Instructional Video4:27
SciShow Kids

What are Stalactites and Stalagmites? | Let's Explore Caves! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
After visiting Sam the Bat in his family’s cave, Squeaks is learning all about the rock icicles that are growing from the ceiling and the floor in the cave!
Instructional Video5:53
SciShow Kids

Make a Calendar of Seeds! | Squeaks Grows a Garden!| SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Every plant has different needs! So Mister Brown and Squeaks have asked their friend Juniper the Earthworm to teach them more about the things they want to grow in their garden and help them make a seed calendar so they know when to...
Instructional Video4:57
SciShow Kids

Watch a Seed Sprout! | Squeaks Grows a Garden! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Squeaks and Mister Brown are just about ready to start their garden, but first they want to learn all about how the tiny little seeds they'll plant in the ground will grow into vegetables they can eat! And Juniper stops by to explain how...
Instructional Video21:21
SciShow Kids

How Do Pollinators Help Plants Grow? | SciShow Kids Compilation

K - 5th
Summer is nearly here, and that means Squeaks and Jessi will be spending lots of time playing with dirt in the garden! But it won’t just be those two out there making their garden grow big and beautiful. They’ll be getting help from lots...
Instructional Video4:58
SciShow Kids

Why Does Popcorn Pop? | The Science of Food! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Squeaks and Mister Brown are making popcorn for all of their friends, and learning all about how heat makes popcorn kernels pop!
Instructional Video12:07
TED Talks

TED: How to harness the ancient partnership between forests and fungi | Colin Averill

12th - Higher Ed
If we want to better understand the environment and combat climate change, we need to look deep underground, where diverse microscopic fungal networks mingle with tree roots to form symbiotic partnerships, says microbiologist Colin...
Instructional Video12:00
TED Talks

TED: The massive machines cleaning Earth's atmosphere | Jan Wurzbacher

12th - Higher Ed
To restrain global warming, we know we need to drastically reduce pollution. The very next step after that: using both natural and technological solutions to trap as much excess carbon dioxide from the air as possible. Enter Orca, the...
News Clip6:51
PBS

College turns its football field into a farm and sees students transform

12th - Higher Ed
At Paul Quinn College, where once there was a football field, now there's an organic farm. It's not just a symbol of renewal for this once-struggling historically black college in Dallas; it's where students work to pay tuition. As part...
News Clip1:49
Curated Video

President Barack Obama pushed a humbled General Motors Corp. into bankruptcy on Monday. As many as 20,000 GM workers could lose their jobs

Higher Ed
HEADLINE: Workers at closing GM plants: 'Why us?' CAPTION: President Barack Obama pushed a humbled General Motors Corp. into bankruptcy on Monday. As many as 20,000 GM workers could lose their jobs. (June 1)
News Clip7:04
PBS

How Social Entrepreneurs Use Rice Husks to Fuel Micro Power Grids in India (January 17, 2013)

12th - Higher Ed
India suffers from chronic power interruptions and failures stemming from energy policies created to court voter blocs. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on efforts by social entrepreneurs to solve part of India's power...
Instructional Video10:06
Bozeman Science

Bioenergetics

12th - Higher Ed
Paul Andersen introduces the concept of bioenergetics. He explains how living organisms utilize free energy in the Universe. He begins with a brief discussion of thermodynamics and Gibbs free energy. He then explains how reactions can be...
Instructional Video12:20
TED Talks

Suzanne Lee: Why "biofabrication" is the next industrial revolution

12th - Higher Ed
What if we could "grow" clothes from microbes, furniture from living organisms and buildings with exteriors like tree bark? TED Fellow Suzanne Lee shares exciting developments from the field of biofabrication and shows how it could help...
Instructional Video22:43
SciShow

Getting Free Serotonin from Nature | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
Serotonin is the chemical messenger we can thank for being related to feelings of happiness, and one of the ways you can produce this chemical is to turn to our old friend nature! So maybe a visit to the dog park really can make you feel...
Instructional Video2:17
SciShow

Can Poppy Seeds Make You Fail a Drug Test?

12th - Higher Ed
Have you ever panicked before a drug test because you just ate a poppy seed muffin? Check out this episode to see if there’s really something to worry about with poppy seeds.
Instructional Video4:23
SciShow

Oh No...Is Nature Going to Make Climate Change WORSE?! | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Photosynthesis plays a huge role in regulating the earth's CO2. But what happens when the temperature gets high enough that photosynthesis slows down?
Instructional Video4:11
SciShow

Bioprecipitation: How Bacteria Makes Snow

12th - Higher Ed
Raindrops and snowflakes generally start to form around something else in the air, like a speck of dust, but sometimes that something else is bacteria.
Instructional Video6:12
SciShow

Why Scientists Are Using Mice to Make Human Cells

12th - Higher Ed
Stem cells are widely believed to hold great promise in medical research because of their ability to transform into all sorts of other cell types, and scientists can grow it in living mice.
Instructional Video11:47
SciShow

6 Lonely Branches on the Tree of Life

12th - Higher Ed
When there’s only one species on an evolutionary branch, we call it a monospecific taxon. Studying these special species can help us better understand not just those sparse groups, but all life on this planet. Chapters Homo sapiens 0:53...
Instructional Video7:03
TED Talks

TED: A vision for sustainable energy in Africa | Chibeze Ezekiel

12th - Higher Ed
Africa needs new energy sources to fuel its development, but the continent should invest in renewable energy instead of cheap, polluting alternatives like coal, says climate inclusion activist Chibeze Ezekiel. He tells the story of how...
Instructional Video1:57
SciShow

Do Plants Get Cancer?

12th - Higher Ed
Have you ever seen a tree with a big, twisted knot growing out of it? That's just one way that plants can show signs of cancer. Quick Questions explains.
Instructional Video3:53
SciShow Kids

Where Does Frost Come From? | Winter Science | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
If you've ever gone outside really early on a cold day in fall, you might have seen a thin layer of sparkly ice crystals covering everything! That ice is called frost, and it can only form if the weather is exactly right! ///Next...
Instructional Video5:07
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Why don't we cover the desert with solar panels? | Dan Kwartler

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Stretching over roughly nine million square kilometers and with sands reaching temperatures of up to 80° Celsius, the Sahara Desert receives about 22 million terawatt hours of energy from the Sun every year. That's well over 100 times...
Instructional Video28:23
SciShow

Invasive Plants & Restoration Ecology | SciShow Talk Show

12th - Higher Ed
Today Hank talks with Dr. Cara Nelson about invasive plants that use toxic chemicals and rapid reproduction to outcompete native plants, and Jessi brings some adorable invasive birds. Dr. Nelson is a professor of Restoration Ecology at...
Instructional Video31:06
SciShow

From Showers to Sleep: Science Hacks for Your Everyday Life

12th - Higher Ed
From calories to sleep, there always seems to be something we're not doing right. Luckily scientists have looked into this and come up with some helpful advice to keep us happy and healthy.