Instructional Video13:08
PBS

The NEW Crisis in Cosmology

12th - Higher Ed
I have good news and bad news. Bad news first: two years ago we reported on the Crisis in Cosmology. Since then, it’s only gotten worse. And actually, the good news is also that the crisis in cosmology has actually gotten worse, which...
Instructional Video12:12
PBS

Navigating with Quantum Entanglement

12th - Higher Ed
We often think of quantum mechanics as only affecting only the smallest scales of reality, with classical reality taking over at some intermediate level. But in his 1944 book, What is Life?, the quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger...
Instructional Video13:01
PBS

New Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light

12th - Higher Ed
Paradoxically, the most promising prospects for moving matter around faster than light may be to put a metaphorical brick wall in its way. New efforts in quantum tunneling - both theory and experiment - show that superluminal motion may...
Instructional Video13:52
PBS

Space DOES NOT Expand Everywhere

12th - Higher Ed
Space is big, and it’s getting bigger. But where does all that new space actually come from? And is it popping into existence all around you right now? Is that why the remote control is always further away than I thought?
Instructional Video14:15
PBS

Why Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist

12th - Higher Ed
What happens if you cut a bar magnetic in half? We get two magnets, each with their own North and South poles. But what happens if you keep on cutting, into fourths and eighths and sixteenths and so on? Will we ever get to a single pole?...
Instructional Video14:47
PBS

What If Alien Life Were Silicon-Based?

12th - Higher Ed
Life as we know it is carbon-based, but does it have to be this way? There’s another element on the periodic table that shares some of the key properties of carbon but is far more abundant on most planets. I’m talking about silicon. So...
Instructional Video13:48
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What If Charge is NOT Fundamental?

12th - Higher Ed
If you've studied any physics you know that like charges repel and opposite charges attract. But why? It's as though this thing - electric charge - is as fundamental a property of an object as its mass. It just sort of ... is. Well it...
Instructional Video12:27
PBS

How To Build The Universe in a Computer

12th - Higher Ed
We routinely simulate the universe on all of its scales, from planets to large fractions of the cosmos. Today we’re going to see how it’s possible to build a universe in a computer - and see whether there’s a limit to what we can simulate.
Instructional Video12:10
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Are Axions Dark Matter?

12th - Higher Ed
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Instructional Video14:08
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Are Black Holes Actually Fuzzballs?

12th - Higher Ed
Black holes are a paradox. They are paradoxical because they simultaneously must exist but can’t, and so they break physics as we know it. Many physicists will tell you that the best way to fix broken physics is with string. String...
Instructional Video15:10
PBS

How Electron Spin Makes Matter Possible

12th - Higher Ed
Today I’m going to explain why you’re not falling through your chair right now using one simple fact, and one object. The fact is that all electrons are the same as each other, and the object is a structurally critical item of my...
Instructional Video14:14
PBS

Neutron Stars: The Most Extreme Objects in the Universe

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve traveled to lots of weird places on this show - from the interiors of black holes to the time before the big bang. But today I want to take you on a journey to what has got to be the weirdest place in the modern universe - a place...
Instructional Video14:29
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How Does The Nucleus Hold Together?

12th - Higher Ed
Two protons next to each other in an atomic nucleus are repelling each other electromagnetically with enough force to lift a medium-sized labradoodle off the ground. Release this energy and you have, well, you have a nuclear explosion. ...
Instructional Video15:19
PBS

How Can Matter Be BOTH Liquid AND Gas?

12th - Higher Ed
Supercritical Fluids are one the strangest states of matter and yet they are found everywhere from Decaf Coffee, to dry cleaning, to the atmosphere of Jupiter. When we think of an exotic state of matter we tend to think of the really...
Instructional Video16:50
PBS

How Much Of The Universe Can Humanity Ever See?

12th - Higher Ed
There’s an absolute limit to our access to the universe beyond our own galaxy. There’s a limit to what we can ever hope to explore or send signals to, and a very different limit to what we can ever hope to witness. Today we’re going to...
Instructional Video15:00
PBS

The REAL Possibility of Mapping Alien Planets!

12th - Higher Ed
I’m going to tell you about the craziest proposal for an astrophysics mission that has a good chance of actually happening. A train of spacecraft sailing the sun’s light to a magical point out there in space where the Sun’s own gravity...
Instructional Video16:34
PBS

What If Black Holes ARE Dark Energy?

12th - Higher Ed
We tend to imagine there are connectings between things that we don’t understand. Quantum mechanics and consciousness, aliens and pyramids, black holes and dark matter, dark matter and dark energy, dark energy and black holes. Usually...
Instructional Video14:22
PBS

Where Is The Center of The Universe?

12th - Higher Ed
Today we’re going to ask a simple-seeming question that will lead to so pretty wacky places. The question is this: If the universe has a center, where is it?
Instructional Video7:45
SciShow

Your Fridge Isn’t Green, but It Could Be

12th - Higher Ed
Refrigeration and air conditioning are among the largest sources of carbon, and the refrigerants we use are greenhouse gases, too. But green refrigerants are on the way, from elastocaloric cooling to a method a bit like salting an icy road.
Instructional Video5:36
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: What yoga does to your body and brain | Krishna Sudhir

Pre-K - Higher Ed
There are many different approaches to modern yoga— though most forms have three core elements: physical postures, breathing exercises, and spiritual contemplation.This blend of physical and mental exercise is widely believed to have a...
Instructional Video9:11
PBS

When Hobbits Were Real

12th - Higher Ed
Its discoverers named it Homo floresiensis, but it’s often called “the hobbit” for its short stature and oddly proportioned feet. And it’s been at the center of a major controversy in the field ever since. Was it its own species? Or was...
Instructional Video2:25
Curated Video

How To Make Paper Planes

Pre-K - 3rd
Wendy and Theo decide to race paper planes, but Theo causes chaos!
Instructional Video2:28
Curated Video

How To Make Juggling Balls/Carnival Wristbands

Pre-K - 3rd
Wendy and Theo are going to have their own Rio De Janeiro Carnival, where Theo learns to juggle.
Instructional Video2:07
Curated Video

How To Make A Mayan Mask

Pre-K - 3rd
Theo is being bullied at school, Wendy comes up with an idea to scare the bully away!

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