Join Squeaks and his favorite band, The Whizpops, for a musical experience with Manta Rays!

Patients in comas might look like they’re sleeping, but there are pretty fascinating things happening inside of their heads.

Ice cream is a great treat, but you have to eat it slowly! Otherwise, you'll get what some people call a 'brain freeze,' which is a super bad headache that lasts for a couple seconds. But how does ice cream hurt your head?!

Dolphins are one of the smartest animal species on Earth. In fact, their encephalization quotient (their brain size compared to the average for their body size) is second only to humans. But exactly how smart are they? Lori Marino...

By the early 1900’s, nearly every region of the globe had been visited and mapped, with only two key locations left: the North and South Poles. After two Americans staked claim to reaching the North Pole, a Norwegian explorer and a...

It doesn't matter whether you love or hate guns; it's obvious that the uS would be a safer place if there weren't thousands of them sold every day without background checks. Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun...

Blood is a pretty remarkable diagnostic tool! It doesn’t just tell you about blood-related diseases, it can reveal information about everything from your brain to your unborn fetus.

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This week Craig Benzine breaks down the different types of bureaucracies. I mean sure, they’re all part of the executive branch, but some work more directly with the president than others. Some bureaucracies exist solely to independently...

SciShow answers ten of the most asked questions by YOU, our viewers, in the past month -- from “What is new car smell?” to “What would happen if you drilled a hole through the planet?”

In the Pacific Ocean, there lives a fish that's . . . a little different. Hank tells you all about the Pacific barreleye fish!

Babies cry a lot, but some babies cry a lot more than others. These babies are said to have colic - and doctors aren’t totally sure what causes it.

The average person experiences dozens of individual itches each day. We've all experienced the annoyance of an inconvenient itch - but have you ever pondered why we itch in the first place? Is there actually an evolutionary purpose to...

Researchers are developing a flu vaccine with the potential to target many different strains at once. Also, bacterial meningitis may have something to do with special RNA.

Learn all about the anglerfish! A creepy-looking, deep-sea-dwelling creature that glows!

Unlike measles, Influenza requires a fresh shot of vaccines every year. But why?

The feeling of a kicking fetus is perhaps one of the more fun parts of having a baby, but these movements serve a purpose well beyond letting you know that that little thing is in there!

Diana Laufenberg shares three surprising things she has learned about teaching -- including a key insight about learning from mistakes.

Hank describes how non-Newtonian fluids can save lives - and dreams of a bulletproof hoodie.

Part 1 of 3 in my series about why our bodies are shaped the way they are.

Over the course of hundreds of scuba dives, marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson fell in love -- with a fish. In this ode to parrotfish, she shares five reasons why these creatures are simply amazing (from their ability to poop white...

What's the deal with all those little flashes of light you see when you close your eyes? And why do truck drivers and people in jail see glowing circles and spirals?

Try talking to yourself without opening your mouth, by simply saying words internally. What if you could search the internet like that -- and get an answer back? In the first live public demo of his new technology, TED Fellow Arnav Kapur...

What happens when you jump in a moving elevator? Do you weigh more when you're going up and less when you're going down? Carol Hedden explores the relationship between gravity, weight, and relative motion, using a moving elevator to...

Lice... the mere mention of them is enough to make most people all itchy. Well, get ready to get scratching, because we've compiled seven squirm-inducing lice facts on this week's List Show!