There are exoplanets out there that seem very Earth-like, but if you look out and see liquid metal instead of liquid water, you might be in the Venus zone.

We know a lot about dinosaurs but there's one question that has plagued paleontologists for decades: what color were they?

This video explores how various animals throughout evolutionary history have managed to grow to gigantic sizes through unique adaptations and environmental factors. From megabugs benefiting from a spike in atmospheric oxygen levels to...

Colors like white, pink and brown aren’t just for clouds, flowers and cows! They also describe special sounds that can actually help you focus and sleep!

If you had the power to forget, would you do it? Michael Aranda explains how this might be possible in this episode of SciShow.

You may have read that 2018 is looking to be a bad year for earthquakes, but Hank is here to offer you some assurances.

Keeping our data safe and secure is necessary in today's world, but a lot of the encryption we depend on has been in development for thousands of years!

Proving something right isn’t just about quantity. It’s also about quality and over the years, scientists have made measurements proving that we understand ridiculously well how the universe works.

Based on what we think we know about the universe these stars really shouldn't exist, but they do!

Scientists are closely watching SARS-CoV-2 to track mutations and see if it's developed into different strains. So, has it?

Thanks to modern science and technology, we can predict what the weather will be like in 5 days, but it’s still a bit more challenging to predict what will happen to us and our societies.

We may have found another interstellar asteroid and scientists have some new ideas about how Saturn's moons got their weird shapes.

Near the end of 2020, we got some puzzling but good news: COVID-19 fatality rates have been dropping. Here are a few factors that might help explain why we’re seeing this trend.

Some words just SOUND like the thing they refer to. But are these associations come from the specific culture we were raised in, or is there something more fundamental going on here?

iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2,000 people who consider themselves somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum -- and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? Most people, it turns out, consider themselves...

Most stars orbit the center of the galaxy. Some stars don't. Learn what scientists think is going on, with Reid Reimers!

The idea that the North Pole can move is nothing new, but the findings of a recent study suggest that Santa might need to pack up and find a new apartment.

Paul Tudor Jones II loves capitalism. It's a system that has done him very well over the last few decades. Nonetheless, the hedge fund manager and philanthropist is concerned that a laser focus on profits is, as he puts it, "threatening...

Museums are vessels of memory, knowledge, inspiration and dreams. Anne Pasternak, director of the Brooklyn Museum, makes the case for cultural institutions to take a leading role in supporting the world's recovery from COVID-19 -- and...

Scientists dissect the human scream for the first time, and also re-think what was thought to be the biggest dinosaur in the world.

Mapping apps help us find the fastest route to where we’re going. But what if we’d rather wander? Researcher Daniele Quercia demos “happy maps” that take into account not only the route you want to take, but how you want to feel along...

Astrophysicists have discovered an exoplanet that lost its atmosphere, but then, somehow, grew it back! Also, astronomers used satellite data to find a magnetic hurricane above the north pole that we almost missed!

Considering how massive our universe is, we know the distances to cosmic objects surprisingly well. What tools and clues do scientists use to measure distances that are so enormous they sound like made-up numbers?

Today, in our series finale, we're going to talk about the great white whale of navigating online information: your social media feed. Social media shapes both our online and offline behaviors from how we engage in communities and...