This video explores a soft, inflatable robot that can grow to hundreds of times its size, navigate tight spaces, and resist punctures. Powered by compressed air, it has a range of applications, from search and rescue to space exploration...

I took a boat through 96 million black plastic balls on the Los Angeles reservoir to find out why they're there. The first time I heard about shade balls the claim was they reduce evaporation. But it turns out this isn't the reason they...

A pulsing black hole in the centre of a distant galaxy sheds light on black hole and galaxy formation. How fast are black holes rotating and how does that rotation change over its life-span?

Aerogel has extraordinary properties but it can be tough to work with. This video looks at modifying aerogels to take advantage of their unique characteristics.

Research has found some human brains can pick up on rotations of geomagnetic-strength fields as evidenced by drops in alpha wave power following stimulus.

Aerogels are the world's lightest (least dense) solids. They are also excellent thermal insulators and have been used in numerous Mars missions and the Stardust comet particle-return mission. The focus of this video is silica aerogels,...

A bisected grape in the microwave makes plasma. But how does it work? A grape is the right size and refractive index to trap microwaves inside it. When you place two (or two halves) close together the fields interact with each other...

Mars InSight will be the first to detect seismic activity on Mars’ surface, first to measure rate of heat transmitted from interior, first to dig nearly 5m down, first to measure magnetic fields on Mars’ surface, and first to use a...

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration observed the supermassive black hole at the center of M87, finding the dark central shadow in accordance with General Relativity, further demonstrating the power of this 100 year-old theory.

These videos are from 2012 so my interest in trees goes back a long ways. I think these videos discuss two of the most interesting and amazing facts about our leafy friends: they are made mostly of CO2 (which comes from us breathing out...

Compliant mechanisms have lots of advantages over traditional devices.

When I started this project, I wasn't sure what caused dandruff and I also didn't think much science would go into making a shampoo like Head & Shoulders. So what I learned really surprised me: There are hundreds of scientists working on...

A launch mishap led to the best experimental confirmation of gravitational redshift.

On July 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made history as the first humans to set foot on the Moon. Before their lunar journey, they trained at the Nevada Test Site, an area where the U.S. conducted 928 nuclear tests. This site,...

This video explores a soft, inflatable robot that can grow to hundreds of times its size, navigate tight spaces, and resist punctures. Powered by compressed air, it has a range of applications, from search and rescue to space exploration...

This video discusses the concept of redshift and the expansion of the universe, starting with the discovery of the universe's expansion through the redshift of light from distant galaxies. It explains the three types of redshift: Doppler...

Ronak came up with a new design for the phoropter, the device used to determine eye-glass prescriptions. It's basically been unchanged for 200 years. Using a liquid lens, he miniaturized the device and wrote an algorithm to determine...

This material, inspired by gecko skin, has the unique ability to stick to smooth surfaces like fruits, water bottles, and bags without being sticky. Developed in Professor Mark Kokuski's lab at Stanford, it mimics the van der Waals...

The world's largest rainfall simulator, located in Sucuba, Japan, is a vital research facility used to study and prevent natural disasters caused by heavy rainfall, such as flooding and landslides. With 550 nozzles, it can simulate...

The video presents the famous "Sleeping Beauty Problem," a philosophical puzzle involving probability and consciousness. In the scenario, Sleeping Beauty is put to sleep, and a fair coin is flipped. If heads, she wakes up once; if tails,...

Explore the awe-inspiring experience of the launch of the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter, which are embarking on a seven-month journey to Mars. The emotional impact of witnessing the spacecraft launch is profound, with...

In this video, we explore the Jana Bekoff Effect (or the Intermediate Axis Theorem), which involves the surprising flipping motion of objects like a wingnut in space. This phenomenon, first observed by cosmonaut Vladimir Jana Bekoff in...

This video explores the concept of learning styles, discussing how individuals may prefer to learn through visual, auditory, reading/writing, or kinesthetic methods. It examines the VARK model (Visual, Auditory, Reading/Writing,...

This video explores how electrical energy travels from a power plant to your home. It explains the role of electric and magnetic fields in energy transfer and debunks common misconceptions about electron movement. Through the concept of...