SciShow
Limnic Eruptions: When Lakes Explode
SciShow takes you inside a limnic eruption, a natural disaster that’s as deadly as it is rare.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can you freeze your body and come back to life? | Shannon N. Tessier
In 1967, James Bedford had a plan to cheat death. He was the first person to be cryogenically frozen. This process promised to preserve his body until a theoretical future when humanity could cure any illness, and essentially, reverse...
MinutePhysics
Will Batteries Power The World? | The Limits Of Lithium-ion
Can Batteries Power Everything? This video is about the physical and chemical limitations to electrolytic batteries, and how we might surpass the energy density and specific energy of lithium-ion batteries (like the Panasonic 18650...
SciShow
The Alien Egg Experiment
Hank brings us another simple experiment that demonstrates the important biochemical process of osmosis by turning a chicken egg into a frightening alien-looking thing.
MinuteEarth
How to Make a Seashell - Just Add Water
Why do shell building living creatures live near the surface of the ocean? Learn how chemistry creates a dissolving depth for calcium and determines where shell builders can live.
SciShow
SPNs Might Change the World, So What Are They?
Researchers created a "super jelly" that can survive being run over with a car, and its weird properties take advantage of some novel chemistry.
SciShow
Maybe Life Doesn't Need Water, After All
Scientists have been searching for alien life by honing in on the existence of liquid water, but we might be overlooking some types of life out there that doesn't need water at all.
SciShow
Hiding a Nobel Prize From the Nazis
To keep their solid gold Nobel Prizes away from the Nazis, James Franck and Max von Laue sent their medals to trusted colleague Niels Bohr. But when Germany invaded Denmark in 1940, the medals were no longer safe - so chemist George de...
SciShow
The Sensor That Dissolves in Your Brain
In this week's SciShow News, we discuss two new types of sensors being developed. One tracks the content of certain molecules in your sweat while you exercise and the other is a brain implant that can be resorbed once it has finished its...
SciShow
Make Your Own Edible Bubbles! | Spherification
Caviar or fruity ball? Whatever you like! Here’s a rundown of how to spherify your own edible bubbles and why they could help to reduce waste.
SciShow
What Happens If You Leave Stitches in for Too Long?
Leaving your stitches in too long can have some serious consequences.
SciShow
Limnic Eruptions: When Lakes Explode
SciShow takes you inside a limnic eruption, a natural disaster that's as deadly as it is rare.
SciShow Kids
Salt’s Secret Powers!
From pancakes to ice cream, salt goes in so many things to make them taste better! But what is it and where does it come from?
SciShow
Acid, Poop, and Barf: Vultures' Secret Weapons
Vultures, you eat old, putrid dead things for a living. How is that not killing you? Hank explains the secret weapons vultures use to fight off disease, avoid predators, and beat the heat. Prepare for a Sci-Show Gross-Out!
SciShow
Does Microwaving Food Destroy Its Vitamins?
Many people avoid using microwave ovens, fearing how it changes the molecular structure of your food, but studies have some evidence that may surprise you.
Bozeman Science
Reversible Reactions
In this video Paul Andersen describes how reversible reactions achieve equilibrium as reactants are converted to products and products are converted to reactants. A model shows how forward reaction rates and reverse reactions rates...
Crash Course
Deep Time
As we approach the end of Crash Course Astronomy, it’s time now to acknowledge that our Universe’s days are numbered. Stars will die out after a few trillion years, protons will decay and matter will dissolve after a thousand trillion...
Crash Course Kids
The Great Picnic Mix Up
So you know that iced tea you like so much? Or that sweet soda drink? They're actually a few different things combined to make a new thing. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about all the different mixtures, solutions,...
Crash Course
Polar & Non-Polar Molecules: Crash Course Chemistry
Molecules come in infinite varieties, so in order to help the complicated chemical world make a little more sense, we classify and categorize them. One of the most important of those classifications is whether a molecule is polar or...
SciShow Kids
How Do Soap and Water Make Us Clean Chemistry for Kids
A SciShow Kids viewer wrote us and asked: How does soap work? Find out what really happens when you take a bath!
SciShow
Why Is Fluoride Good for Teeth?
If our teeth are made mostly of calcium, why do we use fluoride to keep them healthy? Quick Questions explains why, and how we finally figured it out.
MinuteEarth
Why Water Dissolves (Almost) Everything
Water can dissolve more substances than anything else on earth...so why doesn't it dissolve everything away?
SciShow
Are Multivitamins Really Good For You?
People spend billions of dollars every year trying to boost their health with multivitamins- but are they actually good for you?
Bozeman Science
Solubility
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the dissolution of a solute in a solution can be explained as a reversible reaction. Bonds in the solid solute are broken and the ions are dissolved in a solution. The Ksp (or solubility product...