SciShow
Estivation: How Mucus Saved My Life
Learn how some animals have adapted to survive in some of the hottest and driest environments in the world, by covering themselves in mucus and calling it good.
SciShow
Without Volcanoes, Earth Might be Dead
You might think of plate tectonics as destructive since it's the ultimate force behind earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. But the slow movement of our planet's surface does a lot more than shake things up now and then. Some...
Be Smart
How Ingenious Animals Have Engineered Air Conditioning
Are humans nature's greatest architects? When we look elsewhere in nature, we find some pretty amazing animal architects. Species like ants, termites, prairie dogs, birds, and more have engineered some incredible structures. This week we...
Crash Course
Everything, The Universe ...And Life
Here it is, folks: the end. In our final episode of Crash Course Astronomy, Phil gives the course a send off with a look at some of his favorite topics and the big questions that Astronomy allows us to ask.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can the ocean run out of oxygen? | Kate Slabosky
For most of the year, the Gulf of Mexico is teeming with marine life, from tiny crustaceans to massive whales. But every summer, disaster strikes. Around May, animals begin to flee the area. And soon, creatures that can't swim or can't...
SciShow
Why Smoking Makes It Harder to Heal
If a doctor has told you to quit smoking, that's not just because they're worried about lung cancer. Those cigarettes are messing up your body's natural healing process in more ways than one.
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?
SciShow
How Earth's Rotation Affects Our Oxygen | SciShow News
Oxygen is crucial for life as we know it, but before it could build up in our atmosphere, earth had to slow down.
SciShow
This Reaction Could Let Us Live on Mars
There is a chemical reaction discovered a century ago that could be the key to creating everything from fuel to shelter on Mars!
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
Bacteria Could Someday Power Our Cell Phones
Unlike most living things, there are species of bacteria that can harness electrons directly and even shuttle them around from place to place like living wires.
SciShow
The Sensor That Dissolves in Your Brain
In this week's SciShow News, we discuss two new types of sensors being developed. One tracks the content of certain molecules in your sweat while you exercise and the other is a brain implant that can be resorbed once it has finished its...
TED Talks
TED: Suspended animation is within our grasp | Mark Roth
Mark Roth studies suspended animation: the art of shutting down life processes and then starting them up again. It's wild stuff, but it's not science fiction. Induced by careful use of an otherwise toxic gas, suspended animation can...
SciShow
Making Reactions Go Faster Since the 1700s | Great Minds: Elizabeth Fulhame
The chemical process of catalysis happens in a myriad of places in our modern world - from industry to inside your cells. Our knowledge of catalysis today springs from Elizabeth Fulhame, who over 225 years ago became the first person to...
SciShow
The Real Mayan Apocalypse
There are just six weeks left until the celestial odometer that is the Mayan calendar clicks over to the next b'akt'un, but in the meantime, scientists have been trying to solve the mystery behind the collapse of the Mayan civilization....
MinuteEarth
Why Do Some Animals Get Gigantic?
This video explores how various animals throughout evolutionary history have managed to grow to gigantic sizes through unique adaptations and environmental factors. From megabugs benefiting from a spike in atmospheric oxygen levels to...
SciShow
Space Exploration Isn’t Great for the Earth (But It Could Be)
Building and launching rockets to learn about other worlds hasn't been great for Earth, but environmental engineers are working on changing that legacy.
Crash Course
Orbitals: Crash Course Chemistry
In this episode of Crash Course Chemistry, Hank discusses what Molecules actually look like and why, some quantum-mechanical three dimensional wave functions are explored, he touches on hybridization, and delves into sigma and pi bonds....
SciShow
The Key to an Artificial Heart ... and Open-Heart Surgery
Scientists have been trying to pull blood out of the body and put it back in again since the early 1800s, but bypass machines haven't been easy to get right.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: If superpowers were real: Body mass - Joy Lin
What if manipulating body mass wasn't just the stuff of epic comic book stories? Is it scientifically possible to manipulate your body mass? In this series, Joy Lin tackles six superpowers and reveals just how scientifically realistic...
SciShow
How Dogs Really Listen to Us, and How Pufferfish Puff
This week on SciShow News: Animals! New research has found how dogs actually listen to us in more complex ways than you probably thought, and also figured out how a kind of pufferfish gets its puff up.
SciShow
How Studying Elephant Seals Could Treat Heart Attacks
Generally, when you think of carbon monoxide, nothing good comes to mind. And that’s… pretty reasonable. But elephant seals show us how we might be able to use carbon monoxide as an effective therapy for heart attacks and strokes.
SciShow
The Biggest Water Reservoir in Space
In the late 2000s, scientists looking deep into space discovered the largest known water reservoir in the universe inside a quasar, orbiting a supermassive black hole. Learn more about quasars and what this water can tell us about the...
SciShow
Setting Spaceships on Fire
What's more exciting than a spaceship? A spaceship on Fiya! NASA plans on playing with fire. Caitlin Hofmeister explains in this episode of SciShow Space!