Volcano Eruption in Papua New Guinea
AdultsEnvironmentNatureNatural Disasters...Australian tourists Linda and Philip McNamara filmed the eruption of Papua New Guinean volcano, Mount Tavurvur, on August 29. You can literally see the shockwave!
Giant Smoke Rings - Cool Science Experiment
AdultsScienceTVExperiments...Steve and Ellen use a trash can and a fog machine to fire giant vortex smoke rings across the Ellen DeGeneres studio.
The Science of Depression
AdultsHealthPsychologyScience...What's going on inside of a depressed person?
You Can Learn Anything
AdultsEducationSciencePsychologyKhan Academy is on a mission to unlock the world's potential. Most people think their intelligence is fixed. The science says it's not.
How the sun sees you
AdultsHealthTechnologyScience...We showed people what they looked like in ultraviolet, & wondered aloud if they wanted to put on some damn sunscreen already.
5 Fun Physics Phenomena
AdultsHumorInternet CulturePhysics...YouTuber Veritasium explains 5 weird but cool tricks about Physics in the latest video.
Inside the ant colony
AdultsAnimalsNatureSociety...Ants have one of the most complex social organizations in the animal kingdom; they live in structured colonies that contain different types of members who perform specific roles. Sound familiar? Deborah M. Gordon explains the way these incredible creatures mate, communicate and source food, shedding light on how their actions can mimic and inform our own behavior.
How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins
AdultsMental HealthMusicScience...When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What's going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians' brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout.
7 Myths About The Brain You Thought Were True
AdultsMental HealthScienceHealth...Blow your mind with these brain myths!
Can You Trust Your Ears?
AdultsLanguageSocietyPsychology...Should you believe your ears and the things they hear?
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Bill Gates Wealth
AdultsBusinessPersonal FinanceScience...Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how wealthy is Microsoft founder Bill Gates. An excerpt from University of Washington in 2011.
How do we smell?
AdultsHumanNeuroscienceScience...An adult human can distinguish up to 10,000 odors. You use your nose to figure out what to eat, what to buy and even when it's time to take a shower. But how do the molecules in the air get translated into smells in your brain? Rose Eveleth charts the smelly journey through your olfactory epithelium and explains why scent can be so subjective.
Another Reason Why Dogs Are Amazing: They Can Detect Cancer.
AdultsHealthPetsAnimals...Having a dog for a pet is a great way to find love, loyalty, friendship and fun; but canines are now using their keen senses for something remarkable. New studies have shown that through intense observation and an astute sense of smell (which is is about 100,000 times more powerful than that of a human), our canine friends are able to alert us when cancerous cells are present. In many instances dogs have pointed their noses on the precise locations of unidentified tumors. Read the Article
Why is ketchup so hard to pour?
AdultsFoodPhysicsScienceEver go to pour ketchup on your fries...and nothing comes out? Or the opposite happens, and your plate is suddenly swimming in a sea of red? George Zaidan describes the physics behind this frustrating phenomenon, explaining how ketchup and other non-Newtonian fluids can suddenly transition from solid to liquid and back again.
Facebook Will Use Drones and Lasers to 'Beam' Internet to the World
AdultsInternet CultureTechnologyWorld...After announcing Internet.org last year, an initiative to improve Internet access across the globe, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the Connectivity Lab, a new team of scientists that has been working on the ambitious project. He said that the Connectivity Lab would develop "new platforms for connectivity on the ground, in the air and in orbit," according to a post on Internet.org on Thursday. How are they going to do it?