You've Never Heard of the World's Most Common Mineral
AdultsEducationScienceWork...The most common substance in the world is literally IN the world. It's a mineral called bridgmanite, and it belongs to a class of minerals (called perovskites) that scientists are trying to use in the next generation of solar panels.
Igneous Rocks Used To Be Liquid!
KidsEnvironmentNatureScience...A new friend Savannah and Sam learn about different kinds of igneous rocks, which form after liquid magma or lava cools into solid rock.
Why the Hardest Rocks Can Be Easy to Break
AdultsEducationMathPhysics...So, rocks are hard. But the scale we use to rank them, the Mohs scale, is only really good at quantifying that for one kind of hardness, and topaz is a perfect stone to talk about to explain that. And you can check it out in our SciShow Rocks Box subscription!
Huge Volcano Erupts In Iceland
YouthEnvironmentNatureWorld...A huge volcano has erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula of south-west Iceland after weeks of intense earthquake activity.
Coastal Geohazards
YouthEnvironmentNatureWorld...Did you know that one geohazard can domino into another, creating a cascade of chaos?
The continents are moving. When will they collide?
AdultsEnvironmentLifeWorld...Dig into the science of plate tectonics to find out when the next supercontinent will emerge— and how it could affect Earth’s environment.