Be Smart
(01/28/2013–08/21/2025)15 min
Source: unknown
Episodes
S2013E01
What's The Most Successful Species on Earth?
S2013E02
The Odds of Finding Life and Love
S2013E03
The Science and Beauty of Auroras
S2013E04
Why is the Sky Any Color?
S2013E05
You Are Mainly Microbe!
S2013E06
Are You Sharing a Breath With Isaac Newton?
S2013E07
How Bees Can See the Invisible
S2013E08
Why Does Music Move Us?
S2013E09
Making Music from Space!
S2013E10
Why Does the Wind Blow?
S2013E11
Paying Attention in the Digital Age
S2013E12
The Science of Rainbows
S2013E13
How Big Is the Solar System?
S2013E14
Nature's Most Amazing Animal Superpowers
S2013E15
There Are Millions of Skeletons Hidden In Washington, DC
S2013E16
Why Do We Go to Space?
S2013E17
Evolution: The Book Of Life
S2013E18
Why Do Things Sound Scary?
S2013E19
Do the Nobel Prizes Still Make Sense in the 21st Century?
S2013E20
Remembering Carl Sagan
S2013E21
Ghosts of Evolution
S2013E22
Exoplanets: Are There Other Earths?
S2013E23
Is There Intelligent Life Beyond Earth?
S2013E24
How To Read Science News
S2013E25
Why Do We Cook?
S2014E01
The Science of Snowflakes
S2014E02
How Artist Claude Monet Was Kind Of Like a Honeybee
S2014E03
How Science Defines A Year
S2014E04
The Scale of the Universe
S2014E05
The Science of Kissing
S2014E06
When Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact
S2014E07
What Are The Most Important Science Images Ever?
S2014E08
How the Elements Got Their Names
S2014E09
Science of Marathon Running
S2014E10
There Was No First Human
S2014E11
"Sonic Hedgehog Gene" - Why You Have Thumbs And Not Fins
S2014E12
The Amazing Science of… DUST?
S2014E13
The Far Future of the Universe
S2014E14
The Incredible Biological Connection We All Share With Our Mom
S2014E15
The Science of Game of Thrones
S2014E16
The Science of BBQ!!!
S2014E17
Why does Time Go Forward?
S2014E18
The Beautiful Cycles of Carbon and Oxygen In Your Body
S2014E19
Why Did We Blow on Nintendo Games?
S2014E20
The Delicious Science of CHEESE!
S2014E21
Why Your Brain is in Your Head
S2014E22
You are an Upside-down Lobster
S2014E23
How Your Body Knows Left from Right
S2014E24
The Sun is a Magnet!
S2014E25
Sunburn, Sweat and the Science of Summer!
S2014E26
The Oldest Living Things In The World
S2014E27
What If There Were No Sharks?
S2014E28
Where Does the Smell of Rain Come From?
S2014E29
What's The Deadliest Animal In The World?
S2014E30
GOATS!
S2014E31
The Real "Doctor Frankenstein"
S2014E32
The SCIENCE of BEER!!!
S2014E33
The Physics of Space Battles
S2014E34
Visiting the Largest Bat Colony on Earth!
S2014E35
A Slice of Pizza Science!
S2014E36
Why Do Clouds Stay Up?
S2014E37
Why Does the Earth Have Layers?
S2014E38
How to See Time Travel!!!
S2014E39
Ebola Explained
S2014E40
Why I'm Scared of Spiders
S2014E41
Why Are Some People Left-handed?
S2014E42
Are We Living In the Sixth Extinction?
S2014E43
Where Do Birds Go In Winter?
S2014E44
Building Curiosity
S2014E45
Climate Science: What You Need To Know
S2014E46
Why People Don't Believe In Climate Science
S2014E47
Is Santa Real? (A Scientific Analysis)
S2015E01
Does My Dog Know What I'm Thinking?
S2015E02
How Many Smells Can You Smell?
S2015E03
There's No Such Thing As Cold
S2015E04
5 Weird Involuntary Behaviors Explained!
S2015E05
What is Déjà Vu?!
S2015E06
How Many Heartbeats Do We Get?
S2015E07
Why Vaccines Work
S2015E08
Why Does February Only Have 28 Days?
S2015E09
Attack of the Zombie Parasites!
