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) ———-…

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. In 1939, 835 sheep were killed by a single bolt of lightning during a thunderstorm in Pine Canyon, Utah. This was far from the last time literally hundreds of animals suffered a…

From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. In 2025, researchers announced a first of its kind breakthrough: They’d created a customized gene editor made for just one person. And it probably saved this tiny infant from a devastating liver disease. Here’s how CRISPR…

From SciShow. Go to https://Complexly.store to support Complexly this holiday season! The island of Surtsey off the coast of Iceland popped up basically in a week, and it’s been a perfect natural experiment for ecologists. See, a new island means a sterile ecosystem that gets filled in in waves, and learning how organisms do that…

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From SciShow. Some people are born with more to love. More organs, that is. from double uteruses to bonus blood to extra spleens, here are a few ways you can have extra pieces of yourself, and what to do with your bonus body parts. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on…

From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. There’s a radioactivity museum in Paris, in Marie Curie’s lab. It’s still got radiation in there. But Andra has removed the worst of it. BBC story: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250605-the-hunt-for-marie-curies-radioactive-fingerprints-in-paris Hosted by: Rose Bear Don’t Walk (she/her) ———- Support…

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From SciShow. Use code scishow at https://incogni.com/scishow to get an exclusive 60% off. For centuries, Europeans were obsessed with Chinese porcelain but couldn’t figure out the secret recipe for it. So a French priest traveled there to steal it. Hosted by: Madelyn Leembruggen ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow…

From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. In this world, there are so many unanswerable questions. What’s the meaning of life? Where did my car keys go? Could I make out with a T. rex? And fortunately, science can help with that last…

From SciShow. In December 2024, 38 scientists teamed up to issue a warning about a potential upcoming global catastrophe. The cause? Mirror bacteria. No, these aren’t bacteria with tiny goatees from an evil Star Trek universe, but if scientists ever do manage to make them, we might find ourselves living in a disaster movie. Hosted…

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From SciShow. Go to http://complexlylearnathon.com to check out the Learnathon schedule and support our cool stuff! They may not be our favorite thing to think about, but viruses have shaped our lives for thousands of years. In this SciShow compilation, we explore the most surprising things about them—including the debate over whether they’re even alive.…

From SciShow. Go to http://complexlylearnathon.com to check out the Learnathon schedule and support our cool stuff! Coffee spills more than most beverages. And it all comes down to an unlucky connection between your walking pace, the cup, and that tasty morning brew. Hosted by: Madelyn Leembruggen (she/her) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and…

From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. You’ve probably heard of scurvy and think of it as that weird sickness pirates get. But the thing is, for most of human history, we’ve had a cure for scurvy and known all about it. We…

From SciShow. As a human, there are a lot of critical skills you have to develop to go from a completely dependent potato (better known as a baby) to a fully functional, self-aware person. But when did you acquire them? When did you learn to lie, or internalize the concept of possibility? Science has a…

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. The modern concept of birthstones might have started as some kind of marketing ploy, but that doesn’t mean the only thing these gems are good for is decoration. Let’s walk through all…

From SciShow. Go to http://complexlylearnathon.com to check out the Learnathon schedule and support our cool stuff! There are a lot of places, conditions, and situations that just don’t seem all that survivable for most people. But for certain populations of humans, conditions that would be fatal for most of us are no sweat. Here are…

From SciShow. Go to http://complexlylearnathon.com to check out the Learnathon schedule and support our cool stuff! Most science experiments take a few months or years, but some take a whole lot longer. Here are six of the longest-running experiments of all time, including one expected to last 500 years. Hosted by: Madelyn Leembruggen (she/her) ———-…

From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. It looked like a boring metal ball. Shiny, silvery, and roughly the size of a grapefruit. But in two separate lab accidents, it took the lives of Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin without either of them…

From SciShow. Semaglutide, the drug famously sold under brand names like Ozempic and Wegovy, has boomed in popularity in just a handful of years. It’s not limited to doing just one thing inside your body… making it a double-edged sword with both benefits /and/ risks. We’re starting to learn what all those things are, and…