Trinidad's Pitch Lake is a huge, oily, and filled with millions of tons of asphalt. It may not sound like a great place to live, but the lake is teeming with microscopic life! And learning more about these organisms could give us insight...

Scientists have conclusively imaged a circumplanetary disk around a distant exoplanet, and Jupiter's auroras claim the spotlight with their unique Birkeland currents.

Unlike most living things, there are species of bacteria that can harness electrons directly and even shuttle them around from place to place like living wires.

Brit Garner, host of SciShow Psych, talks about the research she's doing in conservation genetics/genomics, and Jessi from Animal Wonders shows off an African crested porcupine!

There are just six weeks left until the celestial odometer that is the Mayan calendar clicks over to the next b'akt'un, but in the meantime, scientists have been trying to solve the mystery behind the collapse of the Mayan civilization....

In space we can finally get away from pesky flies landing in our drinks! But before we can live off-Earth full time, sending flies into orbit is helping us study how space affects our human hearts and immune systems.

We know a lot about dinosaurs but there's one question that has plagued paleontologists for decades: what color were they?

It seems like every time scientists learn something new about sharks, people wonder whether this new information will finally show us how sharks will cure cancer. There’s no doubt about it, sharks are awesome, but is there a magic cure...

When astronauts go into space, they're not always going alone.

Axolotls are special salamanders. Not only to they stay in their juvenile form their whole lives, they can regenerate entire limbs! Studying how they do it could change the way we treat human limb injuries.

When faced with threats ranging from snake bites to COVID infections, some white blood cells retaliate with a peculiar tactic: spewing out their own DNA to form pathogen-trapping nets. But research suggests that sometimes this...

Oceanographer Penny Chisholm introduces us to an amazing little being: Prochlorococcus, the most abundant photosynthetic species on the planet. A marine microbe that has existed for millions of years, Prochlorococcus wasn't discovered...

We have been studying our home galaxy for years, but even though astronomy has come a long way, there is still a lot we don't know about the Milky Way.

To study a system as complex as the entire universe, astrophysicists need to be experts at extracting simple solutions from large data sets. What else could they do with this expertise? In an interdisciplinary talk, TED Fellow and...

SciShow Space News gives you the latest from a batch of experiments on the Space Station, a new mission to forecast space weather, and a guide to this year's conjunction of Mars and Venus!

Mars Express, one of the longest-running planetary probes ever made, was only intended to last for about two Earth years, but it's still going at 17! And it's taught us an unbelievable amount, including everything from studying its...

Humans judge each other within 33 milliseconds of seeing each other! We learn better if we think we have to teach someone else, and video games are good for us!

Scientists have found a world that might be half volcanoes, half ball of ice, and it could teach us a lot about how life began on earth.

Astronomers discovered something cool about an object in the asteroid belt (2006 VW139/288P), and the European Space Agency is conducting a bed rest study that could help us get on our way to Mars.

For creatures that look nothing like us, fruit flies have been able to teach us a lot about human biology as we’ve studied them over the past century.

Lara Brenner talks about her research on how stressed cougars are and how the public views them. Then Jessi from Animal Wonders joins the show with Seraphina the red fox!

You might think weather on earth is pretty crazy, but at least we don't have an apocalyptic shockwave to worry about every 111 days.

Dr. Steve Running discusses his work at NASA using satellites to keep tabs on Earth’s ecological systems. Jessi from Animal Wonders drops by to introduce Hank and Steve to Bindi the Bearded Dragon.

Researchers think they may have found a new way to study planets after they've been "buried" in a star! Astronomers are also officially acknowledging the discovery of a distant body with a thousand-year orbit and an adorable nickname.