SciShowSeizoen 2025

SciShow comments on just about any topic from subatomic physics to the Big Bang, toxic chemicals to butt hair, viruses to human societies. Every topic is covered from a scientific perspective but in plain English with a touch of tongue in cheek humor.

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149 Episodes

  • Why Miners Are Flocking Back to This Abandoned Mine
    A1
    Why Miners Are Flocking Back to This Abandoned Mine
  • What Would Happen If We Just Kept Digging?
    A2
    What Would Happen If We Just Kept Digging?
  • Four Secret Frog Facts
    A3
    Four Secret Frog Facts
  • Does Underwear Affect Sperm Counts?
    A4
    Does Underwear Affect Sperm Counts?
  • The Hunt for the Blackest Black
    A5
    The Hunt for the Blackest Black
  • What Does The Vagus Nerve ACTUALLY Do?
    A6
    What Does The Vagus Nerve ACTUALLY Do?
  • Could a Time Traveler Survive History’s Worst Diseases?
    A7
    Could a Time Traveler Survive History’s Worst Diseases?
  • How Killing Trees Could Save The Planet
    A8
    How Killing Trees Could Save The Planet
  • Could Balloons and Elevators Replace Rockets for Space Travel?
    A9
    Could Balloons and Elevators Replace Rockets for Space Travel?
  • That Time A Tsunami Lasted 9 Days
    A10
    That Time A Tsunami Lasted 9 Days
  • Earth Had A Ring & It Changed Life Forever
    A11
    Earth Had A Ring & It Changed Life Forever
  • There's a Third Kind of Cholesterol (It's Really Bad)
    A12
    There's a Third Kind of Cholesterol (It's Really Bad)
  • The Heaviest Things Humans Have Ever Built
    A13
    The Heaviest Things Humans Have Ever Built
  • This Anti-Aging Supplement Might Actually Work
    A14
    This Anti-Aging Supplement Might Actually Work
  • Why Do We (Still) Have Wisdom Teeth?
    A15
    Why Do We (Still) Have Wisdom Teeth?
  • AI Doesn't Need To Be Self-Aware To Be Dangerous
    A16
    AI Doesn't Need To Be Self-Aware To Be Dangerous
  • The REAL Science of Groundhogs
    A17
    The REAL Science of Groundhogs
  • Did Vikings Use These Crystals To Navigate?
    A18
    Did Vikings Use These Crystals To Navigate?
  • Dams Are Great. They Need To Go
    A19
    Dams Are Great. They Need To Go
  • Why Planes Drop Millions of Flies on Panama Every Day
    A20
    Why Planes Drop Millions of Flies on Panama Every Day
  • So You Want to Carve an Ad Into the Moon
    A21
    So You Want to Carve an Ad Into the Moon
  • Poop Treats Parkinson’s (and Allergies, and MS, and Liver Disease, and...)
    A22
    Poop Treats Parkinson’s (and Allergies, and MS, and Liver Disease, and...)
  • Trees Are All Dead Inside (And That's a Problem)
    A23
    Trees Are All Dead Inside (And That's a Problem)
  • How To Solve Game Theory's Unsolvable Problem
    A24
    How To Solve Game Theory's Unsolvable Problem
  • What Made These Rainbow Mountains?
    A25
    What Made These Rainbow Mountains?
  • The Octopuses Are Making Fish Armies
    A26
    The Octopuses Are Making Fish Armies
  • How Shaking Unmixes Your Breakfast Cereal
    A27
    How Shaking Unmixes Your Breakfast Cereal
  • The Oldest Living Thing was Trapped for 2 Billion Years
    A28
    The Oldest Living Thing was Trapped for 2 Billion Years
  • This Canadian Lake Changes Its Spots Every Year
    A29
    This Canadian Lake Changes Its Spots Every Year
  • The Wildest Ways We Remove Lice from Salmon
    A30
    The Wildest Ways We Remove Lice from Salmon
  • Exercise Actually Makes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Worse
    A31
    Exercise Actually Makes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Worse
  • Bird Flu is Here
    A32
    Bird Flu is Here
  • The Flu May Cause Alzheimer's
    A33
    The Flu May Cause Alzheimer's
  • Does Red Wine Really Go with Steak?
    A34
    Does Red Wine Really Go with Steak?