S2015E10
What Color is the Universe?
S2015E11
How Many Stars Are There?
S2015E12
%$?# Allergies!
S2015E13
The Recipe For Life…
S2015E14
Antibiotic Resistance and the Rise of Superbugs
S2015E15
Is Ultron Inevitable?
S2015E16
Could We Clone Ourselves?
S2015E17
What's The Loudest Possible Sound?
S2015E18
Does The Moon Really Orbit The Earth?
S2015E19
The Essentials of Energy
S2015E20
When Will We Stop Using Oil?
S2015E21
The Surprising Places We Waste Energy
S2015E22
Did Dinosaurs Really Go Extinct?
S2015E23
WHICH CAME FIRST - FLOWERS OR BEES?
S2015E24
Why Are The Bees Dying?
S2015E25
How Thomas Jefferson Saved America With a Dead Moose
S2015E26
How Does A Canyon Become Grand?
S2015E27
Your Salad Is Trying To Kill You
S2015E28
Why Are Cicadas So Good At Math?
S2015E29
Why Do We Laugh?
S2015E30
What is Fire?
S2015E31
What Has New Horizons Taught Us About Pluto?
S2015E32
Amazing Facts About Whales!
S2015E33
How Humans Ruined and Rescued an Ocean Paradise
S2015E34
Cuttlefish - Tentacles In Disguise
S2015E35
My Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!
S2015E36
Are Jellyfish the Weirdest Animals In the Ocean?
S2015E37
8 Incredible Deep Sea Oddities!
S2015E38
Inside an ADORABLE Sea Otter Adoption Program!
S2015E39
Fact vs. Theory vs. Hypothesis vs. Law… EXPLAINED!
S2015E40
Why Do We Have To Sleep?
S2015E41
El Niño and Why It's So Hard To Predict the Weather
S2015E42
What Color Is The Moon?
S2015E43
How To Hit A Fastball (According to Science!!!)
S2015E44
Do Other Animals Mourn Their Dead? (ft. BrainCraft and Gross Science!)
S2015E45
Explaining Lunar Eclipses and the SUPER BLOOD MOON!
S2015E46
Riding In a Hot Air Balloon Shaped Like a Pig… For SCIENCE
S2015E47
How The Placebo Effect Tricks Your Brain
S2015E48
Can Coral Reefs Survive Climate Change #OursToLose
S2015E49
Could Planet Minecraft Actually Exist
S2015E50
What Is Evolution, Anyway - 12 Days of Evolution #1
S2015E51
Is Evolution Random - 12 Days of Evolution #2
S2015E52
Have We Ever Seen Evolution Happen - 12 Days of Evolution #3
S2015E53
Can Evolution Make an Eye - 12 Days of Evolution #4
S2015E54
Have We Ever Seen A New Species Arise - 12 Days of Evolution #5
S2015E55
Evolution Is Dumb - 12 Days of Evolution #6
S2015E56
Why Do Men Have Nipples - 12 Days of Evolution #7
S2015E57
Does Evolution Violate the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics - 12 Days of Evolution #8
S2015E58
Can Evolution Create Information - 12 Days of Evolution #9
S2015E59
Why Are There Still Monkeys? - 12 Days of Evolution #10
S2015E60
Are Humans Still Evolving - 12 Days of Evolution #11
S2015E61
Does Evolution Have a Point? 12 Days of Evolution #12
S2016E01
Could Bigfoot REALLY Exist?
S2016E02
Who Shares Your Birthday?
S2016E03
This Is Not a Rainbow
S2016E04
Why Seasons Make No Sense
S2016E05
100,000,000 Years From Now
S2016E06
Is Big Data Getting Too Big?
S2016E07
How Do Squirrels Find Their Nuts?
S2016E08
So You Want to go to Mars?
S2016E09
Einstein Is Always Right: Gravitational Waves Edition
S2016E10
The Equinox Isn't What You Think It Is
S2016E11
How Many Trees Are There?
S2016E12
How Do Bees Make Honey?
S2016E13
Is Inheritance Really All In Our Genes?
S2016E14
Are You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?
S2016E15
Why Are You Multicellular?
