SciShow
Fighting Carbon With Carbon
To reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, some researchers are taking carbon capture technology to the source(s) — for example, slurping up CO2 before it ever leaves the power plant that made it. But that's not all! Some...
MinutePhysics
Is Anything on the Internet Real?
One Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in one minute!
MinutePhysics
A Youtube Phishing Attack You Need to Watch Out For
A Youtube Phishing Attack You Need to Watch Out For
SciShow
Wildfires Make Their Own Weather, Including...
Climate change is causing wildfire season to get worse every year. And our models of wildfires can't keep up with the things fires can do... like spawn devastating fire tornadoes.
TED Talks
Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty
TED collaborates with animator Andrew Park to illustrate Denis Dutton's provocative theory on beauty -- that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply "in the eye of the beholder," are a core part of human nature with...
SciShow
How Climate Scientists Predict the Future
Over the years, scientists have made a lot of predictions about how Earth's climate is changing, but they don't just pull those predictions from thin air.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: A brief history of cannibalism - Bill Schutt
Human cannibalism is a lot more common than you might think. Dive into its complex history and see its uses in medicine, cultural rituals and in times of survival. -- 15th century Europeans believed they had hit upon a miracle cure: a...
MinutePhysics
Complete Solution To The Twins Paradox
This video is about the famous 'Twins paradox' of special relativity, how time can appear to be faster for two different observers at the same time, and which twin really is older (or younger) - the one who stays on earth or the one who...
SciShow
How Twitter Bots Use Psychology to Fool You
Whether in a good way or a bad way, Twitter bots use psychology to trick you.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What's the best country to live in? | TED-Ed
What's the best country to live in? Is it the one with the best food? The longest life expectancy? The best weather? For the past 70 years, most governments have relied heavily on a single number: the Gross Domestic Product, or GDP. But...
SciShow
Updates on the Hunt for Dark Matter - SciShow Space News
The hunt for dark matter is still on, and the candidates for it could be primordial black holes as massive as Earth, or axions, as tiny as the smallest subatomic particles in existence!
SciShow
NASA Wants to Capture Asteroids…in Bags (And Other New Tech)
NIAC has awarded their first two grant winners for phase III: optical mining and 3D modeling craters, and researchers are further honing in on how to identify faraway habitable planets.
TED Talks
Wendy Chung: Autism — what we know (and what we don't know yet)
In this factual talk, geneticist Wendy Chung shares what we know about autism spectrum disorder — for example, that autism has multiple, perhaps interlocking, causes. Looking beyond the worry and concern that can surround a diagnosis,...
PBS
Does Dark Matter BREAK Physics?
In this episode, welcome in Matt O'Dowd as the new host to rigorously take you through the mysteries of space, time, and the nature of reality. We're starting off this new season with perhaps one of the most mysterious things of all -...
SciShow
Dark Matter
Physicists estimate that dark matter accounts for about twenty three percent of the known universe - the only problem is that no one really knows what it is...
SciShow
What We (Don't) Know About Dark Matter
Scientists are still working on theories that might help explain what the vast majority of our universe is made of.
TED Talks
Financial inclusion, the digital divide and other thoughts on the future of money | Ajay Banga
Roughly two billion people worldwide don't have access to banks or financial services like credit, insurance and investment -- or even a way to formally prove their identity. How do we bridge this divide? Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga sits...
SciShow
How The Famous 'Marshmallow Test' Got Willpower Wrong
You may know about The Marshmallow Test, a popular psychological exam to see if people have willpower, but psychologists found that it might not be measuring willpower after all.
TED Talks
Del Harvey: Protecting Twitter users (sometimes from themselves)
Del Harvey heads up Twitter’s Trust and Safety Team, and she thinks all day about how to prevent worst-case scenarios -- abuse, trolling, stalking -- while giving voice to people around the globe. With deadpan humor, she offers a window...
TED-Ed
Can you solve the fantasy election riddle? | Dennis E. Shasha
After much debate, the realm has decided dragon jousting may not be the best way to choose its leaders, and has begun transitioning to democracy. Your company was hired to survey the citizens of the land and predict which candidate will...
Crash Course
Understanding Financial Statements and Accounting: Crash Course Entrepreneurship
Honestly, “spreadsheets” are kind of the vegetables of the business world -- the very idea of them makes some people queasy. But that’s ok! They can be intimidating, but they’re not impossible to understand. Today we’re going to learn to...
TED Talks
TED: Nerdcore comedy | Ze Frank
Performer and web toymaker Ze Frank delivers a hilarious nerdcore standup routine, then tells us what he's seriously passionate about: helping people create and interact using simple, addictive web tools.
SciShow
The Mystery of the Black Diamond
There are still lots of unsolved mystery about carbonados ("black diamonds"), and geologists even think those mystery rocks come from outside of Earth.
SciShow
The Strange Anatomy of Hummingbirds
In this episode of SciShow we look at the most fascinating birds that hover!