Instructional Video4:45
SciShow

A Zombie Star That Just Won’t Die

12th - Higher Ed
What exactly is a ‘Zombie Star,’ and how does it compare to other stars and supernovas? We’ve also learned more about how the haze over Pluto plays a role in its temperature.
Instructional Video4:39
SciShow

3 Things We Still Don’t Understand About the Milky Way

12th - Higher Ed
We have been studying our home galaxy for years, but even though astronomy has come a long way, there is still a lot we don't know about the Milky Way.
Instructional Video5:49
SciShow

There's an Interstellar Asteroid Hiding Near Jupiter

12th - Higher Ed
We may have found another interstellar asteroid and scientists have some new ideas about how Saturn's moons got their weird shapes.
Instructional Video4:26
SciShow

How Bad Are Satellite Constellations for Astronomy? - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Imagine being excited to use one of the world's most advanced telescopes, only to see bright streaks of light on every picture! This is a problem facing some astronomers as satellites fill up the night sky.
Instructional Video2:39
Be Smart

Where Does the Smell of Rain Come From?

12th - Higher Ed
I smell a science storm a-comin'!!
Instructional Video3:58
Instructional Video10:56
PBS

How Time Becomes Space Inside a Black Hole

12th - Higher Ed
Find out how time and space switch roles when we move beyond the event horizon of the black hole.
Instructional Video11:09
TED Talks

Honor Harger: A history of the universe in sound

12th - Higher Ed
Artist-technologist Honor Harger listens to the weird and wonderful noises of stars and planets and pulsars. In her work, she tracks the radio waves emitted by ancient celestial objects and turns them into sound, including "the oldest...
Instructional Video2:54
MinutePhysics

Parallel Universes - Many Worlds

12th - Higher Ed
Parallel Universes - Many Worlds
Instructional Video3:46
SciShow

How to Make a Superbug, and an Even More Super-Collider!

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News explains how evolution and antibiotics have teamed up to produce an ordinary germ that can now, sometimes, kill people. Also, our favorite piece of science equipment -- the Large Hadron Collider -- has big plans for this...
Instructional Video10:31
TED Talks

TED: Could you recover from illness ... using your own stem cells? | Nabiha Saklayen

12th - Higher Ed
What if diseases could be treated with a patient's own cells, precisely and on demand? Biotech entrepreneur Nabiha Saklayen explains how we could harness advances in biology, machine learning and lasers to create personalized stem cell...
Instructional Video15:51
TED Talks

Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse

12th - Higher Ed
Cosmologist Sean Carroll attacks -- in an entertaining and thought-provoking tour through the nature of time and the universe -- a deceptively simple question: Why does time exist at all? The potential answers point to a surprising view...
Instructional Video2:03
MinutePhysics

Why Are Airplane Engines So Big?

12th - Higher Ed
The answer to this question has everything to do with drag & kinetic energy vs momentum change (thrust) ie, a bigger engine fan allows for a larger air mass to be accelerated a smaller amount to give the same thrust as you'd get from a...
Instructional Video5:13
MinutePhysics

How Airplanes Are Made

12th - Higher Ed
Behind-the-Scenes of an Airbus A350 being built! Thanks to the folks at Airbus for bringing me to France, Germany, & the UK to visit their headquarters and facilities and see so much incredible engineering. As you can probably tell from...
Instructional Video1:08
MinutePhysics

What is Dark Matter

12th - Higher Ed
In this episode, we discuss Dark Matter, an exotic type of matter we know very little about, despite the fact that it makes up around 80% of all matter in the universe!
Instructional Video5:04
3Blue1Brown

Essence of Linear Algebra: Preview

12th - Higher Ed
The introduction to a series on visualizing core ideas of linear algebra.
Instructional Video5:06
SciShow

The Gulf of California's Upside-Down Mirror Pools | Weird Places

12th - Higher Ed
For upside-down mirrors, super hot volcanic chimneys, and neon rocks with living microorganisms, look no further than the Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California.
Instructional Video5:21
SciShow

Meet Blue Moon: Blue Origin's Lunar Lander SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Blue Origin announced a a new lunar lander, Blue Moon, that will be delivering supplies, and eventually astronauts to the lunar surface within the next 5 years, and robots like Chang’e-4 are giving us an early glimpse at what we might...
Instructional Video5:17
TED Talks

Federica Bianco: How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems

12th - Higher Ed
To study a system as complex as the entire universe, astrophysicists need to be experts at extracting simple solutions from large data sets. What else could they do with this expertise? In an interdisciplinary talk, TED Fellow and...
Instructional Video24:40
TED Talks

Neil Turok: My wish: Find the next Einstein in Africa

12th - Higher Ed
Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young Africans starved of opportunity: by unlocking and nurturing the continent's creative potential, we can create a change in Africa's future.
Instructional Video4:23
SciShow

Top 10 New Species and the First Fusion Reactor

12th - Higher Ed
Hank shares the week in science news, including the top 10 new species discovered in 2014, and the start of construction of the first fusion reactor. It's gonna be big!
Instructional Video12:44
TED Talks

TED: The missing 96 percent of the universe | Claire Malone

12th - Higher Ed
We've misplaced the building blocks of the cosmos -- and particle physicists like Claire Malone are on a mission to find them. Despite scientists hitting a "major snag" in uncovering what exactly makes up dark matter and dark energy, she...
Instructional Video4:02
SciShow

Earth’s Underwater Topography & The Recent Space Walk

12th - Higher Ed
We just mapped out 80% of our earth and gave the ISS a tuneup! Hank Green explains what is going on in this episode of SciShow Space News!
Instructional Video3:25
SciShow

The Most Powerful Rocket Ever, and Gecko Sex in Space

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space News shares the latest developments from around the universe, including NASA’s plan to build the world’s most powerful rocket, and the fate of Russian geckos sent to have sex in space.