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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 Video3:43
SciShow

Killing Mosquitoes With a Flip of a Gene

12th - Higher Ed
Eliminating certain species of mosquitoes could make summertime more enjoyable and cut down on the transmission of certain diseases. And scientists are looking into doing this by manipulating a single gene!
Instructional Video5:07
TED Talks

Janet Iwasa: How animations can help scientists test a hypothesis

12th - Higher Ed
3D animation can bring scientific hypotheses to life. Molecular biologist (and TED Fellow) Janet Iwasa introduces a new open-source animation software designed just for scientists.
Instructional Video4:56
TED Talks

Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain

12th - Higher Ed
There have been remarkable advances in understanding the brain, but how do you actually study the neurons inside it? Using gorgeous imagery, neuroscientist and TED Fellow Carl Schoonover shows the tools that let us see inside our brains.
Instructional Video3:28
SciShow

Fire Fountains on the Moon

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow Space News, researchers have figured out which gas drives fire fountain eruptions on the Moon. And you can send a message or your name to the Moon or Mars!
Instructional Video3:39
SciShow

Napping Is Awesome but Is It for Everyone

12th - Higher Ed
Study after study has shown that napping is awesome. This might make you wonder: should everyone be napping? The answer is more complicated than you might think.
Instructional Video4:38
SciShow

Meet the Machine That Barfs

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News shares the latest insights into two powerful natural forces: El Nino and barfing.
Instructional Video5:35
SciShow

Do Exoplanets Have Rings?

12th - Higher Ed
Exorings are pretty elusive, but we’ve already found what might be the first set of exorings, and if we find more, we’ll have a treasure trove of new information.
Instructional Video2:21
SciShow

Ghost Crabs Take Stomach Growling to a Whole New Level

12th - Higher Ed
You think your tummy rumbles? Meet the ghost crab — it growls using teeth inside its stomach, and not because it’s feeling peckish!
Instructional Video3:56
SciShow

DeepDream: Inside Google's 'Daydreaming' Computers

12th - Higher Ed
It may produce creepy images with way too many dogs and eyeballs, but Google’s DeepDream program is actually a valuable window into artificial intelligence.
Instructional Video5:30
SciShow

Can Feeling the Love Save Lions? | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Can you feel the love tonight? Hopefully scientists can make this the case for the growing numbers of lions in animal sanctuaries.
Instructional Video3:29
SciShow

Why Comet 67P Is Shaped Like a Duck, and New Pluto Photos!

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow Space News, photos of Comet 67P and Pluto are helping us solve old mysteries and creating some new ones.
Instructional Video5:13
Curated Video

Photonic Propulsion: Mars in 3 Days?

12th - Higher Ed
We can get to Mars in 3 days, . . .sort of, maybe. In this episode of SciShow Space Reid Reimers explains the possibilities of photonic propulsion in use with space travel.
Instructional Video5:01
Curated Video

A New Idea About Tabby's Star!

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers might have finally discovered part of why Tabby's Star acts so strangely and we have some new ideas about what triggers a type Ia supernova.
Instructional Video5:43
SciShow

Could We Actually Detect Life on Other Planets?

12th - Higher Ed
There’s probably life somewhere besides Earth, but all the exoplanets are so far away we may never see their surfaces in detail or intercept a clear radio signal from them. How do we determine if a distant planet has life?
Instructional Video4:52
SciShow

Why Animals Keep Self-Amputating

12th - Higher Ed
Some lizards will lose a tail to avoid becoming a meal, but there's more than one reason for animals to self-amputate.
Instructional Video10:04
SciShow

6 Types of Odd Body Armor

12th - Higher Ed
From medieval knights to face shields, humans are pretty big fans of armor. But it turns out that other organisms use armor, too! Except sometimes, their armor doesn’t look like anything we’d expect.
Instructional Video2:49
SciShow

Bird Eggs Warn Each Other About Danger

12th - Higher Ed
Although they don’t seem like the talkative type, recent research suggests that bird eggs can use vibrations to relay warnings about the outside world to their nest-mates.
Instructional Video5:10
SciShow

These Ant Paramedics Save Their Injured Comrades

12th - Higher Ed
A species of ant has been discovered to rescue and tend to the battle wounds of other ants injured while hunting, and scientists think that this is the first time this behavior has ever been observed in insects.
Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

Big Breakthrough in Artificial Wombs | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
A new experimental design that can sustain mouse embryos outside the uterus means that soon, we may be able to watch mammalian embryo development in real time.
Instructional Video11:14
SciShow

5 Times Scientists Gave Animals Drugs (and What They Learned)

12th - Higher Ed
It might seem like researchers give animals drugs just to make a good headline, but these experiments have taught scientists a lot.
Instructional Video5:53
SciShow

Some Elements can be Liquid and Solid at the Same Time | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Some elements can basically be liquids and solids at the same time, which is a whole new state of matter, and scientists have discovered a new species of human in the Republic of the Philippines!
Instructional Video4:04
SciShow

The Space Station's Inflatable Room

12th - Higher Ed
An ISS resupply mission is launching today and the space station should have a new inflatable room to experiment with!
Instructional Video3:56
SciShow

RIP Philae? The Latest on the Comet Mission

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space News explains what happened to Philae, the first spacecraft on the surface of a comet, and shares what scientists say about the future of the mission.