Join the Amoeba Sisters on this introduction to the human Skeletal System! This video first introduces several types of skeletal systems found in different organisms before focusing on the human endoskeleton. Then, this video takes a...

Explore how to solve Punnett squares that involve sex-linked traits, specifically focusing on X-linked traits. Video has a resource available here https://www.amoebasisters.com/handouts This 2023 UPDATED sex-linked traits Amoeba Sisters...

Explore the four biomolecules and their importance for organisms and the structure and function of their cells! This 2023 UPDATED Biomolecules Amoeba Sisters video has some more detail and improved art from the 2016 Amoeba Sisters...

Join the Amoeba Sisters in exploring some general animal characteristics, major vocabulary used in classifying animals (such as symmetry, protostome vs deuterostome, cephalization, and coelom), and take a general tour of 9 major animal...

Quick Questions explains why, when it comes right down to it, there are really only eight kinds of people in the world.

There is a group of animals with more species than any other group, but Earth has such an astonishing variety of life that figuring out which group dominates is tricky.

Even though doctors have been using general anesthesia for nearly 200 years, they haven’t really understood the details of how it temporarily shuts down your brain — until now.

Chromosome shenanigans have resulted in some unexpected hybrid fishes. Also, this record-breaking mouse lives at a ridiculous altitude.

The nara melon is as juicy as any other, so how is it able to grow in the hyper-arid Namib desert?

Last week, the World Health Organization announced that a malaria vaccine has finally made it through all the regulatory hurdles and is being distributed in the country of Malawi. Learn how it works and why it’s taken so long to develop...

An astonishing amount of research has gone into the question of whether asparagus really makes your urine smell funny. Sci Show explains it all inside!

Plants are finding their ways into caves, and it's all our fault.

Some animals live in pretty extreme places, but the lava cricket might be the most hardcore of them all. These crickets have only been observed right after volcanic eruptions, and scientists have questions, like “How does a flightless...

On New Year's day, we said goodbye to George the Snail, marking the first extinction of 2019, and the way things are looking, it won't be the last.

Hank reviews the latest in science news, including the discovery of Element 115, the biggest volcano on Earth, and new insights into what it might mean to have small testicles.

Earthworms may be good for your garden, but they also have the potential to disrupt forest ecosystems across much of North America.

SciShow takes you inside the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster to show you how, nearly 30 years later, life has adapted and persisted.

SciShow shares the latest developments in science, this week including new insights into the evolution of giant sperm, and the discovery of a whole new order of animal. ----------

Scientists who piece together our past can do so through the rare fossil or artifact, or they can go to one convenient location: a hyrax latrine.

Quick Questions gives you the low-down on how oysters turn a tiny bit of gunk into a lovely, valuable pearl. ----------

SciShow debunks the myth that you only use 10 percent of your brain. So, how much do you really use? And how do we know?

They live in the water, but do they actually drink it? Turns out, some fish actually do! Learn all about how different kinds of fish get the fresh water that they need to survive in this new episode of SciShow!

Bivalves—animals like mussels, clams and oysters—might be a more familiar sight in a restaurant than a lab. But it turns out that studying them might help us learn more about our own health.

Although they don’t seem like the talkative type, recent research suggests that bird eggs can use vibrations to relay warnings about the outside world to their nest-mates.