50 Years Later & Scientists Still Don’t Know Why These Exist

From SciShow. Get 20% off DeleteMe by going to https://joindeleteme.com/SCISHOW and use code SCISHOW to protect your privacy! In a special sliver of the Namib Desert, where there’s just the right amount of rain, you’ll find a spectacular, almost artistic natural phenomenon: fairy circles. Scientists have been arguing with each other for decades about what…

The World’s Deadliest Mushroom is Getting Deadlier

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. Death Cap mushrooms are notoriously poisonous. But now they’re colonizing new homes and evolving new toxins! Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow…

These Petroglyphs Helped Humans Survive the Desert

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. Check out WildTrack’s story here: https://www.jmp.com/wildtrack Thousands of years ago, some people carved a huge camel into a rock in the Arabian peninsula. Not only has that carving doubled the amount of…

Here’s Why Personality Tests ALWAYS Work*

From SciShow. If you’ve ever done a personality test or read a horoscope and thought, it seemed scary accurate, you may have fallen for something called a Barnum Profile. There’s a psychological trick that makes us all vulnerable to personality tests, so let’s get into the real science behind personality testing. Hosted by: Madelyn Leembruggen…

We’re Sending Our Audience Poop. You’re Welcome.

From SciShow. Learn more about the past, present and future of Earth with Crash Course Geology, premiering 4/2 on CrashCourse: http://youtube.com/crashcourse Fossilized poop might seem gross, but coprolites give us critical information about how animals lived millions of years ago. Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow…

Chimps Love “People Watching” Too

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. Admit it: we all love reality TV. But the phenomenon of social curiosity, or people-watching, may have evolved long before humans did, and that tells us a lot about our social…

What Red and Black Tattoos Do to Your Immune System

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. Tattoos produce an immune response when you get them. But it turns out they keep affecting your immune system after that — and it might affect how effective your shots for…

A Scientist’s Guide to Wrinkle-Free Clothes

From SciShow. Support SciShow with a postcard or x-ray crystallography spinner! http://complexly.org/supportscishow SciShow posts a new video 4 times a week, and our science-backed videos were viewed 116 million times / 12.5 million hours last year. But SciShow has always needed your help to keep going, and that’s true now more than ever! We’re selling…

The 3 Strongest Lasers in the World (For Now)

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Do Reishi Mushrooms Really Treat Cancer?

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.  For generations, Reishi mushrooms have been used to treat a variety of ailments. But a new line of research is testing their viability in the fight against cancer. Hosted by: Hank Green…

Why Is This Persian Silver Hoard Buried in Yorkshire?

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Trash Batteries & 4 Other Weird Ways to Store Energy

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. From water, to very hot salt, to water (this time, solid), to microbe-filled soil, let’s unpack five ways to store energy that aren’t your typical, sometimes lickable, electrochemical battery. Hosted by:…

The Disappearing Star and The Oldest Story Ever Told

From SciShow. Head to https://www.squarespace.com/scishow to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using SCISHOW ! People all around the world, from North America to Australia, tell the story of a star in the Pleiades disappearing. There’s some evidence to believe this could be a memory of a real astronomical event.…

How to Live in the Harshest Place on Earth

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The Most Important Picture in the History of Science

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Plants Have Proprioception and That’s Weird

From SciShow. Thanks to Henson Shaving for sponsoring this video! Head to https://hensonshaving.com/scishow and use code scishow to receive 100 blades for free (2+ years worth). Just make sure both products are in the cart for the code to take effect. Plants need to sense light and gravity and themselves. But how? And when those…

There Are Two Types of Boredom

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. If you ever complained about having nothing to do as a kid, our mom may have told you that being bored is good for you. And it turns out, she was…

Why We Still Don’t Have Hypersonic Flights

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’re old enough to remember the Concorde (whether or not you ever flew in one), you might also be wondering why engineers haven’t gotten around to developing an even *faster* commercial…

7 Deadly Epidemics You Didn’t Know Existed

From SciShow. Head to https://www.squarespace.com/scishow to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using SCISHOW ! From the non-bubonic plague that killed a Welsh king, to the deadliest pestilence in 16th century Mexico, to a pandemic we’re currently in the middle of (No, it’s not coronavirus), here are 7 disease outbreaks…

6 Times Scientists Were Wrong About the Periodic Table

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. Mendeleev’s original, 1869 version of the Periodic Table featured 63 elements. Now, there are 118. But as scientists worked to extend the Table (and fill in a bunch of holes), not…

There’s Fresh Water Under the Ocean. Can You Drink It?

From SciShow. Did you know there is water at the bottom of the ocean? If you’re a fan of the band Talking Heads, probably. But back in the 1970s, scientists did actually discover an aquifer beneath the seafloor. So how much water are we talking about…and how drinkable is it, really? Hosted by: Madelyn Leembruggen…