TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can you solve the risky disk riddle? | James Tanton
Your antivirus squad is up against a code that's hijacked your mainframe. What you've learned from other infected systems, right before they went dark, is that it likes to toy with antivirus agents in a very peculiar way— and you're the...
SciShow
3 Solar Systems Scientists Still Don’t Understand
From gigantic planets too close to their stars, to those in unfathomably wide orbits, astronomers have discovered seemingly impossible solar systems that shouldn’t exist at all. But they do.
SciShow
3 Times We Captured Physical Pieces of the Sun
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...
SciShow
Does Dark Matter Cause Extinctions?
New discoveries into two weird things that may have played havoc with the ancient solar system: dark matter and a wandering star.
SciShow
Why Galaxies are Fidget Spinners #shorts #science
Why Galaxies are Fidget Spinners #shorts #science
SciShow
Can We Redirect Asteroids like in Armageddon? | SciShow News
If you think punching an asteroid to knock it off the course to Earth’s destruction is purely for science fiction, you might only be right a for a little longer! Plus, scientists are being thrown for a loop with the orbits of planets...
SciShow
IDTIMWYTIM Equinox Stupid Latin
In this edition of IDTIMWYTIM, Hank explains why the common understanding of "equinox" is wrong, what the equinox actually is, and then rages a little against astronomers and their stupid confusing Latin terms.
SciShow
We Might Be Wrong About Planet Formation
Though we’ve been able detect thousands of exoplanets in the last few decades, we’ve now directly imaged an exoplanet that changes our whole perspective on how we think planets like Jupiter form!
TED Talks
John Maeda: My journey in design
Designer John Maeda talks about his path from a Seattle tofu factory to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he became president in 2008. Maeda, a tireless experimenter and a witty observer, explores the crucial moment when design...
SciShow
The Most Metal Planet Fragment Ever
Scientists have discovered a shard of a planet that survived the death of its star and TESS has found the first direct evidence of an exocomet.
PBS
Proving Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
There is a proof for Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem that uses a bridge - or portal - between geometry and algebra.
SciShow
ALMA: What We've Learned from One of the Best Telescopes on Earth
Move over Hubble, ALMA sees what you can't!
TED Talks
Sarah T. Stewart: Where did the Moon come from? A new theory
The Earth and Moon are like identical twins, made up of the exact same materials -- which is really strange, since no other celestial bodies we know of share this kind of chemical relationship. What's responsible for this special...
SciShow
Fun in the Summer Sun… on Saturn
For 13 years, the Cassini probe circled Saturn and sent back fascinating data about the seasons of Saturn as it moved through a 29 Earth year Saturnian year.
SciShow
5D, Holograms, & DNA: Amazing Hard Drives of the Future
Today's data storage solutions have an expiration date. What's on the horizon to replace them?
SciShow
Why the Oceans Are Getting Darker
You’d never tell just by staring out from a sandy beach, but the coasts are gradually getting darker, and the effects of this darkening are only beginning to be understood.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How do hard drives work? - Kanawat Senanan
The modern hard drive is an object that can likely hold more information than your local library. But how does it store so much information in such a small space? Kanawat Senanan details the generations of engineers, material scientists,...
SciShow
3 Ways We Know What the Ancient Solar System Was Like
The New Horizons spacecraft has given us lots of clues about the early days of our solar system, but we don't always have to travel billions of kilometers to peer into our past.
TED-Ed
Can you solve the monster duel riddle? | Alex Gendler
You've come a long way to compete in the great Diskymon league and prove yourself a Diskymon master. Now that you've made it to the finals, you're up against some tough competition. In round one, you'll face a single opponent and get to...
SciShow
Mind the (Solar System's) Gap
Giant disks around baby stars filled with gas and dust provide the material to make all sorts of planets, and new evidence proves that our solar system’s had a massive gap in it! And the water vapor in Jupiter’s moon, Europa, might not...
SciShow
The Mysterious Cosmic Explosion Called “The Cow” | SciShow News
The exploding “cow” around 200 million light-years away is running astronomers for a loop, but if it is what some hypothesize, we are witnessing a first for astronomy! Meanwhile, we got photographic evidence of a planet orbiting a binary...
SciShow
Our First Glimpse of a Newborn Supernova - SciShow News
A super bright flash in the sky might be the birth of a supernova remnant and it turns out there's more than one way to build a binary star system.
SciShow
5 Things We Still Don't Know About the Solar System
We've already learned a lot about the solar system, but sometimes the most fascinating things are what we DON'T know.
Bozeman Science
The Vector Properties of Angular Quantities
In this video Paul Andersen explains how a rotating system will have several quantities; including torque, angular velocity, angular acceleration and angular momentum. Each of these quantities have a vector property that can be...