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Escape The Kugelblitz Challenge
In the last episode Matt discussed how the Penrose Diagram enabled you to map how black holes affect Space Time. In this episode you can use that knowledge to stop an all-too-real threat to our planet. Aliens are trying to destroy the...
SciShow
The Hardest We've Ever Pushed Matter
Scientists have had to come up with some extreme ways to generate the extreme pressures needed to simulate the conditions at the cores of planets!
SciShow
Top 10 New Species and the First Fusion Reactor
Hank shares the week in science news, including the top 10 new species discovered in 2014, and the start of construction of the first fusion reactor. It's gonna be big!
SciShow
Sunburns, Sunbeams, and Sunspots: A Summer Compilation
We're enjoying the summer here in Montana, and to help celebrate we thought we'd put together a compilation of our favorite sun-related episodes from our past. Don't worry, you won't need sunglasses for this one!
SciShow
Active Volcanoes on Mars?
Mars is covered with the remnants of long-dead volcanoes, but one of them might have been alive surprisingly recently.
SciShow
Does Dark Matter Cause Extinctions?
New discoveries into two weird things that may have played havoc with the ancient solar system: dark matter and a wandering star.
SciShow
The First-Ever Map of Mars’s Interior
We’ve done a surprising amount of exploration on Mars, from its atmosphere, to its surface, and miles deep into its canyons. But mapping its insides has been a quandary that we hadn’t been able to solve until last week!
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Strange Stars
What happens when matter can't get any denser yet somehow does? The answer - it becomes strange. Strange Stars may be the most massive stellar remnant that is just shy of forming a black hole. And they could be even cooler than black holes.
SciShow
The Nuclear City Lost Under Ice | Camp Century
Hidden beneath Greenland’s ice and powered by a nuclear reactor, Camp Century made for an interesting US military base. But life under the ice came with unique struggles; and although it wasn’t mainly constructed for science, the base...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Sunlight is way older than you think - Sten Odenwald
It takes light a zippy 8 minutes to reach Earth from the surface of the Sun. But how long does it take that same light to travel from the Sun's core to its surface? Oddly enough, the answer is many thousands of years. Sten Odenwald...
SciShow
The InSight Lander Is Going to Mars! Here's Why
The InSight lander is finally launching and headed to Mars, and Hubble has revealed some hot supernova info.
TED Talks
TED: When I die, recompose me | Katrina Spade
What if our bodies could help grow new life after we die, instead of being embalmed and buried or turned to ash? Join Katrina Spade as she discusses "recomposition" -- a system that uses the natural decomposition process to turn our...
SciShow
Space Particles Are Flying Through You Right Now!
Tiny remnants of extreme nuclear reactions in space are flying through your body right now. And astronomers are hunting them to learn more about some of the most energetic and violent objects in the universe.
SciShow
Are There Planets More Habitable Than Earth?
Earth probably isn’t the best place in the universe. It turns out there might be even better places to live that are even more suitable for life: superhabitable planets.
SciShow
A Baby Planet May Have Once Smashed Into Jupiter - SciShow News
Shortly after Jupiter formed, it might have been struck by an object that may have otherwise become its own planet! And researchers have a new estimate of how many Earth-like planets might exist.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How to detect a supernova - Samantha Kuula
Just now, somewhere in the universe, a star exploded. In fact, a supernova occurs every second or so in the observable universe. Yet, we’ve never actually been able to watch a supernova in its first violent moments. Is early detection...
SciShow
The Moon's Birth May Have Given Earth Ingredients for Life - SciShow News
The event that gave us our moon may have also given us the elements necessary for life and scientists might have found a very tiny piece of our solar system's past way out in space.
SciShow
Why Does Body-Temperature Air Feel Hot?
You'd think that air that was the same temperature as your body would feel neutral, but if you've ever been outside when it's 37 degrees Celsius out... you know that's not the case!
SciShow
Phobos Is Hiding Secrets About Mars's Atmosphere | SciShow News
This week, researchers are getting ready to learn about earth and Mars, in places that you might not expect.
SciShow
There’s A New Tyrannosaurus in Town
The Tyrannosaurus genus might have been more diverse than we thought. And researchers show how the composition of the early Earth could have accelerated its move towards habitability.
Crash Course
Uranus & Neptune
Today we’re rounding out our planetary tour with ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Both have small rocky cores, thick mantles of ammonia, water, and methane, and atmospheres that make them look greenish and blue. Uranus has a truly weird...
TED Talks
TED: A new superweapon in the fight against cancer | Paula Hammond
Cancer is a very clever, adaptable disease. To defeat it, says medical researcher and educator Paula Hammond, we need a new and powerful mode of attack. With her colleagues at MIT, Hammond engineered a nanoparticle one-hundredth the size...
TED Talks
Julian Baggini: Is there a real you?
What makes you, you? Is it how you think of yourself, how others think of you, or something else entirely? Philosopher Julian Baggini draws from philosophy and neuroscience to give a surprising answer.
Crash Course
High Mass Stars
Massive stars fuse heavier elements in their cores than lower mass stars. This leads to the creation of heavier elements up to iron. Iron robs critical energy from the core, causing it to collapse. The shock wave, together with a huge...