SciShow
3 Things We Still Don’t Understand About the Milky Way
We have been studying our home galaxy for years, but even though astronomy has come a long way, there is still a lot we don't know about the Milky Way.
SciShow
How to Make a Superbug, and an Even More Super-Collider!
SciShow News explains how evolution and antibiotics have teamed up to produce an ordinary germ that can now, sometimes, kill people. Also, our favorite piece of science equipment -- the Large Hadron Collider -- has big plans for this...
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...
MinutePhysics
What is Dark Matter
In this episode, we discuss Dark Matter, an exotic type of matter we know very little about, despite the fact that it makes up around 80% of all matter in the universe!
TED Talks
TED: The missing 96 percent of the universe | Claire Malone
We've misplaced the building blocks of the cosmos -- and particle physicists like Claire Malone are on a mission to find them. Despite scientists hitting a "major snag" in uncovering what exactly makes up dark matter and dark energy, she...
SciShow
How to Find Dark Matter with a Billion Pendulums | SciShow News
Are you there Dark Matter? It's me, a billion pendulums.
PBS
Will A New Neutrino Change The Standard Model?
Since the discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists have searched and searched for any hint of new particles. That search has been fruitless. Until, perhaps, now. Today on Space Time Journal Club we'll look at a paper that reports a...
SciShow
NASA's Planetary Protection Job, and a Brand New Way to Study Neutrinos
The Planetary Protection Office is hiring and we've found a much easier way to study neutrinos.
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.
PBS
Black Holes from the Dawn of Time
Primordial black holes may be lurking throughout our universe. How large are they, how many are out there and what would happen if they moved through our solar system?
SciShow
Satellite Death Rattle
The satellite launched in February, but in March, it malfunctioned, spun out of control, and broke into pieces. The mission was declared a failure. But! Before it failed, Hitomi managed a couple days' worth of observations.
TED Talks
Nathan Wolfe: What's left to explore?
We've been to the moon, we've mapped the continents, we've even been to the deepest point in the ocean -- twice. What's left for the next generation to explore? Biologist and explorer Nathan Wolfe suggests this answer: Almost everything....
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Dark matter: How does it explain a star's speed? - Don Lincoln
All the stars in a spiral galaxy rotate around a center -- but to astronomers, the speed that each star travels wasn't making sense. Why didn't stars slow down toward the edges as expected? Don Lincoln explains how a mysterious force...
TED Talks
Risa Wechsler: The search for dark matter -- and what we've found so far
Roughly 85 percent of mass in the universe is "dark matter" -- mysterious material that can't be directly observed but has an immense influence on the cosmos. What exactly is this strange stuff, and what does it have to do with our...
SciShow
No, We Did Not Just Solve Dark Matter and Dark Energy - SciShow News
A paper published last week proposed a hypothesis that identified 95% of the missing stuff in the universe, but the headlines have been a little over-hyped.
TED Talks
TED: How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham
James Beacham looks for answers to the most important open questions of physics using the biggest science experiment ever mounted, CeRN's Large Hadron Collider. In this fun and accessible talk about how science happens, Beacham takes us...
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.
SciShow
Apocalypse Averted, Colossal Squid, & Rocket to the Sun?
Hank tells us about near-earth objects & primordial black holes; new developments in evolutionary genetics; a giant squid & a giant radio telescope; & answers viewer questions about disposing of nuclear waste in space.
TED Talks
Patricia Burchat: Shedding light on dark matter
Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between them, they can't be directly measured, but their influence is immense.
TED Talks
Gian Giudice: Why our universe might exist on a knife-edge
The biggest surprise of discovering the Higgs boson? That there were no surprises. Gian Giudice talks us through a problem in theoretical physics: what if the Higgs field exists in an ultra-dense state that could mean the collapse of all...
SciShow
Zeroing in on Dark Matter
In an effort to find Dark Matter, what did we find? Let's zero in on the matter.
TED Talks
Jedidah Isler: How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe
Jedidah Isler first fell in love with the night sky as a little girl. Now she's an astrophysicist who studies supermassive hyperactive black holes. In a charming talk, she takes us trillions of kilometers from Earth to introduce us to...
SciShow
Planet 9 Could Be a Black Hole! SciShow News
Two scientists have proposed that Planet Nine could actually be a black hole, and a handful of telescopes observed a distant black hole absolutely destroying a star!
SciShow
To Study the Universe, This Town Still Bans Cell Phones
Part of being very far away from the rest of the universe is that the signals are very faint, so sometimes you need a nice, quiet spot to listen from.