SciShow
Cavitation
- Title
- Cavitation
- Runtime
- 3:02
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank tells you about cavitation - the power of tiny bubbles to weaken metal, kill fish & maybe even cure cancer.
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- Title
- Climate Change
- Runtime
- 10:52
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- In which Hank details the five scariest things that will likely happen because of climate change.
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Solar Energy Infusion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPVZUTLAvA
Epigenetics Infusion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp1bZEUgqVI
- Title
- Curiosity: Mars' Next Visitor
- Runtime
- 4:38
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Plutonium powered robot car! With a laser gun! That's (kind of) what's hurtling through space right now as part of NASA Mars Science Laboratory heads for the Red Planet. Hank walks you through this historic mission, with the help of some kick ass animations (thanks NASA!).
Mars Science Laboratory
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/
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- Title
- Yellowstone Supercomputer
- Runtime
- 3:41
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Ever notice how adding "super" in front of something makes it way more awesome? Hank gives us the rundown on the Yellowstone SUPERcomputer.
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- Title
- Solar Storms
- Runtime
- 4:15
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Solar Storms! Moaning Myrtle! Wondering what the frick is behind the solar flares that slammed Earth earlier this week? Hank lays out how that juicy ball of plasma we call the sun causes us trouble from time to time.
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References:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/14dec_mslrad/
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/19sep_secretlives/
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/18aug_cmemovie/
http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/solar_chat.html
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/X-class-flares.html
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/coronalweather/CMEsFlares/index.html
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/06may_carringtonflare/
- Title
- Mind Reading
- Runtime
- 3:03
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank describes some scientific advances in the field of mind reading.
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Read more:
"Scientists Can (Almost) Read Your Mind" - http://dft.ba/-1Es9
http://gallantlab.org/
- Title
- Can Your Environment Affect Your DNA? | Epigenetics Explained
- Runtime
- 9:29
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Did you know that your environment and lived experiences can actually affect your DNA? Welcome to the world of epigenetics! In this fun episode of SciShow, Hank & his clone Circus Hank explain the power of epigenetics, which studies the factors that determine how much or whether some genes are expressed in your body. Let's go!
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More SciShow!
Solar Energy - http://youtu.be/4uPVZUTLAvA
Foldit Gamers FTW - http://youtu.be/JdBcpdH_ptA
- Title
- Foldit Gamers FTW
- Runtime
- 4:34
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank tells us how some gamers are outperforming sophisticated computer programs to help solve the puzzle of protein folding and to assist scientists in finding better treatments for HIV/AIDS, cancer, and Alzheimer's.
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Play Foldit! http://fold.it/portal/
Read more about the Foldit project:
Foldit Gamers Solve AIDS Puzzle That Baffled Scientists for a Decade - http://techland.time.com/2011/09/19/foldit-gamers-solve-aids-puzzle-that-baffled-scientists-for-decade/
Foldit Gamers Solve Riddle of HIV Enzyme within 3 weeks - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/foldit-gamers-solve-riddle/
- Title
- Tatooine Discovered?
- Runtime
- 3:24
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank tells us about NASAs discovery of the 1st planet ever discovered to be orbiting a binary star.
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Read more about NASAs Kepler Mission: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-16b.html
Watch more SciShow!
What is the Higgs-Boson? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUnDsNL_5nk
Tardigrades - www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H0E77TdYnY
- Title
- So what IS the Higgs boson?
- Runtime
- 5:17
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank responds to viewer questions, and explains what the Higgs boson particle actually IS.
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- Title
- Tardigrades: Adorable Extremophiles
- Runtime
- 4:20
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank explains why NASA and the European Space Agency are in love with tardigrades and how these extremophiles are helping us study the panspermia hypothesis.
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- Title
- Solar Energy
- Runtime
- 11:15
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank explains the power of solar energy and describes how it may fit into our diversified energy future.
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- Title
- Electric Airplanes for the Future!
- Runtime
- 2:13
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank tells us the outcome of the 2011 Green Flight Challenge and tells us why electric airplanes are the future of air travel.
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- Title
- Quantum Fishing for the Higgs Boson
- Runtime
- 4:37
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank talks to some VIPs from CERN about the question on everyone's mind: does the Higgs Boson particle exist? And describes how CERN is going about finding the answer.
Hank interviewed Sergio Bertolucci on October 11, 2011 and Rolf Heuer on October 25, 2011. In the time since then, CERN researchers have gotten some tantalizing clues, but the Higgs boson has yet to be found.
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For more on the search for the Higgs-Boson, watch Hank's full interview with Joe Incandella, the deputy spokesperson for the CMS detector at CERN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWEOUgMq88o
- Title
- Non-Newtonian Fluids & A Bulletproof Hoodie
- Runtime
- 3:32
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank describes how non-Newtonian fluids can save lives - and dreams of a bulletproof hoodie.
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- Title
- SciShow Preview
- Runtime
- 1:52
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank gives you a sneak peek into SciShow - a new YouTube program that just might change the way you look at your planet, your universe, and even yourself.
New episodes coming early January 2012!
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