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From SciShow. Learn about Giving What We Can’s 10% Pledge and Trial Pledge at https://givingwhatwecan.org/sci "Water, water, every where"…or so that one poem goes. And it’s kinda right, because there’s way more water INSIDE the Earth than on the surface. But scientists still don’t know with certainty exactly how Earth got all of that H2O.…
From SciShow. 90% of the world’s cashmere, the wonderfully soft fiber used in scarves and sweaters, comes from China and Mongolia. Cashmere goats are raised by nomadic pastoralists on marginal habitat in the Gobi Desert. These herders are fighting the effects of the climate crisis… with a little help from NASA. Support for this video…
From SciShow. Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel. Get up to 60% OFF your subscription here: https://bit.ly/SciShowNov About 360-ish million years ago, some tetrapods moved onto land and changed the course of history. So we’d love to know more about these guys, and what it took to get there. But the…
From SciShow. In 1974, the chimpanzees at Gombe National Park in Tanzania began a series of violent attacks that stunned researchers, including Jane Goodall. Over the next four years, the Kasekela chimpanzees would decimate the Kahama group. The twist? These groups used to be one and the same. It’s taken decades for researchers to understand…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. You might have heard that a quarter of your skeleton is in your shoes, and that’s true, as long as they’re closed-toe. So why do we need…
From SciShow. Build a life of learning with Imprint. Go to this link to start your journey today: ImprintApp.com/SciShow and don’t forget, as a fan of SciShow you will get 20% off your membership. There’s a tree species that used to be all over the world. And now, they can only be found in a…
From SciShow. Support for this video provided by Gates Ventures. Climate disruption threatens food security around the world, but it’s especially dangerous for fish farmers. Here’s how high-tech climate information services can help then adapt. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us…
From SciShow. The first 500 people to use our link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare" https://skl.sh/scishow11241 Who among us hasn’t uttered the phrase "I’ll sleep when I’m dead"? Well, sleep deprivation can totally kill you. But you might be surprised to learn what the actual cause of death is, and a…
From SciShow. You may have seen some unpronounceable words or weird abbreviations in your food’s ingredient lists before, but have you ever wondered why that stuff gets added into your snacks? It’s not just for fun, those preservatives are all there to keep you and your food safe. Let’s talk about a few of the…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. You’ve probably heard the rule that you cannot travel faster than the speed of light (in a vacuum). And this is true. You may also have heard…
From SciShow. Get your 2025 Complexly calendar now https://complexly.info/scishowcalendar We need green energy yesterday. And it so happens that nature regularly sends huge bolts of electricity at us out of the sky. So what are the challenges of harvesting lightning for sustainable power? Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon…
From SciShow. Some of the coolest and most detailed fossils around aren’t found in rocks – they’re found in amber, a hardened tree resin that can preserve things in incredible detail. From dinosaur feathers to spider webs, and even more, here are a few of the coolest fossils that paleontologists have found in tree juice.…
From SciShow. Félicette’s pin is currently lost in space! She will be available for purchase very soon. In the meantime, check out a mystery dip of our past space pins here: https://complexly.store/products/scishow-mystery-enamel-pin In the history of space travel, there are a few famous animal astronauts (or cosmonauts), like Laika the dog and Ham the chimpanzee.…
From SciShow. You’ve probably heard that climate change is leading to rising sea levels, which is bad news for lots of islands. But for some islands like the Maldives, rising waters are making them… bigger? Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us…
From SciShow. Whether someone’s running for President or to be on their school board, there’s a lot that a politician has to do to try to sway voters. But did you know that what name they use is on that list? Research shows that whether you choose Kamala or Harris or Donald or Trump, may…
From SciShow. Are people who are more creative really "left-brained"? Is a human brain not fully developed until a person hits 25 years old? Did my parents waste a bunch of money buying Mozart CDs to make me smarter as a baby? In this episode, SciShow tackles five myths about the brain. Hosted by: Savannah…
From SciShow. You may have gotten a dose of laughing gas at the dentist at some point. But new research is suggesting that the same gas that helps you forget your toothache could be a future treatment for clinical depression. Hosted by: Stefan Chin ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going!…
