This week in SciShow News, Hank tells us about some weird science, including a squid that's not a squid, animals that can talk, and new insights into how you can mess up your body much faster and for much longer than you ever thought...

AI is massively transforming our world, but there's one thing it cannot do: love. In a visionary talk, computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee details how the US and China are driving a deep learning revolution -- and shares a blueprint for how...

Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to...

In this prophetic 2003 talk -- just days before Dolly the sheep was stuffed -- biotech ethicist Gregory Stock looked forward to new, more meaningful (and controversial) technologies, like customizable babies, whose adoption might drive...

What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with (and build) radical new designs for bridges, cars, drones and much more...

Dialects are a part of how we communicate, but it also turns out that many animals have dialects depending on what part of the world they live in.

The WHO has declared the new coronavirus a global public health emergency—but that doesn't mean you should panic.

If you've been wondering why we have butts, wonder no more! We have an answer for you.

Dr. Amanda Duley of the spectrUM Discovery Area's BrainLab joins the show to share some of the activities that visitors of the lab get to experience and Jessi from Animal Wonders brings on Joy the blue-and-gold macaw.

Water is essential to life. Yet in the eyes of the law, it remains largely unprotected -- leaving many communities without access to safe drinking water, says legal scholar Kelsey Leonard. In this powerful talk, she shows why granting...

Scientific discoveries, futurist Juan Enriquez notes, demand a shift in code, and our ability to thrive depends on our mastery of that code. Here, he applies this notion to the field of genomics.

Today on SciShow we bring you a cool humanoid diving robot and insight into the evolution of the venus flytrap.

How concerned are scientists about the Larson C ice shelf calving its most recent iceberg? Archeologists have also found new evidence that confirms earlier dates for the existence of ancient Australian humans.

Hank gives us a summary of a strange new calculation, which estimates the total body mass of all the humans on earth.

Scientists dissect the human scream for the first time, and also re-think what was thought to be the biggest dinosaur in the world.

It can be tough to diagnose Alzheimer's disease, but a team of researchers believes that artificial intelligence might be able to do it just by listening.

Chimpanzees are people too, you know. Ok, not exactly. But lawyer Steven Wise has spent the last 30 years working to change these animals' status from "things" to "persons." It's not a matter of legal semantics; as he describes in this...

Once upon a time, we coexisted with other human species. And there’s one place on Earth that may have taught us more about that than any other single site.

A fish with eerily human-like teeth was caught in a New Jersey lake. And scientists have learned to speak Bird!

Dreaming is one of the weirdest things we do & in this SciShow infusion Hank talks about how science is helping us understand why we dream, what our brains are up to when they're doing it, and why dreaming may be critically important to...

Hank introduces us to 6 blood-drinking (or otherwise consuming) animals that you may not be aware of. Don't freak out... Chapters VAMPIRE BAT 1:35 LAMPREY 1:52 HOOD MOCKING BIRD 2:20 THE VAMPIRE FINCH 2:46 BUTTERFLIES 2:56 HUMANS 3:22

Humans love illusions, but are we the only animals that fall for them?

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What happens when we teach a computer how to learn? Technologist Jeremy Howard shares some surprising new developments in the fast-moving field of deep learning, a technique that can give computers the ability to learn Chinese, or to...