TED Talks
Janet Iwasa: How animations can help scientists test a hypothesis
3D animation can bring scientific hypotheses to life. Molecular biologist (and TED Fellow) Janet Iwasa introduces a new open-source animation software designed just for scientists.
TED Talks
Nina Tandon: Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?
Each of our bodies is utterly unique, which is a lovely thought until it comes to treating an illness -- when every body reacts differently, often unpredictably, to standard treatment. Tissue engineer Nina Tandon talks about a possible...
TED Talks
Siddharthan Chandran: Can the damaged brain repair itself?
After a traumatic brain injury, it sometimes happens that the brain can repair itself, building new brain cells to replace damaged ones. But the repair doesn't happen quickly enough to allow recovery from degenerative conditions like...
TED Talks
Susan Solomon: The promise of research with stem cells
Calling them "our bodies' own repair kits," Susan Solomon advocates research using lab-grown stem cells. By growing individual pluripotent stem cell lines, her team creates testbeds that could accelerate research into curing diseases --...
TED Talks
Read Montague: What we're learning from 5,000 brains
Mice, bugs and hamsters are no longer the only way to study the brain. Functional MRI (fMRI) allows scientists to map brain activity in living, breathing, decision-making human beings. Read Montague gives an overview of how this...
The Royal Institution
Jim Al-Khalili - Quantum Life: How Physics Can Revolutionise Biology
In this Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution, Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how the mysteries of quantum theory might be observable at the biological level. Although many examples can be found in the scientific...
Crash Course Kids
Home Sweet Habitat: Crash Course Kids
How would a Polar Bear do if you put it in the desert? Not well. But why? Why can't anything live anywhere? Well, this has to do with Habitats and how animals (including humans) are suited for living in one place over another. In this...
Curated Video
Muscle Contraction Made EASY: What REALLY Happens During Exercise
How do muscles actually contract? There's a lot involved in the process. And in this video, we talk about muscle contraction at the molecular level. We'll discuss sarcomeres, actin, myosin, the muscle action potential and the roles of...
TED Talks
TED: The line between life and not-life | Martin Hanczyc
In his lab, Martin Hanczyc makes "protocells," experimental blobs of chemicals that behave like living cells. His work demonstrates how life might have first occurred on Earth ... and perhaps elsewhere too.
MinuteEarth
Orchids: The Masters Of Lying, Cheating & Stealing
Thanks to Curtin University and the University of Western Australia for sponsoring this video. Also, special thanks to Kingsley Dixon and the Orchid Specialist Group of the IUCN’s Species Survival Commission. ______ If you want to learn...
Curated Video
What Are Structural Isomers | Organic Chemistry | Chemistry | FuseSchool
Different forms of the same molecule are known as structural isomers; they have the same molecular formula but are different 'shapes'. In this video we will look at some different structures of butane - so they all have 4 carbons but...
Curated Video
How To Use Moles - Part 2 | Chemical Calculations | Chemistry | FuseSchool
Carry on learning about using moles in this part 2 of 3 parts. Avogradro’s number describes what is known as 1 mole, or 12 g of carbon atoms. This is used in chemical calculations. For any element, the relative atomic mass is the weight...
Curated Video
How To Use Moles - Part 3 | Chemical Calculations | Chemistry | FuseSchool
Watch the final part of the 'using moles' videos, to complete your understanding of the chemical calculations topic. Avogadro’s number describes what is known as 1 mole, or 12 g of carbon atoms. This is used in chemical calculations. For...
Curated Video
The Ozone Layer - Part 1 | Environmental Chemistry | Chemistry | FuseSchool
Learn about the two main layers of the atmosphere: the troposphere and the stratosphere. The troposphere is full of weather and ‘bad’ ozone, and above that, is the stratosphere, where ‘good’ ozone protects us against dangerous UV light....
Curated Video
What Are Intermolecular Forces | Properties of Matter | Chemistry | FuseSchool
What Are Intermolecular Forces | Properties of Matter | Chemistry | FuseSchool Learn what intermolecular forces are, the three most common types and the differences between them. An intermolecular force is simply an attractive force...
Curated Video
What Is Avogadro's Number - The Mole | Chemical Calculations | Chemistry | FuseSchool
Learn the basics about Avogadro's Number, as a part of chemical calculations. Avogadro’s Number or the Avogadro Constant is 6.02 X 1023 Mol-1. It is the number of atoms per mole of the carbon-12 isotope. For atoms, the mass of Avogadro’s...
Curated Video
How To Use Moles - Part 1 | Chemical Calculations | Chemistry | FuseSchool
Learn the basics about using moles. This is part 1 of 3 parts, teaching you about using moles, as a part of the chemical calculations topic. Avogadro’s number describes what is known as 1 mole, or 12 g of carbon atoms. This is used in...
Curated Video
Law Of Constant Composition | Properties of Matter | Chemistry | FuseSchool
Learn the basics about the law of constant composition and how to apply it. The law of constant composition states that in a given chemical compound, all samples are made up of the same elements combined in the same proportions. So what...
Curated Video
Picasso, pottery and plants: Hidden rules governing the development of natural forms
The Croonian Lecture 2016, our premier lecture in the biological sciences, was this year presented by Professor Enrico Coen CBE FRS. He talked on how recent advances in 3D imaging, molecular genetics and computational modelling reveal...
SciShow
Bivalves Could Be the New Lab Rats
Bivalves—animals like mussels, clams and oysters—might be a more familiar sight in a restaurant than a lab. But it turns out that studying them might help us learn more about our own health.
SciShow
Bivalves Could Be the New Lab Rats
Bivalves—animals like mussels, clams and oysters—might be a more familiar sight in a restaurant than a lab. But it turns out that studying them might help us learn more about our own health.
SciShow
What Fruit Flies Taught Us About Human Biology
For creatures that look nothing like us, fruit flies have been able to teach us a lot about human biology as we’ve studied them over the past century.
The Wall Street Journal
Paging Dr. Machine
Will artificial intelligence and machine learning reshape the way diagnostics and other medicine are conducted?
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Mammalian Molecular Clock Model
Animals don't read clocks, so how do they know when it is time for eating, sleeping, and other cyclical needs? Viewers watch an animation of the genes and the molecular clocks inside most mammals. They compare the difference in wild...