Scary black seadevil fish caught on video at depth of 1,900 feet
AdultsAnimalsNatureWildlifeScienceBiologyDeep-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.
Why Do Rivers Curve?
AdultsNatureEnvironmentScienceMinuteEarth provides an energetic and entertaining view of trends in earth's environment -- in just a few minutes!
Why can't we see evidence of alien life?
AdultsLifeSpaceSciencePhilosophyStand 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 Music Moves Us
AdultsHumanMusicNeurosciencePsychologyEvolutionWhy 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!
The Secret Social Life of Plants
AdultsEconomyNatureScienceEnvironmentMinuteEarth provides an energetic and entertaining view of trends in earth's environment -- in just a few minutes!
Why Van Gogh's "Starry Night" Is Actually An Art Of Science
AdultsArtSciencePhysicsPhysicist 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.
How Bees Can See the Invisible
AdultsAnimalsNatureBiologyScienceFeeding 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!
Save the Arctic
AdultsGlobal WarmingWorldEnvironmentNatureScienceSave the Arctic - Watch and share.
Why is the Sky Any Color?
AdultsScienceWorldNatureCultureIt'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.
This Bird Chirps Just Like R2-D2 From "Star Wars"
AdultsAnimalsFilmEntertainmentCultureWe 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!
Epic Hot Air Balloon Rope Swing
AdultsInternet CultureTransportationAdventureEntertainmentYouTube channel Devin Supertramp shows you what you get when you combine a rope with hot air balloons.
Vsauce Breaks Down The Problems Of Naming Everything In Our World
AdultsHistoryLanguageSocietyEducationA 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.
The Science and Beauty of Auroras
AdultsScienceWorldSpaceNatureSpace 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.
Kevin Delaney Makes a Cloud
AdultsScienceTVEducationExperimentsKevin Delaney from the Museum of Discovery in Little Rock performs some experiments on "The Tonight Show." Science is awesome.
Stardust
AdultsArtMusicTechnologyDanceEntertainmentThe performers Saya Watatani and Maki Yokoyama look like two Tinker Bells dancing together!
Lyrebird
AdultsAnimalsTechnologyNatureEntertainmentThis Bird Can Mimic Laser Gun Sounds And It's Very Impressive
The Fear That Everything Has Already Been Done
AdultsPhotographySocietyCreativityArtThe 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.
Katana Fight Between Two ABB Robots
AdultsGadgetsTechnologyArtA katana fight between two ABB robots during an exhibition.
Astronauts Grow a Water Bubble in Space
AdultsGadgetsPhysicsSpaceScienceAstronomyDuring Expedition 40 in the summer of 2014, NASA astronauts Steve Swanson and Reid Wiseman - along with European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst - explored the phenomenon of water surface tension in microgravity on the International Space Station. The crew "submerged" a sealed GoPro camera into a floating ball of water the size of a softball and recorded the activity with a 3-D camera.