TED-Ed
TED-ED: How to spot a counterfeit bill - Tien Nguyen
Authentic dollar bills are equipped with many security features to make them difficult to forge. But that doesn't stop counterfeiters from trying to fool people with fakes. Luckily, anyone can help catch a counterfeit; all you need are a...
SciShow Kids
Jessi and Squeaks Build a Better Back-Scratcher!
When we last left Jessi and Squeaks, Jessi had a big problem: her back was really itchy! Today we'll share our designs for back scratchers and build something to help her out!
TED Talks
Jarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist
This talk paints the funny and touching story of a little boy who pursued a simple passion: to draw and write stories. With the help of a supporting cast of family and teachers, Jarrett J. Krosoczka tells how he grew up to create beloved...
TED Talks
Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)
Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations -- a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through...
TED Talks
JR: One year of turning the world inside out
Street artist JR made a wish in 2011: Join me in a worldwide photo project to show the world its true face. One year after making his TED Prize wish, he shows how giant posters of human faces, pasted in public, are connecting...
SciShow
A New Kind of Northern Light - SciShow News
A glowing, purple ribbon of light named STEVE is weirder than we thought and we now have evidence that there is water ice on the moon!
TED Talks
TED: A love poem for lonely prime numbers | Harry Baker
Performance poet (and math student) Harry Baker spins a love poem about his favorite kind of numbers -- the lonely, love-lorn prime. Stay on for two more lively, inspiring poems from this charming performer.
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...
TED Talks
Kate Stone: DJ decks made of ... paper
"I love paper, and I love technology," says physicist and former sheep herder Kate Stone, who's spent the past decade working to unite the two. Her experiments combine regular paper with conductive inks and tiny circuit boards to offer a...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Pizza physics (New York-style) - Colm Kelleher
People love eating pizza, but every style of pie has a different consistency. If "New York-style"--thin, flat, and large--is your texture of choice, then you've probably eaten a slice that was as messy as it was delicious. Colm Kelleher...
SciShow
Did This Ancient Asteroid Cause an Ice Age? - SciShow News
Around 500 Million years ago, Earth’s climate was warm, and the planet had nearly no ice, even at the poles. Then an asteroid broke apart deep in our solar system, and our planet plunged into an ice age at the same time. Are the two...
SciShow
NASA Just Arrived at an Asteroid! SciShow News
OSIRIS-REx finally entered orbit around the asteroid Bennu this week and new research has found an old recipe for RNA.
SciShow
Phobos Is Hiding Secrets About Mars's Atmosphere | SciShow News
This week, researchers are getting ready to learn about earth and Mars, in places that you might not expect.
SciShow
NASA Just Launched a New, Planet-Hunting Telescope!
From launching a new satellite, to finding diamonds from a lost world, researchers have been hard at work transforming how we think about our planet, the solar system, and the rest of the universe.
SciShow
Can You Really 'Train' Your Brain?
Brain training games claim to improve your memory, attention, and reasoning skills. Some even say they help prevent the onset of dementia. Problem is, they don't really work.
TED Talks
TED: A comic sendup of TED2006 | Tom Rielly
Satirist Tom Rielly delivers a wicked parody of the 2006 TED conference, taking down the $100 laptop, the plight of the polar bear, and people who mention, one too many times, that they work at Harvard. Watch for a special moment between...
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?
PBS
Oumuamua Is Not Aliens
To repeat the space time maxim: it's never aliens .... until it is. So let's talk about 'oumuamua.
SciShow
Purple Bacteria: Turning Poop Into Biofuel
Scientists are turning wastewater into fuel, using special bacteria, and other scientists have unveiled bionic mushrooms that can produce electricity!
SciShow
There's Clean (Frozen) Water on Mars!
According to two new papers, Mars may have gigantic drinkable glaciers and we might have found the reason that galaxies glow.
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.
SciShow
Feathered Reptiles Ruled Earth's Skies... Twice! | SciShow News
Feathers might have originated tens of millions of years before we'd thought, and a 3D rendering of ankylosaur nasal passages lends new insight into how they stayed cool.
SciShow
Countershading: Why Do Penguins Wear Tuxedos?
Penguins are infamous for being ready for any formal event, yet it seems that we're still unsure why they, and numerous animals have this distinct color contrast.