From SciShow. Vultures aren’t most people’s favorite animal. But when they began dying in India, they set in motion a domino effect that spread disease and cost the government billions of dollars. Hosted by: Jaida Elcock (she/her) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join…
From SciShow. Seasonal flu kills half a million people every year. But scientists may have found a drug that, while it won’t stop you from getting the flu, could stop it from killing you. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly:…
From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. Polymetallic nodules, found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone, have enough metals to secure the future of green energy. But is it worth the cost? Hosted by: Savannah Geary…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Lenses are famous for their ability to bend light rays — to make smaller things look bigger, big things look smaller…even create a super bright beam of…
From SciShow. Yellowstone National Park is one of the most famous tourist destinations and nature reserves in the world. And it’s also the perfect place for…. geothermal power plants? Let’s talk about the weird reason why NASA is all for building a power plant in our favorite national park. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ———-…
From SciShow. In this livestream, Hank Green interviews marine biologist Jaida Elcock, who spent her summer writing and hosting episodes as the first SciShow Resident. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) and Jaida Elcock (she/her) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Humans aren’t the only ones who refer to each other by name. Several species in the animal kingdom refuse to live in anonymity. Hosted by: Jaida Elcock…
From SciShow. Get 15 free cups in your first subscription by visiting https://cometeer.com/SCISHOW15 Of the 10 largest rough diamonds ever mined, 6 of them have come from the African nation of Botswana. Russia is the only country that produces more diamonds by volume, but the individual gems don’t tend to be as large. So why…
From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. Back in the Victorian Era, Englanders thought that the famous Roman Baths were so healing because there was radium in the water. And there was, but that wasn’t the real secret. Turns…
From SciShow. Check out Weathered: Earth’s Extremes, available to watch now on the PBS App and PBS.org. https://to.pbs.org/weatheredscishow Hurricanes are scary and the idea is usually to move away from them as much as possible. Then there are the intrepid scientist-pilots at NOAA who fly right into them. On purpose. And they do it to…
From SciShow. The first 500 people to use our link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare https://skl.sh/scishow10241 How many decibels would be recorded by the loudest sound waves your ears could possibly process? The loudest sound might be quieter than you think (because of how sound waves work)…or it might be louder…
From SciShow. If you want to learn more about how we can more sustainably care for and benefit from nature, start your college journey with Study Hall! Take a college course that starts on YouTube and earn credit before you even apply to college. Find out more at https://link.gostudyhall.com/sust101 When you think about enormous living…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Settle in and grab a painkiller, because these are some of the most painful diseases out there. From trigeminal neuralgia to thunderclap headaches and even jackhammer esophagus,…
From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. Did the Easter Islanders really cause their own civilization’s collapse? Probably not. In fact, they used rock gardens to grow food sustainably on the island of Rapa Nui for centuries. Hosted by:…
From SciShow. There’s a growing trend out there among users of hallucinogenic drugs – microdosing. The idea is to take a tiny dose of these drugs to get certain brain benefits without going all Sergeant Pepper. But does it work? Let’s get into what we know and what we don’t know about microdosing. Hosted by:…
From SciShow. A lot of very smart people have been working for a very long time on vaccines for HIV/AIDS, and they’ve come up empty. Thanks to broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) and mRNA vaccine technology, that might be changing. Here’s why we don’t have a vaccine for HIV/AIDS yet. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him) ———-…
From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. Identical twins may look exactly alike, but they differ in some pretty weird ways. In this List Show, we’ll explore five of them. Hosted by: Jaida Elcock (she/her) ———- Support us for…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. The most common substance in the world is literally IN the world. It’s a mineral called bridgmanite, and it belongs to a class of minerals (called perovskites)…
From SciShow. In November 2023, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by the asteroid Dinkinesh and made a startling discovery: not only does this small asteroid have an even smaller companion (named Selam), that companion is shaped like a two-tier snowman. It’s the first example of a contact binary satellite in the solar system! Hosted by: Reid…
