Why is the middle of a hurricane sometimes so clear and calm?

Where Was The Big Bang

An oblate spheroid is a special case of an ellipsoid where two of the semi-principal axes are the same size.

What if there were a tunnel through the middle of the earth and you jumped in?

It's leap year time... so what are years, anyway? And what do they have to do with the supermassive black hole in the core of the milky way?

How to Find an Exoplanet

How Long To Fall Through the Earth?

How Long Can You Balance a Pencil

It has NO EDGE. And NO CENTER... or does it?

Guns in Space

SOFIA or The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy is coming to an end, but let's look back on some of the amazing discoveries of this flying telescope.

If you’ve been distracted looking at the amazing photos The James Webb Space Telescope has taken, not to worry. Here are three other stellar stories from the last year of space science!

Sometimes looking into a pool of a toxic liquid holds the secrets of the universe–or maybe just this one time.

What would it take to make global supply chains cleaner and greener? Bo Cerup-Simonsen -- who's helping decarbonize the maritime industry as CEO of the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping -- discusses why tenacious...

Over the past few years, astronomers have discovered their own kind of UFO called Odd Radio Circles, aka ORCs. They're a little too round, and a little too invisible at non-radio wavelengths, to immediately know what they are and...

After Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet in 2006, our solar system went from having nine planets to eight. But about a decade later, some astronomers proposed there was another planet, larger than Earth, hiding in the Kuiper Belt. And in...

This video covers the General theory of Relativity, developed by Albert Einstein, from basic simple levels (it's gravity, curved space) through to the concepts of how curved spacetime is represented by psuedo-Riemannian manifolds with...

Hank takes us on a journey to center of the Earth to explain both how the solid core formed and why it is so important for life as we know it.

Michael Aranda substitutes for Hank again in this week's News to tell you about the winners of the 2012 Visualization Challenge, an annual competition run by the journal Science that selects the most elegant and educational graphics,...

SciShow revisits Sharknado to discover the truth behind who would win in a battle between a tornado and a bomb. The answer... won't actually surprise you. But you might learn some interesting science along the way!

There's a massive cloud in the center of our galaxy, and it's full of alcohol. Party in the Milky Way! But how did it get there? And what does it have to do with the search for life elsewhere in the universe? SciShow Space explains!

Isaac Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation tells us that there is a singularity to be found within a black hole, but scientists and mathematicians have found a number of issues with Newton's equations. They don't always accurately...

The midwife Xoquauhtli has a difficult choice to make. She owes a debt to her patron Teteoinnan, the female warrior goddess at the center of the Aztec seasonal festival, who must be kept happy or she will bring bad luck. Xoquauhtli...

What if there were a tunnel through the middle of the earth and you jumped in?