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The First Room Temperature Superconductor! (Still No Hoverboards) | SciShow News
Hot off the presses, this week has been cool! Researchers have discovered the first room-temperature superconductor, and another group has created a type of paint that actually stays cooler than the environment around it!
SciShow Kids
What is a Blizzard? | Winter Science | Weather Science | SciShow Kids
Usually when it's snowing outside, it's really calm, pretty, and fun to play in! But there are certain types of big snowstorms, called blizzards, that can get really windy, wild, and even dangerous!
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Talk Show: Human Orgasms & Daisy, the Boa Constrictor
This week on SciShow Talk Show Hank talks with Dr. Lindsey Doe about the female orgasm. Special guest Jessi Knudsen Castañeda brings Daisy, a curious Boa Constrictor.
TED Talks
TED: Rethink the desktop with BumpTop | Anand Agarawala
Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file navigation into a freewheeling playground of crumpled documents and clipping-covered "walls."
SciShow Kids
4 Facts to Know About Reindeer
It's getting really cold where Jessi and Squeaks live, and that has her thinking about a super cool animal that's always ready for super cold weather: Reindeer!
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SciShow Talk Show! Peter, Self-healing Skin, & Professor Claw the Emperor Scorpion
Featuring Peter Winkler, our SciShow graphics guru, and Professor Claw, the emperor scorpion. We decided it would be cool to have guests come into the studio and talk about science with Hank. in this episode, Peter and Hank discuss the...
TED Talks
Sirena Huang: An 11-year-old's magical violin
Violinist Sirena Huang gives a technically brilliant and emotionally nuanced performance. In a charming interlude, the 11-year-old praises the timeless design of her instrument.
SciShow
Why Do We Yawn
Why do we yawn? If you think the answer is BOR-ing, then maybe your brain's just overheated. Let Hank explain the new thinking behind why we ... hold on ... *yawn*. Excuse me.
SciShow Kids
What Is the Sun Made Of? | Dr. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Have you ever wondered what the sun is made of? Dr. Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin wondered that, too, and she used science to figure out the answer! Find out how she did that and more about her amazing life and...
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The Terrifying Fish with Transparent Teeth
The deep-sea dragonfish is a predator that lives deep in the Pacific Ocean. Like many other deep sea predators, it's got an oversized jaw and a bioluminescent appendage to attract prey, but it does have one weird (and strangely useful)...
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Could Dark Matter Stars Exist?
Most of the universe is made up of dark matter, so could it form into stars and galaxies like regular matter?
TED Talks
Uldus Bakhtiozina: Wry photos that turn stereotypes upside down
Artist Uldus Bakhtiozina uses photographs to poke fun at societal norms in her native Russia. A glimpse into Russian youth culture and a short, fun reminder not to take ourselves too seriously.
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The Simple Molecule Behind Our Complex Universe
All the complexity in the universe ultimately owes its existence to one of the simplest materials possible: molecular hydrogen. And not only did this molecule play a huge role in building the universe as we know it, today, it also helps...
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The 100-Year Mystery of the Diffuse Interstellar Bands
Diffuse interstellar bands were first discovered in 1919 and since then scientists have found nearly 500 of them. How many do we understand? Only one.
SciShow Kids
Watch Soap Grow!
Jessi and Squeaks just did a really cool and easy experiment: they put a special kind of soap in the microwave and made it grow! Now they want to do it again to check their results and figure out how it happened!
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Weird Places: The Lava Lake in Antarctica
What could be cooler than a permanent lava lake surrounded by snow!?
TED Talks
TED: Nerdcore comedy | Ze Frank
Performer and web toymaker Ze Frank delivers a hilarious nerdcore standup routine, then tells us what he's seriously passionate about: helping people create and interact using simple, addictive web tools.
SciShow
5 Creepy Weather Phenomena That Shouldn't Be Allowed
Weather isn’t all sunshine and rainbows—sometimes it’s rain, and sometimes that rain looks like blood. Chapters 1 BLOOD RAIN 1:39 BLACK RAIN 2:52 BLACK BLIZZARDS 4:36 4 VOLCANIC TORNADOES 7:47 HEAT BURSTS 9:10
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3 Surprising Ways Animals Use Saliva
To humans, drool can seem pretty disgusting, but other animals use saliva in surprising ways. Here are some of the weirdest ways other animals use their spit to survive!
SciShow Kids
How Do Koalas Stay Cool? Animal Science for Kids
Koalas live where it’s often hot and dry. But koalas can’t sweat! So how do they keep cool? Jessi has the answer!
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There’s a Birth Control for Stars
Black holes are already pretty extreme, but some stand out among their peers, driving cosmic engines that outshines the rest of the galaxy and even serving as birth control for stars!
TED Talks
TED: Could fish social networks help us save coral reefs? | Mike Gil
Mike Gil spies on fish: using novel multi-camera systems and computer vision technology, the TED Fellow and his colleagues explore how coral reef fish behave, socialize and affect their ecosystems. Learn more about how fish of different...
Bozeman Science
PS2B - Types of Interactions
Paul Andersen explains how objects interact when touching and at a distance. Electromagnetic forces are very important when objects are touching and fields explain both electromagnetic and gravitational forces. The strong and weak...
SciShow Kids
Animal Guessing Game! | Compilation | SciShow Kids
Squeaks and Jessi are spending the afternoon playing "Guess That Animal" and learning about some of their favorites!