Instructional Video5:03
SciShow

Why’d the Ocean Stop Getting Saltier?

12th - Higher Ed
If salty water is constantly spilling into the world’s oceans, does that mean they are getting saltier by the day?
Instructional Video3:12
MinutePhysics

Hitting the Sun is HARD

12th - Higher Ed
This video is about the orbital mechanics of why it's so hard to crash into the sun - the energy it takes to get there is astoundingly high, compared with leaving the solar system.
Instructional Video2:04
MinuteEarth

The Hottest Place on Earth

12th - Higher Ed
This video explores the concept of measuring the hottest place on Earth, challenging the assumption that Death Valley holds the record. By discussing the limitations of traditional weather stations and highlighting the use of satellite...
Instructional Video2:27
MinuteEarth

Why Are Leaves Green? Part 2

12th - Higher Ed
Still wondering why leaves are green and not purple or even black? CHLOROPHYLL! It's how leaves work.
Instructional Video5:08
SciShow

The Sun's Center Is 39,000 Years Younger Than Its Surface

12th - Higher Ed
In the early 1960s, Richard Feynman was quoted as saying that Earth's center should be a day or two younger than its surface. 50 years later, scientists re-did the math.
Instructional Video5:08
SciShow

Snowstorms on Mars!

12th - Higher Ed
New research looks into how snow falls on Mars, and scientists have been looking into other things falling from the sky onto planets: diamonds!
Instructional Video7:07
TED Talks

Nathan Wolfe: What's left to explore?

12th - Higher Ed
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....
Instructional Video15:49
TED Talks

TED: The boiling river of the Amazon | Andres Ruzo

12th - Higher Ed
When Andres Ruzo was a young boy in Peru, his grandfather told him a story with an odd detail: There is a river, deep in the Amazon, which boils as if a fire burns below it. Twelve years later, after training as a geoscientist, he set...
Instructional Video3:34
SciShow

New Earth-Size Planet and a Solar Eclipse

12th - Higher Ed
Caitlin Hofmeister gives you the latest news from around the universe, including Kepler's latest exoplanet discovery, an upcoming solar eclipse, and a breathtaking image from Hubble.
Instructional Video3:32
SciShow

Hooray for Astromice!

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow Space News, we’re learning more about the side effects of space travel… from mice. Plus, we explore the most luminous galaxy!
Instructional Video4:04
SciShow Kids

The Farthest We’ve Ever Gone in Space

K - 5th
Humans have never visited another planet, but we can send special spacecraft called probes to visit them for us! One of those probes, called Voyager 1, has gone deeper into space than any other, and it's sent us some amazing pictures...
Instructional Video5:14
Be Smart

Attack of the Cosmic Space Junk!

12th - Higher Ed
No astronauts were harmed in the making of this video.
Instructional Video5:35
Be Smart

Is Santa Real? (A Scientific Analysis)

12th - Higher Ed
Happy Holidays! Ever wonder how Santa could possibly manage to deliver all those presents in a single night? Or what gives red-nosed reindeer the ability to fly? And why do your Christmas lights get tangled in knots no matter how...
Instructional Video5:57
PBS

What Planet Is Super Mario World?

12th - Higher Ed
We've run, jumped, and stomped all over the world of Super Mario, but, where in the universe is Super Mario EXACTLY? It's virtual so it obviously DOESN'T exist but if it did, could Super Mario world be in our solar system? And what do...
Instructional Video11:59
TED Talks

TED: The beautiful nano details of our world | Gary Greenberg

12th - Higher Ed
When photographed under a 3D microscope, grains of sand appear like colorful pieces of candy and the stamens in a flower become like fantastical spires at an amusement park. Gary Greenberg reveals the thrilling details of the micro world.
Instructional Video1:46
MinutePhysics

Ring AROUND the Earth?

12th - Higher Ed
This video is about what would happen if we built a giant ring around earth – what would happen to the ring, that is. Would if fall? Collapse? Start spinning?



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Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

The Nuclear City Lost Under Ice | Camp Century

12th - Higher Ed
Hidden beneath Greenland’s ice and powered by a nuclear reactor, Camp Century made for an interesting US military base. But life under the ice came with unique struggles; and although it wasn’t mainly constructed for science, the base...
Instructional Video1:55
MinuteEarth

Smartphones: A New Model for Energy Efficiency?

12th - Higher Ed
The way smartphones made many devices nonessential is a model for a new way to think about improving energy efficiency.
Instructional Video5:34
SciShow

The Ridiculous Reasons It's Hard to Measure Sea Level

12th - Higher Ed
From problems with the moon, to the lumpiness of earth, sea levels aren't quite as exact as we have them figured out to be.
Instructional Video7:35
SciShow

Space Tourism

12th - Higher Ed
Hank takes on the role of our personal space travel agent, giving us the dirt on the various ways in which the exceptionally wealthy will be able to travel to space in the next few decades.
Instructional Video2:25
MinuteEarth

Why Earth Has Two Levels

12th - Higher Ed
Earth’s outer shell is made of two materials whose different densities and thicknesses give rise to two distinct “levels” on the planet’s surface.



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Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

New Evidence of Water on Jupiter! SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve got some new evidence for water beneath Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, and a new model of Jupiter’s weird magnetic field.
Instructional Video8:35
TED Talks

Robin Ince: Science versus wonder?

12th - Higher Ed
Does science ruin the magic of life? In this grumpy but charming monologue, Robin Ince makes the argument against. The more we learn about the astonishing behavior of the universe -- the more we stand in awe.
Instructional Video5:55
SciShow

Why It's So Hard to Land on Mars

12th - Higher Ed
We’ve sent more spacecraft to Mars than any other planet, but around half of the probes that have ever attempted to explore Mars have either crashed or disappeared.