Instructional Video10:38
SciShow

The Earth's "Boring Billion" Years Were Anything But

12th - Higher Ed
About 1.8–0.8 billion ago, the Earth went through a period known as the Boring Billion, where not a lot changed in terms of geology, evolution, or even the number of hours in a day. Some scientists call it “the dullest period in Earth’s...
Instructional Video5:38
SciShow

This Squid Glows… To Make Itself Invisible

12th - Higher Ed
When you live in the ocean, it can be hard to find ways to keep hidden from predators, or from your own prey. But these three animals have found clever ways to stay hidden, by using light to their advantage. One of them even /makes...
Instructional Video3:08
MinuteEarth

How Caffeine Accidentally Took Over The World

12th - Higher Ed
Plants don't make caffeine just for us, so what DO they make it for?
Instructional Video1:43
MinutePhysics

How to Simulate the Universe on your Laptop

12th - Higher Ed
One Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in one minute!
Instructional Video4:40
SciShow

This Sturgeon-Paddlefish Hybrid Shouldn't Exist | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Chromosome shenanigans have resulted in some unexpected hybrid fishes. Also, this record-breaking mouse lives at a ridiculous altitude.
Instructional Video2:28
SciShow

The Real Reason Dogs Kick When You Scratch Them

12th - Higher Ed
If you’ve ever been scratching a dog and seen them do the kicky leg thing, it’s truly adorable. But it might not necessarily be a feel-good thing.
Instructional Video4:27
SciShow

The Oldest Known Animal May Be a Weird, Fleshy Oval | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Dickinsonia might be the oldest known member of the animal kingdom, and the origin of birdsongs from the syrinx might be a little less mysterious.
Instructional Video3:26
SciShow

The Future of Human Evolution

12th - Higher Ed
Do you like drinking milk or chatting with your friends? Well, you can enjoy those because of the evolution happened over the past million years, and we are still evolving. Let's find out what will we be like in the future with us!
Instructional Video4:29
SciShow

The Amazing Humanoid Diving Robot

12th - Higher Ed
Today on SciShow we bring you a cool humanoid diving robot and insight into the evolution of the venus flytrap.
Instructional Video2:56
SciShow

Not All Carnivores Eat Meat

12th - Higher Ed
The name of the order Carnivora means "meat-eaters," and while most of the members of Carnivora live up to that name, there is at least one cute and curious exception.
Instructional Video4:35
SciShow

New Genetic Clues to the Mystery of Your Giant Brain

12th - Higher Ed
Big-brained scientists have found the mechanism that may have allowed their brains (and all humans') to get so big.
Instructional Video4:45
SciShow

Meet CERN's New Particle: A Double-Charm Baryon!

12th - Higher Ed
This week, CERN announced a new particle that will help further understanding of the fundamental forces, and a simulation of ancient creatures may give us a clue as to how life grew beyond the microscopic.
Instructional Video3:58
SciShow

Huge Sperm and Giant Tentacles: Relax, It's Marine Biology

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow shares the latest developments in science, this week including new insights into the evolution of giant sperm, and the discovery of a whole new order of animal. ----------
Instructional Video5:23
SciShow

How Earth's Rotation Affects Our Oxygen | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Oxygen is crucial for life as we know it, but before it could build up in our atmosphere, earth had to slow down.
Instructional Video3:25
SciShow

Do I Only Use 10% of My Brain?

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow debunks the myth that you only use 10 percent of your brain. So, how much do you really use? And how do we know?
Instructional Video5:09
SciShow

Bivalves Could Be the New Lab Rats

12th - Higher Ed
Bivalves—animals like mussels, clams and oysters—might be a more familiar sight in a restaurant than a lab. But it turns out that studying them might help us learn more about our own health.
Instructional Video2:50
SciShow

Bird Eggs Warn Each Other About Danger

12th - Higher Ed
Although they don’t seem like the talkative type, recent research suggests that bird eggs can use vibrations to relay warnings about the outside world to their nest-mates.
Instructional Video7:51
SciShow

Anthropology’s Greatest Hoax

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists are sometimes deemed objective observers of the world in which we live, but that’s not entirely true. They’re still human and can find themselves victim to fraudsters just like the lot of us.
Instructional Video11:41
SciShow

6 Species Unlike Anything Else | Evolutionary Loners

12th - Higher Ed
What happens when a species is the only of its kind? This phenomenon is called a monospecific taxon. Studying these special species can help us better understand not just those sparse groups, but all life on this planet! Join Olivia...
Instructional Video2:54
SciShow

How Did North America End Up With a Marsupial?

12th - Higher Ed
Both North and South America have their own species of marsupial, the opossum, but how they got so far away from their Australian relatives is a bit of a mystery.
Instructional Video9:34
SciShow

Wheezy Waiter on Movie Science, Mutant Flu Facts, and 2 Sounds You've Never Heard!

12th - Higher Ed
Wheezy Waiter announces the SciShow nominees for "Worst Science in a Film," & Hank talks about the bird flu and shares two sounds that had never been heard by human ears until very recently.
Instructional Video10:59
SciShow

What is Taxonomy and Why is it So Complicated?

12th - Higher Ed
The classification of animal groups is essential to the the development of modern biology—but it's extremely complicated. Trying to shoehorn the messy, complicated web of interrelationships that is biology into neat boxes has resulted in...
Instructional Video12:53
SciShow

They're Breaking the Species Barrier

12th - Higher Ed
There are wild hybridizations happening all the time! Here are five weird and wild hybrids that aren't just cool but could teach us something too. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) 0:00 Intro 1:06 Arctic Oddballs 3:43 Bouncing Baby Bears...
Instructional Video7:57
SciShow

The Science of Dreaming

12th - Higher Ed
Dreaming is one of the weirdest things we do & in this SciShow infusion Hank talks about how science is helping us understand why we dream, what our brains are up to when they're doing it, and why dreaming may be critically important to...