A ravenous swarm stretches as far as the eye can see. It has no leader or strategic plan; its only goals are to eat, breed, and move on. These are desert locusts— infamous for their capacity for destruction. But most of the time desert...

Despite computers barely being a thing when she was born, Valerie Thomas knew that she was cut out for the tech world, pushed until she got there, and contributed to some hugely important technologies that many of us could not live without.

Cone snails are venomous marine snails who use their venom in creative ways to take down their prey. And scientists have realized that certain chemicals in these venoms could actually be pretty useful for medicine.

You're probably aware that nature has come up with some pretty fascinating animal adaptations over the millennia, and in general, the stranger the adaptation, the more important it is to that organism. Today on SciShow News, Hank has...

Humans produce 300 million tons of new plastic each year -- yet, despite our best efforts, less than 10 percent of it ends up being recycled. Is there a better way to deal with all this waste? Morgan Vague describes her research with...

Paul Andersen explains how life has evolved and continues to evolve today. A brief discussion of artificial, natural and sexual selection is included. The beak of the finch is used to explain how directional selection is achieved.

For creatures that look nothing like us, fruit flies have been able to teach us a lot about human biology as we’ve studied them over the past century.

Is math real or simply something made up by mathematicians? You can't physically touch a number yet using numbers we're able to build skyscrapers and launch rockets into space. Mathematician Kelsey Houston-Edwards explains this...

The danger of artificial intelligence isn't that it's going to rebel against us, but that it's going to do exactly what we ask it to do, says AI researcher Janelle Shane. Sharing the weird, sometimes alarming antics of AI algorithms as...

From the spider in the corner of your house, to the moths in your attic, synanthropic species don't just live among us, they literally depend on us to live. Chapters View all synanthropic species 0:34 1 COMMON HOUSE SPIDERS 2:14 PURPLE...

How likely is a 21st-century epidemic of the plague? Unlike other diseases, the plague is alive and well in some parts of the world, but scientists and doctors are continuing to develop better treatments.

Can you feel the love tonight? Hopefully scientists can make this the case for the growing numbers of lions in animal sanctuaries.

Millions of images and videos are uploaded to the internet each day, yet we rarely see shocking and disturbing content in our social media feeds. Who's keeping the internet "clean" for us? In this eye-opening talk, documentarians Hans...

emily Parsons-Lord re-creates air from distinct moments in earth's history -- from the clean, fresh-tasting air of the Carboniferous period to the soda-water air of the Great Dying to the heavy, toxic air of the future we're creating. By...

Humans are great at understanding medium-sized things, like how far the supermarket is from your house, or how to find the bathroom in the dark. But imagining distances in light-years is a lot harder -- so you'll have to use a trick or two.

2019 will be a big year for the moon! Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, but our closest neighbor is receiving a bunch of new visitors this year.

Space physicist Miho Janvier studies solar storms: giant clouds of particles that escape from the Sun and can disrupt life on Earth (while also producing amazing auroras). How do you study the atmosphere on the Sun, which burns at...

They predate the dinosaurs and they outnumber us by trillions, yet you might not ever have the pleasure of seeing one. So let us introduce to you, the nematode.

In the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, we might be able to find new treatments by looking at some of the world’s most venomous snakes.

Certain cognitive biases cause humans to make unsafe decisions in a pandemic, making a terrible disease even worse.

You might think something is so "icky" that you try avoid it, and scientists think there's a reason humans, and even some other animals, do this.

It's Thanksgiving in the US, so everyone's got turkey on the brain. And sure, turkeys are great, but there are lots of other cool birds that just don't get their due! So SciShow has put together a collection of episodes honoring some of...

If we could find one silver lining to the pandemic, it's that we have come one step closer to answering some of the questions about our feline friends.

Quick Questions gives you the low-down on how oysters turn a tiny bit of gunk into a lovely, valuable pearl.