We all know space travel is pretty dangerous, but here are a few more things that you probably wouldn't have thought to look out for!

Hank summarizes the exciting news about Planetary Resources, a company with plans to mine near-earth asteroids for precious metals and water, and what these plans might mean for humanity's future in space.

When you picture a rocket, you might imagine a giant ship carrying lots of fuel, people and supplies. But what if the next wave of spacecraft were small enough to fit into our pockets? Dhonam Pemba details the future of microspacecraft,...

Odin, the king of Asgard, was plagued by nightmares. Three fearsome figures haunted his dreams: a massive, writhing shadow; a shambling, rotting corpse; and worst of all, a monstrous beast with a deadly bite. Though their true forms were...

The record for the fastest thing ever created by humans is a tie between the Helios 2 probe and a manhole cover.

Have you ever looked up at night and seen a streak of light flash across the sky? Some people call that a "shooting star," but it's not actually a star at all! Join Jessi and Squeaks to learn what shooting stars really are and how they...

Antimony is toxic to inhale, swallow and touch, but it might also save your life.

How is the chemical energy of gasoline transformed into kinetic energy of a moving car? And where does that kinetic energy go when the car crashes into something and stops moving?

In the late 1970s, two physicists in Switzerland set out to invent a new type of microscope using quantum physics that would allow them to do something no one had ever done before: see the individual atoms in a sheet of metal.

What exactly can we tell about an unknown substance by it's properties. We already know that a substance is matter that’s made of one kind of atom or molecule, and that has specific properties and that some substances are elements, which...

Before he was a legend, architect Frank Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his early work, from his house in Venice Beach to the American Center in Paris, which was under construction (and much on his mind) when he gave this talk.

We may have found the secret ingredient to effortless 8 pack abs... In Flies and Mice. Also, a team of scientists have developed robots, made of living cells.

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Scientists have discovered a shard of a planet that survived the death of its star and TESS has found the first direct evidence of an exocomet.

Hank talks about a shiny element that has fascinated humans for millenia.

Researchers were inspired by a certain purple villain to study the physics of finger snapping, and they found that the mundane hand motion is actually quite an impressive feat.

Can Humans Really Feel Temperature?

In the 1800s, William Parsons built a telescope larger than any in the world: The Leviathan of Parsonstown. This landmark in science history helped solve the mystery of just what a nebula could be.

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This video is about the line between Brown dwarfs and gas giant planets (aka...

If you want to make particles move really fast, you have to build a particle accelerator that is really big, right? Not anymore!

Este video es una traducción de "How to Survive a Lightning Strike"

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MinutoDeLaTierra proporciona una visión energética y entretenida de las tendencias en el medio ambiente terrestre...

The amount of metal some special plants are able to take up from the soil would be toxic enough to an average plant to kill it several times over.

Children's toys can help teach kids about colors, shapes, and imagination. But it turns out they've also inspired scientists and engineers for centuries, leading to innovations in medical diagnostics and space travel. So,...