Software engineer Adam Munder is on a mission to break down communication barriers between the Deaf and hearing worlds. In a live demo, he introduces OmniBridge — an AI platform that translates American Sign Language into English text in...

Pot Theft (A Radiolab Adventure)

Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here are some keywords/phrases to get your googling started: - Mass Extinction Event: a significant, global decrease in the diversity of life - "Big 5": The five biggest mass...

An amazing new technology will let scientists grow new kidneys for patients using their own stem cells inside of pigs.

There are more than 2,000 firefly species, found on every continent except for Antarctica — an astonishing diversity of movement and light. Firefly scientist Wan Faridah Akmal Jusoh explores the mysteries of these little beetles that...

One day in the fall, you called upon your friend, Sherlock Holmes, and found him in conversation with Jabez Wilson. Wilson had been working for the mysterious League of Red-Headed Men. Today, he arrived at work to find the group had...

Hank goes over some of the more interesting ways that doctors can use to tell what might be wrong with you.

It's the year 2018, and we now know that flies like to ejaculate. But how does this tie into our understanding of addiction?

Why is yawning contagious? It might be your body trying to keep on the lookout for snakes.

Dogs do a lot of weird things, and sometimes they’re funny enough to post on Tumblr. But before you do, make sure li’l Scamp isn’t doing any of these three things -- because they spell trouble.

You know how moths like to fly into lamps or crawl all over your tv screen at night? Why do they do this?! The answer is more complicated than you might think...

What's happening inside our ears when we can hear that ringing? What's happening inside our brains? Sit back, clean the wax out of your ears, and let Michael Aranda explain! ----------

The hymen is a human structure that is surrounded by myths and misunderstandings. So today, we shed some light on what the hymen actually is, where it comes from, and why it can’t actually tell you anything about a person. Hosted by:...

Most mammals can develop bones in their hearts. For humans, it's usually a bad thing, but for river otters, it could be a useful adaptation.

Unlike lots of other animals, there’s no such thing as the “mating season” for humans, and it might have to do with how we raise our kids.

An introduction to an interactive experience on why quaternions describe 3d rotations

Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here are some keywords/phrases to get your googling started: - Mass Extinction Event: a significant, global decrease in the diversity of life - "Big 5": The five biggest mass...

Could it be that all the electrons in the universe are simply one, single electron moving back and forth through time?

Most mammals can develop bones in their hearts. For humans, it's usually a bad thing, but for river otters, it could be a useful adaptation.

An amazing new technology will let scientists grow new kidneys for patients using their own stem cells inside of pigs.

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What is a border? It's a line on a map, a place where cultures mix and merge in beautiful, sometimes violent...

Unlike lots of other animals, there’s no such thing as the “mating season” for humans, and it might have to do with how we raise our kids.

After a friend of mine got a tattoo with a representation of the cosecant function, it got me thinking about how there's another sense in which this function is a tattoo on math, so to speak.

In this week's SciShow News, we discuss two new types of sensors being developed. One tracks the content of certain molecules in your sweat while you exercise and the other is a brain implant that can be resorbed once it has finished its...