Instructional Video7:44
SciShow Kids

How Eyes Let Us See The World | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
New ReviewSqueaks is heading on a trip around the world! He's going to see so much, and wants Jessi to experience those sights, too. In this episode, he learns about how humans (and a couple of other animal guests) see.
Instructional Video14:20
Bozeman Science

Scientific and Technical Information

12th - Higher Ed
New ReviewIn this video Paul Andersen shows you how to INSERTPRACTICE in a mini-lesson on INSERTTITLEHERE. Two examples are included in the video and two additional examples are included in the linked thinking slides.
Instructional Video7:15
SciShow

These Lakes Shouldn't Be Three Different Colors

12th - Higher Ed
On top of a volcano in Indonesia, there are three lakes. But these three neighbors couldn't be more different, since each of them is a different vivid hue. Let's talk about the weird chemistry atop Keli Mutu Volcano and the three...
Instructional Video2:50
MinuteEarth

All Plants Have Color Vision?

12th - Higher Ed
Plants can tell when competitors are nearby because they can see them.
Instructional Video5:02
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: What are those colors you see when you rub your eyes? | Paul CJ Taylor

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In the 1600s, Isaac Newton conducted a series of experiments to better understand the lights and colors that sometimes appear when your eyes are closed. If you’ve ever sat around an evening campfire or unintentionally glanced at the Sun,...
Instructional Video2:18
MinutePhysics

This is Not a Rainbow

12th - Higher Ed
This is Not a Rainbow
Instructional Video3:34
MinutePhysics

Computer Color is Broken

12th - Higher Ed
Computer Color is Broken
Instructional Video2:14
MinuteEarth

Why Are Leaves Green? Part 1

12th - Higher Ed
Have you ever wondered why leaves are green and not red, blue, or even black? We did too!
Instructional Video2:15
MinutePhysics

How Do We Know What Air is Like on Other Planets?

12th - Higher Ed
How do we know what the air is like on planets we haven't visited? This video explains how to see air from 150 light years away. Thanks to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope project at the Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting...
Instructional Video7:44
SciShow

The Solar System is Beige

12th - Higher Ed
Whether you grew up with a poster of the solar system on your bedroom wall or not, you've probably got a specific idea of what the planets look like. From brilliantly blue Neptune to the "red planet" Mars. But if you managed to actually...
Instructional Video6:09
SciShow

What Color Was the Big Bang?

12th - Higher Ed
If you could survive a trip to the very first moments of reality as we know it, what color would you see?
Instructional Video7:46
SciShow

This Crystal Is ELECTRIC

12th - Higher Ed
There's a few minerals that exhibit something called piezoelectricity and pyroelectricity, which mean that either heat or pressure can turn them electric. Here's a demo from the SciShow Rocks Box where you can see this for yourself - all...
Instructional Video4:57
SciShow

Life on an 8-Hour Planet

12th - Higher Ed
Even if we find an earth-sized exoplanet, how can we be so sure that we're looking at earth 2.0? It might come down to how fast it's spinning.
Instructional Video4:58
SciShow

How Do You Find the Moon’s Best Picnic Spot?

12th - Higher Ed
Living on the moon won't be easy, but it might be worth taking a note from our ancestors, and setting up in caves
Instructional Video3:51
SciShow

No One Knows Where These Gems Came From

12th - Higher Ed
Montana sapphires come in a beautiful array of colors found in a few other places in the world. But geologists have no idea where they originated.
Instructional Video5:58
SciShow

The Ocean’s Turning Green (That’s Bad)

12th - Higher Ed
Computer models of climate change have long predicted that the ocean would turn green as a result of warming. But the change can't be seen by the human eye, so scientists weren't sure how they'd measure this effect... until it turned out...
Instructional Video4:25
SciShow

The Sun Is Green

12th - Higher Ed
The Sun is green, actually. We'll go into why the blackbody effect means the Sun emits more green visible light than any other color, and why evolution and color perception mean it's ok to see it as yellow, anyway.
Instructional Video2:58
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 Video5:07
SciShow

3 of the World's Most Intensely Colored Living Things

12th - Higher Ed
For most living things the color you see when you look at them is determined by pigments. But some of the most vivid colors we see in nature get their signature looks WITHOUT colorful molecules. How do these intense colors get their power?
Instructional Video7:29
SciShow

Some Of You Can See The Invisible

12th - Higher Ed
We know that not everyone's vision is perfect, which is why some of us need glasses. But some people can also just see more stuff than others! From seeing UV and infrared light, to even having bonus color receptors in our eyes, there are...
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

Do Those Glasses Really Fix Colorblindness?

12th - Higher Ed
You've seen those viral videos of colorblind people putting on special glasses and reacting to colors they've never seen before! Today, we'll explore how colorblindness works and what those glasses try to do to fix it! Hosted by: Hank Green
Instructional Video5:21
SciShow

Biofluorescence: A Neon World Hidden in Plain Sight

12th - Higher Ed
Lots of life on Earth can fluoresce, creating a beautiful neon world of camouflage, communication, and adaptation that is hidden from the human eye.
Instructional Video10:24
SciShow

6 Delightfully Goth Animals

12th - Higher Ed
When you see a black cat, you might think of witches and goth bands, but they're also a great example of a melanistic animal, and they're not the only ones!
Instructional Video10:04
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! Hosted by: Michael Aranda