  • JWST Made a Cosmological Crisis Worse
    A35
    JWST Made a Cosmological Crisis Worse
  • v
    A36
    v
  • Scientists Are Arguing About Why This Rock Shimmers
    A59
    Scientists Are Arguing About Why This Rock Shimmers
  • Some Women Are Ending Their Periods. Is That Safe?
    A60
    Some Women Are Ending Their Periods. Is That Safe?
  • Why Scientists Launch Fish With Cannons
    A61
    Why Scientists Launch Fish With Cannons
  • What You Don’t Know About King Tut’s Space Dagger
    A62
    What You Don’t Know About King Tut’s Space Dagger
  • What’s Below Absolute Zero?
    A69
    What’s Below Absolute Zero?
  • Why On Earth Did We Think Urine Was Sterile?
    A70
    Why On Earth Did We Think Urine Was Sterile?
  • This Is What Happens When Regular People Go To Space
    A71
    This Is What Happens When Regular People Go To Space
  • We Don’t Know Where Chocolate Comes From
    A72
    We Don’t Know Where Chocolate Comes From
  • Science Takes That Might Make You Angry | Compilation
    A73
    Science Takes That Might Make You Angry | Compilation
  • These Are The Worst Research Papers Of All Time
    A74
    These Are The Worst Research Papers Of All Time
  • We Used To Clean Our Clothes With Gasoline
    A75
    We Used To Clean Our Clothes With Gasoline
  • Stress Eating Explained (And Other Weird Fight Or Flight Responses)
    A79
    Stress Eating Explained (And Other Weird Fight Or Flight Responses)
  • The Lake Where Hundreds of People Died… Twice
    A80
    The Lake Where Hundreds of People Died… Twice
  • This Is The Best Predator Defense Of All Time
    A81
    This Is The Best Predator Defense Of All Time
  • Did We Just De-Extinct Dire Wolves?!
    A82
    Did We Just De-Extinct Dire Wolves?!
  • How Do Eggs Know When to Hatch?
    A83
    How Do Eggs Know When to Hatch?
  • The Secret To Saving The Oceans Is In… Clams?
    A84
    The Secret To Saving The Oceans Is In… Clams?
  • What’s Causing the Parkinson’s Belt?1
    A85
    What’s Causing the Parkinson’s Belt?1
  • 5 Giant Snakes and the Evolution of Super-sized Serpents
    A86
    5 Giant Snakes and the Evolution of Super-sized Serpents
  • The Man Who Stole The Moon
    A87
    The Man Who Stole The Moon
  • Reforestation Does Not Begin With Planting Trees
    A99
    Reforestation Does Not Begin With Planting Trees
  • This Gorgeous Gemstone Traps Nuclear Waste
    A123
    This Gorgeous Gemstone Traps Nuclear Waste
  • Seaweed, Pineapple, and Other Things You'll Soon Be Wearing
    A124
    Seaweed, Pineapple, and Other Things You'll Soon Be Wearing
  • How Many of William Shakespeare's Atoms Are in You?
    A125
    How Many of William Shakespeare's Atoms Are in You?
  • Which Animal Would Win In A Fight?
    A126
    Which Animal Would Win In A Fight?
  • The Inca Used This To Write Without Words
    A127
    The Inca Used This To Write Without Words
  • The MIT Physicist Who Broke Baseball
    A128
    The MIT Physicist Who Broke Baseball
  • 7 Of The Weirdest Fossil Hoaxes Ever
    A129
    7 Of The Weirdest Fossil Hoaxes Ever
  • How Space Awakens Sleeping Viruses
    A130
    How Space Awakens Sleeping Viruses
  • Is This Drug the Cure to Opioid Addiction
    A131
    Is This Drug the Cure to Opioid Addiction
  • Cold Turkey Doesn't Work But Vaccines Might Help You Quit Nicotine
    A132
    Cold Turkey Doesn't Work But Vaccines Might Help You Quit Nicotine
  • The Problem With Code-Switching
    A138
    The Problem With Code-Switching
  • The Organ That Drove a Scientist to Kill
    A139
    The Organ That Drove a Scientist to Kill
  • The Places Where People Live Past 100 (Are Fake)
    A143
    The Places Where People Live Past 100 (Are Fake)
  • The Potato Famine Could Happen Again
    A144
    The Potato Famine Could Happen Again
  • The Mysterious Disease That Wiped Out The Tudors
    A145
    The Mysterious Disease That Wiped Out The Tudors
  • One of the World’s Oldest Experiments is This Patch of Grass
    A146
    One of the World’s Oldest Experiments is This Patch of Grass
  • Ivermectin Actually IS a Miracle Drug
    A147
    Ivermectin Actually IS a Miracle Drug
  • What’s Under Antarctica’s Ice?
