keyboard_arrow_up

The Dirt On Decomposers

YouthAnimalsNatureScience...
In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about how everything starts... and ends. Decomposers!

We Only Discovered This 10 Years Ago

AdultsEducationHistoryBiology...
Most living things on Earth need oxygen to survive, but scientists discovered a species of bacteria that uses oxygen totally differently from every other organism on Earth.

The Many Layers Of Sedimentary Rocks

KidsNatureScienceWorld...
Jessi and Sam learn about sedimentary rocks and show how you can use vinegar to identify a piece of limestone.

People said this experiment was impossible, so I tried it

AdultsEducationScienceExperiments
A massive thank you to everyone at Goldschmidt for making this possible. With special thanks to Dr. Axel Hoeschen, Christof Gassmann and Claudia Koch.

Primitive Technology: A-frame Roof Tile Factory

AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...
With the wet season only 2 months away and thatch being an impermanent material, I needed to make more roof tiles for a new hut that will withstand the next deluge.

Can Young Cheetahs Hunt These Antelope? | Animals With Cameras | BBC Earth

AdultsAnimalsMediaNature...
A herd of gemsbok are a dangerous target for young cheetahs, but that doesn't stop this boisterous group from trying to hunt them. As the hunt plays out the tables quickly turn, and the large male gemsbok charges to protect his herd...

Fabulous Food Chains

YouthEcologyEducationScience...
In this of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about the way energy moves, or flows, through an ecosystem and how that movement forms Food Chains!

You've Never Heard of the World's Most Common Mineral

AdultsEducationScienceWork...
The most common substance in the world is literally IN the world. It's a mineral called bridgmanite, and it belongs to a class of minerals (called perovskites) that scientists are trying to use in the next generation of solar panels.

Are there any places on Earth with no bugs? - Charles Wallace

AdultsLifeNatureWorld...
Travel to some of the most extreme environments on Earth and see how insects are able to employ their skills to survive.

Igneous Rocks Used To Be Liquid!

KidsEnvironmentNatureScience...
A new friend Savannah and Sam learn about different kinds of igneous rocks, which form after liquid magma or lava cools into solid rock.

What Happens When Predators Disappear?

AdultsAnimalsLifeScience...
A world without predators. It sounds like a safer, happier world, but come on, this is SCIENCE…

There Is Something Hiding Inside Earth

AdultsEducationScienceBiology...
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.

The Sweet Future of Vertical Farming | Hiroki Koga | TED

AdultsFoodLifeTechnology...
Can strawberries grown inside a building taste sweeter than those grown in a field?

Four Spheres Part 2

YouthScienceWorldNature
In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about two of the four spheres that make up our planet; The Hydrosphere and the Atmosphere.

How do QR codes work? (I built one myself to find out)

AdultsScienceTechnologyHow-to
How do QR codes work? The checkerboard patterns taking over the world, demystified.

Chaos Theory

YouthFactsScience
Here's how chaos theory and its butterfly effect, has changed the way we think about our Universe.

How To Take A Dinosaur's Temperature

AdultsAnimalsHistoryLife...
Despite the seemingly basic things we don't know about dinosaurs, we do know some surprising things – like their body temperatures.