SciShow
4 of Physics’ (Other) Greatest Mysteries
Physicists are interested in the big questions like "Where did we come from?" and "What is all this stuff?". But the answers to some of these questions, just lead to more questions.
SciShow
The Most Beautiful Science of 2012
Michael Aranda substitutes for Hank again in this week's News to tell you about the winners of the 2012 Visualization Challenge, an annual competition run by the journal Science that selects the most elegant and educational graphics,...
MinutePhysics
How We Know Black Holes Exist
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting this video. This video is about the astronomical amount of astronomical evidence for black holes, ranging from x-ray binaries with...
SciShow
The First Water on Earth Might've Come From… Earth? | SciShow News
Astronomers have thought for years that Earth was dry in the beginning, but a new paper suggests that Earth might have actually started out wet! And In other meteorite news, a new study of impact sites might give us new clues about...
SciShow
How Wiretapping Helped Transform Astronomy
Early telegraph operators and WWI spies picked up some weird noises on radio waves. As it turned out, they were actually listening to plasma waves in Earth’s magnetic field lines!
TED Talks
TED: Why great architecture should tell a story | Ole Scheeren
For architect Ole Scheeren, the people who live and work inside a building are as much a part of that building as concrete, steel and glass. He asks: Can architecture be about collaboration and storytelling instead of the isolation and...
Crash Course Kids
Weather In Space (the Rocky Planets)
Do other planets have weather? It turns out that, yes, they do! But, the weather isn't all the same on other planets because of things like atmosphere. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina takes us on a tour of the weather on...
3Blue1Brown
Cross products in the light of linear transformations | Essence of linear algebra chapter 8 part 2
The formula for the cross product can feel like a mystery, or some kind of crazy coincidence. But it isn't. There is a fundamental connection between the cross product and determinants.
Crash Course
White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulae
Today Phil follows up last week’s look at the death of low mass stars with what comes next: a white dwarf. White dwarfs are incredibly hot and dense objects roughly the size of Earth. They also can form planetary nebulae: huge,...
MinutePhysics
Legitimate Cold Fusion Exists | Muon-Catalyzed Fusion
This video is about the original cold fusion: μ muon-catalyzed cold fusion of deuterium, tritium, hydrogen, into helium-3 and helium 4. The problems with it are the half-life of muons and the sticking of muons to alpha particles. Also...
SciShow
3 New Discoveries in Space
Hank shares three cool discoveries in space science, including a celestial crucible of phosphorous, noble gases found in a supernova, and plumes of water vapor on Europa.
SciShow
How Stars Freeze
When you think of a frozen object in space, you might think of Pluto, but stars themselves actually freeze.
PBS
Superluminal Time Travel + Time Warp Challenge Answer
By choosing the right path and the right reference frames, any superluminal motion can lead to information or objects returning to their origin before they depart.
TED Talks
Sarah Parcak: Archaeology from space
In this short talk, TED Fellow Sarah Parcak introduces the field of "space archaeology" -- using satellite images to search for clues to the lost sites of past civilizations.
MinutePhysics
Solar Panels Made With a Particle Accelerator?!
This video is about using particle accelerators as part of the solar panel silicon wafer manufacturing process. The accelerators embed protons into the wafer crystals, allowing them to break and separate from the main crystal in much...
Crash Course
Life Begins Crash Course Big History 4
In which Hank and John Green teach you about life on Earth. They won't be giving advice on how life should be lived, because this is a history series. Instead, they'll teach you about the earliest forms of life on Earth, and some of the...
3Blue1Brown
Nonsquare matrices as transformations between dimensions | Essence of linear algebra, chapter 8
How do you think about a non-square matrix as a transformation?
SciShow
Can Moon Colonies Get Oxygen From the...Moon?
As we look towards longer missions to the Moon, the shear amount of resources needed to survive becomes a much bigger question. Without space semi-trucks to haul life-giving resources to astronauts, can we utilize the Moon’s barren...
SciShow
How to Kill a Galaxy
Our Milky Way galaxy is alive and well, producing new stars all the time. But there’s another group of galaxies out there, populated only by venerable red dwarf stars - the young stars are nowhere to be seen. In effect, these galaxies...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed A brief history of graffiti - Kelly Wall - MENA
Spray-painted subway cars, tagged bridges, mural-covered walls -- graffiti pops up boldly throughout our cities. And it turns out: it's nothing new. Graffiti has been around for thousands of years. And across that span of time, it's...
TED Talks
Ma Yansong: Urban architecture inspired by mountains, clouds and volcanoes
Taking inspiration from nature, architect Ma Yansong designs breathtaking buildings that break free from the boxy symmetry of so many modern cities. His exuberant and graceful work -- from a pair of curvy skyscrapers that "dance" with...
SciShow
Radioactive Iron Rain!
This week on SciShow Space News we're talking about gravity waves (not gravitational waves) on Pluto, and radioactive interstellar rain on Earth!
MinutePhysics
How Quantum Computers Break Encryption | Shor's Algorithm Explained
This video explains Shor’s Algorithm, a way to efficiently factor large pseudoprime integers into their prime factors using a quantum computer. The quantum computation relies on the number-theoretic analysis of the factoring problem via...