Instructional Video5:29
SciShow Kids

Think Like an Engineer: Juniper's Problem | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Squeaks, Jessi, and the gang are all going on vacation to the lake, but there's a problem. Our friend Juniper needs a boat, and ours is missing! Jessi proposes we think like engineers and gather information to find a way to solve our...
Instructional Video5:14
SciShow Kids

Think Like an Engineer: Let's Design a Solution! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Squeaks, Jessi, and the gang are designing a raft for their friend Juniper. They'll think like engineers and learn how to create a design that solves their problem.
Instructional Video5:04
SciShow Kids

Think Like an Engineer: The BEST Solution! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Squeaks, Jessi, and the gang have all designed rafts for our friend Juniper to ride. Now, we'll think like engineers by testing our designs, comparing them, and improving them to make the very best raft we can!
Instructional Video5:58
SciShow

Room Temperature Is A Lie

12th - Higher Ed
An entire field of science is dedicated to identifying the perfect indoor temperature. And it's a lot more complicated than simply setting the thermostat to 21 degrees Celsius (70 degrees Fahrenheit).
Instructional Video5:21
SciShow Kids

Let's Engineer a Gingerbread Fort | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Jessi and Squeaks enjoy the winter season by constructing a model of the Fort out of gingerbread!
Instructional Video17:59
SciShow Kids

Winter Arc | SciShow Kids Compilation

K - 5th
In this SciShow Kids compilation, Jessi and Squeaks have a wonderful winter time learning the science of ice skating, why peppermint tastes so chilly, and how to build a gingerbread Fort!
Instructional Video4:39
SciShow Kids

How to Design a Mars Rover! | Let's Explore Mars! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Today, the crew at The Fort learn about engineers and how they design different ways to solve problems like they did for the rovers exploring Mars!
Instructional Video5:51
SciShow

Atlas: The Little Rocket That Still Can

12th - Higher Ed
In 1962, John Glenn went into orbit on an Atlas rocket, and thus began a family of rockets that lasted for 60 years!
Instructional Video6:03
SciShow

Astronomy’s Unsung Hero is a Plain Ol’ Aluminum Ball

12th - Higher Ed
In 1965, MIT's Lincoln Laboratory saw their Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1 (LCS-1) launched into Earth orbit. It was an empty aluminum sphere and couldn't do any science of its own. But the world's most boring disco ball has played a huge...
Instructional Video8:44
SciShow

The Truth About Leonardo Da Vinci

12th - Higher Ed
A true "Renaissance Man", inventor, artist & scholar Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most diversely talented individuals of all time. His "unquenchable curiosity" led him to make discoveries and inventions that were beyond his time, not...
Instructional Video10:31
SciShow

The Truth About 10 Famous Inventions

12th - Higher Ed
Did Thomas Edison invent the lightbulb? I mean... kind of... but also... no. Every great, world-changing invention is the culmination of efforts by dozens or hundreds of people, spanning decades or centuries.
Instructional Video2:28
SciShow

What are Those Things on Airplanes' Wings?

12th - Higher Ed
Have you ever wondered what those things are on airplane wings? You know, those little angled bits of metal? Watch to learn what they are and how they’re used!
Instructional Video5:58
SciShow

Why It's So Difficult to Build a Ballistic Missile

12th - Higher Ed
If you ever get nervous about missile attacks, they're actually a lot harder to make than you might think. To hopefully put your mind more at ease, Hank is here to talk about the work that goes into designing and building ICBMs in this...
Instructional Video11:31
SciShow

5 Ancient Structures with Amazing Acoustics

12th - Higher Ed
Many ancient sites had some truly amazing effects on sound waves, suggesting that early cultures may have built spaces to evoke certain sensation. And by studying the acoustics of these structures, we can learn new things about the...
Instructional Video17:22
TED Talks

George Dyson: The birth of the computer

12th - Higher Ed
Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer -- from its 17th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer engineers.
Instructional Video7:20
TED Talks

TED: Smelfies, and other experiments in synthetic biology | Ani Liu

12th - Higher Ed
What if you could take a smell selfie, a smelfie? What if you had a lipstick that caused plants to grow where you kiss? Ani Liu explores the intersection of technology and sensory perception, and her work is wedged somewhere between...
Instructional Video15:31
SciShow Kids

Brr! 5 Videos about Winter!

K - 5th
The snow is really coming down where Jessi lives, so she and Squeaks decided to stay indoors where it's nice and warm and look back on some of the amazing things they've learned about winter! Grab a fuzzy sweater and a mug of cocoa and...
Instructional Video8:47
TED Talks

TED: Super speed, magnetic levitation and the vision behind the hyperloop | Josh Giegel

12th - Higher Ed
What if your hour-long commute was reduced to just minutes? That's the promise of the hyperloop: a transit system designed around a pod that zooms through a vacuum-sealed space (roughly the size of a subway tunnel) at hyper-speed,...
Instructional Video3:18
MinuteEarth

Should We Grow Human Organs In Pigs?

12th - Higher Ed
An amazing new technology will let scientists grow new kidneys for patients using their own stem cells inside of pigs.
Instructional Video6:21
SciShow

Why Is It So Hard to Build an ICBM?

12th - Higher Ed
To hopefully put your mind more at ease, Hank is here to talk about the work that goes into designing and building ICBMs.
Instructional Video1:34
SciShow

April 1st Episode - The Retro-Proto-Turbo-Encabulator

12th - Higher Ed
Hank brings us a special report on the retro-proto-turbo-encabulator, which could very well revolutionize...uh...something.
Instructional Video5:15
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How the world's longest underwater tunnel was built

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Flanked by two powerful nations, the English Channel has long been one of the world’s most important maritime passages. Yet for most of its history, crossing was a dangerous prospect. Engineers proposed numerous plans for spanning the...
Instructional Video4:53
SciShow Kids

What is an Engineer? | Squeaks has an Engineering Problem! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Mister Brown teaches Squeaks all about engineering to help him solve a problem he is having! K-2 Next Generation Science Standards Science and Engineering Practices: Asking Questions and Defining Problems, Developing and Using Models,...
Instructional Video9:46
TED Talks

TED: How AI can enhance our memory, work and social lives | Tom Gruber

12th - Higher Ed
How smart can our machines make us? Tom Gruber, co-creator of Siri, wants to make "humanistic AI" that augments and collaborates with us instead of competing with (or replacing) us. He shares his vision for a future where AI helps us...