Instructional Video11:59
SciShow

The Alien Storm That Ate Itself

12th - Higher Ed
From cyclones to snowstorms, Earth is home to some spectacular weather events. But they're nothing compared to what you can find on the other planets in our solar system. Magnetic tornadoes? Ammonia mushballs? Let's (not literally) dive...
Instructional Video6:04
SciShow

Eavesdropping On Other Worlds

12th - Higher Ed
We usually only get to use our sense of sight in exploring the universe, but that hasn’t prevented scientists from trying to listen in.
Instructional Video5:00
Be Smart

Do Other Planets Have Seasons Too?

12th - Higher Ed
Earth has seasons, but what about the rest of the planets in the solar system? Let’s take a tour from Mercury to Pluto and see what seasons would be like on all our planetary neighbors. Bring a sweater!
Instructional Video4:11
SciShow

3 Surprising Things Matter Does Under Extreme Pressure

12th - Higher Ed
3 Surprising Things Matter Does Under Extreme Pressure
Instructional Video5:39
SciShow

The Secret to Better Chocolate Was Inside Us All Along

12th - Higher Ed
Researchers have been able to engineer super-strong fibers made of muscle proteins with the help of protein-assembling microbes. And some other research might eliminate the need to temper chocolate, a part of the chocolate production...
Instructional Video4:11
SciShow

3 Surprising Things Matter Does Under Extreme Pressure

12th - Higher Ed
Things get weird under pressure.
Instructional Video1:49
MinutePhysics

Why It's HARD To Land on Mars

12th - Higher Ed
This video is about why it's harder to successfully land spacecraft and landers and rovers on Mars than on Earth, or Venus, or the Moon, or Titan, or asteroids. It all comes down to atmospheric density! When there's no atmosphere, you...
Instructional Video7:06
TED Talks

TED: What Saturn's most mysterious moon could teach us about the origins of life | Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle

12th - Higher Ed
NASA's Dragonfly -- a robotic rotorcraft-lander that's designed to hop across the surface of an extraterrestrial body -- is set to voyage deep into the solar system to explore Titan, Saturn's largest moon, in 2026. Planetary scientist...
Instructional Video5:42
SciShow

Our Smelly Solar System

12th - Higher Ed
Sight, sound, and yes, taste, have all helped humanity better understand space, but what about smells? Scientists think we have a pretty good idea of what some places smell like, and decoding astronomical aromas can be a good way of...
Instructional Video5:29
SciShow

Secrets of Life from A Giant Pool of Asphalt | Weird Places: Pitch Lake, Trinidad

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video4:50
SciShow

How Carl Sagan Predicted Nuclear Winter

12th - Higher Ed
Carl Sagan predicted some amazing things including the aftermath of nuclear war.
Instructional Video7:46
TED Talks

Jon Nguyen: Tour the solar system from home

12th - Higher Ed
Want to navigate the solar system without having to buy a spacecraft? Jon Nguyen demos NASA JPL's "Eyes on the Solar System" -- free-to-use software for exploring the planets, moons, asteroids, and spacecraft that rotate around our sun...
Instructional Video3:48
SciShow

Water Weirdness Sweaty Comets, and Titan's Hidden Oceans

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News gives you some wet and weird developments from around the solar system, including new insights about what liquid lurks under the surface of Titan, and a sweaty comet that's been spotted on its way toward the sun.
Instructional Video4:13
SciShow

Titan's "Magic Island" and A Triple Black Hole!

12th - Higher Ed
Join Caitlin Hoffmeister in this episode of SciShow Space News as we explore the universe!
Instructional Video4:46
SciShow

We're Turning Pulsars into Galactic GPS!

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists have thought for awhile that pulsars could be used as a sort of galactic positioning system, and astronomers have published the most advanced topographical map of Titan to date!
Instructional Video5:26
SciShow

How Does Titan Still Have an Atmosphere?

12th - Higher Ed
From what we know about Titan, it seems like its atmosphere should have disappeared millions of years ago. So, why hasn’t it?
Instructional Video4:21
SciShow

We're Sending a Drone to Saturn's Moon Titan! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
NASA is sending a robot to Saturn’s giant moon Titan and instead of landing, orbiting, or driving when it gets there, this mission will fly.
Instructional Video5:42
SciShow

3 Unique Rovers for Extreme Worlds

12th - Higher Ed
Specialized rovers provide all kinds of creative solutions to the problem of navigating new terrain, and future missions might just carry some weird bots like these.
Instructional Video3:03
SciShow

Dangerously Smart: Why This Fish Almost Beached Itself

12th - Higher Ed
Fish are smarter than you think! Scientists have explored triggerfish's ability to learn some clever hunting tactics.
Instructional Video5:33
SciShow

How Saturn's Moons Could Help Us Live in Space

12th - Higher Ed
As we continue our search for life out in the universe, it's important that we leave no stone, or moon, unturned.
Instructional Video5:07
SciShow

We Found Evidence of a Brand-New Particle | Space News

12th - Higher Ed
X-rays leaking from dead stars could breathe new life into a hypothetical particle theory, plus an ancient Titanic force may have helped twist Saturn’s axis.
Instructional Video28:02
SciShow

5 Unusual Places to Look for Life | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
From "superhabitable planets" that can potentially sustain life longer than earth to rogue planets that don't even orbit a star, we’ve talked about some strange places that could host extraterrestrial life over the last few years. Here...
Instructional Video3:56
SciShow

The Future of Life in the Solar System

12th - Higher Ed
In five billion years, the Sun's going to evolve into a red giant. That's bad news for Earth, but exciting for some of the worlds a little farther out.
Instructional Video7:06
TED Talks

TED: The case to infect volunteers with COVID-19 to accelerate vaccine testing | Nir Eyal

12th - Higher Ed
Conventional vaccine testing is a slow, years-long process. As thousands of people continue to die each day from COVID-19, bioethicist Nir Eyal proposes a radical idea that could dramatically accelerate the vaccine development timeline:...