MinuteEarth
Why Exercise Is Hard
Because exercise isn't essential for short-term survival, we don't exercise enough, so we need to reincorporate purposeful physical activity into our lives.
Wonderscape
Physics of Rockets: Applying Newton's Laws of Motion
Dive into the basics of rocket science, exploring the fundamental physics principles that enable rockets to defy gravity and soar into space. Discover how Newton's laws of motion play a critical role in rocket engineering and launch...
Curated Video
Rocket Science: How Rockets Work - A Short and Basic Explanation
How do rockets work? What is the science behind a rocket launch? How does a rocket go into space? In this short and simple video, we discuss the science of how rockets work. It is a short animated video for kids and laymen to understand...
Science Sparks
This Is Rocket Science
This Is Rocket Science includes 70 fun experiments for kids (and adults ) showing you how to use everyday items like bottles, cardboard, glue and tape to build awesome rocket ships, paper spinners and mobile rocket launch pads, all while...
DoodleScience
Eye vs Camera _ GCSE Physics
The eye is a combination of smaller parts which give you the ability to be watching this video right now. It’s made up of 8 main parts; at the front is the cornea. This refracts light by a fixed amount to help us focus the light. The...
Be Smart
Why We Should Launch Rockets From the Moon
Half a century ago, astronauts got on top of a really big rocket and sent a tiny little capsule on a 384,000 km trip to the moon and back. And they were able to do it because a lot of extremely smart and dedicated people pushed...
SciShow
How SpaceX Launched the World's Most Powerful Rocket
We've found the first evidence of planets outside of the Milky Way, and SpaceX has finally launched the Falcon Heavy rocket into space!
MinutePhysics
The Rocket & String Paradox
This video is about Bell's Spaceship Paradox of Special Relativity, wherein a pair of rockets (or spacecraft) connected by a weak thread accelerate with uniform acceleration, maintaining the same separation, and the question is: does the...
Science Sparks
How to make a BOTTLE ROCKET - Science for Kids
Make and launch your very own bottle rocket and learn about Newton's Laws of motion at the same time. Find out more here: https://www.science-sparks.com/making-a-bottle-rocket/
Curated Video
Understanding Rockets Using Newton's Third Law and Propulsion
This video explains how rockets work based on Newton's third law of motion. Explore the action and reaction forces generated by the rocket's engines, the use of fuel to achieve escape velocity, and the different types of fuel engines.
SciShow
The Most Powerful Rocket Ever, and Gecko Sex in Space
SciShow Space News shares the latest developments from around the universe, including NASA’s plan to build the world’s most powerful rocket, and the fate of Russian geckos sent to have sex in space.
Curated Video
Describing the Distribution of Data: Analyzing the Shape of a Graph
This video presents various shapes such as bell curves, skew, clusters, peaks, and uniform distribution of data on graphs. By understanding these shapes, students can effectively communicate the patterns and trends in data represented by...
SciShow
Future Space News of 2018
Here's a sneak peek at three missions coming up in 2018. We have rockets launching, spacecraft arriving at their destinations, and missions coming to an end.
Curated Video
Understanding Background Radiation: Sources and Exposure
This video is a lecture that explains the concept of background radiation, which is a type of ionizing radiation that humans are exposed to every day but at low levels. The video discusses the four main types of ionizing radiation, which...
SciShow
Space Guns Don't Work (But We Built One Anyway)
Before we had rockets like the Falcon 9, we had other ideas of how we might shoot for the moon: space guns!
MinutePhysics
Why It's HARD To Land on Mars
This video is about why it's harder to successfully land spacecraft and landers and rovers on Mars than on Earth, or Venus, or the Moon, or Titan, or asteroids. It all comes down to atmospheric density! When there's no atmosphere, you...
Curated Video
Rocket Science - Helen Sharman interview | Royal Society
From the first human manned space flight piloted by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 in 1961 and the first spacewalk outside a space craft in 1965 by Cosmonaut, Alexey Leonov, Soviet engineers and cosmonauts have made their mark in manned space...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The race to decode a mysterious language | Susan Lupack
In the early 1900s, archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans uncovered nearly 3,000 tablets inscribed with strange symbols. He thought the script, dubbed Linear B, represented the Minoan language, while others came up with their own theories. Was...
Science Sparks
How to make a bottle rocket
Rokit ( bottle rocket kit - i haven't spelt it wrong ) is an amazing water rocket used to demonstrate Newton's Laws of Motion. Attach the Rokit to a standard plastic bottle, part fill with water and use a cycle pump to power it for...
Science Sparks
How to make a film canister rocket
How to make an easy film canister rocket. Super simple science for kids.
Science Sparks
Ora Paper Towel Rocket
Easy paper towel rocket made with ora paper towels and a milk carton.