SciShow
The Cosmic Lasers That Form in Outer Space
Lasers are incredible narrow beams of light we can use to do everything from cutting metal to operating on people's eyeballs. But even though we came up with the idea on our own, humans didn’t actually make the first lasers.
SciShow
Taboos of Science
Hank discusses some of the taboos which have plagued scientific inquiry in the past and a few that still exist today.
SciShow
The Tiny Planet Revealing Gravity’s Big Secrets
Mercury’s path through our solar system is, well, a little eccentric, and some of its movements were a mystery astronomers couldn’t explain for a long time. Then, in the early 20th century, Einstein reran the numbers and proved a whole...
MinutePhysics
Albert Einstein: Por Qué la Luz es Cuántica
¡Albert Einstein, tan famoso y tan incomprendido! Explicaremos 4 de sus artículos más impactantes, los de 1905, cuando sólo tenía 26 añitos. ¡Muchas gracias a Marcelo Enrique Anguita Fuentes por apoyarnos en Patreon! Ayudas a que...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Does Time Exist? - Andrew Zimmerman Jones
The earliest time measurements were observations of cycles of the natural world, using patterns of changes from day to night and season to season to build calendars. More precise time-keeping eventually came along to put time in more...
Crash Course
Modern Thought and Culture in 1900: Crash Course European History
Europe was in transition politically and culturally at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, we're looking at the dawn of modern science, and the rise of Modernism in the arts, especially in music, dance, and visual arts. We'll look...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The fundamentals of space-time: Part 3 - Andrew Pontzen and Tom Whyntie
In the first two lessons of this series on space-time, we've dealt with objects moving at constant speeds, with straight world lines, in space-time. But what happens when you throw gravity into the mix? In this third and final lesson,...
MinutePhysics
Premio Nobel 2011: La Energía Oscura feat. QuantumFracture
Hoy hablamos sobre la energía oscura y la aceleración del universo, el descubrimiento que fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de 2011, el 4 de Octubre. MinutoDeFísica proporciona una visión energética y entretenida para los viejos y...
Crash Course
Karl Popper, Science, & Pseudoscience: Crash Course Philosophy
The early 1900s was an amazing time for Western science, as Albert Einstein was developing his theories of relativity and psychology was born, as Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis took over the scientific mainstream. Karl Popper observed...
SciShow
Dark Energy
The universe is huge and getting bigger all the time, and we have we have dark energy - the most mysterious force in the universe - to blame/thank for it. Thought to make up more than 70% of the energy in the whole universe, Hank...
SciShow
How To X-Ray A Black Hole
Black holes are everywhere, including at the center of our galaxy. But because they’re invisible they’re quite difficult to study. Looking at the disks of material surrounding them, however, can give us tons of clues about how they...
Be Smart
Einstein Was Right: Gravitational Waves Edition
A theory of physics 100 years in the making.
SciShow
The Quantum Theory that Connects the Entire Universe
Quantum mechanics is weird and seems a bit...complicated. But understanding it can help us to understand the universe.
Be Smart
Can You Bend Light Like This?
The other day I got bored and noticed this weird thing happened when I held my finger up to my eye, so I had to science it and figure it out! Let me know if you try these light-bending experiments too, especially that last one that I...
MinutePhysics
The Man Who Corrected Einstein
This video is about how Russian physicist Aleksandr Fridman corrected Albert Einstein about the expansion of the universe. Einstein thought that general relativity implied that space had to be static and unchanging, but he had made a...
SciShow
What Is Gravitational Lensing?
Learn more about gravitational lensing with host Caitlin Hofmeister.
SciShow
Quantum Fishing for the Higgs Boson
Hank talks to some VIPs from CERN about the question on everyone's mind: does the Higgs Boson particle exist? And describes how CERN is going about finding the answer. Hank interviewed Sergio Bertolucci on October 11, 2011 and Rolf Heuer...
MinutePhysics
Albert Einstein - The Size and Existence of Atoms
How do we know atoms exist? And just how big are they? Pi day (3.14) is Albert Einstein's Birthday! To celebrate, we'll explain 4 of his most groundbreaking papers from 1905, when he was just 26 years old.
SciShow
The 2017 Solar Eclipse: What You Need to Know
On August 21, 2017, the United States will experience its first total solar eclipse since 1979! If you're in the right place at the right time, you're in for a spectacular show!
MinutePhysics
How to Break the Speed of Light
You can break the speed of light in your back yard! (but don't worry, Einstein is still right)
SciShow
Gravitational Waves Discovered!
Einstein predicted their existence 101 years ago, and now it's official: we've detected gravitational waves directly for the first time ever!
SciShow
Why Gravitational Waves Are a Big Deal
Last week, it was announced that we've detected gravitational waves on Earth. Now, Hank explains what that means for the future and why it's such a huge deal.
MinutePhysics
Why is Relativity Hard? | Special Relativity Chapter 1
Thanks to my friend Mark Rober for making the spacetime globe, and to Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown) for inspiration. This is the first in a series of videos about special relativity. This is definitely not an academic course, but it's...