Curated Video
Exploring the Solar System: Origins and Beyond
Scientists believe that the solar system took billions of years to develop! This video gives an overview of solar system basics - its beginnings, gravity, planets orbits.
SciShow
The Rock That's Helping Us Find the Origin of Life
Epidote might just look like a pretty little crystal, but it has a secret. thanks to the high-pressure circumstances where it forms, we can use it to help us uncover the origins of life on our planet, and maybe even find signs of life on...
Next Animation Studio
Origin stories of Earth and Mars involved massive collisions, not the slow buildup of pebbles
Earth and Mars were likely generated by regular collisions between giant Moon-to-Mars-size rocks, rather than tiny pebbles clumping together.
SciShow
Why Can't I Pee in Public Bathrooms?
Paruresis or “Shy Bladder Syndrome” is the inability to pee in public. If this sounds like you, have hope; it’s super treatable!
Be Smart
The Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water
Why is Earth is a blue planet? Because it's covered in water! Where did Earth's water come from? Of course, water isn't unique to our planet. The origin of water traces beyond the solar system to the earliest days of the universe. Here's...
TED Talks
Liz Coleman: A call to reinvent liberal arts education
Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education -- one that...
TED Talks
TED: A roadmap for young changemakers | Melati Wijsen
Activism is a tough job, especially for young people yearning for immediate change -- something climate activist Melati Wijsen has learned over ten years of pushing for environmental protection, starting at age 12 in her home on the...
TED Talks
TED: How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets | Dimitar Sasselov
(NOTE: This talk was given in 2010, and this field of science has developed quickly since then. Read "Criticisms & updates" below for more details.) Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth-like planets that may,...
SciShow
Origins of Intolerance
Hank's news this week informs us on a couple of crazy science experiments, updates us on some earlier topics (dangerous asteroids and ancient phallic rock art), and briefs us on a new study that seeks to find the evolutionary origins of...
Masaman
What on Earth Happened to the Indigenous Inhabitants of India? Adivasis and the Tribals
Who are the Adivasis? A group that is officially considered by the Indian and other South Asian governments to be the “original native inhabitants” of their land? Well the term has diverse connotations, but in today's video we are going...
World Science Festival
Stewards of the Earth: Hope for our Planet
We’ve assembled an all-star group of ecologists, naturalists, and creative thinkers for an urgent but hopeful conversation about the environmental pressures bearing down on Earth’s rich spectrum of species. Join legendary oceanographer...
Visual Learning Systems
Earth's Origins
The video discusses the formation of Earth and the solar system. It presents the nebular theory, which suggests that Earth and the other planets in our solar system developed from a cloud of gas and dust in space. The video provides a...
Food Farmer Earth
A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings - Reimagining a Sustainable Food System
From the archives: journalist, environmentalist and author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds, Claire Hope Cummings speaks out on behalf of the natural world. Cummings argues for a radical new approach to...
Visual Learning Systems
Exploring the Origin of Our Solar System and the Precambrian Era
Delving further into Earth's history, we explore the Precambrian era, the longest era spanning nearly 4 billion years and accounting for over 85% of our planet's history. Join us as we uncover remnants of this ancient era in North...
TED Talks
TED: How Mars might hold the secret to the origin of life | Nathalie Cabrol
While we like to imagine little green men, it's far more likely that life on other planets will be microbial. Planetary scientist Nathalie Cabrol takes us inside the search for microbes on Mars, a hunt which counterintuitively leads us...
NASA
Juno Discovers Mars’ Dust Storms Fill Solar System (🎵 by Vangelis)
Look up to the night sky just before dawn, or after dusk, and you might see a faint column of light extending up from the horizon. That luminous glow is the zodiacal light, or sunlight reflected toward Earth by a cloud of tiny dust...
Curated Video
The /ɪə/ Vowel Sound (beer, beard) | British Pronunciation
Part 13: This video looks at how to pronounce the /ɪə/ sound. It's in words like "beer", "beard" and "ear". This sound is a diphthong. This is the thirteenth video in a series of the 20 vowel sounds in British English.
NASA
NASA | Studying an Asteroid on Earth
Astrobiologists like Jason Dworkin are keenly interested in the origins of life on Earth, but the evidence that they seek was erased long ago by Earth’s geology and chemistry. Fortunately, asteroids like Bennu preserve the solar system’s...
Next Animation Studio
NFTs: Animated explainer of Non-Fungible Tokens as Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs value goes past $1 billion
Sales of Bored Ape Yacht Club ‘non-fungible tokens’ have gone past $1 billion, ramped up by celebrity collectors such as Eminem, prompting more questions than ever about NFTs.
History Hit
10 Steps to World War Two: The great depression and Hitler seizes control
How did Britain feel after World War I? What was one of the reasons Hitler was elected in Germany? After being elected, what were his aims? 10 Steps to World War Two, Part 1
NASA
NASA | DLN Presents Earth Day with Bella Gaia
NASA Digital Learning Network celebrated Earth Day and joined musician/artist Kenji Williams for a special performance of "Bella Gaia" (Beautiful Earth) on Monday, April 19, 2010. "Bella Gaia" is a "living atlas" multimedia journey of...
Curated Video
Meteorites and the Origin of Life: Uncovering the Key Molecules
New research suggests that molecules found in meteorites may hold the key to understanding the origin of life on Earth. Scientists have discovered phosphonates, a form of phosphorus essential for life, in a meteorite that crashed to...
Science360
Coffee House Hackers
Think your computer transmissions are private at that coffee house? Think again. See how things aren't quite so cyber-secure.
Professor Dave Explains
The Formation of the Earth and The Moon
As we make our way through the solar system, our third stop brings us to Earth, which is almost certainly where you are sitting as you read these words, unless my content is still being watched hundreds of years after its release on some...