SciShow
3 Body Hacks For Stargazers
Before you head out on your next stargazing adventure, SciShow Space has some tips for you.
SciShow
Meet the 4 Newest Elements
Four of the heaviest elements on the periodic table are finally getting names!
TED Talks
Leila Pirhaji: The medical potential of AI and metabolites
Many diseases are driven by metabolites -- small molecules in your body like fat, glucose and cholesterol -- but we don't know exactly what they are or how they work. Biotech entrepreneur and TED Fellow Leila Pirhaji shares her plan to...
Bozeman Science
Thinking in Quantity - Level 2 - Physical Quantities
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on physical quantities.
TERMS
Physical quantities - the properties of a material or system that can be measured
Standard units
- Weight - quantity of matter in an...
MinutePhysics
What Is The Shape of Space? (ft. PhD Comics)
A collaboration with Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson, check out "We Have No Idea" at http://www.wehavenoidea.com Jorge's PhDComics: http://www.phdcomics.com This video is about the local and global geometry and curvature of space and...
Bozeman Science
Ideal Gas Law
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the pressure, volume, amount, and temperature of an ideal gas are related. Absolute zero of a gas can be determined by varying the temperature and measuring the corresponding volume of a gas...
Bozeman Science
Bond Length and Bond Energy
In this video Paul Andersen explains how the bond length and bond energy are calculated using an energy distance graph. The strength of the bond is determined by the charges in the constituent atoms. As the charge increases the bond...
Crash Course
Enthalpy: Crash Course Chemistry
Energy is like the bestest best friend ever and yet, most of the time we take it for granted. Hank feels bad for our friend and wants us to learn more about it so that we can understand what it's trying to tell us - like that any bond...
Be Smart
How the Meter Became The Meter
The meter is the world's ultimate measure, but how did it become "the" meter? What is this measurement based on? The story of this revolution in measurement traces its roots to the French Revolution. Scientists decided that an equal and...
TED Talks
Nalini Nadkarni: Life science in prison
Nalini Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons -- she says both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partnership with the state of Washington, she brings science classes and conservation programs to inmates, with...
TED Talks
Thomas Curran: Our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse
Social psychologist Thomas Curran explores how the pressure to be perfect -- in our social media feeds, in school, at work -- is driving a rise in mental illness, especially among young people. Learn more about the causes of this...
TED Talks
TED: The secrets I find on the mysterious ocean floor | Laura Robinson
Hundreds of meters below the surface of the ocean, Laura Robinson probes the steep slopes of massive undersea mountains. She's on the hunt for thousand-year-old corals that she can test in a nuclear reactor to discover how the ocean...
SciShow
π 'N' Science
It's pi day! Hank explains why this irrational number is important to scientists, and discusses a bit of a controversy that surrounds it.
Crash Course
Entropy: Embrace the Chaos! Crash Course Chemistry
Life is chaos and the universe tends toward disorder. But why? If you think about it, there are only a few ways for things to be arranged in an organized manner, but there are nearly infinite other ways for those same things to be...
SciShow
How Do We Measure the Distance of Stars?
It's School of YouTube Week! Comic Relief and YouTube are partnering to send students to school! The Bad Astronomer Phil Plait teaches Hank how to measure the distance to the stars.
MinutePhysics
Our Ignorance About Gravity
Thanks to the Heising Simons Foundation (https://www.hsfoundation.org/) for their support of this video, and of short range gravity research. This video is about how little we know about the behavior of gravity at short length and...
Crash Course Kids
Glow On
So, have you ever wondered why some stars are brighter than others? You might think it's because they're closer to us, but that's not the whole story? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina chats about how stars glow and how...
Bozeman Science
The Rate Constant
In this video Paul Andersen describes the characteristics of the rate constant in chemical reactions. The rate constant is highly variable in reactions and must be determined experimentally. The rate constant is dependent on both...
Crash Course
Sampling Methods and Bias with Surveys - Crash Course Statistics
Today we’re going to talk about good and bad surveys. From user feedback surveys, telephone polls, and those questionnaires at your doctors office, surveys are everywhere, but with their ease to create and distribute, they're also...
3Blue1Brown
The determinant | Essence of linear algebra, chapter 6
The determinant has a very natural visual intuition, even though it's formula can make it seem more complicated than it really is.
Bozeman Science
Calorimetry
In this video Paul Andersen describes the history of calorimetry and explains how it can be used to measure energy changes in a system. The specific heat of water is well established and so as a system releases or absorbs energy from a...
Curated Video
Compare Lengths of Objects by Drawing Pictures
In this video lesson, we present various examples, such as measuring train lengths and finding missing tiles, to help us compare lengths of objects by drawing pictures. The lesson emphasizes the importance of subtraction and highlights...
SciShow
How Do You Weigh Things in Space?
Astronauts need to know their mass while in orbit, but a normal scale would be free-falling around the Earth with them. So how do they measure their mass without gravity?
SciShow
What Makes Soft Things Soft
You're minding your own business, looking at blankets, when suddenly you feel something heavenly. Now you are petting an inanimate object and thinking about naming it and bringing it home. Why do some fabrics feel so soft?!