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)

From SciShow. Get 20% off DeleteMe by going to https://joindeleteme.com/SCISHOW and use code SCISHOW to protect your privacy! Are you a supervillian who likes to collect super impressive lasers? Are you a normal human being who just really likes superlatives to do with human innovation and technology? Are you a cat? Here are some of…

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…