These Lakes Shouldn’t Be Three Different Colors

From SciShow. On top of a volcano in Indonesia, there are three lakes. But these three neighbors couldn’t be more different, since each of them is a different vivid hue. Let’s talk about the weird chemistry atop Keli Mutu Volcano and the three Technicolor lakes that it’s produced. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support…

Reforestation Does Not Begin With Planting Trees

From SciShow. This video was inspired by the episode from Wild Hope: Mission Impossible. 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 think. Reforesting…

The Meatless Meats of the Future

From SciShow. This video was inspired by the episode from Wild Hope: Mission Impossible. 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 think. Plant-based…

Why Don’t We Talk About Acid Rain Anymore?

From SciShow. Are you old enough for your childhood to be filled with the threat of acid rain? Are you now thinking "Wait, why haven’t I heard about the threat of acid rain in forever?". Well it’s because scientists and policymakers around the world got together and did something about it. Hosted by: Savannah Geary…

Why Some Trees in SciShow’s Hometown Are Full of Poop

From SciShow. To try Brilliant for free, visit brilliant.org/scishow or scan the QR code onscreen—or you can click on the link in the description. You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. How would you deal with sewage waste pollution? Here in Missoula, the answer was…. poplar trees. Here’s the weird reason that these…

Turkey’s Cotton Palace Built Itself

From SciShow. Pamukkale, Turkey’s Cotton Palace, is home to some of the most beautiful hot springs in the world. Located in the Denizli Basin, it’s not only unique, but can tell us a surprising amount about the history of the site. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep…

The Last Person Standing In Nuclear War

From SciShow. In a nuclear explosion, how close you are impacts your chance of survival. But who you are also has more influence than you might think. If everyone on Earth were equidistant from the bomb, here’s the last person standing. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep…

What’s The Fastest Language?

From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Have you ever listened to someone speaking a foreign language and thought "Wow they’re speaking way faster than I do"? Well it’s not all in your head because you don’t understand what they’re saying (It’s also…

The Secret To Saving The Oceans Is In… Clams?

From SciShow. There’s a complex, mysterious current running throughout the Atlantic Ocean, and it’s in trouble. But to help save it, researchers need to understand it, and finding ways to study it has been a challenge. But it turns out that the secret to studying and someday saving the AMOC might be…. clams. Hosted by:…

Did We Just De-Extinct Dire Wolves?!

From SciShow. So you’ve probably heard by now that a biotech company called Colossal Biosciences has brought dire wolves back form extinction. Or at least…. they SAY they did. We wanted to break down all the science in their claims, and get to the bottom of the dire wolf dilemma before George R. R. Martin…

This Is The Best Predator Defense Of All Time

From SciShow. It’s a hard world out there, especially for a little guy. So what’s a soft-bodied animal to do? Turns out that marine invertebrates basically figured out the best defense system of all time, and nobody’s a better demonstration of that than ammonites. Their swirled shells are so tough that they can keep mosasaurs…

The Lake Where Hundreds of People Died… Twice

From SciShow. India’s Roopkund Lake, also known as Skeleton Lake, is the site of gruesome sculptures of human bones. Many causes of these deaths have been proposed, from hail to divine intervention. But scientists now think that whatever happened, it didn’t happen just once. Hundreds of people have died at this lake… at least twice.…

5 Regrettable Things People Did With Uranium

From SciShow. Humans have known that uranium can cause health problems since at least the 1820s. But that hasn’t stopped us from making stuff with uranium in it over the past two centuries. Like teeth, toys, and diabetes treatments! Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going!…

What Made These Perfectly Shaped Hills? | Weird Places

From SciShow. The Chocolate Hills of Bohol, Philippines are so perfectly shaped that local legends say they were crafted by giants. Geologists can’t agree exactly what happened, but the answer might be as simple as limestone, water, and wind. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going!…

These Are The Worst Research Papers Of All Time

From SciShow. It’s no secret that some people are bad at their jobs. But when those people are scientists, and their jobs are to publish papers about their work, well… Sometimes, bad papers hit the presses. These are a few stories about particularly bad papers, the reasons they were so awful, and what researchers do…

We Don’t Know Where Chocolate Comes From

From SciShow. Chocolate being one of the world’s most delicious foods, you’d think we would know everything about it. /Somebody/ domesticated wild cacao. It’s just… nobody really knows who, or when… or where. But if we want chocolate for the long haul, it’s in our best interests to find out. Hosted by: Niba @NotesbyNiba (she/her)…

This Is What Happens When Regular People Go To Space

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…

What’s Below Absolute Zero?

