Regular old glass like the kind that makes up a mason jar can shatter and explode if put in the oven. But we do have types of glass that you can bake your pie or brownies in and it's all thanks to some neat chemical tricks.

If you want to make particles move really fast, you have to build a particle accelerator that is really big, right? Not anymore! Hosted by: Hank Green

Indigo may be a very vague and unnecessary color, but it has an interesting history that involves some plants, turmoil, and Isaac Newton's interest in the number seven. Hosted by: Hank Green

Jessi and Squeaks are making special valentines for all of their friends! And while they’re working they’re watching older videos to help them remember how they can make the best gifts!

Anthony and Squeaks are experimenting to learn about soda bubbles and how they can use them to make a great soda fountain!

Living in space is pretty different from living on Earth, and not just because people can float around! Today, Jessi and Sam the Bat learn about the weird ways things like fire and water behave when they are in space.

Who was Emily Dickinson? A new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York takes a closer look at the iconic American cultural figure through her poems and the remnants of her life, and finds a less reclusive woman than we...

Antarctica's Larsen Ice Shelf is disappearing section by section. A fast-growing rift, one of the largest ever seen, is now teetering on the edge of breaking away from the glacier. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien explores how...

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Greenhouse gases are colorless, scentless and invisible, making them exceptionally hard to measure. Fortunately, some tools and techniques can help -- one of the most powerful being artificial intelligence, says green technologist...

Throughout history humans have come up with lots of different ways to build shelters for themselves. But sometimes, inspiration for better construction materials comes from nature, in structures you might not expect — like the scales on a

Some might call sand coarse, rough and irritating, but there’s no denying that it’s used everywhere: from glass to asphalt, sand is a key ingredient for all sorts of materials in construction and technology. But this heavy reliance on...

Long before we had cameras scientists still needed visual documentation—enter the science illustrator! Chapters VITRUVIAN MAN Credit: Leonardo da Vinci 0:34 ANDREAS VESALIUS 1:25 DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA 1:59 MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN 2:39...

It's been estimated that 1 in 10 works of fine art are forged or misattributed. The truth is, no one really knows how much fake art is out there, because many art counterfeiters are so skilled that their paintings are almost...

To keep their solid gold Nobel Prizes away from the Nazis, James Franck and Max von Laue sent their medals to trusted colleague Niels Bohr. But when Germany invaded Denmark in 1940, the medals were no longer safe - so chemist George de...

How do you know you're a person who has lived your life, rather than a just-formed brain full of artificial memories, momentarily hallucinating a reality that doesn't actually exist? That may sound absurd, but it's kept several...

Whether it's robots under the sea, wave detectors in space, or star-power on land, this episode has big experiments covered.

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You've probably heard that carbon dioxide is warming the Earth. But how exactly is it doing it? Lieven Scheire uses a rainbow, a light bulb and a bit of quantum physics to describe the science behind global warming.

Jessi and Squeaks learn all about crystallization while they make some yummy rock candy!



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Restaurants have a whole bucket-load of tricks up their sleeves to get you to spend more money.

You're going to bed, and you take a sip of cool delicious water, and it's so refreshing. But, when you wake up and take a swig, that water now tastes like bleh. What's going on here? Watch this SciShow Quick Question to find out!

SciShow News explains the latest climate weirdness, and why the Global Warming Hiatus wasn’t really what it sounded like. Plus, see how humans have harnessed the climbing power of the gecko!

When TED Fellow Xavier Vilalta was commissioned to create a multistory shopping mall in Addis Ababa, he panicked. Other centers represented everything he hated about contemporary architecture: wasteful, glass towers requiring tons of...