Instructional Video2:56
SciShow

Why Can’t We Scoop All the Plastic Out of the Ocean?

12th - Higher Ed
Lots of people want to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and plastics have a huge impact on ocean environments. But marine wildlife are already adapting to our plastic waste, which means cleaning it up isn't as simple as just......
Instructional Video5:30
SciShow

We’re Wrong About How Mountains Form

12th - Higher Ed
We think we know how mountains form. Plate tectonics causes rock to be pushed up at fault boundaries. Except that model is hard to prove, and a new study suggests it might actually be a lot more complicated.
News Clip6:33
PBS

Innovative Clinic Helps Doctors Avoid Burnout And Makes Healthcare More Affordable

12th - Higher Ed
The U.S. faces a growing shortage of physicians, especially those in primary care fields like internal medicine, mental health and pediatrics. The shortfall is driven by population and demographic trends and burnout. Fred de Sam Lazaro...
Instructional Video4:08
SciShow

The Tiny Fish That's Changing Modern Medicine

12th - Higher Ed
The little fish Danio rerio holds secrets to understanding how vertebrates develop, how diseases like cancer work, and how we might one day learn how to regenerate human heart tissue.
Instructional Video5:44
SciShow

How Old Are You? Well, Your Liver Is 3

12th - Higher Ed
This week, a group of researchers use nuclear fallout to figure out how old liver cells are, while another gets one step closer to predicting volcanic eruptions.
Instructional Video5:23
SciShow

How Earth's Rotation Affects Our Oxygen | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Oxygen is crucial for life as we know it, but before it could build up in our atmosphere, earth had to slow down.
Instructional Video6:17
SciShow

How Dogs Can Smell When You're Stressed

12th - Higher Ed
Did you know that dogs can tell when you're stressed out? But how do they know? Turns out they can smell it! Join Hank for a new episode of SciShow and learn all about it! Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him)
Instructional Video5:09
SciShow

Bivalves Could Be the New Lab Rats

12th - Higher Ed
Bivalves—animals like mussels, clams and oysters—might be a more familiar sight in a restaurant than a lab. But it turns out that studying them might help us learn more about our own health.
Instructional Video9:06
SciShow

6 Reasons We Have to Say a Study Was "In Mice"

12th - Higher Ed
A lot of our videos include the disclaimer "Mice aren't people." But why do we keep saying this, and if rodent studies aren't effective, why do we keep using them?
Instructional Video9:12
SciShow

If the Asteroid Hit 10 Minutes Later...

12th - Higher Ed
If the 10 kilometer wide asteroid that hit the Earth 66 million years ago hit just a few minutes later, would the outcome of the living creatures here have been different?
Instructional Video8:44
SciShow

How The Six Degrees Phenomenon Has Changed Science

12th - Higher Ed
You may have heard about the Six Degrees of Separation phenomenon, but it isn't just a fun celebrity game, it helps scientists understand the spread of epidemics, the structure of the internet, and even the neural networks in your brain!
Instructional Video5:35
SciShow

Why It's Good for COVID-19 Models to Be Wrong

12th - Higher Ed
As we react to the predictions that epidemiological models make, changing the ways we act and go about our lives, those estimates can appear totally off. But if a model’s predictions end up being wrong, that might mean it's done exactly...
Instructional Video4:25
SciShow

Where did Teeth Come From??

12th - Higher Ed
Everywhere in the animal kingdom you can find teeth in all sorts of shapes and sizes, so you probably think you have a pretty good idea where they came from. But in reality, this debate is still a hot one, and it may have something to do...
Instructional Video3:39
SciShow

Warp Drives!

12th - Higher Ed
Hank talks about how warp drives could potentially work.
Instructional Video11:32
SciShow

The Truth About the Five Stages of Grief

12th - Higher Ed
The Five Stages of Grief show up in media everywhere from The Simpsons to Robot Chicken, but scientists have long been working on better ways to think about grief.
Instructional Video3:04
SciShow

The Science of Hyperloop

12th - Higher Ed
Michael Aranda explains the nuts and bolts of Hyperloop, the new magnet-driven, solar-powered transit system proposed by Spacex genius Elon Musk. Learn how Musk answered three vexing questions to create the transportation of the future...
Instructional Video6:02
SciShow

The Erratic Behavior of Water

12th - Higher Ed
Water is one of the most abundant and important substances on Earth, so you think we'd know everything there is to know about it. Turns out, water is so much stranger and more complex than we ever thought! Join Olivia Gordon for a new...
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

North American Inhabitants 30,000 Years Ago

12th - Higher Ed
Two new studies challenge what we thought we knew about the first humans in the Americas. Could people have been on these continents 10 to 15 thousand years earlier than archaeologists previously thought? Join Stefan Chin and learn more...
Instructional Video9:56
SciShow

How Quantum Mechanics Affects Your Life

12th - Higher Ed
While you might not think about quantum mechanics being part of your everyday life, it turns out that it might play a role in some of the most familiar things, from the sunlight in the trees to the nose on your face!
Instructional Video4:04
SciShow

Abundant Water on Mars, and Mongols Rule!

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow news Hank explains what Curiosity has found, . . .water on Mars!
Instructional Video4:53
SciShow

Why Protons Are Still Such a Mystery to Scientists

12th - Higher Ed
Protons make up most of the regular matter int he universe, but we're still figuring out a few of their quirks... Or quarks. Join Hank Green and learn why protons are still so mysterious to scientists, and what we've discovered about...
Instructional Video13:31
TED Talks

TED: What the world can learn from China's innovation playbook | Keyu Jin

12th - Higher Ed
In the last few decades, China has gone from technological scarcity to abundance. What sparked this shift? Economist Keyu Jin explores how China has fostered a model of innovation unlike any other and shows why understanding its...
Instructional Video16:03
TED Talks

TED: Why AI is incredibly smart -- and shockingly stupid | Yejin Choi

12th - Higher Ed
Computer scientist Yejin Choi is here to demystify the current state of massive artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, highlighting three key problems with cutting-edge large language models (including some funny instances of them...
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PBS

Sanitation to Kenya's Poor

12th - Higher Ed
Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Kenya, where private capital is being used to help install toilets and sanitation facilities in the country's poorest areas.