SciShow
The Surprisingly Retro Future of Batteries
Renewable energy may be the way of the future, but in order to store that energy to make our grids more sustainable, we might need to take a look back at some battery technologies of the past.
MinutePhysics
Why It's HARD To Land on Mars
This video is about why it's harder to successfully land spacecraft and landers and rovers on Mars than on Earth, or Venus, or the Moon, or Titan, or asteroids. It all comes down to atmospheric density! When there's no atmosphere, you...
SciShow
How Earth’s Tides Gave Us Life As We Know It
While astronomers are busy searching for life beyond Earth, they’ve also started asking another question: If life seems so difficult to find, then why is our world so full of it? One answer might be overhead right now: the Moon!
SciShow
Heat-Seekers: Harnessing the Infrared Senses of Animals
These animals can detect heat through some fascinating biological mechanisms, and they are proving to be boons to the scientific community.
SciShow
Fire, Lightning, and Crystals in Space: 20 Years on the ISS
2020 marks two decades of people living and working about the ISS, and from fireballs to microgravity grown crystals, they've been keeping busy.
TED Talks
TED: Community-powered solutions to the climate crisis | Rahwa Ghirmatzion and Zelalem Adefris
Climate change is the epic challenge of our lives, and community leaders like Rahwa Ghirmatzion and Zelalem Adefris are already working on sustainable, resilient solutions. Through their organizations in Buffalo and Miami, they're...
TED Talks
Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture
How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing...
MinuteEarth
Why Are There Clouds?
Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here are some key words/phrases to get your googling started: - Lifting Condensation Level (LCL): The altitude at which the water vapor in rising air begins to condense - Adiabatic...
SciShow
4 Ways Humans Are Still Evolving
When we think about evolution, we typically think about big changes that happened long ago, but we humans are still evolving!
Crash Course
The Sun & The Earth Crash Course Big History 3
In which John Green, Hank Green, and Emily Graslie teach you about our Sun, and the formation of the planets. We're going to focus on the formation and development of the Earth, because that's where people live. You'll learn about the...
SciShow
5 Ways to Use Your Body as a Charger
Devices that collect data about our bodies need power, but they also might need to be very small or even ingestible. To avoid including batteries in these cases, researchers are looking for ways to harvest energy from the body itself.
MinutePhysics
How to Build a Lava Moat (with xkcd)
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a...
SciShow
Sensory Deprivation Tanks, and Other Overblown Human Closets
Sensory deprivation tanks, oxygen therapy chambers and unbelievably cold saunas - oh my! These machines are used to reduce stress, ease pain and could be useful in doing that, but these machines are generally meant to be used in very...
MinutePhysics
How to Turn Sound Into Light - Sonoluminescence
How to Turn Sound Into Light - Sonoluminescence
SciShow
The Future of Our Sun and Earth
SciShow Space gives you a blow by blow account of what's going to happen to the sun -- and Earth.
SciShow
Does Alcohol Really Keep You Warm?
As if you needed any more proof that alcohol just makes weird stuff happen, Quick Questions explains why alcohol can make you /feel/ warm, when it's actually making your body colder. You'll never think of brandy the same way again!
SciShow Kids
Why Do Dogs Pant?
When people run around on a hot summer day, their sweat can help them cool off! But dogs can't sweat, and they have big, furry coats! So what can they do to stay cool?!
SciShow
6 Mysteries Geologists Can’t Explain — Yet!
Explaining strange Earth geology is often straightforward — combine a volcanic eruption a dash of erosion, and boom, you’ve got a striking cliff! But not all the features on this planet are so easy to figure out. From the ground randomly...
SciShow Kids
Why do Planes Leave White Streaks in the Sky?
Have you ever seen an airplane high in the sky leave a long trail behind it? That's called a contrail! It's kind of like a cloud, or your breath on a cold day. Jessi and Squeaks explain the special circumstances that make contrails happen!
SciShow
What Happens if Your Body is Exposed to the Vacuum of Space?
Hank answers a SciShow viewer's most pressing question about what happens if the human body gets exposed to space. Would your head really explode?
TED Talks
TED: Life-altering questions about the end of the universe | Katie Mack
In this fascinating conversation, cosmologist and TED Fellow Katie Mack delves into everything from the Big Bang theory to what we see at the edge of the observable universe to a few ways the cosmos might end. Stay tuned to hear Mack...
TED Talks
TED: How to make radical climate action the new normal | Al Gore
A net-zero future is possible, but first we need to flip a mental switch to truly understand that we can stop the climate crisis if we try, says Nobel laureate Al Gore. In this inspiring and essential talk, Gore shares examples of...
SciShow
How "Cold-Blooded" Animals Survive the Cold
We humans can rely on our internal body heat to help keep us warm. But what can cold-blooded animals do when faced with the threat of freezing? Here are three creatures that have come up with some...“cool” solutions.
SciShow
Our Galaxy Could Be Full of Exoplanets with Oceans | SciShow News
Earlier this spring NASA announced a new research model that predicts that ocean worlds are far from rare, and our galaxy might be full of them. And a new study examines evidence that Pluto may have had an underground ocean all along!