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The Plants That Live on Artificial Light (and Why That’s Bad)
Plants are finding their ways into caves, and it's all our fault.
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How to Survive a Nuclear Attack
If you want to be prepared for a nuclear attack, here’s a science-based guide to help you get there.
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Looking for Life During a Lunar Eclipse | SciShow News
Astronomers took advantage of a lunar eclipse to study Earth as if it were an exoplanet, and Mars's Insight lander used seismic data to reveal for the first time boundaries between different layers of Mars.
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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...
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Our Smelly Solar System
Sight, sound, and yes, taste, have all helped humanity better understand space, but what about smells? Scientists think we have a pretty good idea of what some places smell like, and decoding astronomical aromas can be a good way of...
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Are Your Eyes Part of Your Brain?
When you think of a brain, you probably imagine that pink, wrinkly organ in your skull, but we don’t have to stop there! Neither the brain’s functions, nor its cells, are confined to the organ we normally think of as the brain.
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Moon dust tricky squid and the worlds biggest telescope
Hank explains the enormity of the Giant Magellan Telescope, possibly the biggest telescope ever built, as well as updates about NASA's new mission to the moon, and an unusual discovery about the habits of deep-sea squid.
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Snell's law proof using springs: Brachistochrone - Part 2 of 2
A clever mechanical proof of Snell's law.
Be Smart
Is Space A Thing?
Since the days of Ancient Greece, philosophers and scientists have been wondering: What is space? Is the absence of things.... a thing? These questions continued to fascinate physicists in the modern era, leading Isaac Newton, Ernst...
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Is The Alcubierre Warp Drive Possible?
Inspired by Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek, physicist Miguel Alcubierre set out to transform one of the cornerstones of science fiction iconography, the Warp Drive, into reality. But is it even possible? Can we "warp" the fabric of reality...
PBS
How to See Black Holes + Kugelblitz Challenge Answer
Quasars, X-ray Binaries and Supermassive voids at the center of our galaxies .... black holes take many forms. In this episode Matt tells us what these different types of black holes are and how scientists are using VLBI, Very Long...
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The Science of Typhoon Haiyan and Neutrino Astronomy
Michael Aranda sits in for Hank to talk about the forces of nature that conspired to form Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest tropical cyclone ever measured. Plus, what's neutrino astronomy? You're about to find out, because it's a thing now,...
TED Talks
TED: How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains | Mary Lou Jepsen
In a series of mind-bending demos, inventor Mary Lou Jepsen shows how we can use red light to see and potentially stimulate what's inside our bodies and brains. Taking us to the edge of optical physics, Jepsen unveils new technologies...
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9 Weird Ways Animals See the World
Eyes have been around for a long time, like... half a billion years or so... and in that time, animals have evolved lots of amazing ways to observe the world around them!
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TMT: The World’s Most Controversial Telescope
What exactly is the Thirty Meter Telescope, and why is the proposed location in Hawai'i such a conflict?
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Our Favorites | Compilation
Jessi and Squeaks are packing up for a long trip, but before saying goodbye, wanted to share some of their favorite videos.
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Nuclear Pasta May Be the Strongest Material Ever - SciShow News
There is some super weird, noodley stuff inside neutron stars and scientists have found evidence that black holes can have strange geometries.
Crash Course
Everything, The Universe ...And Life
Here it is, folks: the end. In our final episode of Crash Course Astronomy, Phil gives the course a send off with a look at some of his favorite topics and the big questions that Astronomy allows us to ask.
Bozeman Science
E=mc2
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the conservation of mass was replaced with the conservation of mass-energy when it was determined that they are equivalent. This famous equation not only show the mass-energy equivalence but can...
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Weird Places: The Glowing Blue Lava at Kawah Ijen
Maybe you've seen pictures of glowing blue lava flows and dismissed them as Photoshop trickery. Healthy skepticism is good, but there really is a volcano in Indonesia where a unique fluke of chemistry creates an eerie blue glow.
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Migraines Not Just Another Headache
If you've never had a migraine, you might think it's just a really bad headache. But if you've ever had them, or you know someone who does, you know that they're much worse -- and much more complicated -- than that. Hank explains the...
Be Smart
Amazing Animal Superpowers
Evolution has come up with some pretty amazing ways to get things done when it comes to animals, plants and microbes. From radiation-resistant bacteria (like Dr. Manhattan) to geckos who climb glass using atomic adhesion (like Spider...
TED Talks
Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu: A mouse. A laser beam. A manipulated memory.
Can we edit the content of our memories? It's a sci-fi-tinged question that Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu are asking in their lab at MIT. Essentially, the pair shoot a laser beam into the brain of a living mouse to activate and manipulate its...
TED Talks
TED: The secret US prisons you've never heard of before | Will Potter
Investigative journalist Will Potter is the only reporter who has been inside a Communications Management unit, or CMu, within a uS prison. These units were opened secretly, and radically alter how prisoners are treated -- even...