Instructional Video13:36
TED Talks

TED: The debut of the British Paraorchestra | Charles Hazlewood + British Paraorchestra

12th - Higher Ed
There are millions of prodigiously gifted musicians of disability around the world, and Charles Hazlewood is determined to give them a platform. Watch the debut performance of the British Paraorchestra.
Instructional Video5:37
SciShow

3 Space Missions to Look for in 2021

12th - Higher Ed
2021 is expected to bring some very exciting missions: We're putting more cool tech on Mars, going back around the Moon, and testing some sweet planetary defense from asteroids!
Instructional Video3:41
Be Smart

How to See Time Travel!!!

12th - Higher Ed
Build your own cloud chamber particle detector and test relativity at home!
Instructional Video5:45
SciShow

3 Ways We Know What the Ancient Solar System Was Like

12th - Higher Ed
The New Horizons spacecraft has given us lots of clues about the early days of our solar system, but we don't always have to travel billions of kilometers to peer into our past.
Instructional Video6:42
PBS

What Will Destroy Planet Earth?

12th - Higher Ed
Killing all the life on Earth is easy. But what about destroying the planet itself? That is DEFINITELY going to happen!! But HOW? Could it be Nukes? A Giant Asteroid? A Collision with another planet? And what's more, will anyone be...
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

We Just Took the First Image of a Baby Planet!

12th - Higher Ed
SPHERE took a photo of a baby planet and the origin of the asteroid belt may be less mysterious than we thought.
Instructional Video6:34
TED Talks

Jeremy Kasdin: The flower-shaped starshade that might help us detect Earth-like planets

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers believe that every star in the galaxy has a planet, one fifth of which might harbor life. Only we haven't seen any of them -- yet. Jeremy Kasdin and his team are looking to change that with the design and engineering of an...
Instructional Video14:28
TED Talks

Alan Eustace: I leapt from the stratosphere. Here's how I did it

12th - Higher Ed
On October 24, 2014, Alan Eustace donned a custom-built, 235-pound spacesuit, attached himself to a weather balloon, and rose above 135,000 feet, from which point he dove to Earth, breaking both the sound barrier and previous records for...
Instructional Video13:46
TED Talks

TED: The most mysterious star in the universe | Tabetha Boyajian

12th - Higher Ed
Something massive, with roughly 1,000 times the area of earth, is blocking the light coming from a distant star known as KIC 8462852, and nobody is quite sure what it is. As astronomer Tabetha Boyajian investigated this perplexing...
Instructional Video5:18
SciShow

The 3 Biggest Space Impacts Ever

12th - Higher Ed
Celebrate Asteroid Day by learning about the 3 biggest collisions that Earth has experienced with celestial objects.
Instructional Video4:19
SciShow

The Arizona Fireball and Planet Nine's Origins

12th - Higher Ed
An asteroid streaked across Arizona's night sky, and we have a new theory on where the hypothetical Planet Nine came from.
Instructional Video4:33
SciShow

Why Days Are Getting Longer

12th - Higher Ed
You can complain about having the longest day ever today, and here is the science to prove it!
Instructional Video3:35
SciShow

Carl Sagan

12th - Higher Ed
Hank pays tribute to Carl Sagan, noting his accomplishment as an astronomer and his contributions to culture -- both pop and otherwise -- as one of the great popularizers of science. Happy Carl Sagan Day!
Instructional Video2:49
SciShow

Blazars Are A Thing

12th - Higher Ed
Hank explains how quasars and blazars are both the same thing - just oriented differently in respect to us - and how that impacts the way we perceive them and how it also effects the ways we can study them.
Instructional Video5:20
SciShow

On This Planet, the Floor Is Actually Lava | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We have new insights into the bizarre nature of lava planets, and the icy moon Europa may yet reveal some of her salty secrets.
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 Video4:00
SciShow

New Clues to the Structure of the Universe

12th - Higher Ed
An incredibly bright burst of energy and a dent covered with ice give us insights into planetary and universal structure.
Instructional Video5:55
Bozeman Science

LS4D - Humans and Biodiversity

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen defines biodiversity and explains the impacts humans are having on the planet's biodiversity. Humans are impacting the variety of life on our planet through habitat destruction, invasive species, pollution,...
Instructional Video4:33
SciShow

China's Almost Ready to Build Their Space Station

12th - Higher Ed
The International Space Station might be getting a new neighbor because China has big plans for their future in space!!
Instructional Video5:30
SciShow

What Studying Earth Can Tell Us About Life on Mars

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists conduct some pretty cool research experiments for Mars here on Earth. These terrestrial analogues have revealed some incredible discoveries!
Instructional Video5:40
SciShow

What Knocked Over Uranus And Two Other Mysteries?

12th - Higher Ed
The most common type of exoplanets might be worlds like our ice giant, Uranus. Understanding it could be key to the history of planets all over the galaxy.
Instructional Video5:37
SciShow

3 Mars Mysteries We Really Should Have Solved By Now

12th - Higher Ed
We've learned a lot about Mars over the years, but we keep uncovering new mysteries - important, fundamental aspects of The Red Planet that we just can't explain. Here are three of them.
Instructional Video4:50
SciShow

The Hottest Planet Ever

12th - Higher Ed
NASA is launching a mission to send a probe into the sun, and it's the first to be named after a living scientist: Eugene Parker and the Parker Solar Probe! Astronomers have found another hot topic, and it's the hottest planet we've ever...
Instructional Video12:27
TED Talks

Laura Boykin: How we're using DNA tech to help farmers fight crop diseases

12th - Higher Ed
Nearly 800 million people worldwide depend on cassava for survival -- but this critical food source is under attack by entirely preventable viruses, says computational biologist and TED Senior Fellow Laura Boykin. She takes us to the...