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Burn Your Waste With... Water?

AdultsLifeNatureScience...
Supercritical water produces fire without flames, which is great for making clean drinking water from our waste in space or breaking down forever chemicals here on Earth.

Are Life-Saving Medicines Hiding in the World’s Coldest Places?

AdultsEnvironmentLifeNature...
Could the next wonder drug be somewhere in Canada's snowy north? Take a trip to this beautiful, frigid landscape as chemist Normand Voyer explores the mysterious molecular treasures found in plants thriving in the cold.

Halle Bailey Sits Down with Nat Geo Explorer Aliyah Griffith | National Geographic

AdultsMediaNatureTechnology...
Executive Editor Debra Adams Simmons sits down with Halle Bailey, “Ariel” in Disney’s new movie The Little Mermaid, and Aliyah Griffith, Marine Scientist, National Geographic Explorer, and Founder of Mahogany Mermaids.

Primitive Technology: Roasted Ore and Shell Flux Smelt

AdultsCreativityLifeNature...
I tested 2 ways of improving iron smelts by treating the ore, roasting the ore and using snail shells as a flux. Then finally I recycled old slag to see if it would produce any more iron.

Your Body Killed Cancer 5 Minutes Ago

AdultsBiologyHealthHuman...
Somewhere in your body, your immune system just quietly killed one of your own cells, stopping it from becoming cancer, and saving your life. It does that all the time.

Ancient Humans Made Millions Of These - We Don’t Know Why

AdultsConstructionHealthHuman...
The Acheulean handaxe was the most common tool of early humans, but we still don’t know what the heck they used it for.

1816: The year with no summer - David Biello

AdultsHistoryHumanWeather...
Dig into geoengineering, which uses technology to manipulate Earth’s environments to counteract climate change.

Corn Shouldn't Be Food, But It Is

AdultsEducationFoodScience...
You probably have a bag of frozen corn in your freezer, or have chowed down on a buttery ear of corn at a cookout.

The HUGE Problem with ChatGPT

AdultsHistoryScienceTechnology...
Free-to-use, exceptionally powerful artificial intelligences are available to more people than ever, seemingly making some kind of news every day.

The “afterlife” according to Einstein’s special relativity

AdultsEducationLifeScience...
Sabine Hossenfelder discusses the physics of… dead grandmothers?

How to Make Money on YouTube with 20M Subs

AdultsIndustryMediaScience...
In 2023, Kurzgesagt has existed for 10 years (which is insanely long in internet years).

How Caffeine Accidentally Took Over The World

AdultsFoodHistoryHuman...
Plants don't make caffeine just for us, so what DO they make it for?

You’re Not a Lab Mouse, but You Might Be a Wild Mouse

AdultsAnimalsNatureScience...
The lab mice we use for genetic studies are not only closely related, but live out their whole lives in a sterile environment, so they don’t tell us everything we need to know about actual humans.

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?

Why We Haven’t Learned More In 101 Years Of Trying

AdultsHistoryHumanLife...
Almost everything we know about the reproductive practices of European eels comes from a genius study conducted more than 100 years ago.

Why do we have crooked teeth when our ancestors didn’t?

AdultsGeneticsHistoryHuman...
Explore the prevailing scientific theory of why crooked teeth and impacted wisdom teeth are recent developments in human evolution.

How NASA Reinvented The Wheel

AdultsConstructionCreativityScience...
A huge thanks to everyone at NASA Glenn Research Center for having us at the SLOPE Lab, showing their work on this indestructible tire, and helping with the science and animation.