Instructional Video14:22
PBS

Mapping the Multiverse

12th - Higher Ed
This is a map of the multiverse. Or in physics-ese, it’s the maximally extended Penrose diagram of a Kerr spacetime. And in english: when you solve Einstein’s equations of general relativity for a rotating black hole, the universe does...
Instructional Video5:13
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: What's happening to Earth's core? | Shannon Odell

Pre-K - Higher Ed
A hydrogen atom is traveling high within the outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere. This particular atom first entered the exosphere millions of years ago, but today it overcomes Earth's gravitational pull and escapes, joining the...
Instructional Video4:20
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Can you solve the time traveling car riddle? | Daniel Finkel

Pre-K - Higher Ed
You and the professor have driven your DeLorean back to the past to fix issues with the spacetime continuum caused by your time traveling. But another DeLorean appears with older versions of you and the professor. The professors panic...
Instructional Video12:06
SciShow

The Wildest Noises in Wildlife… and Dunes

12th - Higher Ed
Nature can be pretty noisy, but there's some stuff that's just quiet all the time - right? Well, thanks to advances in audio equipment, researchers are finding out that everything from plants to bacteria have a lot more to say that we...
Instructional Video5:19
SciShow

Do Polar Bears Have Fiber Optic Fur?

12th - Higher Ed
Humans may use fiber optic technology to make everything from novelty desk toys to high speed internet cables, but Nature has its own ideas. For decades, scientists have debated to what extent polar bears may use the optical properties...
Instructional Video2:12
MinutePhysics

Why is it Harder to Drive Backwards?

12th - Higher Ed
One Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in one minute!
Instructional Video2:53
MinutePhysics

3 Simple Ways to Time Travel (& 3 Complicated Ones)

12th - Higher Ed
One Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in one minute!
Instructional Video8:05
SciShow

7 Myths About Movement

12th - Higher Ed
Bumblebees fly, lights turn on, and you can ride a bike without falling over. We all know these things to be true, but what you may not know is the real reason behind why they work. Join Olivia to bust seven myths about motion.
Instructional Video2:53
SciShow

Wood-eating Clams: The Real Kraken?

12th - Higher Ed
For thousands of years, a sea creature has plagued sailors by attacking and devouring their ships. It is so destructive that reportedly it swiss-cheesed the hulls of Christopher Columbus’s ships, sinking at least two of them.
Instructional Video2:00
SciShow

What Does Ultrasound Gel Do?

12th - Higher Ed
You may have had an ultrasound before, and wondered what that gel does. Well, that weird alien goop has a purpose, and it has to do with being like our weird human skin.
Instructional Video3:39
SciShow

Warp Drives!

12th - Higher Ed
Hank talks about how warp drives could potentially work.
Instructional Video2:59
SciShow

Top 5 Coolest Things about Curiosity

12th - Higher Ed
In which Hank celebrates the landing of the Mars Curiosity Rover, which, if you were following SciShow on Twitter, you know was pretty freaking cool. So here are the Top Five Coolest Things about the Mars Curiosity Rover!
Instructional Video3:04
SciShow

The Science of Hyperloop

12th - Higher Ed
Michael Aranda explains the nuts and bolts of Hyperloop, the new magnet-driven, solar-powered transit system proposed by Spacex genius Elon Musk. Learn how Musk answered three vexing questions to create the transportation of the future...
Instructional Video3:45
SciShow

Is Airport Security Effective? | The Scientific Breakdown

12th - Higher Ed
Long lines, metal detectors and pat downs are a common staple of the airport process. But are these security measures actually efficient and effective? Join Michael Aranda for a new episode of SciShow where he breaks down the science of...
Instructional Video5:58
SciShow

Why It's So Difficult to Build a Ballistic Missile

12th - Higher Ed
If you ever get nervous about missile attacks, they're actually a lot harder to make than you might think. To hopefully put your mind more at ease, Hank is here to talk about the work that goes into designing and building ICBMs in this...
Instructional Video11:46
TED Talks

TED: What will the dream car of the future be like? | Alex Koster

12th - Higher Ed
Fasten your seat belt as software engineer Alex Koster takes us on a journey in what he calls the "software dream car" of the future. He breaks down how massive technological shifts are transforming the automotive industry and paints a...
Instructional Video4:41
SciShow Kids

What's Inside a Pinecone? | Winter is Alive! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Jessi and Squeaks learn all about pine cones and their seeds today! Did you know that pine cones can open and close to help protect their seeds?
Instructional Video4:08
SciShow Kids

How Animals Fly! | The Science of Flight | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
As Squeaks continues to prepare for his big trip with Jessi, Mr. Brown helps him learn all about different kinds of wings and how they help animals and machines fly!
Instructional Video5:02
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How do airplanes stay in the air? | Raymond Adkins

Pre-K - Higher Ed
By 1917, Albert Einstein had explained the relationship between space and time. But, that year, he designed a flawed airplane wing. His attempt was based on an incomplete theory of how flight works. Indeed, insufficient and inaccurate...
Instructional Video4:40
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: A day in the Islamic Golden Age | Birte Kristiansen and Petra Sijpesteijn

Pre-K - Higher Ed
It's 791 CE. As the morning sun shines on the Golden Gate Palace, brother and sister Hisham and Asma prepare for the journey of a lifetime: the hajj, a holy pilgrimage to Mecca. They intend to travel with the big hajj caravan— but a...
Instructional Video10:34
PBS

The Geometry of Causality

12th - Higher Ed
Using geometry we can not only understand, but visualize how causality dictates the order of events in our universe.
Instructional Video5:24
MinutePhysics

The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks

12th - Higher Ed
This video was written in collaboration with Aatish Bhatia -'https://aatishb.com' target='_blank' rel='nofollmaskshatia - To learn more about using & decontaminating N95
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 Video4:50
TED-Ed

The artist who won a Nobel Prize... in medicine | Melanie E. Peffer

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In the 1860s, scientists believed they were on the verge of uncovering the brain's biggest secret: how the brain's signals travel through the body. They believed these impulses travelled uninterrupted along a massive web of tissue. But...