PBS
Was Penrose Right? New Evidence For Quantum Effects In The Brain
New ReviewNobel laureate Roger Penrose is widely held to be one of the most brilliant living physicists for his wide-ranging work from black holes to cosmology. And then there’s his idea about how consciousness is caused by quantum processes. Most...
Be Smart
What is the Most Average Thing?
We may not know it, but averages affect our lives every day. Designers and manufacturers use averages to make our houses, cars, shoes and airline seats safer and more comfortable(ish). But calculating averages is way more complicated...
SciShow
The Heaviest Things Humans Have Ever Built
From the Great Pyramid at Giza, to one-quarter of the Netherlands, to continent-spanning electrical grids, humans are great at making really BIG things. Hosted by: @NotesByNiba (she/her)
SciShow
Five Of The Biggest, Baddest Supernova Varieties
Supernovae are only rare to the passive stargazer, but if you’re an astronomer studying them, you get to see some of the most brilliant explosions in the universe. Here are five of the most significant supernovae known to science.
PBS
Why Do You Remember The Past But Not The Future?
The laws of physics don’t specify an arrow of time - they don’t distinguish the past from the future. The equations we use to describe how things evolve forward in time also perfectly describe their evolution backwards in time. So the...
Bozeman Science
Systems and Objects
In this video Paul Andersen explains the differences between a system and an object. Depending on the scale it often times easies to view a system as an object if the constituent parts aren't relevant to the question being asked. He also...
TED Talks
TED: An 8-dimensional model of the universe | Garrett Lisi
Physicist and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a controversial new model of the universe that -- just maybe -- answers all the big questions. If nothing else, it's the most beautiful 8-dimensional model of elementary particles and forces...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Three ways the universe could end - Venus Keus
Our universe started with the Big Bang, but how will it end? Explore cosmologists’ three possible scenarios: the Big Crunch, the Big Freeze and the Big Rip. -- We know about our universe’s past: the Big Bang theory predicts that all...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: What in the world is topological quantum matter?
David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016 for discovering that even microscopic matter at the smallest scale can exhibit macroscopic properties and phases that are topological. But -...
SciShow
Richard Feynman, The Great Explainer: Great Minds
Like SciShow? Help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso, or hold your liquids! Chapters View all GREAT EXPLAINERS 0:26 QUANTUM MECHANICS 2:54 THEORETICAL PHYSICS 3:04 PRANKING OTHER PHYSICISTS 3:55...
Crash Course
A Brief History of the Universe
Thanks to the wonders of physics, astronomers can map a timeline of the universe’s history. Today, Phil’s going to give you an overview of those first few minutes (yes, MINUTES) of the universe’s life. It started with a Big Bang, when...
PBS
The Oh My God Particle
In 1991 a single atomic nucleus slammed into our atmosphere with the intensity of a macroscopic object. It's been named The Oh-My-God particle.
Crash Course
Dark Matter
Today on Crash Course Astronomy, Phil dives into some very dark matters. The stuff we can actually observe in the universe isn’t all there is. Galaxies and other large structures in the universe are created and shifted by a force we...
Be Smart
How to See Time Travel!!!
Build your own cloud chamber particle detector and test relativity at home!
Crash Course
Deep Time
As we approach the end of Crash Course Astronomy, it’s time now to acknowledge that our Universe’s days are numbered. Stars will die out after a few trillion years, protons will decay and matter will dissolve after a thousand trillion...
SciShow
How Quarks Fixed the Mess That Was Particle Physics
Particle physics isn't simple, but it was much more confusing before physicists knew about quarks.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Are we living in a simulation? | Zohreh Davoudi
All life on Earth— living and inanimate, microscopic and cosmic— is governed by mathematical laws with apparently arbitrary constants. And this opens up a question: If the universe is completely governed by these laws, couldn't a...
Crash Course
Introduction to Astronomy
Welcome to the first episode of Crash Course Astronomy. Your host for this intergalactic adventure is the Bad Astronomer himself, Phil Plait. We begin with answering a question: "What is astronomy?"
Curated Video
What is Matter
This video introduces atoms, molecules, and the big bang theory that proposes the creation of matter.
Curated Video
The Higgs Field Explained: How Particles Get Their Mass
How does the Higgs give mass to particles? How do elementary particles gain mass? All mass is Energy. 99% of the mass of an atom is contained in the binding energy within the nucleus. But about 1% of your mass is contained in the mass of...
Curated Video
The Higgs Boson and Higgs Field Explained with Simple Analogies
What is the God Particle? How does the Higgs Boson work? If you were a fish, would you know that the entire world in which you existed was contained in a substance called water? You probably wouldn’t know it because, you had always been...
Curated Video
The Bizarre Behavior of Quantum Particles
What is the meaning of superposition and wave/particle duality? What do quantum particles really look like, when we are NOT looking? All quantum particles exist in a state of superposition prior to any interaction. This does not mean...
Curated Video
How ChatGPT Works: What Happens Behind the Screen
SUMMARY ChatGPT is an intelligent chatbot that uses natural language processing. The GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, which means it generates responses, it is pre-trained by humans, and it transforms input data into an...
Curated Video
How Teleportation Might Work: A Scientific Look at the Star Trek Transporter
Is teleportation possible? In the Star Trek transporter, the atoms in your body get converted to their subatomic particles – protons, neutrons, and electrons, and are transmitted as a stream of particles to the surface of a planet or...