Nature League
Will Raccoons Take Over The World? - From A to B
This week on Nature League, Adrian asks Brit what the next dominant species would be if humans went extinct.
Nature League
Is Oxygen Necessary?
In their very first episode of "From A to B", Adrian asks Brit about the relationships between oxygen and life on Earth.
Curated Video
What Is The Actual Color Of The Sun?
While the sun seems yellow to you from childhood, in reality, it is white. The reason why the sun appears yellow is because of the Earth’s atmosphere. When sunlight hits atmospheric particles, it causes electrons and protons to vibrate...
Curated Video
High Five Facts - Deforestation
This video explores five fun facts about deforestation.
Curated Video
High Five Facts - Renewable Energy
This video explores five fun facts about renewable energy.
Let's Tute
Why is the Sky Blue and the Sun Yellow?
In this video, we explore why the sky looks blue and the sun looks yellow. We learn about the concept of Rayleigh scattering and how it interacts with the atmosphere to create this phenomenon. We also discover why the sun appears red or...
Let's Tute
Understanding Sweating: Why Some People Sweat More and Some Sweat Less
This video explains the science behind sweating, including why some people sweat more or less than others, and the medical conditions of hyperhidrosis and anhydrosis. It also debunks the myth that sweat causes body odor and provides tips...
Weatherthings
Aurora
The Aurora has fascinated and intrigued people for ages. It is a display of light in Earth’s magnetosphere caused by high energy particles arriving to the planet in the solar wind. The Aurora is seen in both hemispheres. In the northern...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Ecology
We've learned a lot about living organisms on this channel, but now it's time to broaden our scope quite a bit. How do living organisms interact with each other and their physical environments? What is the nature of the biosphere? The...
FuseSchool
BIOLOGY - Environment - Carbon Cycle part 2
Photosynthesis and respiration help carbon to be cycled in nature by using energy from the sun. As living things grow, they have to build up large polymer molecules from small molecules. Protein comes from joining amino acids together,...
Professor Dave Explains
Dalton's Law and Partial Pressures
We know about the ideal gas laws, like Boyle's and Charles's and so forth. Now let's look at one law that involves mixtures of gases. This is called Dalton's Law, and to understand it, we have to learn about the concept of partial...
Curated Video
Nuke In Space: What Would Happen If A Nuke Went Off In Space?
If a nuke exploded in space, gamma rays and X-rays would be emitted and would expand to light up the sky. On the surface of the planet, auroras of light would be seen for thousands of miles within minutes of the blast. The explosion...
APMonitor
MathCAD Functions and Matrices
Mathcad is a tool to arrange, calculate, and visualize engineering calculations and functions can help with reusing expressions in subsequent evaluations. Use the following worksheets to step through example problems related to using...
Curated Video
The Impact of Acid Rain
This video discusses the phenomenon of acid rain, explaining how it is formed and its harmful effects on the environment, including soil, plants, aquatic life, and human health. The video also mentions solutions such as flue gas...
Soliloquy
Why don't we fill an Airship with a Vacuum?
In the early 1900s massive airships ruled the sky, offering luxury commercial travel significantly faster than the steamships that ruled the waves. But a series of disasters, including the demise of Britain's R101 and culminating in the...
msvgo
Carbon Cycle
It explains elements and compounds that contain carbon, its cyclic movement and the relationship of increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to the greenhouse effect
Curated Video
Thermal Equilibrium and the Impact of Greenhouse Gases on Earth's Temperature
The video is a lecture on thermal equilibrium and infrared radiation. The lecturer discusses how a body can remain at constant temperature, the relationship between temperature and radiation emitted by a body, and how the temperature of...
FuseSchool
What Is The Natural Greenhouse Effect?
Learn the basics about the natural greenhouse effect. The atmosphere helps to keep our planet warm by making it harder for the energy we get from the sun to escape back to the universe. Our atmosphere is held to the earth by the force of...
FuseSchool
How Is Oxygen Used
Learn the basics about the properties of oxygen. Oxygen is a gas, it has no smell, colour, or taste; but without it, we as humans would not be able to inhabit planet Earth. When cooled to a very low temperature, it will form a liquid and...
Professor Dave Explains
The Future Colonization of Space: Terraforming and Dyson Spheres
Humans have been to the moon, and we will almost certainly set foot on Mars very soon. But then what? Can we colonize other places in the solar system? What about beyond our solar system? How will we get there? What kinds of energy will...
Curated Video
What Are Asteroids And Where Do They Come From?
Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the sun, just like the rest of the planets and celestial bodies in our solar system. Although asteroids are present throughout the solar system, most of them live in the asteroid belt—a...