SciShow
How Words Get Stuck on the Tip of Your Tongue
You know that feeling, when you know a word but it's just out of reach, stuck on the tip of your tongue? Well, why does it happen? And what can you do about it?
TED Talks
Tom Wujec: Got a wicked problem? First, tell me how you make toast
Making toast doesn’t sound very complicated -- until someone asks you to draw the process, step by step. Tom Wujec loves asking people and teams to draw how they make toast, because the process reveals unexpected truths about how we can...
MinuteEarth
The Plankton Paradox
The competitive exclusion principle predicts that there would just be a few species of plankton, but instead there are thousands.
SciShow
Planets Could Form Around Black Holes! SciShow News
This week in space. Scientists have discovered a black hole that could possibly everything we know about black holes, and also, evidence that planets, yes planets, could form around super massive black holes.
TED Talks
TED: Can clouds buy us more time to solve climate change? | Kate Marvel
Climate change is real, case closed. But there's still a lot we don't understand about it, and the more we know the better chance we have to slow it down. One still-unknown factor: How might clouds play a part? There's a small hope that...
SciShow
The Strange Case of Eta Carinae A
Eta Carinae A, a star that briefly held the title of the second-brightest star in the sky, has been dazzling astronomers for centuries. Learn more about this type of supermassive, mega-luminous star, known as a Luminous Blue Variable.
SciShow
An Alternative to Dark Matter?
Models of the universe’s early days have only been possible with dark matter as a variable, but we still don’t have proof that dark matter exists. But recently, scientists may have found a way to replicate the results without the...
SciShow
Yellowstone Supercomputer
Ever notice how adding "super" in front of something makes it way more awesome? Hank gives us the rundown on the Yellowstone SUPERcomputer.
Bozeman Science
Constructing Scientific Explanations
In this video Paul Andersen shows you how you can use modeling to have your students construct explanations in the science classroom.
SciShow
Why It's Good for COVID-19 Models to Be Wrong
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...
SciShow
How Old Are You? Well, Your Liver Is 3
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.
TED Talks
TED: The emergent patterns of climate change | Gavin Schmidt
You can't understand climate change in pieces, says climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. It's the whole, or it's nothing. In this illuminating talk, he explains how he studies the big picture of climate change with mesmerizing models that...
Bozeman Science
Planning and Carrying Out Investigations
In this video Paul Andersen explains how you can have your students plan and carry out their own investigations.
Crash Course
Big Data Problems - Crash Course Statistics
There is a lot of excitement around the field of Big Data, but today we want to take a moment to look at some of the problems it creates. From questions of bias and transparency to privacy and security concerns, there is still a lot to...
Crash Course
Can We Predict An Outbreak's Future? - Modeling: Crash Course Outbreak Science
When outbreaks happen, we need to be able to predict the course they’ll take in the future, but of course we can’t run experiments on real people to figure that out. Thankfully we can simulate outbreaks and use models to find out how...
SciShow
The Truth About the Sun's 'Twin' and the Dinosaurs
Researchers published a paper last month, exploring the possibility that our sun might have once had a stellar twin! Could our solar system have once been a binary, or even a multi-star system?
SciShow
InSight Landed on Mars! What's Next? - SciShow News
InSight has safely landed on Mars, and astronomers have some improved theories about the TRAPPIST-1 system.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What is consciousness? - Michael S. A. Graziano
Explore the theories of human consciousness and the science of how your brain works to create a conscious experience. -- Patient P.S. suffered a stroke that damaged the right side of her brain, leaving her unaware of everything on her...
SciShow
Two Decades Later, We Know Why the Sun Is a Lava Lamp
In 1999, scientists discovered something that took over 20 years to solve. Why do solar flares move like a lava lamp?
Bozeman Science
Scientific Inquiry: A Teacher's Guide
This video is the first of a five part series on scientific inquiry. Supporting material can be found below.
SciShow
Why These Two Planets SHOULD Be the Same
You'd think that two planets with similar stats, orbits, and parent stars would grow up to be pretty similar, but these twins have atmospheres that beg to differ.
Crash Course
Z-Scores and Percentiles - Crash Course Statistics
Today we’re going to talk about how we compare things that aren’t exactly the same - or aren’t measured in the same way. For example, if you wanted to know if a 1200 on the SAT is better than the 25 on the ACT. For this, we need to...
TED Talks
Jonathan Drori: What we think we know
Starting with four basic questions (that you may be surprised to find you can't answer), Jonathan Drori looks at the gaps in our knowledge -- and specifically, what we don't about science that we might think we do.