Now that we have a primer on the aspects of the Big Bang Theory that we know definitely happened, let’s look further into what we don’t yet know, and how the theory could progress in the future. Since there is a discrepancy between...

Nunalleq, a village in what’s today southwest Alaska, seemed to have thrived during the Little Ice Age. How did this village manage to survive and prosper during this time period? And what caused this period of climate change in the...

K Allado-McDowell has co-written three books with AI, so they speak from experience when they say that nurturing a creative relationship with these systems can open minds and make new worlds possible. Before giving the stage over to a...

You probably have a bag of frozen corn in your freezer, or have chowed down on a buttery ear of corn at a cookout. But not only did it take thousands of years for humans to domesticate teosinte to corral it into what we now know as corn,...

In 1926, Robert Goddard launched Nell — the very first (successful) liquid fuel rocket. But Nell wasn't built like other modern rockets, including a notable lack of casing and an exhaust nozzle suspended above the propellant tanks.

Teeth are so well preserved in the fossil record that they make the best, most informative fossils we can find, from phylogenetic studies to learning about the evolution of the human brain.

We used to think neural circuits were rigid and robotic, but now we know that's not true -- thanks to crab stomachs.

Most animals on earth are bioluminescent, but almost all of them live in the ocean - and scientists aren’t sure why.

When the brain receives pain from an internal organ, it often projects the pain in the wrong place because of the way sensory nerve paths converge

One Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in one minute!

We’d pictured the plant-fruit relationship as one-way, but new research reports that sometimes the fruit can talk back! And while cow burps are a widely cited contributor to climate change, it turns out that wild pigs might also be...

Welcome back to SciShow News! Michael Aranda explains how a male's health affects their sperm.

What if you couldn’t remember anything past 30 seconds? Let us introduce you to a man named Henry Molaison who was diagnosed with anterograde amnesia. He couldn’t form new memories.

Is Monkeypox truly as dangerous as the media says? The current human monkeypox outbreak has left many feeling uneasy about the potential of another pandemic. Whether it's fact or fiction, we'll show you what we know about Monkeypox in...

Dreaming is one of the weirdest things we do & in this SciShow infusion Hank talks about how science is helping us understand why we dream, what our brains are up to when they're doing it, and why dreaming may be critically important to...

Some days you look in the mirror and find a long dark hair where it didn't use to be. Maybe you're going through puberty, pregnancy, or menopause. Maybe you're not. But either way, that hair didn't appear out of nowhere. It just went...

If you're flying on a plane in a thunderstorm, you should be more worried about the wind than the lightning.

7 Animals Called By The Wrong Name

Nobody agrees on how many organs you have, or the exact criteria for a cluster of cells to be called one. But as it turns out, simply identifying a part of the body as an organ can lead to medical breakthroughs.

Hanging out in the trees of Central and South America are some frogs with pretty unusual coloration. Which is to say, parts of them have no color at all. Their bellies are completely see-through!

A new healing gel helped mice regrow brain tissue after a stroke, and scientists suspect someone out there is producing a bunch of ozone-destroying CFCs in defiance of an international agreement! Hosted by: Hank Green

Welcome back to SciShow Talk Show where Hank talks to interesting people about interesting things! In this episode Hank discusses corvids with John Marzluff of the University of Washington.

This arthropod may look modest, but it actually used brilliant engineering to become the world’s most resilient beetle - and we might be able to use its design for our own engineering purposes.

If you want to make a better hip replacement, who better to turn to than… a snake? While these hip-less creatures might seem like a weird choice for help with this particular issue, a major part of creating comfortable, long-lasting...