Instructional Video13:57
SciShow

Why Does Physics Love Donuts? | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
Unfortunately, the universe isn't made of sugarcoated fried dough. However, here are a few ways donuts are still managing to find their way into the physical world.
Instructional Video10:36
PBS

The Arrow of Time and How to Reverse It

12th - Higher Ed
Ever wish you could travel backward in time and do things differently? Good news: the laws of physics seem to say traveling backward in time is the same as traveling forwards. So why do we seem to be stuck in this inexorable flow towards...
Instructional Video14:41
PBS

The Holographic Universe Explained

12th - Higher Ed
The holographic principle emerged from many subtle clues – clues discovered over decades of theoretical exploration of the universe. Over the past several months on Space Time, we’ve seen those close clues, and we’ve built a the...
Instructional Video7:42
SciShow

The Giant of Nanoscience

12th - Higher Ed
Mildred Dresselhaus was a giant in the field of nanoscience. She didn't invent anything you have in your home right now, but she made it possible for us to have self-charging phones, smarter refrigerators, and more.
Instructional Video1:43
MinutePhysics

How to Simulate the Universe on your Laptop

12th - Higher Ed
One Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in one minute!
Instructional Video10:46
SciShow

The 4 Greatest Mysteries of Physics

12th - Higher Ed
There are still some great mysteries of our universe that physicists can't explain. How is that possible? Join us as we break down the 4 greatest mysteries of physics in this episode of SciShow hosted by Michael Aranda!
Instructional Video4:54
SciShow

Nadine The Robot Is Amazing And Creepy

12th - Higher Ed
Nadine the robot has been unveiled, and as robotics technology gets more advanced, humanoid robots are looking more and more human. In this episode of SciShow News we explore how Nadine works and why a lot of people find it creepy.
News Clip4:04
PBS

Author Lauren Wilkinson Answers Your Questions About ‘American Spy’

12th - Higher Ed
Lauren Wilkinson, author of our June pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions about “American Spy.”
Instructional Video7:51
PBS

A Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres

12th - Higher Ed
Higher dimensional spheres, or hyperspheres, are counter-intuitive and almost impossible to visualize. Mathematician Kelsey Houston-Edwards explains higher dimensional spheres and how recent revelations in sphere packing have exposed...
Instructional Video10:33
SciShow

4 of Physics’ (Other) Greatest Mysteries

12th - Higher Ed
Physicists are interested in the big questions like "Where did we come from?" and "What is all this stuff?". But the answers to some of these questions, just lead to more questions.
Instructional Video19:07
TED Talks

TED: Making sense of string theory | Brian Greene

12th - Higher Ed
Physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe.
Instructional Video10:35
PBS

Can We Hear Shapes?

12th - Higher Ed
Mathematician Mark Kac asked the question "Can we hear the shape of a drum?" It was a question that took over 20 years to answer. Sine waves, fundamental frequencies, eigenvalues, this episode has got it all!
Instructional Video9:26
TED Talks

Olafur Eliasson: Playing with space and light

12th - Higher Ed
In the spectacular large-scale projects he's famous for (such as "Waterfalls" in New York harbor), Olafur Eliasson creates art from a palette of space, distance, color and light. This idea-packed talk begins with an experiment in the...
Instructional Video11:56
TED Talks

TED: The dream we haven't dared to dream | Dan Pallotta

12th - Higher Ed
What are your dreams? Better yet, what are your broken dreams? Dan Pallotta dreams of a time when we are as excited, curious and scientific about the development of our humanity as we are about the development of our technology. "What we...
Instructional Video4:12
Be Smart

Why Your Brain Is In Your Head

12th - Higher Ed
Part 1 of 3 in my series about why our bodies are shaped the way they are.
Instructional Video14:49
PBS

Dissecting Hypercubes with Pascal's Triangle

12th - Higher Ed
What does the inside of a tesseract look like? Pascal's Triangle can tell us.
Instructional Video6:30
SciShow

What If the Universe Was Shaped Like a Donut?

12th - Higher Ed
The universe could be a donut in a fourth spatial dimension. Which would mean that we could potentially see our own galaxy repeated from the past... Our 3D brains aren't ready for this.
Instructional Video9:37
Crash Course

Vectors and 2D Motion: Crash Course Physics

12th - Higher Ed
Continuing in our journey of understanding motion, direction, and velocity... today, Shini introduces the ideas of Vectors and Scalars so we can better understand how to figure out motion in 2 Dimensions. But what does that have to do...
Instructional Video4:06
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Did Shakespeare write his plays? - Natalya St. Clair and Aaron Williams

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Some people question whether Shakespeare really wrote the works that bear his name _ or whether he even existed at all. Could it be true that the greatest writer in the English language was as fictional as his plays? Natalya St. Clair...
Instructional Video3:29
Bozeman Science

Spacetime

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the dimensions of space and time are combined in relativistic mechanics. Gravity and velocity can affect both space and time according to Albert Einstein's Special Law of Relativity.
Instructional Video2:02
MinutePhysics

There is No Fourth Dimension

12th - Higher Ed
Just because there are four dimensions doesn't mean there's a "fourth dimension"
Instructional Video8:31
Bozeman Science

Magnetic Force

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen explains how a charge particle will experience a magnetic force when it is moving through a magnetic field. The right-hand rule is described as a method for determining the direction of the force. The...
Instructional Video4:54
SciShow

Nadine The Robot Is Amazing And Creepy

12th - Higher Ed
Nadine the robot has been unveiled, and as robotics technology gets more advanced, humanoid robots are looking more and more human. In this episode of SciShow News we explore how Nadine works and why a lot of people find it creepy.
Instructional Video13:26
Curated Video

How Can Space and Time Be Part of the Same Thing?

12th - Higher Ed
New ReviewSUMMARY What is Spacetime? Are space and time the same thing? Space was thought to be nothing, an empty void with no matter in it. In 1908, Hermann Minkowski postulated that time could be thought of as a 4th dimension along with the...