Instructional Video9:26
TED Talks

Homaro Cantu + Ben Roche: Cooking as alchemy

12th - Higher Ed
Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche come from Moto, a Chicago restaurant that plays with new ways to cook and eat food. But beyond the fun and flavor-tripping, there's a serious intent: Can we use new food technology for good?
Instructional Video3:44
SciShow Kids

Make Your Own Ice Cream!

K - 5th
The weather is warming up where Jessi lives, which means its time for some cool treats! Join Jessi and Squeaks and learn how to whip up some tasty vanilla ice cream!
Instructional Video3:06
SciShow Kids

Salt’s Secret Powers!

K - 5th
From pancakes to ice cream, salt goes in so many things to make them taste better! But what is it and where does it come from?
Instructional Video10:39
TED Talks

TED: 3 moons and a planet that could have alien life | James Green

12th - Higher Ed
Is there life beyond earth? Join NASA's director of planetary science James Green for a survey of the places in our solar system that are most likely to harbor alien life.
Instructional Video10:15
Crash Course

Cheese, Catastrophes, & Process Control: Crash Course Engineering #25

12th - Higher Ed
Engineering, like life, could really use a lot more cheese. This week we are looking at a cheese factory in Toronto and what it can teach us about process control systems. We’ll explore feedforward and feedback systems, and see how...
Instructional Video3:16
SciShow Kids

Make Your Own Watercolors! #sciencegoals

K - 5th
Have you ever wanted to make a painting but you've run out of paint? Learn how you can make your own watercolors with Jessi and Squeaks!
Instructional Video4:52
SciShow Kids

How to Mix Your Own Potions!

K - 5th
Jessi's in her lab mixing up something scary cool: potions! Join her to learn about different kinds of mixtures and how you can mix up your own potions using things you have at home!
Instructional Video5:06
SciShow

Can a Burger Really Give You Nightmares? | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Halloween is right around the corner and Burger King is celebrating this spooky time with the “nightmare-inducing” burger. But will it really give you nightmares?
Instructional Video3:55
SciShow

The Ocean on Enceladus is Really Big

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow Space News, Saturn’s moon Enceladus probably has a giant ocean covering the entire world. And the year-long mission to the International Space Station just hit its halfway point!
Instructional Video0:53
SciShow

If oxygen means fire, how do we get it on airplanes? #shorts #science #SciShow

12th - Higher Ed
If oxygen means fire, how do we get it on airplanes? #shorts #science #SciShow
Instructional Video5:13
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How do cigarettes affect the body? - Krishna Sudhir

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Cigarettes aren't good for us. That's hardly news -- we've known about the dangers of smoking for decades. But how exactly do cigarettes harm us, and can our bodies recover if we stop? Krishna Sudhir details what happens when we smoke --...
Instructional Video6:35
Be Smart

Title: The Recipe For Life

12th - Higher Ed
If the human body could be distilled down into one molecule, what would our chemical formula be? And WHY is it that way? There’s a whole lot of elements on the periodic table, but life depends on relatively few of them in order to...
Instructional Video3:21
SciShow

Egyptian Blue: How an Ancient Pigment Could Save Lives

12th - Higher Ed
The world’s first artificial pigment, Egyptian blue, may help scientists prevent forgery and even save lives.
Instructional Video4:48
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How the COVID-19 vaccines were created so quickly | Kaitlyn Sadtler and Elizabeth Wayne

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In the 20th century, most vaccines took over a decade to research, test, and produce. But the vaccines for COVID-19 were cleared for emergency use in less than 11 months. The secret behind this speed is a medical technology that's been...
Instructional Video7:27
SciShow

Flavor Science: What's Really in a Pumpkin Spice Latte

12th - Higher Ed
If you take a look at an ingredients list, odds are you'll find natural and artificial flavors somewhere in there. Turns out there's a whole science to making your pumpkin spice latte taste like pumpkin spice, or your potato chips taste...
Instructional Video4:04
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Sugar: Hiding in plain sight - Robert Lustig

Pre-K - Higher Ed
While sugar is easy to spot in candy, soft drinks and ice cream, it also hides out in foods you might not expect -- including peanut butter, pasta sauce and even bologna! Robert Lustig decodes confusing labels and sugar's many aliases to...
Instructional Video3:54
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How do your kidneys work? - Emma Bryce

Pre-K - Higher Ed
After drinking a few glasses of water on a hot day, you might be struck with a sudden urge. Behind that feeling are two bean-shaped organs that work as fine-tuned internal sensors. Emma Bryce details how the incredible kidneys balance...
Instructional Video4:51
TED Talks

TED: How we could make carbon-negative concrete | Tom Schuler

12th - Higher Ed
Concrete is all around us: we use it to build our roads, buildings, bridges and much more. Yet over the last 2,000 years, the art of mixing cement and using it to bind concrete hasn't changed very much -- and it remains one of the...
Instructional Video3:12
SciShow

Why You Can't Bake a Mason Jar

12th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video4:05
TED Talks

AnnMarie Thomas: Hands-on science with squishy circuits

12th - Higher Ed
In a zippy demo at TED U, AnnMarie Thomas shows how two different kinds of homemade play dough can be used to demonstrate electrical properties -- by lighting up LEDs, spinning motors, and turning little kids into circuit designers.
Instructional Video2:27
MinuteEarth

Why Apple Pie Isn't American

12th - Higher Ed
Our diets are more global than we realize, because our common food crops and animals were domesticated far away in diverse locations.

_____________________________________
_
____

If you want to...
Instructional Video2:17
MinuteEarth

Why Are There Dangerous Ingredients in Vaccines

12th - Higher Ed
Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here are some key words/phrases to get your googling started:

-adjuvant: substance added to a vaccine to enhance the body's immune response and increase the vaccine's...
Instructional Video8:47
SciShow

9 Scientific Cooking Techniques

12th - Higher Ed
All cooking is science: we use chemistry and physics to steam, fry, bake, or microwave almost all of our meals. However, there are some cooking methods that delve into even deeper and stranger scientific territory.
Instructional Video4:10
SciShow Kids

Let’s Make Slime!

K - 5th
Today is a big day! Jessi and Squeaks are going to make slime, and they're going to show you how to make it, too! Plus, they'll tell you all about the gooey science that makes slime so weird and fun!