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From SciShow. Instead of studying neurons like most neuroscientists, Beth Stevens studies a kind of brain cell that generations of her colleagues ignored: glia. While these cells were once thought to be little more than the glue that held the brain together, Stevens is learning that they may be the key to understanding multiple neurological…
From SciShow. SciShow and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios Field Trips have come together to bring you face to face with researchers at the cutting edge of scientific discovery in this all new series: SciShow Field Trips! Our first two episodes are live now! ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow…
From SciShow. When she was pregnant a few years ago, Hannah Yevick was reading about the placenta and learned it contained a cell whose surface spanned a whopping 13 square meters—larger than a King-sized bed sheet. The Brandeis University biophysicist was immediately fascinated, and her research on this giant cell is now revealing a lot…
From SciShow. When Feng Zhang was in his early 30s, he used a set of genes found in bacteria called CRISPR to pioneer a new kind of gene editing tool in human cells. Today, the MIT biochemist is studying a different set of microbial genes called TIGR. And they may be the key to developing…
From SciShow. SciShow and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios Field Trips have come together to bring you face to face with researchers at the cutting edge of scientific discovery in this all new series: SciShow Field Trips! ———- 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…
From SciShow. When it comes to exploring the unexpected in science, some stories are too big to cover in the studio. So we’ve come together with our friends at HHMI’s Tangled Bank Studios to bring you SciShow: Field Trips. Each episode, we’ll bring you face to face with researchers at the cutting edge of scientific…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. In Jervis Bay, off the coast of southwest Australia, octopuses have built two separate cities, which scientists nicknamed Octopolis and Octlantis…Or at least that’s what a variety of news outlets would…
From SciShow. Spontaneous remission happens more often than you might think. But that’s still super rare. So understanding how cancer goes away on its own is mainly exciting in the development of new therapies. 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. Send a Cake is a great way to show your loved ones just how much they mean to you! Get 10% off your order by clicking the link and using the code SCISHOW: https://sendacake.com/scishowbirthdays2 You’ve heard of the Salem Witch Trials, a series of accusations and executions based on the idea that witches…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. When was the last time your struggled to solve a maze (or, say, find the shortest route between two stops on a roadtrip)? If only you had a bit of slime…
From SciShow. Send a Cake is a great way to show your loved ones just how much they mean to you! Get 10% off your order by clicking the link and using the code SCISHOW: https://sendacake.com/scishowbirthdays1 Look at a map of the Yucatan Peninsula and you’ll immediately notice it’s lacking a feature that’s pretty common…
From SciShow. We all love a good mineral water. All those tasty particles must be great, right? Well, let’s talk about the one kind of mineral water you shouldn’t drink, because it’s trapped inside crystals. Also it might contain bacteria. Head to https://Complexly.store/rocks to check out all the rocks we have to offer! Hosted by:…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Every year, we dig up the most amazing fossil discoveries and explore what they reveal about the ancient past. Here are the winners from 2025! Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on…
From SciShow. You’ve heard of tool-making crows and chimps. But there’s a whole world of insects, spiders, and bugs that manage to get crafty with the things in their environment. Even some spiders, who use the bodies of other insects as the tools. Here’s a few of the weirdest ways they do it. Hosted by:…
From SciShow. When you think of animals of Antarctica, there’s nothing more classic than a penguin. But new research suggests that these lovable waddling water birds didn’t get their start on the icy continent. Turns out, they’re from Australia? Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going!…
From SciShow. Why do zebras have stripes? This question has plagued scientists since Darwin and Wallace were alive, and modern research has finally gotten us closer to the answer. Which is good, because the last time SciShow tried to answer it, we got it way wrong. Here’s the real, updated science about how zebras got…
From SciShow. Archeology is all about uncovering ancient mysteries. There are so many that we made this compilation with our favorite ones. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- 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 to get the latest news and…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Some people avoid gluten in the US but eat it to their heart’s content in Europe. There are reasons your body might respond differently to the gluten over there. But there are also reasons that you…
