Instructional Video13:02
PBS

Venus May Have Life!

12th - Higher Ed
If you rank the most habitable places in our solar system Venus lands pretty low, with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead and sulphuric acid rain. And yet it may have just jumped to the front of the pack. In fact, we may have...
Instructional Video7:41
PBS

When the Rainforests Collapsed

12th - Higher Ed
The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse set the stage for a takeover that would be a crucial turning point in the history of terrestrial animal life. If it weren’t for that time when the rainforests collapsed - in an extinction event that...
Instructional Video8:14
PBS

Cordyceps Turned These Ants Into Zombies

12th - Higher Ed
This fungus was actually manipulating ants’ movements, forcing them to do something they’d never ordinarily do, something strange, yet specific…
Instructional Video7:28
PBS

When Trees Took Over the World

12th - Higher Ed
420 million years ago, the forest floor of what's now New York was covered with a plant that didn’t look like a tree at all, except its roots were made of wood. Instead of looking up to learn about the evolution of trees, it turns out...
Instructional Video9:32
PBS

How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction

12th - Higher Ed
In the middle of the Cambrian, life on land was about to get a little more crowded. And those newcomers would end up changing the world. The arrival of plants on land would make the world colder, drain much of the oxygen out of the...
Instructional Video7:46
SciShow

Half of All Plants Are Invisible

12th - Higher Ed
If you see an acorn sprout under an oak tree, you're seeing that tree's grandchild. Here's why half of all higher plants are invisible, and why it works for them.
Instructional Video9:51
SciShow

6 Sleeper-Agent Pathogens That Can Make You Sick

12th - Higher Ed
Your body usually does a great job defending you from all kinds of viruses, fungi, and bacteria. However, there are some pathogens out there that can hide from your immune system and stay dormant in your body, waiting for their...
Instructional Video3:52
SciShow

How Honey Fights Deadly Bacteria

12th - Higher Ed
Believe it or not, that cute bear bottle has serious bacteria fighting power—but how? Join Hank Green for a new episode of SciShow all about the amazing properties of honey!
Instructional Video21:18
SciShow

What Happens When Food Goes Bad?

12th - Higher Ed
You've seen your fruit get moldy, or maybe your bread products. Sometimes old meat gets a funky smell. But what is actually happening scientifically when your food goes bad? It's pretty interesting. Join Hank Green for a new episode of...
Instructional Video4:36
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: What if cracks in concrete could fix themselves? - Congrui Jin

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. It can be found in swathes of city pavements, bridges that span vast rivers and the tallest skyscrapers on earth. But it does have a weakness: it's prone to...
Instructional Video3:52
SciShow

Honey: Bacteria's Worst Enemy

12th - Higher Ed
It may not look like it sitting in that cute bear bottle, but honey is a supercharged bacteria-killing powerhouse!
Instructional Video5:11
SciShow

A New Way to Bring People Back from a 'Vegetative State'

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists have had some success with a new technique to restore awareness to a person in a vegetative state & also that we could potentially use the water cycle to power most of the United States!
Instructional Video8:32
Amoeba Sisters

Protists and Fungi

12th - Higher Ed
Get introduced to protists and fungi with the Amoeba Sisters! This video explores basic cell type, mode of feeding, habitat examples, and ecology of both protists and fungi. This video also mentions a few examples of how protists and...
Instructional Video2:45
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Cicadas: The dormant army beneath your feet - Rose Eveleth

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Every 13 or 17 years, billions of cicadas emerge from the ground to molt, mate and die. Adult cicadas only live a few weeks above ground, but you'd be hard pressed to ignore them -- they are extremely loud! Rose Eveleth explains...
Instructional Video7:36
Bozeman Science

The Sordaria Cross

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen shows you how a cross between mutant and wild types of Sordaria fimicola can be used to show and measure frequency of crossing-over. He begins by reviewing the process of meiosis in a typical organism. He then...
Instructional Video2:29
SciShow

Why Does Rain Smell so Good... to Bugs?

12th - Higher Ed
Humans love the smell after good rain, though we may not be the the target of the pleasing aroma. There's evidence the characteristic post-rain scent is used to lure arthropods to bacteria.
Instructional Video9:50
SciShow

7 Super Toxic U.S. Sites

12th - Higher Ed
Let's face it: Humans are pretty messy. Industrial processes like mining and manufacturing are important parts of keeping civilization going, but they all impact the environment. Sometimes that impact is particularly big and messy,...
Instructional Video3:21
SciShow

Food Mold 101

12th - Higher Ed
It's a moldy world out there, especially in the kitchen. You have questions about food mold, right? Well Hank has your answers. Chapters View all FOOD MOLDS ARE MICROSCOPIC FUNGI 0:28 SPORE RELEASES ROOT THREADS 1:00 MYCELIUM BREAK DOWN...
Instructional Video14:20
PBS

Did Life on Earth Come from Space?

12th - Higher Ed
How did life on Earth get started? Did life on Earth originate on another planet? Either Mars, or in a distant solar system? Could Earth life have spread to have seeded life elsewhere? Let's see what modern science has to say about the...
Instructional Video11:51
Crash Course

Fungi: Death Becomes Them - CrashCourse Biology

12th - Higher Ed
Death is what fungi are all about. By feasting on the deceased remains of almost all organisms on the planet, converting the organic matter back into soil from which new life will spring, they perform perhaps the most vital function in...
Instructional Video10:22
SciShow

Top 5 Deadliest Substances on Earth

12th - Higher Ed
There are natural poisons that lurk in bacteria, plants, and fungi pretty much everywhere, and they're there for good reasons (according to the organisms that produce them) - but what is it about their chemical make up that makes them so...
Instructional Video4:57
SciShow

3 Ridiculous Ways Plants Get Sick

12th - Higher Ed
Plants can get sick, but since they don’t walk around sneezing on each other, the things that infect them need some very weird strategies to spread.
Instructional Video0:55
MinuteEarth

How Mushrooms Make It Rain

12th - Higher Ed
Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here are some keywords/phrases to get your googling started: spore: asexual reproductive agent for fungi
Instructional Video9:23
SciShow

10 Fantastic Fungi Superpowers

12th - Higher Ed
Join Hank Green to learn ten weird, scary, and amazing things fungi can do! Chapters MAKE YOU HALLUCINATE 0:50 psychotherapy 1:43 Claviceps purpurea Credit: Dominique Jacquin 2:08 SALEM WITCH TRIALS 2:39 2 MAY CAUSE MASS HYSTERIA 2:49...