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. It’s impossible to have something colder than absolute zero…right? That’s why it’s called "absolute zero". Well, it turns out you can get certain substances to negative absolute temperatures (e.g. -1 Kelvin)…but in…

The Wild Science Behind Extended Release Medications

From SciShow. Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow! And thank you again to The Kavli Prize for supporting this episode. The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience is awarded for outstanding achievement in the science and application of the unique physical, chemical and biological properties of atomic, molecular, macromolecular, and cellular structures and systems that are…

Our Brains Shouldn’t Be So Big

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. It’s no secret that humans have big brains, especially compared to the rest of the animal world. But big brains require big energy to power them, and shifting around all our calories…

What You Don’t Know About King Tut’s Space Dagger

From SciShow. In the 1920s, archaeologists discovered that the young pharaoh Tutankhamun was buried with a fancy iron dagger. It wasn’t just fancy because part of it came from outer space; it was also made by artisans in another kingdom and given as a gift. But maybe not to Tut himself. Hosted by: Savannah Geary…

Why Elephants Rarely Get Cancer

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 One fun fact about elephants is that they’re a lot less likely to get cancer than other animals (including us). Another fun fact is that unlike most warm-blooded animals, their testes…

6 Times Humans Went to War With Animals… And Lost

From SciShow. Have you ever heard of the Emu War? It was a hilariously disastrous attempt at wild animal population control, and while you’d think that humans would have gotten better at that sort of thing in the last hundred-ish years, that doesn’t seem to be the case. From making drug-resistant super rats to shooting…

Why You Should STOMP Every Spotted Lanternfly

From SciShow. You may have heard about a new invasive menace in the US. The spotted lanternfly is a relatively recent arrival from China, and while they may be tiny, they have the potential to cause some serious problems. So let’s talk about what these spotted lanternflies are, why they’re here, and what we can…

Blind People Recognize Faces, Too

From SciShow. Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow! And thank you again to The Kavli Prize for supporting this episode. The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience is awarded for outstanding achievement in advancing our knowledge and understanding of the brain and nervous system. To learn more about Dr. Nancy Kanwisher, you can visit her page:…

The Ancient Crops We’ve Forgotten How to Grow

From SciShow. Today, humans live on just a few staple crops, like maize, rice, and wheat. But in the early days of agriculture, humans were domesticating foods left and right. Come with us as we discover the lost crops of North America, like pitseed goosefoot, maygrass, and sumpweed. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support…

NASA’s Most Controversial Rock

From SciShow. In the mid-1990s, a meteorite with the unmemorable name ALH84001 became the most famous rock in the world. Because one team of scientists proposed that it had the evidence of real, if microscopic, Martians. Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support…

No, Space Doesn’t Kill You Like That

From SciShow. Learn more about the Modern Makers and exciting manufacturing career pathways by visiting ManufacturingUSA.com/Modern-Makers Hollywood (and other fictional media) loves to show people dying in outer space. And it has several go-to causes of death, on a sliding scale of accuracy. But it turns out, reality has some ways to kill you that…

Did Sugar From Deep Space Make Life Possible?

From SciShow. Arrokoth, an asteroid in the Kuiper Belt, is the most distant object ever explored by the New Horizons spacecraft. And it’s covered in sugar. Here’s why that might be important for understanding the nature of life itself. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going!…

The Mysterious Disappearance of 10 Billion Alaskan Crabs

From SciShow. In 2021, researchers reported a shocking disappearance in the Bering Sea. Not of people, but of Alaskan snow crabs. And it’s taken scientists years to understand how tens of billions of crabs disappeared all at once, so let’s take you through the mystery of the disappearing snow crabs! Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them)…