TED Talks
Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics
Evan Grant demonstrates the science and art of cymatics, a process for making soundwaves visible. Useful for analyzing complex sounds (like dolphin calls), it also makes complex and beautiful designs.
SciShow
Space Headwinds Might Help Us Find Dark Matter
Some scientists are hoping to use our motion through the galaxy to help detect some of the most elusive particles of all: dark matter.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Why are we so attached to our things? - Christian Jarrett
After witnessing the _violent rage" shown by babies whenever deprived of an item they considered their own, Jean Piaget _ a founding father of child psychology _ observed something profound about human nature: Our sense of ownership...
SciShow
Why Inducing Hallucinations Might Be a Good Idea
Researchers have developed ways to induce hallucinations, and though it sounds weird, it could also tell us a lot about mental health.
SciShow Kids
Fizzy Soda Experiment!
You're just in time to help Jessi and Squeaks with their baking soda and vinegar experiment! Then, stick around to learn all about chemists, special scientists who study chemicals!
SciShow
How to Study String Theory Using X-Rays - SciShow News
Over the last few years astronomers have been doing more and more research based on string theory, and thanks to modern telescopes the results are... less than encouraging
SciShow Kids
Can Ketchup Clean a Penny?
Squeaks loves collecting shiny pennies, but sometimes he finds one that's sort of grimy and dull. Lucky for him, Jessi knows a really cool science trick to clean up those tarnished pennies!
SciShow
How to Make A Humanzee
We all know about inter species animal hybrids - Napoleon Dynamite's favorite animal, the liger, is a typical example. But could a human and our closest primate relative the chimpanzee also breed a living hybrid? Hank explores this ......
SciShow Kids
The Bug Hunting Game! Science for Kids
There are some animals with special adaptations that help them blend in to the places they live! See for yourself how this works as you take on the role of a hungry bird looking for tasty bugs!
SciShow
SciShow Talk Show: The Science of Corvids & Dick Cheney Masks
Welcome back to SciShow Talk Show where Hank talks to interesting people about interesting things! In this episode Hank discusses corvids with John Marzluff of the University of Washington.
SciShow
How Far Will People Go to Fit In?
Have you ever gone along with a group even though you had your doubts? You're not alone: Research shows unanimous decisions aren't always actually unanimous.
PBS
Quantum Physics in a Mirror Universe
When you look in mirror, and see what you think is a perfect reflection, you might be looking at universe whose laws are fundamentally different.
Crash Course Kids
Gravity Compilation
Maybe you'd like to just hear about one topic for a while. We understand. So today, let's just watch some videos about Gravity. We'll learn about why we don't fly off into space, what mass has to do with it, how does air resistance work,...
SciShow
How Aspirin Changed Medicine Forever
Aspirin isn't just an old medicine cabinet stand-by, it's one of the oldest medicines we humans learned how to make ourselves. And our research into aspirin did more than just make it better at relieving pain, it opened the door to whole...
SciShow Kids
Watch Soap Grow!
Jessi and Squeaks just did a really cool and easy experiment: they put a special kind of soap in the microwave and made it grow! Now they want to do it again to check their results and figure out how it happened!
Crash Course Kids
Astronaut Experiment
Air resistance! It's a thing! In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina does her own Astronaut Experiment to show us how we can prove it!
SciShow
Can You Make Alcohol in Space?
Scientists sent the ingredients to brew beer and age whisky into space. What they got back was surprising.
TED Talks
Yana Buhrer Tavanier: How to recover from activism burnout
When you're feeling burned out as an activist, what's the best way to bounce back? TED Senior Fellow Yana Buhrer Tavanier explores the power of "playtivism" -- the incorporation of play and creativity into movements for social change....
SciShow
Faster Than Light Facts, Horny Little Man, and Worst Science Movie Winner!
Hank gets to the bottom of this "faster-than-the-speed-of-light-neutrino" kerfuffle, discusses some ancient stuff, and announces the winner of the award for worst science in a film
SciShow
What 'Alien Abductions' Say About Our Brains
You’re on the internet, so you probably know that people sometimes claim to have been abducted by aliens. When researchers start to look closely at these stories and where they come from, they begin to realize that there might be...
TED Talks
TED: What seaweed and cow burps have to do with climate change | Ermias Kebreab
Scientists have long known that cows are a huge source of the greenhouse gas methane, contributing up to four percent of emissions globally. But could there be a way to make cattle less -- ahem -- gassy? Animal scientist Ermias Kebreab...
Crash Course Kids
Danger! Falling Objects
So, what would happen if you dropped a hammer and a feather at the same time, from the same height? Well, the hammer would hit the ground first, right? But why? You might think it's because the hammer is heavier, or has more mass than...
SciShow
The Times and Troubles of the Scientific Method
UPDATE: We got a couple of things wrong when it comes to gravity (particularly that it has nothing to do with photons). Science is working tirelessly night and day to disprove its own theories about how the universe works (or at least,...
SciShow
How to Keep Power from Going to Your Head
The famous British historian Lord Acton once said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” And science tends to agree, but how we can prevent power from going to our heads?