Science Friday Videos

Artist Jennifer Angus creates a celebration of cicadas and insects in her eye-catching collages and dioramas.

Blending chemistry, physics, and animation, artist Maria Constanza Ferreira grows tiny gardens of crystals to create dazzling images.

Climate change is threatening Maine's native blueberries. These researchers are looking to provide solutions—and help farmers in the process.

Learn how conservationists live on an isolated island to study Maine's puffin population, and how the birds are dealing with warming seas.

A computer programmer and artist discovers inspiration in biological growth processes.

Discover how Audrey Dussutour is breaking new ground in our understanding of animal cognition from an unexpected source: slime molds.

Discover how earth scientist Africa Flores-Anderson uses satellite data to help underserved communities.

Learn about how astrophysicist Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil has defied odds—breaking cultural conventions and discovering a completely new kind of galaxy.

Follow Bianca Jones Marlin as she uses cutting-edge neuroscience to uncover how the effects of trauma can be passed down from generation to generation.

Follow Jingmai O'Connor as she catalogues ancient avian dinosaurs and learn how her Chinese-American roots helped lead her to incredible paleontological discoveries.

Follow Kayla Iacovino as she collects volcanic rock samples from across the world in order to better understand the powerful forces that created them.

This computer engineer is developing new technologies that turn her brain and body into musical instruments.

Two Harvard engineers master the RoboBee to create a future fleet of flying, mini machines.

Comic artist Rosemary Mosco creates science cartoons that reveal the weird, wacky, and wonderful in the natural world.

Becoming a Pokémon Master requires more than just “catching them all.” You’ll need a new, dedicated brain region, too.

How do Venus flytraps survive if they end up eating their pollinators?

Spider webs are not just a nuisance in your home. This researcher is untangling the genetics of the silken scaffolding.

Squid eyes are a feast of fascinating physics.

In a highly-anticipated experiment, researchers are attempting to decode how the octopus controls its multi-armed mind.

From a worry shredder to an odd sock sorter, Little Inventors brings kids’ ideas to life.

What does a world look like without males or sexual reproduction?

As sea levels rise and drainage systems become defunct, dead forests are spreading across the coasts of North Carolina.

For nearly two decades, Don Hampton has been monitoring the Northern Lights in Alaska to understand the energy pouring down from auroras.