SciShow debunks the myth that you only use 10 percent of your brain. So, how much do you really use? And how do we know?

Why is yawning contagious? It might be your body trying to keep on the lookout for snakes.

This week, scientists announced great news about our brains and those discoveries may help us find the cure for a number of diseases and disorders.

If you're a Pokémon super-fan seeing Detective Pikachu this weekend, a little bit of your brain might light up that won’t light up in the brains of those that didn’t try to catch 'em all! Find out why that's important to understanding...

Dreaming is one of the weirdest things we do & in this SciShow infusion Hank talks about how science is helping us understand why we dream, what our brains are up to when they're doing it, and why dreaming may be critically important to...

What exactly is hypnosis? Some people think it's just a fun trick for magic shows, but can it actually make you do things against your will? Learn all this and more with Michael Aranda in a new episode of SciShow!

In your brain the right side controls the left half of your body and vice versa. We still aren't sure why this is, but some scientists have come up with a pretty bizarre explanation: that some ancient vertebrate ancestor was born with...

It seems like a terrible idea to destroy and rebuild your own brain, but that is exactly what some ground squirrels are doing all winter long.

This week on SciShow News: Animals! New research has found how dogs actually listen to us in more complex ways than you probably thought, and also figured out how a kind of pufferfish gets its puff up.

Even though we are still in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists are trying to figure out the ways in which this disease may stick with people in the long term - from lasting lung damage to potentially triggering...

Hank describes some of the best explanations that neurologists have come up with to account for the strange sensation we know as déjà vu.

Hank talks about chimeras, and why Venus the cat probably isn't one - but your mom might be!

With their squishy bodies and color-changing abilities, octopuses and other cephalopods already look like our planet’s resident aliens. But researchers have discovered yet another thing that separates them from most other animals on...

Scientists have developed a way to grow miniature versions of human organs; some of the weirdest organoids are the mini brains.

Scientists found that the prevailing hypothesis of how the Alzheimer’s disease starts might be wrong, and some viruses could be the culprit.

Planarians are flatworms most known for being able to grow a new head if it gets cut off, but perhaps even stranger is the fact that their new head retains some of the memories from the old one. Hosted by: Michel Aranda

There's a lot we don't understand about autism spectrum disorder, but this week scientists announced that they may have found a link between the disorder and elevated hormone levels.

A new healing gel helped mice regrow brain tissue after a stroke, and scientists suspect someone out there is producing a bunch of ozone-destroying CFCs in defiance of an international agreement! Hosted by: Hank Green

Need a determination boost to complete those New Year's Resolutions (or really any kind of resolution)? Look no further than this compilation of SciShow videos from SciShow of yore. Why Our Brains Love Junk Food - 1:11 3 Terrible...

Dr. Genevieve Lind explains how she uses frog eggs to learn how drugs affect receptors in the brain and Jessi's chicken Goldie shows us one use for the cloaca. Hosted by: Hank Green

Hank describes some scientific advances in the field of mind reading.

On the genetic level, we're not all that different from chimps. But those small differences in DNA can have massive effects. Learn what makes us truly different from chimpanzees in this new episode of SciShow!

Even if you’re tiny, you can still be fierce. Here are 8 little invertebrates who punch above their weight class at dinner time.

Bird parent's calls can change how their babies develop! And, do you learn faster when playing a game to benefit yourself or other people?