How Does A Boomerang Work?
AdultsGadgetsScience A boomerang can execute its unique roundtrip flight by making use of three fundamental physics principles: lift, relative velocity, and gyroscopic precession.
Can We Really Touch Anything?
AdultsBiologyScience Can we really touch things? Well if by touch we mean exchange a force-carrying particle with, then yes.
How We Know Black Holes Exist
AdultsScienceSpace Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Space Telescope Science Institute for supporting this video.
Why Don't Sheep Shrink In The Rain?
AdultsAnimalsNatureScienceBiology... Getting wet isn't REALLY what makes wool shrink; it merely exacerbates the friction between the wool fibers, which is stronger in one direction than another, so when agitated in the washer or dryer, they migrate in relation to each other in a process called "felting."
String Theory Explained - What is The True Nature of Reality?
AdultsMathScienceSpace This video was funded by SNSF under Agora Grant n. 171622 and through the NCCR SwissMAP: The Mathematics of Physics.
COLD HARD SCIENCE: SLAPSHOT Physics in Slow Motion
AdultsFilmScienceSportsPhysics... I shot the skaters with a Phantom MIRO LC320S made by Vision Research.
Why Are There As Many Males As Females?
AdultsAnimalsBiologyNatureScience... In almost every animal species on Earth, equal numbers of males and females are conceived. Why is that?
What Is Light?
AdultsScienceTravelPhilosophy We are so used to some things that we stopped wondering about them. Like light. What is light? Some kind of wavy thing, right? Kind of.
NEW Gravitational Wave Discovery!
AdultsScienceSpace Scientists have JUST published this new observation.
How Evolution works
AdultsBiologyGeneticsHistoryScienceEvolution... The theory of evolution explains how the enormous variety of life could come into existence. How it is possible for primitive life forms to spawn the millions of different creatures, that exist today.
Why Electroshock Therapy Is Back
AdultsHealthMental HealthTechnologyScience... Shocking the brain has come and gone as a medical treatment, but it's currently resurging, as it often provides the best form of relief for severe depression and advanced Parkinson's disease.
How did teeth evolve? - Peter S. Ungar
AdultsBiologyHealthHumanScienceEvolution... You may take them for granted, but your teeth are a marvel. They break up all your food over the course of your life, while being strong enough to withstand breakage themselves. How do they do it?
Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter
AdultsScienceSpaceTravelFuture... Finding alien life on a distant planet would be amazing news - or would it? If we are not the only intelligent life in the universe, this probably means our days are numbered and doom is certain.