In 1884, the British steamer “Rumney” crashed into the French ship “Frigorifique.” Seeing their ship filling with water, the French crew climbed aboard the “Rumney.” But as they sailed towards port, a silent form emerged from the fog –...

What if your basic at-the-office elevator ride takes a sudden turn for the dark side of gravity, could you survive it?

Marine mammals are famously large, but why is that? And is there a polar bear-sized sea otter in our future?

It can be frustrating to get stuck in line somewhere with no end to your wait in sight, but what about waiting is it that gets under our skin?

You know how you somehow end up getting smoke in your eyes wherever you stand around a bonfire? Well, it turns out that’s not a curse! It’s much more easily explained with physics. "The more protractors, the better the party." ~Hank Green

When it comes to what you bite, chew and swallow, your choices have a direct and long-lasting effect on the most powerful organ in your body: your brain. So which foods cause you to feel so tired after lunch? Or so restless at night? Mia...

If you’ve used a weighted blanket before, you might have felt how weirdly comforting it is, but can it actually help your mental health?

Have you ever wondered what those things are on airplane wings? You know, those little angled bits of metal? Watch to learn what they are and how they’re used!

In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on physical quantities.


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Things can go wrong in scientific experiments sometimes, but when it comes to engineering, getting things wrong can be disastrous.

Jessi and Squeaks love to build things, and they love to learn how to make the things they build even better! Join them today to learn how engineering can help make anything, from a tower of cups to a giant sky scraper, more stable!

When you think of Archimedes' Eureka moment, you probably imagine a man in a bathtub, right? As it turns out, there's much more to the story. Armand D'Angour tells the story of Archimedes' biggest assignment -- an enormous floating...

This week on SciShow News, scientists found that social interaction triggers the production of the “bliss molecule” in mice. Plus, eating sugar is about more than just the calories.

Now that we've talked about failure points, let's talk about how to fix them. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how to set up models and trails to find and fix failure points.

Your belly and your brain speak to each other, says obesity researcher Mads Tang-Christensen. Offering scientific proof that obesity is a disease influenced by genetics and the environment, he introduces a molecule discovered in both the...

When you think of matrices as transforming space, rather than as grids of numbers, so much of linear algebra starts to make sense.

Chemists need stoichiometry to make the scale of chemistry more understandable - Hank is here to explain why, and to teach us how to use it.



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The keto diet is a high fat, low carb diet that proponents say is not just great for losing weight, but is good for your brain health, too. Does the science behind the diet back those claims up? We delve into the origin of the keto diet...

The science of hot air balloons may surprise you.

Obesity is an escalating global epidemic. It substantially raises the probability of diseases like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, and cancer. But what is the distinction between being overweight and being obese?...

What if you were on a high floor of a skyscraper and the building started swaying? Today we’ll explore statics and dynamics, and what they mean for the structures we design. We look at the idea of static equilibrium, forces, and torques,...

Spines are naturally curved, not straight, so what good posture actually looks like isn't as straightforward as you might think.

It’s hard to replace jet fuel because the alternatives aren’t energetic enough, are too dangerous, or aren’t yet being made at scale.

Conventional wisdom about diets, including government health recommendations, seems to change all the time. And yet ads routinely come out claiming to have THE answer about what we should eat. So how do we distinguish what's actually...