SciShow Tangents

As the SciShow Tangents Month of Fear continues, your hosts get down into the wormy, slimy muck to discuss Ceri’s bigges... Read more

SciShow Tangents’ exploration of the electromagnetic spectrum continues with good old, dependable light! What is it? Whe... Read more

Listening to Tangents is like making an investment with your brain. And the dividend? Knowledge. Invest today, won't you... Read more

Wise men have long pondered how magnets work. We all know the answer is “magic,” but Ceri and Hank have to keep up the i... Read more

You might think you know everything there is to know about deserts: big, sandy, hot, etc. But between the alien mummies ... Read more

Plants and animals get all the glory, but fungi are out there every day, breaking down leaf litter, making our bread nic... Read more

Extremophiles are tough little guys that not only survive but thrive in the harshest environments on Earth; unforgiving ... Read more

So,right off the bat, basically all you need to know about this episode is that Hank sings this week's Science Poem. Bey... Read more

Almost all of human culture and economics is structured around a handful of pretty metals that we have arbitrarily assig... Read more

Natural disasters are a fact of life when you live on a giant ball of water, ice, and rock with a gooey magma center tha... Read more

What do the Hubble Space Telescope, the International Space Station, and the Moon have in common? They’re all satellites... Read more

Have you ever wanted to lick the Moon and find out what that grey dust tastes like? If so, you’re in luck. This week, we... Read more

Eggs have tons of different sizes, textures, and protective shells, from giant ostrich eggs to squishy fish egg clusters... Read more

Are you one of those people who doesn’t feel awake until you have caffeine coursing through your bloodstream? Well, you ... Read more

Some small, magical corner of your heart wants dragons to be real, right? Well... sorry. They’re not. But this week, we ... Read more

If you think about it, we’re all time travelers moving forward at one second per second… right? This week, we try really... Read more

Meat... seems pretty simple on the surface, but what do we really know about it? Like.. are living things made of meat? ... Read more

Every day, billions of people perform vital, life sustaining chemistry right in their homes! Baking, frying, boiling, fe... Read more

From sugary snow cones to WWII plans for an aircraft carrier made of ice and wood pulp, humans have had big dreams for f... Read more

Pregnancy is, biologically speaking, extremely weird! A pregnant animal’s body goes through so many hormonal and physica... Read more