Can ice on Europa and Enceladus help us find extraterrestrial life?
In the late 1990s, photographs from the Galileo spacecraft showed an ice-covered surface on Europa, one of the Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter. In early 2018, studies of the data reported that "giant jets of water are...
Florida’s mangrove swamp ecosystem illustrated
Go on an illustrated adventure through a Florida mangrove swamp. New York Times best-selling author Rachel Ignotofsky has teamed up with animator Leo Thom and The Mangrove Action Project for this quick animated introd...
Sounds of Survival: The quest to record an exquisite spike-thumb frog mating call
Deep in the emerald cloud forests of Cusuco National Park of Honduras, scientists are on a quest to record the never-before-heard call of the endangered “exquisite spike-thumb frog” (Plectrohyla exquisita). This charm...
Nyango Star, Japan’s cat-apple mascot drummer
Nyango Star (にゃんごすたー) is a giant Japanese mascot cat-fruit hybrid whose ability to slay the drums has become an internet sensation. In the video above, Nyango Star plays Anpanman's March, the theme song to an a...
Kids Meet Opera Singer Angel Blue
Meet Angel Blue. She's an award-winning American operatic soprano, a singing voice that "has the highest vocal range of all voice types," who's performed all over the world. In this episode of Kids Meet, Angel Blue de...
The spectacular birth of baby slugs
How many different stories can one patch of land yield? The BBC's The Lake District: A Restless Year attempts to find out in their portrait of this charming area in northwest England... including its baby slugs. I...
Where Do Teeth Come From?
How long teeth can last? 30,000 years? 200,000 years? 300 million years? In this episode of It's Okay to Be Smart, Joe Hanson gets an up-close look at some ancient saber-toothed tiger (smilodon), mastodon, tyrannosaur...
What do sand dollars look like when they’re alive?
Pristine white sand dollars have long been the souvenir to commemorate a successful day at the beach. But most people who pick them up don’t realize that they’ve collected the skeleton of an animal, washed up at the e...
