Tag: science
Who Killed the Colorado River?
This episode explores the mystery of the vanishing Colorado River Delta. Once a lifeline for the American Southwest, it's now a shadow of its former self. What happened? Outdated water laws? Excessive urban development and agriculture? Is there a possibil...
The Graveyard at the Center of the Earth
Scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of why plate tectonics works the way it does for over a hundred years. And they might have just uncovered a key to cracking it.
How Science Solved The Mysteries of The Dead Sea Scrolls (and 3 Other Ancient Texts)
Sometimes, an ancient document is lost to history. Sometimes, you find it covered in mold and written over by an ancient scribe. Fortunately, thanks to science, lost doesn't quite mean what it used to.
North Atlantic: The Dark Ocean
In wintertime, the waters of the North Atlantic are particularly treacherous. Monstrous storms can flare up at any moment. But as underwater cameraman Ken O'Sullivan discovers, these storms are a huge source of fertility in the ocean. He also meets a grou...
You Might Be Surprised by What You’d Find in Your Pores
Meet the microscopic arachnids that live on your face, and find out why Demodex mites are part of the human microbiome.
Antarctic Ice Shelf Reveals Never-Before-Seen Seafloor Ecosystem
In January, a giant piece of ice broke off from an Antarctic ice shelf, revealing a seafloor ecosystem that has never been accessible to humans.
Fusion Energy: Unlocking the Power of the Stars
Scientists are conducting experiments to generate clean energy through fusion, the same sub-atomic reaction that powers our Sun, with the aim of constructing plants that produce more energy than they consume.
Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon
This gun, in particular, requires that you hit the target with a dart trailing a wire. Most of what we are seeing is the wire vaporizing.
The Mysterious Disappearance of 10 Billion Alaskan Crabs
In 2021, researchers reported a shocking disappearance in the Bering Sea. Not of people, but of Alaskan snow crabs. And it's taken scientists years to understand how tens of billions of crabs disappeared all at once, so let's take you through the mystery...
David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive (2014)
This documentary narrated by David Attenborough was filmed at the Natural History Museum, London, and uses state of the art CGI imagery to bring to life several extinct animals in the museum, including Archaeoptery, the Moa Ratite bird (Dinornis) and Haas...
Oh DAM!
A dam failure or dam burst is a catastrophic type of structural failure characterized by the sudden, rapid, and uncontrolled release of impounded water. Some some of the worst Dam tragedies along with some of the science behind how a Dam works.
De-Extinction: Can the Woolly Mammoth and Dodo Bird Restore our Ecosystem?
Colossal Chief Science Officer Beth Shapiro, Ph.D., spoke at Fortune Brainstorm Tech about how de-extinction technology is revolutionizing biodiversity.
Mount St. Helens: How the Worst Volcanic Eruption in US History Unfolded
A look back at the catastrophic May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington—the most devastating volcanic eruption in U.S. history—and the events leading up to it.
Ancient Civilizations of the World: Drain the Oceans (MEGA EPISODE)
By scanning the locations at the bottom of the ocean where sunken ships, treasures and even cities lie, the show tries to answer what they look like, how they got there and if they hide any secrets. This video is a MEGA 4.5 hours!
The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths
The Wrangel Island mammoths would end up being the final survivors of a once-widespread genus. In their final years, after having thrived in many parts of the world for millions of years, the very last mammoths that ever lived experienced what’s known as...