There Is Something Hiding Inside Earth
AdultsEducationScienceBiologySpace... We’ve found a new planet, home to octillions of the most extreme beings living in the most absurd and deadly hellscape. In absolute darkness, crushed by the weight of mountains, starved of oxygen, cooked alive, bathed in acid, salt or radiation.
An Ancient Roman Shipwreck May Explain the Universe
AdultsHistoryScienceSpace... Why would astrophysicists care about a two millennia old Roman shipwreck between the islands of Sardinia and Mal Di Ventre?
My Search for Proof Aliens Exist | Avi Loeb | TED
AdultsLifeScienceSpace... Why have we not yet found proof of alien life? According to astrophysicist Avi Loeb, we simply haven't dedicated the proper resources.
How close are we to powering the world with nuclear fusion?
AdultsScienceSpaceTechnology... Explore the possibility of nuclear fusion technology to create limitless, on-demand energy with almost no emissions.
The Solar System is Beige
AdultsEducationScienceSpace... Whether you grew up with a poster of the solar system on your bedroom wall or not, you've probably got a specific idea of what the planets look like. From brilliantly blue Neptune to the "red planet" Mars. But if you managed to actually visit these worlds, you'd find reality... a little beige.
MinuteEarth Explains: Solar Eclipses
AdultsEducationScienceSpace... Over the last year, we at MinuteEarth and MinutePhysics have had the privilege of working with NASA's Heliophysics Education Activation Team make a series of videos about the awesomeness of solar eclipses. Here they are, all seven of them!
There Are Thousands of Alien Empires in The Milky Way
AdultsEducationScienceSpace... We often assume that advanced technology will make it easy for aliens to colonize space. But what if space exploration is always difficult, no matter how advanced you are?
The Paradox of an Infinite Universe
AdultsEducationScienceSpace... What is outside of the universe? We know that the universe had a beginning 14 billion years ago and that it has been expanding ever since.
3 Mysteries of the Universe
AdultsEducationScienceSpace... We're still in the dark about what 95 percent of our universe is made of — and the standard model for understanding particle physics has hit a limit.
Weird Things Animals Do During Eclipses
AdultsAnimalsScienceSpace... For centuries, humans have reported animals freaking out during solar eclipses, like birds falling from the sky and bees hiding in their hives, but the animals most affected by eclipses might be us.
The largest river on Earth is actually in the sky - Iseult Gillespie
AdultsEducationSpaceWorld... Explore the Amazon rainforest’s flying rivers, and dig into why these invisible waterways are essential to life on Earth.
How To Destroy The Universe
AdultsEducationScienceSpace... The universe is going to die one day, and a fight between two titans will decide our cosmic fate.
How to Win an Interstellar War
AdultsEducationScienceSpace... Could aliens destroy us from light years away? Another day at Kurzgesagt Labs, where we answer the most important questions with science.
Astronaut Tells The Story Behind Iconic Space Photos | WIRED
AdultsEducationHistorySpace... ESA Astronaut Tim Peake visits WIRED to have a look back at pivotal moments in the history of human space flight, captured in 8 unforgettable photographs.
Yes, this is how we know the Earth is slowing down
AdultsEducationScienceSpace... Without eclipses, our world would be a lot different because eclipses give us the ability to do science we otherwise wouldn’t be able to.
You're a Dream of the Universe (According to Science)
AdultsEducationScienceSpace... Absolutely everything you think about yourself and the universe could be an illusion. As far as you know, you are real and exist in a universe that was born 14 billion years ago and that gave rise to galaxies, stars, the Earth, and finally you. Except, maybe not.
Why Are Saturn’s Rings Younger Than Saturn?
AdultsEducationScienceSpace... Saturn's rings are younger than Saturn, and the most spectacular sight in the Solar System is also disappearing. How do we know? By running our finger through some cosmic dust.
The Black Hole That Kills Galaxies - Quasars
AdultsEducationScienceSpace... The universe isn't just a vast empty ocean sprinkled with galaxies – most of the atoms are actually drifting in between, in the intergalactic medium.
Mark Hamill Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED
AdultsIndustryMediaSpace... "The Machine" star Mark Hamill takes the WIRED Autocomplete interview and answers the web's most searched questions about himself. How did he win the role of Luke Skywalker?
Why Aliens Might Already Be On Their Way To Us
AdultsLifeScienceSpace... The universe is magnificent and vast. Hundreds of billions of galaxies, trillions of stars, and even more planets. If even the tiniest fraction are habitable, then the Universe should be teeming with life. And yet we see nothing, only vast emptiness. Where is everyone else?