SciShow
Fool’s Gold Might Be Better Than the Real Thing
This month's Rocks Box is pyrite, also called fool's gold. But this fool's gold might not be so foolish, since we can use it to get all kinds of other minerals we really need, and it may be a key to getting real gold after all.
SciShow
The Mollusk Hiding Rare Minerals in its Teeth
Chitons are constantly scraping their teeth on rocks to eat the algae off of them, but that means their teeth need to be pretty tough. And it turns out one species's teeth are the hardest, stiffest biominerals in any living thing we've...
SciShow
The Bacteria That Make Perfect, Tiny Magnets
Learn how magnetic bacteria work, and how scientists think they can help technology in the future!
SciShow
The Mollusk Hiding Rare Minerals in its Teeth
Chitons are constantly scraping their teeth on rocks to eat the algae off of them, but that means their teeth need to be pretty tough. And it turns out one species's teeth are the hardest, stiffest biominerals in any living thing we've...
SciShow
The Bacteria That Make Perfect, Tiny Magnets
Learn how magnetic bacteria work, and how scientists think they can help technology in the future!
SciShow
Animal Magnetism: How Animals Navigate
Hank tells us about new research into the question of how animals navigate from place to place - while the problem is still unresolved, we do have some hypotheses, and they all involve something called "magnetoreception."
Curated Video
Extinction or Evolution: Unraveling the Mystery of the Dinosaurs' Demise
Journey back 65 million years to explore the catastrophic events that may have ended the age of dinosaurs. From the impact of a colossal asteroid to massive volcanic eruptions, discover how these monumental events shaped the fate of...
Curated Video
Marvelous Magnets
Dr. Forrester discusses the properties and uses of magnets by classifying objects as magnetic or nonmagnetic.
FuseSchool
Sea turtle
Sea turtle | Ocean Literacy | FuseSchool Turtles play an important role in keeping the oceans healthy. They keep balance in food webs by eating jellyfish and grazing on seagrass beds. Their presence keeps coral reefs healthy and cycles...
Next Animation Studio
Study shows Earth’s poles wandered far for millions of years
A new study has confirmed a longstanding theory that the Earth’s crust tilted like a yo-yo 84 million years ago. Scientists call it the ‘cosmic yo-yo’.
NASA
Tour of Asteroid Bennu
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, its close-up images confirmed what mission planners had predicted nearly two decades before: Bennu is made of loose material weakly clumped together by...
Mazz Media
Mining
In this live-action program viewers will learn Mining is the process of extracting minerals and metals from the earth. Students will come to understand that Minerals are essential to modern technology and that metals and other elements...
Visual Learning Systems
Minerals: How Do Minerals Form?
Upon viewing the Minerals video series, students will be able to do the following:
Define minerals as naturally occurring solids that have a definite chemical makeup and crystal shape.
Explain that a crystal is made of particles that...
Physics Girl
AMAZING! Ferrofluid + Glow Sticks
Ferrofluid is a liquid that displays unusual properties in the presence of a magnetic field. Watch what happens when we mix ferrofluid with the liquid from a glow stick!