The James Webb Space Telescope has launched! But it was a very long road to get to this point, and we’ve been following the progress for a decade!

The universe is a pretty grand place to live, but scientists have one issue with it, it's an anomaly that should be scientifically impossible.

All around the world, millions of people are flipping a switch, plugging in, and pressing an 'on' button every second. So how much electricity does humanity use? And how much will we need in the future? Discover how much energy it takes...

While the Earth's oceans are known as five separate entities, there is really only one ocean. So, how big is it? As of 2013, it takes up 71% of the Earth, houses 99% of the biosphere, and contains some of Earth's grandest geological...

Inspired by an abalone shell, Angela Belcher programs viruses to make elegant nanoscale structures that humans can use. Selecting for high-performing genes through directed evolution, she's produced viruses that can construct powerful...

If insects suddenly morphed into large beings and decided to wage war on us, there's no doubt that humans would lose. There are an estimated 10 quintillion individual insects on earth, outnumbering humans by more than a billion to one....

Is there life on Venus? If there is, it would have to be unlike anything we’ve ever seen! New evidence means the possibility of life there is in question, but it could also mean a few other things.

MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte takes you on a journey through the last 30 years of tech. The consummate predictor highlights interfaces and innovations he foresaw in the 1970s and 1980s that were scoffed at then but are...

Inventor Manu Prakash turns everyday materials into powerful scientific devices, from paper microscopes to a clever new mosquito tracker. From the TED Fellows stage, he demos Paperfuge, a hand-powered centrifuge inspired by a spinning...

Astronomers are trying to answer the question of how Pluto formed, and we have more evidence for the existence of Planet Nine!

How many of today's headlines will matter in 100 years? 1000? Kirk Citron's "Long News" project collects stories that not only matter today, but will resonate for decades -- even centuries -- to come. At TED2010, he highlights recent...

Josh Silver delivers his brilliantly simple solution for correcting vision at the lowest cost possible -- adjustable, liquid-filled lenses. At TEDGlobal 2009, he demos his affordable eyeglasses and reveals his global plan to distribute...

Creating a Mars colony is a dream for many people, but it comes with some unique and challenging problems.

It may be an impossible questions, but we can at least get close.

Adventurous eaters are constantly on the hunt for the next hottest thing, but you definitely don't want to eat the hottest chemical we know of!

Have you ever thought about what's beyond our solar system? Think real big, because we're about to explore galaxies!

Ever wonder how the heart symbol came to stand for the actual heart? And why do we speak of the heart as the seat of love, when love really happens in our brains? Is it true that animals only get a billion heartbeats? This week, we give...

Jessi and Squeaks explore our home galaxy, The Milky Way!

Eighty-five percent of the matter in our universe is dark matter. We don't know what dark matter is made of, and we've yet to directly observe it, but scientists theorize that we may actually be able to create it in the Large Hadron...

Hank talks about the issues of rising global population.

Learn about the Oort Cloud with host Reid Reimers on this episode of SciShow Space!

Firms and organizations create marketing plans to give themselves goals and guidance on growing their business. Here we go through the parts and steps of creating a marketing plan. #marketing #marketingplan #strategicmarketing Topic 2...

In this video, we learn about the incredible complexity of the human brain, which consists of approximately 170 billion cells, including 86 billion neurons. These neurons communicate through synchronized impulses, creating brain waves...

Countries like China, the US, and Russia are setting their sights on the Moon. But is it purely for the advancement of mankind, or is there profit to be found? Mining for Helium-3, metals and rare-earths on the Moon might be closer than...