The Age of Giant Insects
Insects outnumber humans by a lot and we only like to think we’re in charge because we’re bigger than they are. But insects and other arthropods weren’t always so small. About 315 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period, they were not only abundant: they were enormous.
How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
Part of why we’re so fascinated with extinct dinosaurs it’s just hard for us to believe that animals that huge actually existed. And yet, they existed! From the Jurassic to the Cretaceous Periods, creatures as tall as a five-story building were shaking the Earth. Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios
How Sex Became a Thing
We don’t know which living thing was the very first to arrive at the totally revolutionary process that is sexual reproduction but we can follow the history of how (and why) sex became a thing. Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios
Time: The History & Future of Everything – Remastered
Time: The History & Future of Everything – Remastered
The Last Light Before Eternal Darkness – White Dwarfs & Black Dwarfs
Everything will end. Even the universe. But in a future so far away that it defies description, there will still be light and therefore a chance for life. It will be around White Dwarfs, the corpses of stars. But even they will fade one day..
What Was the Ancestor of Everything? (feat. PBS Space Time and It’s Okay To Be Smart)
The search for our origins go back to a single common ancestor — one that remains shrouded in mystery. It’s the ancestor of everything we know and today scientists call it the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA.
Where Did Life Come From? (feat. PBS Space Time and Eons!)
The origin of life is one of the most important mysteries in all of science. When did life begin? How did life first evolve from chemistry? Where did life get started? In some primordial soup or somewhere else? Let’s journey back to the origin of life, as best as we know it, from the RNA […]
The Physics of Life (ft. It’s Okay to be Smart & PBS Eons!) | Space Time
It’s OK to be Smart – Where Did Life Come From? https://youtu.be/_uAJY1mqtw4 Eons – What Was the Ancestor of Everything? https://youtu.be/pk213XSSktQ Our universe is prone to increasing disorder and chaos. So how did it generate the extreme complexity we see in life? Actually, the laws of physics themselves may demand it.
Atoms As Big As Mountains — Neutron Stars Explained
Neutron Stars are some of the strangest things in the Universe. Not quite massive enough to become black holes they are basically atoms as big as mountains with properties so extreme it’s mind-blowing. And if you get too close to a neutron star you are in big trouble…
The most successful pirate of all time – Dian Murray
At the height of their power, infamous Caribbean pirates like Blackbeard and Henry Morgan commanded as many as ten ships and several hundred men. But their stories pale next to the most successful pirate of all time, who commanded 1,800 vessels, made enemies of several empires, and still lived to old age. Dian Murray details […]
The Unruh Effect | Space Time
Worried about black holes? Consider this: Every time you accelerate – you generate an event horizon behind you. The more you accelerate away from it the closer it gets. Don’t worry, it can never catch up to you, but the Unruh radiation it generates sure can.
What Stephen Hawking Really Said About Black Holes
Hank explains the science behind recent reports that physics great Stephen Hawking said «there are no black holes.» There are. They’re just super complicated.
Hawking Radiation | Space Time
It’s the most famous prediction of perhaps the most famous genius of our time … Stephen Hawking’s theory of Hawking Radiation.
The Andromeda-Milky Way Collision | Space Time
The Andromeda galaxy is heading straight toward our own Milky Way. The two galaxies will inevitably collide. Will that be the very last night sky our solar system witnesses?