How Do White Walkers Shatter Swords?
Adults Science
For Game of Thrones fans winter is finally here, and with it comes the long foreshadowed White Walkers. These foes have proven to be a dangerous threat for many reasons, but one of the biggest is their seeming imperviousness to the average weapons of the Seven Kingdoms.
How to biohack your cells to fight cancer
Adults Science
Check out the science of biohacking, where biologists go into a patient’s genetic code and reprogram their immune system to recognize and fight cancer cells.
Why Is Lyme Disease Getting Worse?
Adults Science
Lyme disease is spreading like wildfire around the world.
The Most Dangerous Stuff in the Universe
Adults Science
Inside neutron stars we can find the weirdest and most dangerous substance in the universe: Strange matter. What is strange matter, how dangerous is it and what can it tell us about the origin of the universe?
Under the Dark Skies
Adults Science
National Geographic partnered with the International Dark-Sky Association to provide families with a true ‘dark sky’ observatory experience, free from the artificial light prevalent in city and suburban communities.
Amphibians Face Mass Extinction as Fungus Spreads Across the World
Adults Science
Results from a recent global survey of amphibians shows that chytrid fungus has threatened twice as many species than previously thought.
How to grow your own glacier
Adults Science
Explore the ancient methods of growing glaciers, the homemade bodies of ice used as water sources, and how they can be used to combat climate change.
Why are earthquakes so hard to predict?
Adults Science
Take a look at the theories behind why earthquakes occur, what makes them so hard to predict and the warning system technologies we rely on today.
What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once?
Adults Science
What happens if we make a huge pile from all 15,000 nuclear bombs and pull the trigger? And what happens if we make an even bigger pile?
What Happens When You Go To Sleep High?
Adults Science
Dude. Sleeping high does what?
Why Can't We Get Power From Waves?
Adults Science
Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things.
Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm
Adults Science
My first video of a 3 part series on "coordinated inauthentic behavior". Thanks to ExpressVPN for sponsoring this series.
The History of Video
Adults Science
I always wanted to know why film looked better than video. Moving electronic images have as long a history but were invented for a different purpose.
100 Gallons of Spider Silk | Because Science Footnotes
Adults Science
Kyle discusses exactly how much spider silk Peter Parker would need to stop that train, responds to your comments, and more!
Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields?
Adults Science
Research has found some human brains can pick up on rotations of geomagnetic-strength fields as evidenced by drops in alpha wave power following stimulus.
You Are A Fish
Adults Science
With our current understanding of evolutionary history and our strategy of cladistic naming, if we wanted to have both goldfish and sharks under a single group called "fish", then mammals must also be called fish.
Why Planes Sometimes Crash
Adults Science
Could you survive a plane crash?
How Do You Survive Being Trapped In Space? ft. William Osman
Adults Science
William Osman and Blocko are trapped on the international space station for this episode of Deblocked! How do you survive trapped in space?
Can You Survive An Elevator Fall By Jumping?
Adults Science
Your monthly dose of hypothetical physics scenarios is here, and today we’re dropping Stu, several times, from the top of skyscraper.
What Eating Rotten Food Really Does To Your Body
Adults Science
Food poisoning is awful, but what's actually happening inside your body when you eat rotten food?
The Origin of Consciousness
Adults Science
Consciousness is perhaps the biggest riddle in nature. In the first part of this three part video series, we explore the origins of consciousness and take a closer look on how unaware things became aware.