Instructional Video2:53
SciShow

These Baby Shrimp Really Pack a Punch!

12th - Higher Ed
Many species of mantis shrimp rely on their incredible punching abilities to stun their prey. But it turns out they don’t have to be mature mantis shrimp to start getting their punch on. And baby Philippine mantis shrimp can punch nearly...
Instructional Video4:03
SciShow

The Year-Long Twin Astronauts Experiment

12th - Higher Ed
Astronauts Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko will soon undertake a historic, record-breaking mission: to live in space for an entire year. And scientists will have some extra help studying the effects of this extended stay on the...
Instructional Video5:58
Be Smart

Why Nature Loves Hexagons (featuring Infinite Series!)

12th - Higher Ed
From spirals to spots to fractals, nature is full of interesting patterns. Many of these patterns even resemble geometric shapes. One of the most common? Hexagons. Why do we see this six-sided shape occur so many times in nature? This...
Instructional Video4:57
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How rollercoasters affect your body - Brian D. Avery

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In 1895, crowds flooded Coney Island to see America's first-ever looping coaster: the Flip Flap Railway. But its thrilling flip caused cases of severe whiplash, neck injury and even ejections. Today, coasters can pull off far more...
Instructional Video5:06
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the virus riddle? - Lisa Winer

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Your research team has found a prehistoric virus preserved in the permafrost and isolated it for study. After a late night working, you're just closing up the lab when a sudden earthquake hits and breaks all the sample vials. Will you be...
Instructional Video1:23
SciShow

Why Is Freezer Burn Ruining My Food?

12th - Higher Ed
Freezer burn, what's your deal? Why are you ruining our dinner plans?
Instructional Video7:47
TED Talks

Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)

12th - Higher Ed
Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations -- a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through...
Instructional Video4:21
SciShow

Will there be a ring in Mars's future?

12th - Higher Ed
Will Mars have a ring around it? Hank Green explains in this episode of Scishow Space News!
Instructional Video25:14
SciShow

Climate Science From Space | SciShow Talk Show

12th - Higher Ed
Dr. Steve Running discusses his work at NASA using satellites to keep tabs on Earth’s ecological systems. Jessi from Animal Wonders drops by to introduce Hank and Steve to Bindi the Bearded Dragon.
Instructional Video6:14
SciShow

The Moon's Birth May Have Given Earth Ingredients for Life - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
The event that gave us our moon may have also given us the elements necessary for life and scientists might have found a very tiny piece of our solar system's past way out in space.
Instructional Video9:17
SciShow

6 Animals That Thrive Upside-Down

12th - Higher Ed
For humans, being upside-down isn’t a comfy way to hang out for very long, but for these six animals, upside-down feels just right! Chapters THREE-TOED SLOTH 0:38 UPSIDE-DOWN JELLYFISH 2:10 NUTHATCH 3:37 RED-HEADED WOODPECKER 3:57 4:55...
Instructional Video5:34
SciShow

Life on an Eyeball Planet? It's Possible

12th - Higher Ed
Tidally locked planets could be more common than Earth-like planets! And these 'eyeball planets' might even be a promising place to look for unique lifeforms!
Instructional Video5:26
SciShow

Why Scientists are Giving Robots Human Muscles

12th - Higher Ed
Human-robot hybrids are advancing quickly, but the applications aren't just for complete synthetic humans. There's a lot we can learn about ourselves in the process.
Instructional Video8:54
TED Talks

Reuben Margolin: Sculpting waves in wood and time

12th - Higher Ed
Reuben Margolin is a kinetic sculptor, crafting beautiful pieces that move in the pattern of raindrops falling and waves combining. Take nine minutes and be mesmerized by his meditative art -- inspired in equal parts by math and nature.
Instructional Video4:05
Bozeman Science

What's the Best Way to Teach Science?

12th - Higher Ed
What's the Best Way to Teach Science?
Instructional Video14:45
TED Talks

Yves Rossy: Fly with the Jetman

12th - Higher Ed
Strapped to a jet-powered wing, Yves Rossy is the Jetman -- flying free, his body as the rudder, above the Swiss Alps and the Grand Canyon. After a powerful short film shows how it works, Rossy takes the TEDGlobal stage to share the...
Instructional Video4:41
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Valentin Hammoudi: How tall can a tree grow?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Reaching heights of over 100 meters, Californian sequoias tower over Earth's other 60,000 tree species. But even these behemoths seem to have their limits: no sequoia on record has been able to grow taller than 130 meters. So what...
Instructional Video5:26
SciShow

Take a Ride on the Interplanetary Superhighway

12th - Higher Ed
Normal interplanetary travel uses lots of fuel, but taking advantage of some quirks of gravity can let us travel between planets using hardly any fuel at all.
Instructional Video5:37
SciShow

What the World’s Smallest Tweezers Tell Us About DNA

12th - Higher Ed
DNA isn’t the simple, loose double-helix you might see in a biology textbook, so isolating single strands of it can be next to impossible. But with some simple tricks of physics, scientists came up with a special type of tweezers that...
Instructional Video1:25
MinutePhysics

What is Gravity?

12th - Higher Ed
In this episode, we discuss the basic nature of gravity, one of the four fundamental forces in our universe.
Instructional Video4:40
TED Talks

TED: Rethink the desktop with BumpTop | Anand Agarawala

12th - Higher Ed
Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file navigation into a freewheeling playground of crumpled documents and clipping-covered "walls."
Instructional Video2:58
MinutePhysics

How To Go To Space (with XKCD!)

12th - Higher Ed
How To Go To Space (with XKCD!)
Instructional Video5:59
Bozeman Science

AP Biology Lab 8: Population Genetics and Evolution

12th - Higher Ed
Mr. Andersen explains Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and describes the bead lab.
Instructional Video4:35
SciShow Kids

Happy Birthday, Sir Isaac Newton!

K - 5th
There's a birthday party at the fort, for one of history's most important scientists, Isaac Newton!