SciShow
The Leidenfrost Effect: How to Make a Liquid Levitate
In this video Michael Aranda explains what the Leidenfrost Effect is, and how it can cause liquid to 'levitate'.
MinuteEarth
How to Make a Seashell - Just Add Water
Why do shell building living creatures live near the surface of the ocean? Learn how chemistry creates a dissolving depth for calcium and determines where shell builders can live.
MinutePhysics
What if the Earth Were Hollow
What if there were a tunnel through the middle of the earth and you jumped in?
SciShow
Antarctic Lava to Pink Snow: The Science of Winter
"If you live in the northern hemisphere, there's a decent chance you're in a winter wonderland right now. Settle in with a hot drink for this winter compilation and learn about some of the interesting things that make winter wondrous!
SciShow
Man Made Earthquakes and More
Hank hits you with a ton of news this time - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has plans to retrieve Saturn V rocket engines from the bottom of the Atlantic; new research on the impacts from the Deep Water Horizon oil spill to life in the Gulf of...
SciShow
How Climate Scientists Predict the Future
Over the years, scientists have made a lot of predictions about how Earth's climate is changing, but they don't just pull those predictions from thin air.
SciShow
Xenotransplantation: When People Get Animal Parts
How can we transplant animal tissue into humans? And will we ever be able to grow customized organs? SciShow explains!
SciShow
The First Water on Earth Might've Come From… Earth? | SciShow News
Astronomers have thought for years that Earth was dry in the beginning, but a new paper suggests that Earth might have actually started out wet! And In other meteorite news, a new study of impact sites might give us new clues about...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why don't we cover the desert with solar panels? | Dan Kwartler
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...
SciShow
Liquid Water on Mars
Today, NASA announced that there is...occasionally...flowing, liquid water on the surface of Mars. What?!
SciShow
Radiation Is a Green Diamond’s Best Friend
Diamonds are iconic, but some of them might make others a little green with envy.
SciShow
Weird Places Movile Cave
In 1986, a prospecting crew in southern Romania was looking for a good place to build a geothermal power plant, when they accidentally discovered one of the oddest caves of all...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed A brief history of graffiti - Kelly Wall - MENA
Spray-painted subway cars, tagged bridges, mural-covered walls -- graffiti pops up boldly throughout our cities. And it turns out: it's nothing new. Graffiti has been around for thousands of years. And across that span of time, it's...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why aren't we only using solar power? - Alexandros George Charalambides
Solar power is cheaper and more sustainable than our current coal-fueled power plants, so why haven't we made the switch? The real culprits here are the clouds, which make solar power difficult to control. Alexandros George Charalambides...
SciShow
The World's Most Abundant Mineral, and Oddball Whales
SciShow News takes you to the depths of the Earth, where the world’s most abundant mineral is found, and to the Arabian Sea, where a strange population of whales has been living in isolation for 70,000 years!
SciShow
The Lost City and the Origin of Life | Weird Places
Hydrothermal vents are some of the most extreme environments on the planet. But in 2000, scientists discovered a vent unlike any other, one that spews white smoke and is 10 times older. And some think it may help us understand how all...
SciShow
What Happens If A Plane Gets Struck By Lightning?
If you're flying on a plane in a thunderstorm, you should be more worried about the wind than the lightning.
SciShow
How Studying Venus Saved Earth
Chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, seemed too good to be true when they were first created, and before long astronomers studying Venus' atmosphere discovered what could go wrong with this "miracle molecule."
SciShow
Weird Places Mauritania's Eye of the Sahara
Explore the origins of one of the coolest geologic formations in the world, West Africa's Richat Structure.
Be Smart
A Slice of Pizza Science!
How does math keep a folded slice from drooping? And what does pizza have to do with the speed of light?
PBS
What Do Stars Sound Like?
We can now map the interiors of stars by "listening" to their harmonies as they vibrate with seismic waves.
SciShow
Weird Places: Mauritania's Eye of the Sahara
Explore the origins of one of the coolest geologic formations in the world, West Africa's Richat Structure.
Crash Course Kids
Up, Up & Away
So... what makes the wind? You might be surprised to learn that it has to do with two of Earth's spheres; The Hydrosphere and the Geosphere. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina takes us to the beach to chat about how the wind...
SciShow
8 Beautiful, Weird, and Scary Things Ice Can Do
Frozen water molecules don’t seem to be all that interesting. But, these eight weird things that ice can do are truly mind-boggling. Chapters View all ICE SPIKES 0:40 FROST QUAKES 2:36 FROST FLOWERS: LAND 3:26 FROST FLOWERS: SEA ICE 4:22...