Instructional Video3:02
SciShow

These Beetles Are Bright and Shiny… For Camouflage

12th - Higher Ed
Jewel beetles are pretty eye-catching with their glossy, bright coloration. But if you were a small creature that needed to avoid predators, you might think that eye-catching is the last thing you'd want to be. But it turns out that...
Instructional Video10:14
SciShow

5 Animals With Superpowered Senses

12th - Higher Ed
From the ability to see “invisible” types of light to the power to taste all over their body, meet five incredible animals whose super senses far surpass our own! Chapters STAR-NOSED MOLES 3:04 HARBOR SEALS 4:56 CATFISH 6:49 BEARS 8:26
Instructional Video8:53
TED Talks

Marjan van Aubel: The beautiful future of solar power

12th - Higher Ed
The Sun delivers more energy to Earth in one hour than all of humanity uses in an entire year. How can we make this power more accessible to everyone, everywhere? Solar designer Marjan van Aubel shows how she's turning everyday objects...
Instructional Video2:43
Be Smart

Why is the sky any color?

12th - Higher Ed
Why is the sky blue? It's a question that you'd think kids have been asking for thousands of years, but it might not be that old at all. The ancient Greek poet Homer never used a word for blue in The Odyssey or The Iliad, because blue is...
Instructional Video3:22
SciShow

Colorfully Camouflaging Cuttlefish Are Colorblind

12th - Higher Ed
Colorfully Camouflaging Cuttlefish Are Colorblind
Instructional Video9:36
SciShow

5 Types of Awesome Glass Made by Nature

12th - Higher Ed
When it comes to sparkly objects, the planet Earth has a lot to offer. Here are 5 especially awesome glasses made by nature! chapters OBSIDIAN 0:57 2 OPAL 4:09 3 TEKTITES 5:46 FULGURITE 6:27 GLASS SPONGES 8:07
Instructional Video2:53
MinutePhysics

This is Not a Rainbow

12th - Higher Ed
This is Not a Rainbow
Instructional Video10:23
Crash Course

Light

12th - Higher Ed
In order to understand how we study the universe, we need to talk a little bit about light. Light is a form of energy. Its wavelength tells us its energy and color. Spectroscopy allows us to analyze those colors and determine an object’s...
Instructional Video4:37
SciShow

How Studying Animals Is Helping Us Make Better Drones

12th - Higher Ed
Drone technology has advanced a lot in the last few decades, but our flying robots still have a lot to learn about navigation, agility, and adaptability from animals that have been flying for millions of years.
Instructional Video4:25
SciShow

Why is Indigo in the Rainbow?

12th - Higher Ed
Indigo may be a very vague and unnecessary color, but it has an interesting history that involves some plants, turmoil, and Isaac Newton's interest in the number seven.
Instructional Video3:07
SciShow

Strong Interaction: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #1a

12th - Higher Ed
Part one of a four part series on the fundamental forces (or interactions) of physics begins with the strong force or strong interaction - which on the small scale holds quarks together to form protons, neutrons and other hadron particles.
Instructional Video2:13
SciShow

How Many Colors Can We See?

12th - Higher Ed
Quick Questions cracks the code of color vision, color blindness, and even newly discovered sort of technicolor vision!
Instructional Video4:00
SciShow

Does Color Really Affect How You Act?

12th - Higher Ed
The Internet has a lot to say about how color affects our mood and behavior, but it's not as cut and dry as it may sound.
Instructional Video5:18
SciShow Kids

Why Are Foods Many Colors? | The Science of Colors! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Jessi helps Squeaks learn about why foods can be so many tasty-looking colors!
Instructional Video9:38
Crash Course

Vision: Crash Course A&P

12th - Higher Ed
Next stop in our tour of your sensory systems? VISION. With a little help from an optical illusion, we take a look inside your eyes to try to figure out how your sense of vision works -- and how it can be tricked. *** Table of Contents...
Instructional Video4:54
Bozeman Science

Light Absorption, Reflection, and Transmission

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen explains how light can be absorbed, reflected, or transmitted as it moves from one medium to another. The reflection of different wavelengths creates the perceived color of an object. Absorbed light is...
Instructional Video8:50
SciShow

Are Colors Real?

12th - Higher Ed
The sky is blue, but according to whom? Could the rules of our language affect the way we perceive color?
Instructional Video2:33
SciShow

How Do Fabric Brighteners Work?

12th - Higher Ed
Fabric brighteners can liven up your old, faded clothing. But they don’t actually clean your clothes, and they’re often banned in the military!
Instructional Video3:56
SciShow Kids

How Do We See Color?

K - 5th
Have you ever taken a bite from a bright red apple and wondered why it looks red to you? Jessi and Squeaks talk about how our eyes and brains help us see color!
Instructional Video5:18
Bozeman Science

Emission and Absorption Spectra

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the photons emitted from or absorbed by an atom or nuclei is directly related to electrons moving between energy level. Absorption and emission are a direct result of the conservation of energy....
Instructional Video3:01
Bozeman Science

Electromagnetic Radiation

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen details the waves in electromagnetic radiation. There is an inverse relation between the wavelength and frequency of electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetic radiation includes gamma rays, x-rays, infrared...
Instructional Video3:58
SciShow

Over the Rainbow: LeVar Burton Explains How DOUBLE Rainbows Form

12th - Higher Ed
Take a look... A VERY special guest, LeVar Burton, explains how Double Rainbows are formed.
Instructional Video14:36
SciShow Kids

All About Your Body! | Human Body Compilation

K - 5th
The human body is a complicated thing! To be able to move, fight off diseases, and even see colors, lots of different systems and organs need to work together. Squeaks' robot body is pretty complicated, too, so Jessi has put together a...
Instructional Video2:17
SciShow

How Do Rainbows Form?

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow explains how three important ingredients -- sunlight, water, and you -- interact to create the illusion of a rainbow. The colorful details are inside!