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How Tall Can Mountains Be?

AdultsPhysicsWorld
What is the maximum height for a mountain on Earth!? And why?

Jurassic World - Official Trailer

AdultsFilmMarketing
Steven Spielberg returns to executive produce the long-awaited next instalment of his groundbreaking Jurassic Park series, Jurassic World. Colin Trevorrow directs the epic action-adventure from a screenplay he wrote with Derek Connolly. Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley join the team as producers.

Scary black seadevil fish caught on video at depth of 1,900 feet

AdultsAnimalsNature
Deep-sea anglerfish are strange and elusive creatures that are very rarely observed in their natural habitat. Fewer than half a dozen have ever been captured on film or video by deep diving research vehicles. This little angler, about 9 cm long, is named Melanocetus. It is also known as the Black Seadevil and it lives in the deep dark waters of the Monterey Canyon.

Will Marshall: Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time

AdultsSpaceTechnology
Satellite imaging has revolutionized our knowledge of the Earth, with detailed images of nearly every street corner readily available online. But Planet Labs' Will Marshall says we can do better and go faster - by getting smaller. He introduces his tiny satellites - no bigger than 10 by 10 by 30 centimeters - that, when launched in a cluster, provide high-res images of the entire planet, updated daily.

Toronto Maple Leafs fans finish singing US anthem after technical difficulties

AdultsPoliticsSports
The NHL's Nashville Predators might have creamed the Toronto Maple Leafs on the ice Tuesday night, but ahead of the game, there was a technical difficulty for the U.S. side. The microphone cut out while a woman was singing "The Star Spangled Banner." Instead of taking a moment to fix the sound system, the fans in the Canadian arena barely missed a beat at filling in the rest of the U.S. national anthem.

Why Do Rivers Curve?

AdultsNatureEnvironment
MinuteEarth provides an energetic and entertaining view of trends in earth's environment -- in just a few minutes!

EVOLUTION - Why Are There Still Monkeys?

AdultsAnimalsHistory
Greg Foot tries to dive into the topic of Evolution; looking at why monkeys exist, who our common ancestor is, and how we branched away to become a new species.

Why Music Moves Us

AdultsHumanMusic
Why does music make us feel happy or sad? Or angry or romantic? How can simple sound waves cause so much emotion? I went from my comfy chair to the streets of Austin to investigate how it might be written into our neuroscience and evolution. Modern neuroscience says our brains may be wired to pick certain emotions out of music because they remind us of how people move!

Why can't we see evidence of alien life?

AdultsLifeSpace
Stand by for an animated exploration of the famous Fermi Paradox. Given the vast number of planets in the universe, many much older than Earth, why haven't we yet seen obvious signs of alien life? The potential answers to this question are numerous and intriguing, alarming and hopeful.

Why Van Gogh's "Starry Night" Is Actually An Art Of Science

AdultsArtScience
Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically, we can use art to depict the way it looks. Natalya St. Clair illustrates how Van Gogh captured this deep mystery of movement, fluid and light in his work.

The Secret Social Life of Plants

AdultsEconomyNature
MinuteEarth provides an energetic and entertaining view of trends in earth's environment -- in just a few minutes!

How Bees Can See the Invisible

AdultsAnimalsNature
Feeding and fertilizing. Bees are amazing social insects, and their relationship with flowers is one of nature's coolest examples of "mutualism". It got me wondering: How do bees see the world? Enjoy this look at how bees see in ultraviolet and even sense electric fields!

FLUX 3D Printer

AdultsGadgetsTechnology
The all-in-one modular 3D printer.

Epic Hot Air Balloon Rope Swing

AdultsInternet CultureTransportation
YouTube channel Devin Supertramp shows you what you get when you combine a rope with hot air balloons.

This Bird Chirps Just Like R2-D2 From "Star Wars"

AdultsAnimalsFilm
We taught Bluey the budgie how to do R2-D2 and now he drives us crazy! He has two other budgies in his cage, and I think he's driving them crazy too!

Why is the Sky Any Color?

AdultsScienceWorld
It's a question that you'd think kids have been asking for thousands of years, but it might not be that old at all. The ancient Greek poet Homer never used a word for blue in The Odyssey or The Iliad, because blue is one of the last colors that cultures pick out a word for.

Save the Arctic

AdultsGlobal WarmingWorld
Save the Arctic - Watch and share.

The Science and Beauty of Auroras

AdultsScienceWorld
Space might seem like an empty place, but the area surrounding Earth is constantly being bombarded by waves of charged particles released by the Sun: The solar wind. Luckily, thanks to Earth's swirling, molten core (and the magnetic field it provides), we are protected from this planet-sterilizing onslaught like an invisible force field.

Vsauce Breaks Down The Problems Of Naming Everything In Our World

AdultsHistoryLanguage
A misnomer is a word or term that suggests a meaning that is known to be wrong. Misnomers often arise because the thing named received its name long before its true nature was known. A misnomer may also be simply a word that is used incorrectly or misleadingly.

Katana Fight Between Two ABB Robots

AdultsGadgetsTechnology
A katana fight between two ABB robots during an exhibition.

The Fear That Everything Has Already Been Done

AdultsPhotographySociety
The frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist-the same sunset, the same waterfall, the same curve of a hip, the same closeup of an eye-which can turn a unique subject into something hollow and pulpy and cheap, like a mass-produced piece of furniture you happen to have assembled yourself.