SciShow
Quantum Fishing for the Higgs Boson
Hank talks to some VIPs from CERN about the question on everyone's mind: does the Higgs Boson particle exist? And describes how CERN is going about finding the answer. Hank interviewed Sergio Bertolucci on October 11, 2011 and Rolf Heuer...
SciShow
How (a Lack of) Bird Poop Proved the Big Bang
Reid describes how pigeons and bird poop helped prove the Big Bang!
SciShow
How the First Stars Transformed the Universe
The first stars turned all the neutral hydrogen in the universe back into ions, created a bunch of new elements, and just generally made a mess. But without them, you wouldn’t be here.
Crash Course
Migrations and Intensification Crash Course Big History 7
In which Hank and John Green teach you about humanity conquering the Earth. Or at least moving from Africa into the rest of the Earth. As human beings spread out across the world and populations grew, humanity reached a critical mass of...
MinutePhysics
Ciencia, Religión y el Big Bang
¿Cómo empezó el Universo? El Big Bang (que, por cierto, es un nombre horrible) es... complicado, pero intentamos resumirte lo que pasó al principio de todo. ¡Muchas gracias a Marcelo Enrique Anguita Fuentes por apoyarnos en Patreon!...
SciShow
The Search for Antimatter
If you don't have any idea what antimatter is, you don't have to feel bad - the brightest minds in the world have only recently begun to understand what it is and how it works. Hank gives us the run down on what we know about antimatter,...
SciShow
Antimatter Light Spectrum Discovered!
Scientists were able to measure the emission lines of antimatter! And we may have some new clues about how dinosaurs lost their teeth on the way to becoming birds.
SciShow
3 Cosmic Time Capsules
Long before we were around, the universe was preserving clues about the distant past, in everything from little balls of carbon to huge groups of stars.
SciShow
Why Is the Night Sky Dark?
If the universe is so vast and full of stars, why is the night sky dark?
TED-Ed
TED-ED: What light can teach us about the universe - Pete Edwards
Humanity has long been looking at the universe and asking the big questions: How did it begin? How will it end? Cosmologists are searching hard for the answers, but where do they even start? The answer is light. Pete Edwards outlines the...
SciShow
A Ridiculously Huge Pair of Ancient Galaxies
Astronomers have found a couple galaxies that were much larger than expected, and the Opportunity rover might be in for some harsh Martian weather!
SciShow
Where Does Static Come From
Did you know you can watch the big bang on an old TV any time you want?
PBS
The Missing Mass Mystery
For years, astronomers have been unable to find up to half of the baryonic matter in the universe. We may just have solved this problem.
SciShow
Where Did the Big Bang Happen?
The name “The Big Bang” makes it sound like there was a big explosion in one particular spot, but if that’s the case, where did it happen?
SciShow
The Hunt for the First Neutrinos in the Universe - Cosmic Neutrino Background
The Cosmic Microwave Background shows us the oldest light in the universe, but to really understand the early universe we need something even older: The Cosmic Neutrino Background.
PBS
How Do You Measure the Size of the Universe?
The universe is HUGE. But, there is only so much of the universe we can ACTUALLY see, and if we wanted to measure that FINITE space, how would we do it? A gigantic ruler? One really long car ride? Or maybe it's something even more...
SciShow
3 Galaxies That Shouldn't Exist
The universe is a big place full of galaxies that we've only begun to study. SciShow Space presents 3 of the strangest ones we've found so far.
TED Talks
TED: Questioning the universe | Stephen Hawking
In keeping with the theme of TED2008, professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? -- and discusses how we might go about answering them.
SciShow
The Oldest Quasar Ever and the Newest Failed Launch
We have discovered an enormous black hole that’s older and farther away than any we’ve ever seen, and a recent rocket launch did not go as planned.
PBS
The Fate of the First Stars
Population III stars were the very first stars in our universe and far larger than any we can see today. Where are they now?
SciShow
6 Times Scientists Radically Misunderstood the World
Science has come a long way in understanding how our universe works and that road has been full of wrong turns and dead ends. Here are 6 scientific explanations that turned out to be way off track. Chapters 1 SPONTANEOUS GENERATION 1:49...
MinutePhysics
Tour of the Map of the Big Bang
Ever wanted to explore the Cosmic Background Radiation? It's our best picture of the big bang, and now you can!
Bozeman Science
ESS1A - The Universe and its Stars
Paul Andersen describes our place on the Earth in the Solar System within the Milky Way Galaxy in the Universe. The make-up and origins of the Universe are included along with stellar evolution. A teaching progression K-12 is also included.
Crash Course
Big History 1 Preview
n 10 episodes John Green, Hank Green, and Emily Graslie teach you about, well, everything. It’s Big History! This course will take you on a whirlwind journey from the creation to the death of the universe and is based on the Big History...