SciShow
This Squid Glows… To Make Itself Invisible
When you live in the ocean, it can be hard to find ways to keep hidden from predators, or from your own prey. But these three animals have found clever ways to stay hidden, by using light to their advantage. One of them even /makes...
SciShow
5 Animals With Superpowered Senses
From the ability to see “invisible” types of light to the power to taste all over their body, meet five incredible animals whose super senses far surpass our own! Hosted by: Michael Aranda
SciShow
What Actually Happens on the Full Moon? | 8 Full-Moon Myths & Facts
From menstrual cycles to rainfall, there are lots of claims about the moon's influence. In today's episode, Hank is here to set the record straight with 8 myths & facts about our moon.
SciShow
Seeing Like Mantis Shrimp to Spot Cancer
Mantis shrimp might as well be super heroes, and one of their powers might given us insight on how to spot cancer.
SciShow
9 Weird Ways Animals See the World
Eyes have been around for a long time, like... half a billion years or so... and in that time, animals have evolved lots of amazing ways to observe the world around them!
SciShow
8 Truths and Myths About the Full Moon
With so many claims about the moon’s influence over everything from menstrual cycles to rainfall, SciShow is here to set the record straight with these 8 truths and myths about our moon. CHAPTERS View all HUMANS GET LESS SLEEP 1:27...
SciShow
5 Animals With (Understandably) Poor Judgment
Evolution is a long, slow process - but sometimes, changes (often caused by humans) happen too quickly for a species to properly adjust. These scenarios are called evolutionary traps, and can lead species to make seemingly-illogical...
TED Talks
TED: The dance of the dung beetle | Marcus Byrne
A dung beetle has a brain the size of a grain of rice, and yet it shows a tremendous amount of intelligence when it comes to rolling its food source -- animal excrement -- home. How? It all comes down to a dance.
SciShow
5 Animals With Superpowered Senses
From the ability to see “invisible” types of light to the power to taste all over their body, meet five incredible animals whose super senses far surpass our own! Chapters STAR-NOSED MOLES 3:04 HARBOR SEALS 4:56 CATFISH 6:49 BEARS 8:26
Curated Video
Specific Rotation: Measuring Optical Activity
Specific rotation is a standardized measure of how much a chiral compound rotates plane-polarized light. It's dependent on the substance’s concentration, the path length of the light, and the temperature, providing key insights into a...
Science360
Mantis Cam!
NSF-funded researchers at the University of Illinois have developed Mantis Cam. This bio-inspired camera mimics the eyes of the mantis shrimp. Mantis cam enables researchers to see the same polarized light that sea creatures do. The data...
Science360
CANCER-CRUSHING QUEEN OF CRUSTACEANS
In episode 76, Jordan and Charlie explore research that packs a punch. A research team led by the Washington University in Saint Louis is building polarization cameras inspired by the incredible eyesight of the heavy-hitting mantis...
Science360
New technology for the blind! NSF Science Now 57!
In this week’s episode, we learn about new technology for the blind; a newly engineered yeast, and finally, we explore the oceans with Mantis cam. Check it out!
Visual Learning Systems
Using Light: Polarized Light
This video examines the various uses of light and the role of different types of lenses in light refraction. The way in which eyeglasses, contact lenses, and binoculars manipulate light to allow us to see better is illustrated. Other...
Science360
Explained: First ever observed black hole
If you could fly next to the supermassive black hole M87*, this is what you would see. Full Text: 55-million light years from Earth, at the heart of galaxy Messier 87 lies a monster black hole. Weighing in at 6.5 billion times the mass...
Science360
Fishy business
In episode 47, Jordan and Charlie explore how scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have solved the longstanding mystery about how some fish “disappear” from their predators. A fish’s ability to go invisible in polarized light...
NASA
2 Minutes, 6 Hands, 1 Chance
A team of three scientists have two minutes to complete an experiment during the 2017 total solar eclipse. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Genna Duberstein Music credit: Patisserie Pressure by Benjamin James Parsons
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Microscope Upgrades We've Made Along The Way | Compilation
This channel wouldn’t be what it is if it weren’t for one very key invention: the microscope. Everything we see, we see with the aid of light and lenses, expertly deployed by our master of microscopes, James. And if you’ve been on this...
Journey to the Microcosmos
Microbes Don’t Actually Look Like Anything
Microbes Don’t Actually Look Like Anything
msvgo
Chemical Reactions : Nucleophilic substitution reactions
It explains multiple chemical reactions of haloalkanes with examples.
msvgo
Polarization
It explains the concept of polarised wave with the help of activity, activity involved polaroid sheets, polarization by reflection, polarization by scatterind and brewsters law.
Curated OER
STEMbite: Polarization of Light
Here is a backyard explanation of the polarization of light. Using his porch railing, the video narrator demonstrates that if the grating is lined up with the direction of light waves, represented by a hula hoop, the waves are allowed to...
University of Nottingham
Sixty Symbols: Symbols of Physics and Astronomy: Polarisation
University of Nottingham's Professor Roger Bowley shows you a piece of polaroid--the type of material in sunglasses--and demonstrates how the direction of its molecules prevents glare. [8:43]