    A148
    What’s Under Antarctica’s Ice?
  • The Oldest Rock on Earth Is Older Than Earth Itself
    A149
    The Oldest Rock on Earth Is Older Than Earth Itself
  • The Bizarre Museum Heist to Steal ... Birds
    A150
    The Bizarre Museum Heist to Steal ... Birds
  • How Bad Are Processed Foods, Really?
    A151
    How Bad Are Processed Foods, Really?
  • How Old IS Language?
    A152
    How Old IS Language?
  • 5 Weird Ways People Tried to Live Forever
    A153
    5 Weird Ways People Tried to Live Forever
  • Can You Melt Wood?
    A154
    Can You Melt Wood?
  • Do Animals Exercise?
    A155
    Do Animals Exercise?
  • So You Need To Dispose Of Some Nuclear Waste…
    A156
    So You Need To Dispose Of Some Nuclear Waste…
  • How Crocodilians Just Keep on Surviving
    A157
    How Crocodilians Just Keep on Surviving
  • Mining the Moon with Microbes
    A158
    Mining the Moon with Microbes
  • Why More Young People Are Getting Colon Cancer
    A159
    Why More Young People Are Getting Colon Cancer
  • The Asteroids Big Enough to Wipe Out All Life
    A160
    The Asteroids Big Enough to Wipe Out All Life
  • The Sahara Used To Be Green.
    A161
    The Sahara Used To Be Green.
  • How to Make a Warning Last 10,000 Years
    A162
    How to Make a Warning Last 10,000 Years
  • Amethyst Used to be Really Valuable
    A163
    Amethyst Used to be Really Valuable
  • A Strange Thing Is Happening Beneath North America
    A164
    A Strange Thing Is Happening Beneath North America
  • These Five Caves Changed What We Know About Ourselves
    A165
    These Five Caves Changed What We Know About Ourselves
  • Physicists Don’t Understand Why Knitting Works
    A166
    Physicists Don’t Understand Why Knitting Works
  • How Does Lava Make Perfect Hexagons?
    A167
    How Does Lava Make Perfect Hexagons?
  • Scientists Have Found the Perfect Urinal Shape
    A168
    Scientists Have Found the Perfect Urinal Shape
  • Why Don't We Have More Fossils?
    A169
    Why Don't We Have More Fossils?
  • The Pandemic Made People Worse Drivers
    A170
    The Pandemic Made People Worse Drivers
  • 6 Ways Aliens Could Find Us
    A171
    6 Ways Aliens Could Find Us
  • Hank Green Asks A Physicist Anything
    A172
    Hank Green Asks A Physicist Anything
  • Scientists Don’t Know Where Gold Comes From
    A173
    Scientists Don’t Know Where Gold Comes From
  • There Are Too Many Ways to Make a Mummy
    A174
    There Are Too Many Ways to Make a Mummy
  • Perimenopause Is Real And It Changes Your Brain
    A175
    Perimenopause Is Real And It Changes Your Brain
  • The Russian Scientist Who's Bringing Back the Ice Age
    A176
    The Russian Scientist Who's Bringing Back the Ice Age
  • Why Did These Ancient People Abandon Copper?
    A184
    Why Did These Ancient People Abandon Copper?
  • How Dogs Can Help Us Prevent Cleft Palates
    A185
    How Dogs Can Help Us Prevent Cleft Palates
  • These Ancient Sticks are Teaching Us Physics
    A186
    These Ancient Sticks are Teaching Us Physics
  • Joseph Stalin Was Very Wrong About Agriculture
    A188
    Joseph Stalin Was Very Wrong About Agriculture
  • How Much Information Can A Human Head Hold?
    A189
    How Much Information Can A Human Head Hold?
