MinutePhysics
How To Discover Weird New Particles - Emergent Quantum Quasiparticles
This video is about weird condensed matter systems, aka materials that have bizarre emergent particles in them that are unlike most other particles in the universe.
Bozeman Science
Calculating the Electric Force
In this video Paul Andersen explains how you can use Coulomb's Law to determine the electric force between two charges. In Physics 1 students should be able to calculate the force between two charges and in Physics 2 students should be...
MinutePhysics
How Long Is A Day On The Sun?
This video is about the definition of a day, and how it applies (or not) on the sun. Solar day, sidereal day, universal coordinated time (UTC) day, etc. Length of a day.
SciShow
Did This Ancient Asteroid Cause an Ice Age? - SciShow News
Around 500 Million years ago, Earth’s climate was warm, and the planet had nearly no ice, even at the poles. Then an asteroid broke apart deep in our solar system, and our planet plunged into an ice age at the same time. Are the two...
PBS
How to Estimate the Density of the Moon in Majora's Mask
Gabe breaks down the steps for how he determined the density of the moon in Majora's Mask.
SciShow
Life on an Eyeball Planet? It's Possible
Tidally locked planets could be more common than Earth-like planets! And these 'eyeball planets' might even be a promising place to look for unique lifeforms!
SciShow
The Brightest, Biggest Space News of 2019!
This has been another really good year for exploring the universe. This is our annual superlatives episode, so let’s take a look at the some of the coolest breakthroughs of 2019.
SciShow
Could Naked Singularities Exist?
A naked singularity is something that should be a black hole, but it’s neither black nor a hole. If they exist, they’ll rewrite physics as we know it.
SciShow
Why Was Mars's Underground Lake So Hard to Find? - Breaking News!
Researchers have discovered an underground, liquid water lake on Mars! What might it be like, and why did it take us so long to find it?
SciShow
This Amazing Mission Almost Failed After Launch
The ESA Hipparcos team worked for 20 years on the project, then had to watch as the mission ALMOST failed! But somehow, they turned it around, and today, this little-known mission has totally transformed what we know about space.
SciShow
Why We've Only Ever Seen the Sun's Poles Once
The Ulysses mission revolutionized our understanding of the sun, but it's been the only orbiter to take this kind of out-of-ecliptic journey. Will an upcoming mission give us even more?
SciShow
Two New Ways We Could Live on the Moon!
Last week, engineers announced two possible lunar habitats: a big pillowy space closet and lunar lava tubes.
SciShow
The Coolest Space Mission You May Have Never Heard Of
Some space missions get a lot of attention, but not all the biggest space exploration stories get the recognition they deserve. This is the story of a robotic craft that captured the first-ever glimpse of a comet’s icy core!
SciShow
NASA Just Arrived at an Asteroid! SciShow News
OSIRIS-REx finally entered orbit around the asteroid Bennu this week and new research has found an old recipe for RNA.
SciShow
An Asteroid Visited Us From Outside the Solar System!
Earth has received its first speedy visitor from another star system, A/2017 U1, and the Dawn Mission has helped astronomers gather more evidence about possible former oceans on Ceres.
TED Talks
Leonard Susskind: My friend Richard Feynman
What's it like to be pals with a genius? Physicist Leonard Susskind spins a few stories about his friendship with the legendary Richard Feynman, discussing his unconventional approach to problems both serious and ... less so.
PBS
Supersymmetric Particle Found?
With the large hadron collider running out of places to look for clues to a deeper theory of physics, we need a bigger particle accelerator. We have one - the galaxy.
Crash Course
Engines: Crash Course Physics
One of the greatest inventions is the steam engine. But why? What makes it so useful? And how does it work? In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks to us about how engines work, what makes them efficient, and why they're...
Bozeman Science
Conservation of Linear Momentum
In this video Paul Andersen explains how linear momentum is conserved in all collisions. In completely elastic collisions the kinetic energy of the objects is also maintained. Several examples and demonstrations are included.
SciShow
The Biggest Moon Discoveries of the Last Decade
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been teaching us about the moon for a decade now, and it's still going! What we’re learning from it will make space exploration and future moon missions much easier for future astronauts.
SciShow
NASA Just Launched a New, Planet-Hunting Telescope!
From launching a new satellite, to finding diamonds from a lost world, researchers have been hard at work transforming how we think about our planet, the solar system, and the rest of the universe.
SciShow
How Long Will the Voyager Spacecraft Last?
For more than 40 years, the Voyager probes have traveled through space sending back all kinds of fascinating data. But these probes were never meant to send us data forever - so how much longer will these amazing probes last?