Instructional Video3:55
SciShow

Inside the Nepal Earthquake

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News explains the forces at work behind the earthquake in Nepal, introduces you to a new species of dinosaur, and reveals a discovery in Antarctica.
Instructional Video7:01
SciShow Kids

How Do Lakes Form? | Goodbye, Mister Brown! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Mister Brown is moving away to Wisconsin, so Jessi, Squeaks and all of his Fort friends are here to say goodbye. But before he goes, Mister Brown want to teach everyone about the place he's moving to and all the amazing glacial lakes...
Instructional Video7:50
PBS

When the Sahara Was Green

12th - Higher Ed
The climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. And we’re not talking about just a few years of extra rain. We’re talking about a climate that was so wet for so long that animals and humans alike made...
Instructional Video5:02
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How the water you flush becomes the water you drink | Francis de los Reyes

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In 2003, Singapore's national water agency launched an unprecedented program to provide more than 50% of their nation's water supply by recycling wastewater. The program had been planned for decades to ensure the island nation never ran...
Instructional Video3:16
MinuteEarth

We Have No Idea Why

12th - Higher Ed
Most animals on earth are bioluminescent, but almost all of them live in the ocean - and scientists aren’t sure why.
Instructional Video6:06
SciShow

We Solved the Mystery of the Dying Birds

12th - Higher Ed
Across the southeastern United States, bald eagles have been dying unexplainedly for the past 25 years. In March of 2021, researchers announced that they had found the killer, and they hope we can use this knowledge to better protect...
Instructional Video6:02
SciShow

The Truth Behind the Disappearing Lakes

12th - Higher Ed
Around the world, there are lakes that disappear without warning. Then, suddenly without warning, they sometimes return! This vanishing and reappearing affect reveals some surprising connections. Learn all about it with Hank on this new...
Instructional Video4:03
SciShow

Weird Places: The Lava Lake in Antarctica

12th - Higher Ed
What could be cooler than a permanent lava lake surrounded by snow!?
Instructional Video3:14
SciShow

Limnic Eruptions: When Lakes Explode

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow takes you inside a limnic eruption, a natural disaster that’s as deadly as it is rare.
Instructional Video6:02
SciShow

The Erratic Behavior of Water

12th - Higher Ed
Water is one of the most abundant and important substances on Earth, so you think we'd know everything there is to know about it. Turns out, water is so much stranger and more complex than we ever thought! Join Olivia Gordon for a new...
Instructional Video2:41
SciShow

Why Some Frozen Lakes Catch Fire

12th - Higher Ed
Did you know that, despite their serene, picturesque appearance, some frozen lakes can catch fire? Why are climate scientists studying the explosive gas bubbles trapped in lake ice?
Instructional Video11:54
TED Talks

TED: The sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design | Manu Peni

12th - Higher Ed
When human rights advocate Manu Peni returned to Papua New Guinea from abroad, he built a home for himself using modern techniques -- and promptly learned a harsh lesson on how the newest ideas aren't always the best ideas. Peni calls...
Instructional Video19:06
SciShow

Antarctic Lava to Pink Snow: The Science of Winter

12th - Higher Ed
"If you live in the northern hemisphere, there's a decent chance you're in a winter wonderland right now. Settle in with a hot drink for this winter compilation and learn about some of the interesting things that make winter wondrous!
Instructional Video5:03
TED-Ed

These salamanders snack on each other (but don't die) | Luis Zambrano

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Axolotls are one of science's most studied animals. Why, you ask? These extraordinary salamanders are masters of regeneration: they can flawlessly regenerate body parts ranging from amputated limbs and crushed spines to parts of their...
Instructional Video8:50
SciShow

8 Beautiful, Weird, and Scary Things Ice Can Do

12th - Higher Ed
Frozen water molecules don’t seem to be all that interesting. But, these eight weird things that ice can do are truly mind-boggling. Chapters View all ICE SPIKES 0:40 FROST QUAKES 2:36 FROST FLOWERS: LAND 3:26 FROST FLOWERS: SEA ICE 4:22...
Instructional Video7:06
TED Talks

TED: What Saturn's most mysterious moon could teach us about the origins of life | Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle

12th - Higher Ed
NASA's Dragonfly -- a robotic rotorcraft-lander that's designed to hop across the surface of an extraterrestrial body -- is set to voyage deep into the solar system to explore Titan, Saturn's largest moon, in 2026. Planetary scientist...
Instructional Video2:56
SciShow

The Lakes and Rivers of Ancient Mars

12th - Higher Ed
Ancient Mars had a lot of water! This week on SciShow Space News, scientists analyzed the Curiosity rover's data on the rocks in Gale Crater, using it to learn more about what the lakes and rivers on olden-day Mars might have looked like.
Instructional Video5:29
SciShow

Secrets of Life from A Giant Pool of Asphalt | Weird Places: Pitch Lake, Trinidad

12th - Higher Ed
Trinidad's Pitch Lake is a huge, oily, and filled with millions of tons of asphalt. It may not sound like a great place to live, but the lake is teeming with microscopic life! And learning more about these organisms could give us insight...
Instructional Video3:59
SciShow

How Ancient Pollen Can Predict The Future

12th - Higher Ed
We don't need a time machine to learn from the past (but let us know if you find one)! Air bubbles trapped in ice for millennia and ancient pollen grains can tell us a lot about climate shifts hundreds of thousands of years ago!
Instructional Video2:46
SciShow

Weird Places Australia's Bright Pink Lake

12th - Higher Ed
In this edition of Weird Places, we visit Australia's Lake Hillier, which is a shockingly flamboyant shade of pink. Hank's here to tell you science's best guess as to why.
Instructional Video4:55
TED-Ed

The world's biggest battery looks nothing like a battery | TED-Ed

Pre-K - Higher Ed
As of 2020, the world's biggest lithium-ion battery is hooked up to the Southern California power grid and can provide enough power for about 250,000 homes. But it's actually not the biggest battery in the world: a pair of lakes are. How...
Instructional Video3:15
SciShow

Weird Places: Australia's Bright Pink Lake

12th - Higher Ed
In this edition of Weird Places, we visit Australia's Lake Hillier, which is a shockingly flamboyant shade of pink. Hank's here to tell you science's best guess as to why.
Instructional Video3:17
SciShow

The Great Lakes Tropical Storm of 1996

12th - Higher Ed
Tropical storms can be devastating but at least we usually know where they're going to appear. The exception being a very strange week in 1996, on Lake Huron.
Instructional Video2:43
SciShow

Why Some Frozen Lakes Catch Fire

12th - Higher Ed
Did you know that, despite their serene, picturesque appearance, some frozen lakes can catch fire? Why are climate scientists studying the explosive gas bubbles trapped in lake ice?