Instructional Video5:05
SciShow

Great Minds: Katherine Johnson, Human Computer

12th - Higher Ed
In the early days of spaceflight, if NASA needed to plot a rocket's path or confirm a computer's calculations, they knew who to ask: Katherine Johnson.
Instructional Video4:24
SciShow

Satellite Death Rattle

12th - Higher Ed
The satellite launched in February, but in March, it malfunctioned, spun out of control, and broke into pieces. The mission was declared a failure. But! Before it failed, Hitomi managed a couple days' worth of observations.
Instructional Video4:18
SciShow

4 Awesome NASA Inventions You Use Every Day

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space shares four wonderful things that you probably use every day, all made possible by NASA technology.
Instructional Video9:48
PBS

Telescopes of Tomorrow

12th - Higher Ed
The telescopes of tomorrow will see in infrared and ultraviolet. They will peer through space and scan across time. They will allow us to find new supernovae, spot potentially hazardous asteroids, better understand dark energy and peer...
Instructional Video14:02
MinutePhysics

How to Teleport Schrödinger's Cat

12th - Higher Ed
How to teleport Schrödinger’s cat: this video presents the full quantum teleportation procedure, in which an arbitrary qubit (spin, etc) is teleported from Alice to Bob by way of a pair of particles entangled in a bell (EPR) state and...
Instructional Video5:51
SciShow

Celebrating Stephen Hawking’s Most Famous Discoveries

12th - Higher Ed
Last week we lost legendary scientist Stephen Hawking. To honor of one of the greatest legacies in cosmology, we wanted to celebrate and unpack some of his most famous findings.
Instructional Video6:14
SciShow

How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
For the first time ever we have visual confirmation that black holes actually exist and we got it with a telescope the size of our planet.
Instructional Video3:46
SciShow

Why Solar Eclipses Create Those Crescent-Shaped Lights

12th - Higher Ed
Everyone is watching the sky during a solar eclipse, but but if you look down, you'll catch another kind of light show.
Instructional Video5:41
SciShow

How Tech Designed for Space Is Saving Lives on Earth

12th - Higher Ed
Space technology gets applied in all sorts of ways down here on Earth, making us more comfortable, healthier, and even saving lives!
Instructional Video6:01
SciShow

How Going to Space Changes the Way You Think Forever

12th - Higher Ed
A trip into space produces physiological effects in human beings, but it can also change a person in a profound, psychological way.
Instructional Video5:14
SciShow

We May Have Found the First Exomoon! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve discovered what appears to be the first known moon outside of the solar system and new models of Europa’s surface predict the presence of ice blades!
Instructional Video4:53
SciShow

There Are Planet-Sized 'Tornadoes' on the Sun!

12th - Higher Ed
Solar tornadoes are not tornadoes, and scientists are studying a black hole with a telescope bigger than the earth!
Instructional Video2:28
SciShow

The Apollo Lunar Lander (And How We Screwed It Up)

12th - Higher Ed
You called it, and we are grateful! Hank analyzes what went wrong with our intro, which gave us the perfect opportunity to talk about the awesomeness that is the Apollo Lunar Lander!
Instructional Video4:54
SciShow

Why Did We Keep Sealed Moon Samples?

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve been sitting on samples of the lunar surface for decades and, with better technology than when they were taken, we are opening them back up to take another look!
Instructional Video24:37
SciShow

The Strangest Planets in the Universe | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
Sci-Fi worlds may have giant worms or twin suns, but those are pretty cozy compared to these wild worlds.
Instructional Video5:00
SciShow

Keeping the Fungus Among Us in Space

12th - Higher Ed
Developing new methods for survival in space is a constant and ever-evolving process, and a well known Earthly organism has the potential for multiple applications within space’s unforgiving environment!
Instructional Video4:35
SciShow

It’s Probably Not Aliens on Venus… But It Could Be | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Is there life on Venus? If there is, it would have to be unlike anything we’ve ever seen! New evidence means the possibility of life there is in question, but it could also mean a few other things.
Instructional Video3:12
MinutePhysics

Hitting the Sun is HARD

12th - Higher Ed
This video is about the orbital mechanics of why it's so hard to crash into the sun - the energy it takes to get there is astoundingly high, compared with leaving the solar system.
Instructional Video5:08
SciShow

The Sun's Center Is 39,000 Years Younger Than Its Surface

12th - Higher Ed
In the early 1960s, Richard Feynman was quoted as saying that Earth's center should be a day or two younger than its surface. 50 years later, scientists re-did the math.
Instructional Video4:25
SciShow

Solar Flares and a Virtual Universe

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space takes you inside solar flares, and how we've managed to get the best look at one yet, along with news about a new, Web-based simulation of the earliest days of the universe that you can explore yourself!
Instructional Video4:06
Be Smart

The Scale of the Universe

12th - Higher Ed
From the very large to the very small, the universe is an amazing place. Here's my favorite ways to explore its scale.
Instructional Video2:42
MinutePhysics

How Perspective Shapes Reality

12th - Higher Ed
This video is about how the way we describe the world can influence the way we perceive it. In particular, with regards to Bohmian mechanics, Schrodinger wave functions, Feynman path integrals, and Galilean moons attached to Jupiter by...
Instructional Video5:10
MinutePhysics

Einstein's Biggest Blunder, Explained

12th - Higher Ed
This video is about how Albert Einstein made a mistake when applying the Field Equations of General Relativity to cosmology (in particular, to a static, constant density universe), and solved the problem by introducing the cosmological...
Instructional Video5:14
Be Smart

Attack of the Cosmic Space Junk!

12th - Higher Ed
No astronauts were harmed in the making of this video.