  • This Is Where We’re Gonna Bury The ISS
    A190
    This Is Where We’re Gonna Bury The ISS
  • The Weird Connection Between Antidepressants and Cancer
    A191
    The Weird Connection Between Antidepressants and Cancer
  • There Are Two Kinds of Curious
    A192
    There Are Two Kinds of Curious
  • Nuclear Bombs Made Art Forgery Way Harder
    A193
    Nuclear Bombs Made Art Forgery Way Harder
  • Sir Isaac Newton and the Unfair Reputation of Alchemy
    A194
    Sir Isaac Newton and the Unfair Reputation of Alchemy
  • We Still Don’t Know Why We Walk on Two Legs
    A195
    We Still Don’t Know Why We Walk on Two Legs
  • You Stop Glowing When You Die
    A196
    You Stop Glowing When You Die
  • 5 Animals That Are Thriving in the Human Hellscape
    A197
    5 Animals That Are Thriving in the Human Hellscape
  • A Researcher Hid This Fossil For Decades. Here’s Why
    A198
    A Researcher Hid This Fossil For Decades. Here’s Why
  • The Terrifying Physics of Shaking Hands With an Alien
    A199
    The Terrifying Physics of Shaking Hands With an Alien
  • How to Make Fair DnD Dice from ANY Shape
    A200
    How to Make Fair DnD Dice from ANY Shape
  • The First Human Bladder Transplant Just Happened
    A201
    The First Human Bladder Transplant Just Happened
  • 5 Scary Science Headlines You Don't Need To Worry About
    A202
    5 Scary Science Headlines You Don't Need To Worry About
  • Bagged Salad Shouldn’t Exist
    A203
    Bagged Salad Shouldn’t Exist
  • We’ve Lost Control of AI
    A204
    We’ve Lost Control of AI
  • Was the Trojan War Fought Over a Rock?
    A205
    Was the Trojan War Fought Over a Rock?
  • Will Humanity Ever Reach 1 on the Kardashev Scale?
    A206
    Will Humanity Ever Reach 1 on the Kardashev Scale?
  • Ozempic Is Both Better And Worse Than You Think
    A207
    Ozempic Is Both Better And Worse Than You Think
  • How The Demon Core Killed a Man in 9 Days
    A208
    How The Demon Core Killed a Man in 9 Days
  • The 500-Year-Long Experiment
    A209
    The 500-Year-Long Experiment
  • 6 Places with Weird Human Mutations
    A210
    6 Places with Weird Human Mutations
  • The Best Birthstone (According to Science)
    A211
    The Best Birthstone (According to Science)
  • Babies Understand More Than You Think
    A212
    Babies Understand More Than You Think
  • We Forgot How to Cure Scurvy 7ish Times`
    A213
    We Forgot How to Cure Scurvy 7ish Times`
  • 5 Times Mosquitos Might Have Changed The Course Of History
    A214
    5 Times Mosquitos Might Have Changed The Course Of History
  • Mirror Bacteria Could Destroy All Life As We Know It
    A215
    Mirror Bacteria Could Destroy All Life As We Know It
  • Could You Kiss a T. rex?
    A216
    Could You Kiss a T. rex?
  • The Priest Who Stole China's Biggest Secret
    A217
    The Priest Who Stole China's Biggest Secret
  • The Quantum Quest for a Perfectly Random d20
    A218
    The Quantum Quest for a Perfectly Random d20
  • Mongols Attacked And The Earth Fought Back
    A219
    Mongols Attacked And The Earth Fought Back
  • How Radioactive Is Marie Curie’s Lab Today?
    A220
    How Radioactive Is Marie Curie’s Lab Today?
  • How Rare Are Extra Organs?
    A221
    How Rare Are Extra Organs?
  • The Weirdest Adoptions in the Animal Kingdom
    A222
    The Weirdest Adoptions in the Animal Kingdom
  • Many Crystals Take Millions of Years to Form, Not These
    A223
    Many Crystals Take Millions of Years to Form, Not These
  • This Island Might Help Us Understand The Origins of Life
    A224
    This Island Might Help Us Understand The Origins of Life
  • CRISPR Just Saved a Baby’s Life… Millions Could Follow
    A225
    CRISPR Just Saved a Baby’s Life… Millions Could Follow
  • The Single Bolt of Lightning that Killed 835 Sheep
    A226
    The Single Bolt of Lightning that Killed 835 Sheep
  • The Genius Spiders Changing How We Think About Brains
    A227
    The Genius Spiders Changing How We Think About Brains
  • We Didn’t Evolve Color Vision to See Color
    A228
    We Didn’t Evolve Color Vision to See Color
  • You’re Steeping Your Tea Too Long
    A229
    You’re Steeping Your Tea Too Long
  • DnD Really Is Therapy
    A230
    DnD Really Is Therapy

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