Instructional Video5:01
Curated Video

A New Idea About Tabby's Star!

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers might have finally discovered part of why Tabby's Star acts so strangely and we have some new ideas about what triggers a type Ia supernova.
Instructional Video3:29
SciShow

Why Comet 67P Is Shaped Like a Duck, and New Pluto Photos!

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow Space News, photos of Comet 67P and Pluto are helping us solve old mysteries and creating some new ones.
Instructional Video7:24
PBS

What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?

12th - Higher Ed
Probably twice the size of a modern gorilla, Gigantopithecus is the greatest great-ape that ever was. And for us fellow primates, there are some lessons to be learned in how it lived, and why it disappeared.
Instructional Video5:50
Bozeman Science

Electric Force

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen explains how electric force on an object inside a field can be calculated by multiplying the charge of the object (in C) times the electric field strength (in N/C).
Instructional Video5:53
SciShow

Some Elements can be Liquid and Solid at the Same Time | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Some elements can basically be liquids and solids at the same time, which is a whole new state of matter, and scientists have discovered a new species of human in the Republic of the Philippines!
Instructional Video4:04
SciShow

The Space Station's Inflatable Room

12th - Higher Ed
An ISS resupply mission is launching today and the space station should have a new inflatable room to experiment with!
Instructional Video4:45
SciShow

We May Have Just Found the Universe's Missing Baryonic Matter

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers have finally found evidence to help solve the missing baryon problem, and they're pointing telescopes toward the Intergalactic Medium to figure it out.
Instructional Video2:41
SciShow

Billions of Earth-Like Planets!

12th - Higher Ed
Hank tells us about the Kepler Space Telescope and its new data!
Instructional Video7:46
TED Talks

Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist

12th - Higher Ed
The nerve disease ALS left graffiti artist TEMPT paralyzed from head to toe, forced to communicate blink by blink. In a remarkable talk at TEDActive, entrepreneur Mick Ebeling shares how he and a team of collaborators built an...
Instructional Video3:14
SciShow

Yellowstone Supercomputer

12th - Higher Ed
Ever notice how adding "super" in front of something makes it way more awesome? Hank gives us the rundown on the Yellowstone SUPERcomputer.
Instructional Video4:46
SciShow

Why Is Neptune So Blue And 3 Other Mysteries an Orbiter Could Solve

12th - Higher Ed
Neptune's radius is almost four times larger than Earth's, its surface has super intense storms, and we barely know anything else about it. It is time to send another orbiter out there.
Instructional Video4:54
SciShow

It's Official, Life Could Survive on Enceladus

12th - Higher Ed
Enceladus’ environment could totally be habitable for at least one real-world microbe and we just found the oldest supernova.
Instructional Video5:13
SciShow

We Found a Planetary Graveyard | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Researchers think they may have found a new way to study planets after they've been "buried" in a star! Astronomers are also officially acknowledging the discovery of a distant body with a thousand-year orbit and an adorable nickname.
Instructional Video4:11
SciShow

Now We Can Turn Your Thoughts Into Reality

12th - Higher Ed
How is it that you can be looking at a distinct object in front of you, yet picture something entirely different in your mind? The inner workings of what’s happening in our brains to allow this is a puzzle that scientists are now...
Instructional Video5:33
SciShow

Could a Shirt Hear Your Heartbeat? | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Microphones keep getting smaller and smaller, but have you ever asked what it would be like to have a bigger one in the form of a shirt? And though we tend to incorrectly think that we’re having two-way conversations with our pets, we...
Instructional Video4:49
Bozeman Science

Wave Function

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the location of matter can be determined at the nanoscale using the wave function. The absolute value of the wave function can be used to determine the probability of finding matter in a location....
Instructional Video12:26
TED Talks

TED: How to design a library that makes kids want to read | Michael Bierut

12th - Higher Ed
When Michael Bierut was tapped to design a logo for public school libraries, he had no idea that he was embarking on a years-long passion project. In this often hilarious talk, he recalls his obsessive quest to bring energy, learning,...
Instructional Video8:11
Bozeman Science

Work Energy Principle

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the kinetic energy gained by an object is equivalent to the work done on the object. The force on the object must act parallel or antiparallel to the motion of the object to do work. Several...
Instructional Video4:47
SciShow

They're Calling It: The Forbidden Planet

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve discovered a planet that, for its size, is in a very strange place around it’s star! And other scientists, inspired by comets, have come up with a new way to potentially make breathable oxygen for people exploring Mars in the future.
Instructional Video3:50
SciShow

An Impossible Black Hole, and Finally Meeting Ceres

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space takes you to a distant, ancient black hole that … really shouldn’t be, and psyches you up for the Dawn spacecraft’s final approach to Ceres!
Instructional Video5:38
SciShow

Why It's Good for COVID-19 Models to Be Wrong

12th - Higher Ed
As we react to the predictions that epidemiological models make, changing the ways we act and go about our lives, those estimates can appear totally off. But if a model’s predictions end up being wrong, that might mean it's done exactly...
Instructional Video5:52
SciShow

How Old Are You? Well, Your Liver Is 3

12th - Higher Ed
This week, a group of researchers use nuclear fallout to figure out how old liver cells are, while another gets one step closer to predicting volcanic eruptions.
Instructional Video4:02
Bozeman Science

Multistep Reactions

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen explains how an overall chemical reaction is made up of several elementary steps. The stoichiometry of this equation can be predicted but the rate law must be measured. If the elementary steps of the reaction...
Instructional Video8:35
PBS

Using Stars to See Gravitational Waves

12th - Higher Ed
Now that gravitational waves are definitely a thing, it's time to think about some of the crazy things we can figure out with them. In some cases we're going to need a gravitational wave observatory - in fact, we've already built one.