From SciShow. Try Rocket Money for free: https://rocketmoney.yt.link/otfn1vb Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is the father of microbiology and the first person to have observed bacteria. Which he should not have been able to do, but did anyway. Here’s why the discovery of bacteria should have been impossible. Hosted by: Niba @NotesbyNiba (she/her) ———- Support us for…
From SciShow. While these concretions aren’t the remnants of a lost city, we do know that studying how they formed can give us insights into ocean currents, climate change, and could even give us insights into making cleaner, greener concrete. This video was inspired by Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change: Answers to Your Ocean and…
From SciShow. There’s a series of underground structures in the Bahamas that bears a striking resemblance to the fabled Atlantis. And while these concretions aren’t the remnants of a lost city, we do know that studying how they formed can give us insights into ocean currents, climate change, and could even give us insights into…
From SciShow. Support for this episode was contributed by the Translational Research Institute for Space Health at Baylor College of Medicine. TRISH is an applied health research catalyst that funds high-impact scientific studies and technologies to keep astronauts healthy during deep space exploration. TRISH is empowered by the NASA Human Research Program, and is a…
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From SciShow. Check out Manta Sleep here https://tinyurl.com/yuyzxkx6 and make sure to use SCISHOW for 10% off your order! And then, take a nap! A surprising study in 2025 claimed that glass bottles deposit more microplastics in your drink than plastic bottles. Is this counterintuitive claim true? And what can we do about it? Hosted…
From SciShow. Sometimes, being an expert in one scientific field doesn’t translate to another. But then there’s Luis Alvarez, a particle physicist who helped expand our knowledge of the world by investigating everything from atomic bombs, to Egyptian pyramids, to what actually killed the dinosaurs. This video was inspired by Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from…
From SciShow. What Dinosaurs, Pyramids, and the Atomic Bomb Have in Common – Inspired by Collisions video: Check out Collisions: A Physicist’s Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs, by Alec Nevala-Lee at https://bookshop.org/lists/scishow-recommended-reading. This video was made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. To learn more, head to https://sloan.org/programs/public-understanding. Sometimes, being…
From SciShow. People have been trying to prevent the spread of infectious disease forever, yet we only got germ theory in the 19th century. Except for one 16th century Italian doctor, who got it exactly right and was immediately forgotten. This video was inspired by Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe, a…
From SciShow. People have been trying to prevent the spread of infectious disease forever, yet we only got germ theory in the 19th century. Except for one 16th century Italian doctor, who got it exactly right and was immediately forgotten. Here’s how we’ve been making slow progress for more than a millennium. Hosted by: Savannah…
From SciShow. Go to https://complexly.store/ to support Complexly this holiday season! Humanity loves bubbles. They’re not only fun to play with, they’re practical. Science has found a bunch of different uses for bubbles, from studying the subatomic nature of reality, to providing an assist in certain medical scans (and more!). Let’s explore five of them.…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Playing tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons and Dragons can be emotionally rewarding. In fact, a lot of players like to joke that TTRPGs can be just as good as going to therapy. And that might even…
From SciShow. Go to Complexly.store to support Complexly this holiday season! Green, black, herbal, with milk, in a bag, cold brewed… the ways to make tea are endless. And depending on whether you drink it for the caffeine, health boost, nostalgia, or whatever other reason, your tea might look totally different from someone else’s. Yes,…
From SciShow. Use code scishow at https://incogni.com/scishow to get an exclusive 60% off. From birds of paradise (the bird) to birds of paradise (the flower), nature is full of colorful life. And these colors can communicate a bunch of different messages. But if no animal had eyes capable of perceiving those colors, why would colorfulness…
From SciShow. Go to https://complexly.store/ to support Complexly this holiday season! Despite having a brain the size of a pinhead, jumping spiders in the genus Portia can plan ahead, learn through trial and error, and even lie. How are they so smart? They’re changing what we know about cognition. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ———-…