From SciShow. Trilobites are one of the most iconic fossil animals out there. And people have loved them for centuries! Let’s talk about the people across time and space who have loved collecting trilobites, from Elrathia to Calymene, going back thousands of years. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon…
From SciShow. A sustainable future requires leaders who benefit companies, societies, and the environment, and the Master of Sustainability Leadership equips you with the skills to lead initiatives and drive transformational change within enterprises. https://asuonline.asu.edu/online-degree-programs/graduate/master-sustainability-leadership-sustainability-leadership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video_paid&utm_content=sh-scishow-video&utm_campaign=02-sh_sustainability_leadership_msl&ecd22=02&utm_term= For everyone out there trying to live sustainably, you might also want to consider the best way for your loved…
From SciShow. Go to https://ground.news/scishow to stay fully informed on the latest science news, compare coverage and avoid media bias. Subscribe through our link for 40% off unlimited access. You may have heard that redheads need less pain medicine, or that they need more anesthesia in surgeries. And both of those things are true! Which…
From SciShow. Most of the research on psychedelic drugs is focused on their therapeutic potential. But some studies have investigated a different consequence of these chemicals: bad trips. Hosted by: Jaida Elcock (she/her) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, better known as morning sickness, affects roughly 7 in 10 pregnant people. Scientists have spent decades hunting for the primary cause, and…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Batagay (aka Batagaika) Crater goes by many names. Scientists call it a retrogressive thaw megaslump; the internet may know it best as the Doorway to the Underworld.…
From SciShow. This video was inspired by the episodes from Wild Hope, like The Frog Ark about Panamanian frogs, and One Golden Chance about the story behind the golden lion tamarin recovery. Watch those episodes now, and many more from Wild Hope, right here on YouTube—or follow @wildhopetv on Instagram to discover countless more stories…
From SciShow. Don’t put off life insurance. Make it easy with Policygenius. Head to https://policygenius.com/SCISHOW It’s no secret that we need green energy solutions. But one often-overlooked part of that future is the need to store our green energy longer-term, so finding novel ways to store that energy is key. Enter: gravity batteries. Hosted by:…
From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. An asteroid nearly twice the size of the one that killed the dinosaurs left a record-setting crater in South Africa. If you look closely, you can still see it today, 2 billion…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Leeches are bloodsucking parasites, and you wouldn’t think they’re great at protecting other species. Yet for some conservationists, these little vampires are one of the best tools…
From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. Imagine you could remember everything that ever happened to you. Would it be a blessing, or a curse? Super rememberers, people with highly superior autobiographical memory or HSAM, have the answer —…
From SciShow. This video was inspired by the episode from Wild Hope: The Great Ocean Cleanup. Watch that episode now, and many more from Wild Hope, right here on YouTube – or follow @wildhopetv on Instagram to discover countless more stories of changemakers working to restore biodiversity around the globe. Change is closer than you…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Does childbirth increase your chance of breast cancer? Yes. But it also decreases it in the longterm …depending on how old you are your first time around.…
From SciShow. Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code SciShow at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/scishow When conditions are just right, one species can turn into hundreds in a short period of time. Welcome to the weird world of adaptive radiation. Hosted by: Jaida Elcock ———- Support…
From SciShow. The first 500 people to use our link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare https://skl.sh/scishow09241 There’s a scientific reason most hand sanitizers claim they can kill 99.99 percent of germs, and there’s only one way to deal with the rest. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month…
From SciShow. Explore the role of technology in advancing international development goals in the Master of Science in Global Technology and Development. Create solutions by focusing on history, social science concepts, government policies and development projects from around the world. https://asuonline.asu.edu/online-degree-programs/graduate/master-science-global-technology-development/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video_paid&utm_content=sh-scishow-video&utm_campaign=-sh_global_technology_ms&ecd22=&utm_term= The Pyramids of Giza have fascinated and confused us for hundreds of years, and…
From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. If you ask your favorite search engine where Earth gets the most hail, it’s likely to spit out Kericho. But can you use exploding rockets to suppress that hail? That’s one question…