Instructional Video3:10
SciShow

Humanity Breaks an Ominous Record

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News explains an ominous record that Homo sapiens just broke: the highest levels of carbon dioxide emissions, the leading factor in global warming. Hank explains what it means, and what we can do.
Instructional Video2:15
SciShow

Why Do Some Farts Smell So Bad?

12th - Higher Ed
Sometimes your farts stink, and sometimes they don't—and it's not because of methane.
Instructional Video17:14
SciShow

Fairies, Goblins, and Pirates: A Fantastic Quiz Show

12th - Higher Ed
Alexis Stempien, one of SciShow’s script editors, faces off against Hank as they try to answer science questions about some fantastical topics!
Instructional Video3:22
TED-Ed

TED-ED: The deadly irony of gunpowder - Eric Rosado

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In the mid-ninth century, Chinese chemists, hard at work on an immortality potion, instead invented gunpowder. They soon found that this highly inflammable powder was far from an elixir of life -- they put it to use in bombs against...
Instructional Video5:27
SciShow

How Plastic Balls and Garbage Cans Help Us Study Space

12th - Higher Ed
How can we be so sure of the way celestial bodies behave when they're so far away? With the help of some speakers, garbage cans, and springs of course.
Instructional Video2:38
MinuteEarth

The Faint Young Sun Paradox!

12th - Higher Ed
This video was supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. To learn more, visit https://www.heisingsimons.org/ Credits (and Twitter handles): Script Writer: Emily Elert (@eelert) Script Editor: Rachel Becker (@RA_Becks) Video...
Instructional Video4:26
Crash Course Kids

What's My Property

3rd - 8th
What exactly can we tell about an unknown substance by it's properties. We already know that a substance is matter that’s made of one kind of atom or molecule, and that has specific properties and that some substances are elements, which...
Instructional Video4:20
SciShow

5 Things We Learned About Climate Change

12th - Higher Ed
Hank boils down a new report from the United Nations about global warming and tells you five things you really need to know about our warming world.
Instructional Video10:53
PBS

The Last Time the Globe Warmed

12th - Higher Ed
Imagine an enormous, lush rainforest teeming with life...in the Arctic. Well there was a time -- and not too long ago -- when the world warmed more than any human has ever seen. (So far)
Instructional Video3:30
SciShow

New Views of a Comet, and 5 Ancient Planets Discovered

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News serves up the latest pictures from Comet 67-P, that media darling, and the discovery of what may be the oldest, rocky Earth-like worlds yet found.
Instructional Video3:26
SciShow

Fun With Potatoes & Physics! A SciShow Experiment

12th - Higher Ed
Hank uses a favorite subject of the YouTube community - the potato gun - to teach us about the principles of pneumatics, which use the potential energy of compressed gas to do work in lots of useful machines every day.
Instructional Video5:53
SciShow

Some Elements can be Liquid and Solid at the Same Time | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Some elements can basically be liquids and solids at the same time, which is a whole new state of matter, and scientists have discovered a new species of human in the Republic of the Philippines!
Instructional Video4:54
SciShow

It's Official, Life Could Survive on Enceladus

12th - Higher Ed
Enceladus’ environment could totally be habitable for at least one real-world microbe and we just found the oldest supernova.
Instructional Video7:39
Amoeba Sisters

Circulatory System and Pathway of Blood Through the Heart

12th - Higher Ed
Join the Amoeba Sisters in their introduction to the circulatory system and follow the pathway of blood as it travels through the heart! This video explains the importance of blood, arteries, and veins, and it also introduces basic heart...
Instructional Video4:26
SciShow

How Silly String Saves Lives

12th - Higher Ed
Silly String. It's awesome for pranks or party shenanigans, but this foam could also save your life someday.
Instructional Video5:17
SciShow

We Found Superconductors in Meteorites!

12th - Higher Ed
We've found the first confirmed superconductors in meteorites, and our simulated atmosphere game is really heating up!
Instructional Video10:15
Crash Course

What Does the Atmosphere Do Crash Course Geography

12th - Higher Ed
Much like a cell membrane, our atmosphere forms a protective boundary between outer space and the biosphere that allows for all life to exist on Earth’s surface. Today, we’re going to talk about its composition and layers (the...
Instructional Video4:01
SciShow

What We Learned from the Apollo 1 Fire

12th - Higher Ed
The Apollo 1 fire was a tragedy and a huge wake-up call for NASA, causing them to get much more serious about their safety procedures and technology, and also changed their attitude towards spaceflight in general.
Instructional Video8:48
SciShow

5 Technologies Helping Us Explore The Deep Ocean

12th - Higher Ed
The ocean is the largest ecosystem on Earth, but it's still mostly unexplored. This is partially due to the challenges of ocean exploration, like bone-crushing pressure and the need to bring your own air. But here are five ways that...
Instructional Video10:13
Crash Course

Liquids: Crash Course Chemistry

12th - Higher Ed
In this episode of Crash Course Chemistry, Hank gives you the low down on things like London Dispersion Forces, Hydrogen Bonds, Cohesion, Adhesion, Viscosity, Capillary Action, Surface Tension, and why liquids are just... WEIRD! -- TABLE...
Instructional Video3:21
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Describing the invisible properties of gas - Brian Bennett

Pre-K - Higher Ed
How do you explain the properties of something we can't see? See how scientists use scientific principles, such as gravity, to observe gases. This lesson explores gases and how we have come to know what we know about them.
Instructional Video10:21
Crash Course

Passing Gases: Effusion, Diffusion and the Velocity of a Gas - Crash Course Chemistry

12th - Higher Ed
We have learned over the past few weeks that gases have real-life constraints on how they move here in the non-ideal world. As with most things in chemistry (and also in life) how a gas moves is more complex than it at first appears. In...
Instructional Video10:08
SciShow

6 Toilets From History, and What They Taught Us

12th - Higher Ed
Across the world, and throughout history, different peoples have developed different ways to deal with their own waste. And while they didn’t always nail the design, their efforts to keep themselves safe have led to the thrones and...
Instructional Video4:08
SciShow

3 World-Changing Biology Experiments

12th - Higher Ed
Hank tells us the stories of three experiments in biology that, with creativity and luck, changed science & the world with it in their work to solve the mysteries of the universe.