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What Causes Auroras?
SciShow tackles a Quick Question with a longish answer: What causes auroras? TL;DR: It's a breathtaking display of particle physics in action.
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How to Tilt a Black Hole
It seems the more we learn about black holes, the more there is to find out. In this case, what in the universe could have put one on its side?
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Did This Ancient Asteroid Cause an Ice Age? - SciShow News
Around 500 Million years ago, Earth’s climate was warm, and the planet had nearly no ice, even at the poles. Then an asteroid broke apart deep in our solar system, and our planet plunged into an ice age at the same time. Are the two...
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Why We've Only Ever Seen the Sun's Poles Once
The Ulysses mission revolutionized our understanding of the sun, but it's been the only orbiter to take this kind of out-of-ecliptic journey. Will an upcoming mission give us even more?
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Building a Base on the Moon
If you've ever dreamed of living on Earth's Moon, we've got an episode for you!
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The Biggest Moon Discoveries of the Last Decade
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been teaching us about the moon for a decade now, and it's still going! What we’re learning from it will make space exploration and future moon missions much easier for future astronauts.
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Astronomers Captured Our Sun in the Highest Resolution Ever - SciShow News
A new telescope, the DKIST, has given us our most direct look at the Sun ever, in the highest resolution yet. And a paper published last week has revealed how “the dunes” auroras may be more than just a new spectacle in the night sky.
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Why Days Are Getting Longer
You can complain about having the longest day ever today, and here is the science to prove it!
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How We Proved Earth Rotates Using a Giant Swinging Ball
People have suspected that Earth rotates for thousands of years, but how did we first prove it?
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Future Space News of 2016
Hank Green brings in 2016 with some space missions to look forward to!
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Do We Need a Negative Leap Second?
Did you know that last year we had 28 of the fastest days ever recorded? Earth's rotation can be affected by a number of things, and scientists think we might someday need an unprecedented adjustment: deleting a second!
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We Used 1800s Math to Solve One of Jupiter’s Biggest Mysteries
Jupiter's storms cover the planet, but the ones at the planet’s poles have mystified astronomers for years: why haven’t they merged together yet?
Crash Course Kids
Weather Channels
Why is my weather app sometimes wrong? Well it has a lot to do with wind. Jet Streams, air cells, the shape and movement of the Earth... there are a lot of things that make weather a little unpredictable. In this episode of Crash Course...
SciShow Kids
Make Your Own Compass!
Mister Brown and Squeaks are here to teach you all about the compass - and they will even help you make your own! NGSS Performance Expectations: 3-PS2-3: Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic...
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Electromagnetism - Magnetic Force: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #4b
In this final segment on the four fundamental forces of physics, Hank tackles the magnetic force, the second of the two ways in which electromagnetism is apparent in the universe
Crash Course Kids
Living Things Change
Have you ever heard of the Peppered Moth? It's a great example of how living things can change because their environment has changed. And it's not just them! There used to be giant insects roaming the world, but they got smaller through...
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Coriolis Effect: IDTIMWYTIM
Does your toilet water drain differently than in the other hemisphere? Is it because of the Coriolis effect? Hank has some things to clarify about these questions, and more in this edition of I Don't Think It Means What You Think It Means.
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The Fern That Cooled the Planet
Over its lifetime, the Earth has seen plenty of climate change. About 50 million years ago the planet experienced extreme cooling, and all from a little fern.
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We Made These Magnets Float in the Air!
Jessi and Squeaks are working on an experiment: Making an ordinary magnet float in the air! Next Generation Science Standards: NGSS Performance Expectations: 3-PS2-3: Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric...
SciShow Kids
Turtle Travel Tips: How Magnets Can Help Us Navigate | Magnetoreception
When people travel a long distance, they'll usually use a map. But there are lots of animals that travel really long distances, too, and they can't use maps... so how do they not get lost? Our friend Dr. Turtleman calls in to explain!...
Crash Course
The Holocaust,Genocides, and Mass Murder of WWII: Crash Course European History
During World War II, Nazi Germany undertook the imprisonment and summary execution of many of its own citizens, and citizens of the nations they occupied. One of the groups that came under assault was the European Jewish population. More...
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New Jupiter Weirdness From Juno
Astronomers have announced the Juno space probe’s first findings from Jupiter!
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Current Events
What are air currents? Air currents are like rivers of wind caused by areas of high and low pressure.The air above the land is warmer and less dense, so it rises. The air over the water is cooler and heavier. The cool air rushes in...