SciShow
The First Commercial Mission to the Moon!
A private company has been approved to land on the moon!
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Particles and waves: The central mystery of quantum mechanics - Chad Orzel
One of the most amazing facts in physics is that everything in the universe, from light to electrons to atoms, behaves like both a particle and a wave at the same time. But how did physicists arrive at this mind-boggling conclusion? Chad...
SciShow
How 5 Rocks Get Their Glow
If you find a glowing rock, it probably doesn't mean you're the chosen one. If it's one of these five phenomena, it's quantum mechanics, not narrative significance. Chapters View all FLUORESCENCE 0:36 PHOSPHORESCENCE 2:42...
SciShow
How Space Might Have Shaped Our DNA
The DNA inside our cells almost exclusively twists in one direction, but the reason for this might be out of this world!
SciShow
The Tiny Experiment That Transformed Physics
In 1956, a team of scientists conducted an experiment that, seemed kind of trivial, but the results would challenge one of our fundamental beliefs about the entire universe.
Bozeman Science
Wave Function
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the location of matter can be determined at the nanoscale using the wave function. The absolute value of the wave function can be used to determine the probability of finding matter in a location....
TED-Ed
TED-ED: How atoms bond - George Zaidan and Charles Morton
Atoms can (and do) bond constantly; it's how they form molecules. Sometimes, in an atomic tug-of-war, one atom pulls electrons from another, forming an ionic bond. Atoms can also play nicely and share electrons in a covalent bond. From...
MinutePhysics
How To Discover Weird New Particles - Emergent Quantum Quasiparticles
This video is about weird condensed matter systems, aka materials that have bizarre emergent particles in them that are unlike most other particles in the universe.
PBS
When Time Breaks Down
We learned how motion gives matter its mass, but how does motion affect time? Let's dive deeper into the true nature of matter and mass by exploring Einstein's photon clock thought experiment, and the phenomenon that is time dilation.
Crash Course
Conjugation & UV-Vis Spectroscopy: Crash Course Organic Chemistry
Carrots get their orange-y color from, you guessed it, an organic chemical. This chemical, called beta carotene, gets its pigment from its conjugated electron system. We’ve talked some already about conjugation, but in this episode of...
SciShow
Why Do People Say We've Reached the End of Physics?
Our fundamental picture of the universe seems pretty nearly complete these days, to the point that some people are suggesting that we’ve arrived at some version of “the end of physics.” And sure, physics is at a turning point, but it...
SciShow
How Close Can You Get To The Sun?
How close could you get to the sun using today's spacesuits or spaceships? Find out in today's episode of SciShow Space!
SciShow
Purple Bacteria: Turning Poop Into Biofuel
Scientists are turning wastewater into fuel, using special bacteria, and other scientists have unveiled bionic mushrooms that can produce electricity!
MinutePhysics
The Higgs Boson, Part II - What is Mass?
What is mass and what does it have to do with the Higgs Boson?
Bozeman Science
Wave-Particle Duality - Part 1
In this video Paul Andersen explains the wave-particle duality discovered by scientists. In certain situations particles (like electrons and photons) display wave like properties. This phenomenon can best be explored using the double...
Crash Course
Why It's So Hard To Make Better Batteries: Crash Course Engineering #32
There are batteries powering so many parts of our everyday lives, so today we’re going to talk about how they work and how we can make them better. We’ll explain how they provide power by discharging ions between a cathode and an anode,...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Schrodinger's cat: A thought experiment in quantum mechanics - Chad Orzel
Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, posed this famous question: If you put a cat in a sealed box with a device that has a 50% chance of killing the cat in the next hour, what will be the state...
SciShow
What’s Up With the Weird Pockmarks Up and Down the East Coast?
All along the east coast of the United States there are thousands of oval shaped pock marks, and scientists think they have a clue as to how they got there.
SciShow
How Do I Make My Batteries Last Longer?
Do you wait to charge your phones battery until it's close to dying? If you do- surprise! You're doing it wrong.
SciShow
How Cosmic Rays and Balloons Started Particle Physics
Today, cosmic rays are used to understand things like supernovas, but in the early 1900s, they helped us discover brand-new subatomic particles long before the first accelerators.
MinutePhysics
What is Touch?
In this quantum world, what does it mean to touch something? Do we really hover above the chairs we're sitting in?
SciShow
Dmitri Mendeleev: Great Minds
Hank introduces us to the man behind the periodic table - the brilliant Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev.
SciShow
Is Sitting Too Close to the TV Really Bad for You
It may be antiquated now, but the old pearl of wisdom: “Don’t sit too close to the TV” was good advice in the 1960s