SciShow
New Ways to Study Interstellar Space... With Voyager!
Voyager 1 may be out of our solar system (and 40+ years old) but we're still getting plenty of new data from our interstellar space probe.
Crash Course
How Seawater Sabotages Ships: Crash Course Engineering #43
This week we’re headed out to sea for some marine engineering. How do we design ships to handle aquatic environments? How do we deal with marine life and corrosion and all of the other problems that come with engineering in the ocean?...
SciShow
How Radio Waves Could Help Clear the Way to Space
There is an invisible shell of radiation surrounding our planet that can wipe out satellites and could endanger future explorers. One possible solution to this problem? Good, old-fashioned radio waves.
SciShow
How to Make the World's Simplest Motor: SciShow Experiments
Hank builds a simple electric motor just powerful enough to make a small screw spin, but also strong enough to blow your mind.
Crash Course
Electric Charge: Crash Course Physics
Moving on to our unit on the Physics of Electricity, it's time to talk about charge. What is charge? Is there a positive and negative charge? What do those things mean? In this episode, Shini talks about electrostatic forces, electrical...
Crash Course
The Sun
Phil takes us for a closer (eye safe!) look at the two-octillion ton star that rules our solar system. We look at the sun's core, plasma, magnetic fields, sunspots, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and what all of that means for our...
Curated Video
Magnetic field
A field of force produced by a magnetic object or a changing electrical field. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions. Twig Science Glossary...
Curated Video
Northern Lights and Solar Flares
A unique combination of sunspots, solar flares and magnetic fields combine to create a visual spectacle on Earth. But what are the forces at work? Physics - Our Solar System - Learning Points. Natural light displays known as Aurora...
Curated Video
What Are Comets?
How comets change as they journey around the Sun, what are they made of and where are they found? Physics - Universe - Learning Points. Comets formed from dust and ice particles when the Solar System was very young. There are at least a...
Curated Video
Ionic Bonding
How metals and non-metals combine to form compounds with unique and very different properties. Chemistry - Atoms And Bonding - Learning Points. An electrically charged atom is called an ion. Ionic bonds are very strong. Ions are formed...
Curated Video
Northern Lights
Discover how the chemical reactions which produce the extraordinary colours of the Northern Lights have their origins in outer space. Chemistry - Atoms And Bonding - Learning Points. Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, is a natural...
Curated Video
Solar Wind
This video explains how the solar wind, a stream of charged particles from the sun, can impact Earth's technologies and satellites. It highlights the role of Earth's magnetic field in protecting us from the solar bombardment, while also...
Curated Video
Coulomb's Law Explained!
Coulomb’s Law is one of the most important laws when it comes to atomic structure and being able to understand and explain atomic properties. It helps to relate the force between two charged particles and can be represented by the...
Curated Video
GCSE Chemistry - What is an Ionic Compound? Ionic Compounds Explained #15
This video covers everything you need to know about ionic compounds - their structure; their properties; and most how to determine their formula. We also cover the common ions that you need to know for the exams! This videos is suitable...
Visual Learning Systems
The Nature of Electricity: Electric Charges and Force
This video describes the basic role that atoms play in creating electrical charges, as well as the nature and creation of static electricity. Various methods of charging are discussed, emphasizing the role that insulators and conductors...
Next Animation Studio
Cosmic rays may be the source of biological ‘handedness’
Interaction between cosmic rays and early life-forms may be responsible for the fundamental property of chirality, or “handedness,” in biological molecules.
Visual Learning Systems
The Nature of Electricity: Moving Charges
This video describes the basic role that atoms play in creating electrical charges, as well as the nature and creation of static electricity. Various methods of charging are discussed, emphasizing the role that insulators and conductors...
Visual Learning Systems
Magnetism: Earth's Magnetosphere
This video explores the force of magnetism and how it affects our everyday lives. The atomic nature of magnetism is illustrated, and then applied in principle to common magnets. The video highlights how magnetic fields are created, and...
NASA
Houston We Have a Podcast: Dr. Spaceman
Dr. Mike Barratt, NASA astronaut, physician and a flight surgeon, shares his story of living in space. Barratt addresses five hazards of human spaceflight and why these challenges need to be addressed to make deep-space missions...
FuseSchool
Lightning
A flash of lightning, and a rumble of thunder. But what exactly are these spectacular occurrences? In 1752, Benjamin Franklin discovered that lightning was caused by powerful electrical discharges in clouds. He wasn’t the first person to...
Next Animation Studio
Weird! Mercury's scorching temps may actually lead to ice.
Mercury’s close orbit around the sun and extreme heat may have helped the planet to generate ice. Writing in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists say solar wind may contribute to a chemical process that forms ice in Mercury’s...
NASA
2020 Goddard Summer Film Festival
Presented virtually, the festival highlights Goddard’s achievements over the past year in astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics, and planetary science, including recent and upcoming missions such as the James Webb Space Telescope,...
Next Animation Studio
Scientists detect X-rays coming from Uranus
NASA reports that astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the first time, using its Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Physics Girl
The Surprising Ways Mars is Hostile to Life
Wanna know all the reasons Mars will kill you and how we know? I hit up my friend Raquel Nuno who's a planetary geologist to find out.