TED Talks
TED: How humanity can reach the stars | Philip Lubin
Could we exit our solar system, and enter another? Astrophysicist Philip Lubin discusses the awesome potential of using lasers to propel small spacecraft, enabling humanity's first interstellar missions. Learn how this transformative...
SciShow
A Surprisingly Simple Secret to Supersonic Flight
Making a faster plane takes more than building better engines and structures. To go supersonic, engineers had to solve hundreds of problems -- including ditching one of the biggest assumptions in aerodynamics!
MinutePhysics
Spacetime Intervals: Not EVERYTHING is Relative | Special Relativity Ch. 7
This video is chapter 7 in my series on special relativity, and it covers the idea that some things AREN'T relative: there IS a sense of absolute length and absolute time, which can be agreed upon from all moving perspectives (as long as...
MinutePhysics
Common Physics Misconceptions
What if you thought the earth was flat? And then you found out it isn't?
SciShow
New Jupiter Discoveries from the Juno Mission!
The Juno spacecraft has been making close flybys of Jupiter and its measurements have revealed some new things about Jupiter’s interior. And astronomers were surprised after putting together the most complete atmospheric profile that’s...
SciShow
Why Are Rockets Launched in Florida?
Out of all the locations NASA could have chosen in the U.S., why Florida?
PBS
The Speed of Light is NOT About Light
The speed of light is often cited as the fastest anything can travel in our universe. While this might be true, the speed of light is the EFFECT and not the CAUSE of this phenomenon. So what's the cause? On this week's episode of Space...
MinutePhysics
How Long Is A Day On The Sun?
This video is about the definition of a day, and how it applies (or not) on the sun. Solar day, sidereal day, universal coordinated time (UTC) day, etc. Length of a day.
PBS
When Time Breaks Down
We learned how motion gives matter its mass, but how does motion affect time? Let's dive deeper into the true nature of matter and mass by exploring Einstein's photon clock thought experiment, and the phenomenon that is time dilation.
TED Talks
TED: What a driverless world could look like | Wanis Kabbaj
What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we can find inspiration in the genius of our biology to design the transit systems of the...
Bozeman Science
Conservation of Linear Momentum
In this video Paul Andersen explains how linear momentum is conserved in all collisions. In completely elastic collisions the kinetic energy of the objects is also maintained. Several examples and demonstrations are included.
PBS
Will Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?
Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Starshot is an interstellar travel expedition unlike any other before it. It's many years in the making and is contingent on a series of incredible advancements in nanotechnology, materials science and laser...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: If superpowers were real: Super strength - Joy Lin
What if super strength wasn't just the stuff of epic comic book stories? Is it scientifically possible to be super strong? In this series, Joy Lin tackles six superpowers and reveals just how scientifically realistic they can be to us...
MinutePhysics
The Higgs Boson, Part II - What is Mass?
What is mass and what does it have to do with the Higgs Boson?
SciShow
Space Superlatives of 2020!
2020 wasn't ALL bad news. This year scientists found ludicrously fast stars, ancient galaxy clusters, and developed a camera that could change how we study the night sky.
Bozeman Science
Unit 4 Review - Homeostasis
Paul Andersen reviews the major concepts within the fourth unit of the new AP Biology framework. He begins by differentiating between negative and positive feedback loops. He explains how a stable internal environment is maintained...
SciShow
Hank and Michael Meet an Alien: SciShow Talk Show #4
In this episode, Michael attempts to stump Hank and then they meet Kemo and Jessi from Animal Wonders.
SciShow
The Arizona Fireball and Planet Nine's Origins
An asteroid streaked across Arizona's night sky, and we have a new theory on where the hypothetical Planet Nine came from.
SciShow
Blazars Are A Thing
Hank explains how quasars and blazars are both the same thing - just oriented differently in respect to us - and how that impacts the way we perceive them and how it also effects the ways we can study them.
SciShow
Great Minds: Robert Goddard, Original Rocket Scientist
Get to know Robert Goddard, one of the original rocket scientists!
TED Talks
Edward Burtynsky: Photographing the landscape of oil
In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine -- and then beyond to the projected peak-oil endgame.
SciShow
How Cosmic Rays and Balloons Started Particle Physics
Today, cosmic rays are used to understand things like supernovas, but in the early 1900s, they helped us discover brand-new subatomic particles long before the first accelerators.
SciShow
This New Star Is a Ticking Time Bomb - SciShow News
We might be sitting next to the largest bomb in the galaxy and NASA's InSight lander will touch down on Mars this Monday!
SciShow
Why Scientists Want to Build a Shoebox-Sized Particle Accelerator
If you want to make particles move really fast, you have to build a particle accelerator that is really big, right? Not anymore!