Instructional Video4:33
SciShow

The Solar Storm That Almost Started World War III

12th - Higher Ed
May 23rd, 1967 could have been the beginning of the end - all thanks to the sun.
Instructional Video9:30
Crash Course

What is space and how do we study it Crash Course Geography

12th - Higher Ed
Today we're going to talk about SPAAAAAACE, but not like stars and satellites and stuff. Instead, we're going to talk about geographic space. In geography, we can look at the world and the places and spaces we inhabit with four distinct...
Instructional Video4:46
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: What's a smartphone made of? - Kim Preshoff

Pre-K - Higher Ed
As of 2018, there are around 2.5 billion smartphone users in the world. If we broke open all the newest phones and split them into their component parts, that would produce around 85,000 kg of gold, 875,000 of silver, and 40,000,000 of...
Instructional Video3:51
SciShow

Breaking News There’s an Earth-like Planet Next Door!

12th - Higher Ed
The rumors are true! There's an Earth-like planet orbiting our neighboring star!
Instructional Video6:04
SciShow

3 Times We Captured Physical Pieces of the Sun

12th - Higher Ed
It's tricky to study the particles of our Sun because Earth’s magnetic field deflects them, but scientists have found ways to do it! They're helping us understand things like the Sun’s origin, what it's made of, and how it might affect...
Instructional Video4:05
SciShow

Does Dark Matter Cause Extinctions?

12th - Higher Ed
New discoveries into two weird things that may have played havoc with the ancient solar system: dark matter and a wandering star.
Instructional Video7:31
SciShow

The Nicest Neighborhoods in the Universe

12th - Higher Ed
What does it really take for a planet to be habitable? It turns out, certain parts of a star system, a galaxy, and even the universe as we know it, are more habitable than others. Get to know them as Hank takes you on a tour of some of...
Instructional Video6:37
SciShow

Denisovans: Our Mysterious Cousins That Made Us Better

12th - Higher Ed
During most of the past 2 million years or so, there were several species of hominins on Earth at any given time. Like, you might be familiar with our famous extinct cousins, the Neanderthals. But since 2010 we’ve been uncovering...
Instructional Video3:27
SciShow

3 Ways to Save Earth from an Asteroid

12th - Higher Ed
Hank gives us the skinny on three plans NASA scientists have come up with to save Earth from an asteroid impact. Hopefully we'll never have to use any of them.
Instructional Video5:15
SciShow

We Almost Didn't See the North Pole Space Hurricane | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Astrophysicists have discovered an exoplanet that lost its atmosphere, but then, somehow, grew it back! Also, astronomers used satellite data to find a magnetic hurricane above the north pole that we almost missed!
Instructional Video6:12
SciShow

The First Time We Saw All of Venus: The Magellan Mission

12th - Higher Ed
NASA’s Magellan mission gave us unprecedented insight into Venus’s rocky surface, and even now, more than 25 years after the mission ended, it’s still one of our main tools for learning about our mysterious, next-door neighbor.
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

The First-Ever Map of Mars’s Interior

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve done a surprising amount of exploration on Mars, from its atmosphere, to its surface, and miles deep into its canyons. But mapping its insides has been a quandary that we hadn’t been able to solve until last week!
Instructional Video5:28
SciShow

The Cosmic Ladder That Lets Us Map the Universe

12th - Higher Ed
Considering how massive our universe is, we know the distances to cosmic objects surprisingly well. What tools and clues do scientists use to measure distances that are so enormous they sound like made-up numbers?
Instructional Video5:30
SciShow

How We Learned Black Holes Actually Exist | 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

12th - Higher Ed
Did you know Einstein never thought we’d find actual black holes in space? It took decades of research to show black holes are physically possible, and some of the scientists behind that research were honored this year with the Nobel...
Instructional Video12:48
TED Talks

Jacqueline Novogratz: Invest in Africa's own solutions

12th - Higher Ed
Jacqueline Novogratz applauds the world's heightened interest in Africa and poverty, but argues persuasively for a new approach.
Instructional Video7:23
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Calculating the odds of intelligent alien life - Jill Tarter

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Could there be intelligent life on other planets? This question has piqued imagination and curiosity for decades. Explore the answer with the Drake Equation -- a mathematical formula that calculates the possibility of undiscovered life.
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 Video4:48
SciShow

Could Life Be Older Than Earth?

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space explores new theories about the timing of the development of life on Earth, and elsewhere in the universe.
Instructional Video4:13
SciShow

Titan's "Magic Island" and A Triple Black Hole!

12th - Higher Ed
Join Caitlin Hoffmeister in this episode of SciShow Space News as we explore the universe!
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 Video5:41
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 Video7:54
Be Smart

Tuatara All the Way Down

12th - Higher Ed
During the 2017 Project For Awesome livestream, I promised I'd make a tuatara video if we hit our fundraising goal, and I'm a man of my word! Little did I know I'd get to meet a tuatara and learn things about a 200 million year old...