TED Talks
TED: A simple new blood test that can catch cancer early | Jimmy Lin
Jimmy Lin is developing technologies to catch cancer months to years before current methods. He shares a breakthrough technique that looks for small signals of cancer's presence via a simple blood test, detecting the recurrence of some...
SciShow
The Evolution of Getting Punched in the Face
SciShow delivers the latest in science news, including how fist-fighting fueled the evolution of the human face, new insights into the origin of schizophrenic "voices," and new research into the bird flu.
SciShow
How Measles Vaccines Protect You From Other Diseases
Since measles vaccines started making their rounds, child mortality has dropped by up to 90% percent in some countries. That’s more than you’d expect if the measles vaccine just prevented deaths from measles. Can science explain this...
SciShow
How Ancient Pollen Can Predict The Future
We don't need a time machine to learn from the past (but let us know if you find one)! Air bubbles trapped in ice for millennia and ancient pollen grains can tell us a lot about climate shifts hundreds of thousands of years ago!
TED Talks
TED: Should you donate differently? | Joy Sun
Technology allows us to give cash directly to the poorest people on the planet. Should we do it? In this thought-provoking talk, veteran aid worker Joy Sun explores two ways to help the poor.
SciShow
The Insect That Thrives in Antarctica
It requires a certain attitude to brave the elements of Antarctica. Luckily, the Antarctic midge has a set of adaptations that fit the bill.
TED Talks
Peter Doolittle: How your "working memory" makes sense of the world
"Life comes at us very quickly, and what we need to do is take that amorphous flow of experience and somehow extract meaning from it." In this funny, enlightening talk, educational psychologist Peter Doolittle details the importance --...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: If superpowers were real: Flight - Joy Lin
What if human flight wasn't just the stuff of epic comic book stories? Is it scientifically possible to fly? In this series, Joy Lin tackles six superpowers and reveals just how scientifically realistic they can be to us mere mortals.
TED Talks
TED: Adventures of an asteroid hunter | Carrie Nugent
TeD Fellow Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter -- part of a group of scientists working to discover and catalog our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors. Why keep an eye out for asteroids? In this short, fact-filled talk, Nugent...
TED Talks
Dina Zielinski: How we can store digital data in DNA
From floppy disks to thumb drives, every method of storing data eventually becomes obsolete. What if we could find a way to store all the world's data forever? Bioinformatician Dina Zielinski shares the science behind a solution that's...
TED Talks
TED: The sore problem of prosthetic limbs | David Sengeh
What drove David Sengeh to create a more comfortable prosthetic limb? He grew up in Sierra Leone, and too many of the people he loves are missing limbs after the brutal civil war there. When he noticed that people who had prosthetics...
SciShow
When and Where it Rains on the Sun SciShow News
On SciShow News this week, Hank explains how it can rain on the sun and dives in to findings from the NASA twin study!
SciShow Kids
Winter at the North Pole!
Winter means a lot of changes, and while you might think it's cold outside, some animals can't wait for it to get colder so that they have an easier time finding their next meal!
TED Talks
Jochen Wegner: What happened when we paired up thousands of strangers to talk politics
In spring 2019, more than 17,000 Europeans from 33 countries signed up to have a political argument with a complete stranger. They were part of "Europe Talks," a project that organizes one-on-one conversations between people who disagree...
SciShow
What If All Viruses Vanished?
In the past couple years, you may have found yourself wishing that all the viruses in the world just disappear. But be careful what you wish for...
SciShow
The Northern Hemisphere’s Very Own Giant Penguins (Sort Of)
Today, penguins are found mainly in the Southern Hemisphere. But fossils have revealed giant lookalikes to these swimming birds further up north, spurring questions of how they evolved and what happened to them.
TED Talks
David Griffin: How photography connects us
The photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin knows the power of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with glorious images, he talks about how we all use photos to tell our stories.
SciShow
Why Can I Hear This .gif?
Certain people can hear particular animated gifs despite them containing no audio information, and scientists have some leads on what might cause this seemingly impossible phenomenon.
SciShow
When Your Brain Can’t Accept Reality: Anosognosia
If patients seem to be unaware of their obvious conditions and symptoms, it might not be that they're in denial, but their brain might actually prevent them from realizing their disabilities.
PBS
Do We Want the World to End?
The so-called Mayan long count calendar predication of the apocalypse is based a fundamental MISUNDERSTANDING of Mayan calendars and society. It's so far off base that scientific and anthropological experts can dismiss it with laugh....
TED Talks
John Hardy: My green school dream
Join John Hardy on a tour of the Green School, his off-the-grid school in Bali that teaches kids how to build, garden, create (and get into college). The centerpiece of campus is the spiraling Heart of School, perhaps the world's largest...
TED Talks
TED: Governments don't understand cyber warfare. We need hackers | Rodrigo Bijou
The Internet has transformed the front lines of war, and it's leaving governments behind. As security analyst Rodrigo Bijou shows, modern conflict is being waged online between non-state groups, activists and private corporations, and...
TED Talks
TED: 3 principles for creating safer AI | Stuart Russell
How can we harness the power of superintelligent AI while also preventing the catastrophe of robotic takeover? As we move closer toward creating all-knowing machines, AI pioneer Stuart Russell is working on something a bit different:...