....
SciShow
3 Ways to Explore the “Ignorosphere"
One of the hardest places to explore in space is actually pretty close, some call it the ignorosphere.
SciShow
Meteorite Strikes Russia
Earlier today, a 15 meter wide meteor exploded over siberia with the force of several Hiroshima bombs. Over 1200 people were injured, mostly by flying glass. Here, Hank discusses what happenedt, what it means, and comparable events in...
SciShow
Turns Out, Spiders Use Electricity to Fly
Apparently some species of spiders can fly… and it turns out they don’t even need the wind to do it.
SciShow
Great Minds We Lost in 2012
Hank pays tribute to some of the great scientific minds we lost in 2012, and then apologizes for some mistakes made in recent SciShow episodes.
Crash Course
The Earth
Phil starts the planet-by-planet tour of the solar system right here at home, Earth.
Crash Course
Jupiter's Moons
Before moving on from Jupiter to Saturn, we’re going to linger for a moment on Jupiter’s moons. There are 67 known moons, and 4 huge ones that we want to explore in greater detail. Ganymede is the largest - larger, in fact, than any...
SciShow
The Carbon Impact of the World’s Largest Mass Migration
The Carbon Impact of the World’s Largest Mass Migration
SciShow
How Continent-Sized Dust Storms Form
In the future, we may see more continent-sized dust storms like the one nicknamed Godzilla, which crossed the Atlantic ocean in 2020. And since then, researchers have been looking into what caused such a colossal storm. If we can predict...
Be Smart
The Auroras
Space might seem like an empty place, but the area surrounding Earth is constantly being bombarded by waves of charged particles released by the Sun: The solar wind. Luckily, thanks to Earth's swirling, molten core (and the magnetic...
SciShow
Could We Give Mars a Magnetic Field?
One way to help us live on Mars would be to terraform the planet. Some scientists think we might be able to do that by giving it a new magnetic field!
SciShow
How to (Maybe) Find Your Own Little Amazing Meteorite
Most of the meteorites that land on this planet are pretty tiny. And enough of them fall to Earth each day that, theoretically, you could find micrometeorite yourself.
SciShow
Space Parachutes: Predicting the Unpredictable
Parachutes are a big part of keeping our astronauts safe, but despite being around for almost 500 years, there are still a lot of things we need to work on before they can be full proof.
SciShow
Air Conditioners: Coolest Idea Ever
All humans want to be comfy, but the first air conditioner wasn't built for us--it was for a printing press!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How will AI change the world? | TED-Ed
In the coming years, artificial intelligence is probably going to change your life— and likely the entire world. But people have a hard time agreeing on exactly how AI will affect our society. Can we build AI systems that help us fix the...