S2016E16
The Most Important Moment in the History of Life
S2016E17
The Cosmic Afterglow
S2016E18
6 Chemical Reactions That Changed History
S2016E19
Is Your Brain Too Old For Video Games?
S2016E20
How Fire Ants Took Over America
S2016E21
Spit: Everything You Never Wanted To Know
S2016E22
How Do Tesla Coils Work? Musical Tesla Coils in SLOW MOTION!
S2016E23
Where Did Zika Come From?
S2016E24
Why Don't Animals Wear Glasses?
S2016E25
Why Salt & Pepper Ended Up On Every Table
S2016E26
Attack of the Cosmic Space Junk!
S2016E27
The Small Problem With Shrinking Ourselves
S2016E28
Nature's Killer Cocktails: VENOM Science!
S2016E29
Your Microbiome: The Invisible Creatures That Keep You Alive!
S2016E30
Engines of Destruction: The Science of Hurricanes!
S2016E31
Do Plants Think?
S2016E32
What's REALLY Warming the Earth?
S2016E33
Why Do More Species Live Near the Equator?
S2016E34
Why Don't Ants Get Stuck In Traffic?
S2016E35
This Rainforest Caterpillar Looks Like Donald Trump
S2016E36
Is Sugar a Drug?
S2016E37
How Baby Turtles Find Their Way Home
S2016E38
We've Got Ants In Our Plants!
S2016E39
How to Avoid a Deadly Asteroid Impact
S2016E40
The Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods
S2016E41
Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Concussions?
S2016E42
Why Does Everyone Hate Pigeons?
S2016E43
23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to Science!)
S2017E01
How An Igloo Keeps You Warm
S2017E02
Is This A NEW SPECIES?!
S2017E03
How Many Species Are There?
S2017E04
The Superb Owl!
S2017E05
What If Animals Gave Relationship Advice?
S2017E06
How The Toilet Changed History
S2017E07
Who Invented the Meter?
S2017E08
How Do We Know Plate Tectonics Is Real?
S2017E09
What Is Luck?
S2017E10
How Did We Figure Out What Light Is?
S2017E11
How Much Plastic is in the Ocean?
S2017E12
How Dogs Became Our Best Friends
S2017E13
Where Did Humans Come From?
S2017E14
Why Are We The Only Humans Left?
S2017E15
Why Does Hair Grow The Way It Does?
S2017E16
Are We All Related?
S2017E17
CRISPR and the Future of Human Evolution
S2017E18
Can We Resurrect an Extinct Species? SHOULD WE?
S2017E19
ЩΉӨ BЦIᄂƬ ƬΉΣ PYЯΛMIDƧ
S2017E20
How Ingenious Animals Have Engineered Air Conditioning
S2017E21
Is Space a Thing?
S2017E22
How the Pyramids Were Built (Pyramid Science Part 2!)
S2017E23
Nature's Fireworks
S2017E24
Orchid Mantis: Looks That Kill
S2017E25
Beavers: The Smartest Thing in Fur Pants
S2017E26
How Do Glaciers Move?
S2017E27
Why Nature Loves Hexagons (featuring Infinite Series!)
S2017E28
Your Climate Conscience
S2017E29
When Is It Winter On Uranus?
S2017E30
How Poop Shapes the World
S2017E31
DNA Doesn't Look Like You Think!
S2017E32
Putting Hurricane Harvey In Perspective
S2017E33
Do You Really Have Two Brains?
S2017E34
Why Is The Universe So Empty?
S2017E35
Doomsday Machines
S2017E36
Why It Is What Time It Is (The History of Time)
S2017E37
The Cheerios Effect
S2017E38
Should You Eat Every Day?
S2017E39
Asteroid Mining: Our Ticket To Living Off Earth?
S2017E40
The Romantic Lure of Moonlight
S2017E41
Inside an ICE CAVE! - Nature's Most Beautiful Blue
S2017E42
20 MILLION Year Old Spider!! Unweaving the Science of Spider Silk
S2017E43
Why Do You Love Your Family?
S2018E01
How Atom Bombs Can Uncover Forged Art
S2018E02
Why Is Blue So Rare In Nature?
S2018E03
How to Figure Out the Day of the Week For Any Day Ever
S2018E04
The Most Extreme Life Forms On Earth… And Beyond?
S2018E05
Tuatara All The Way Down – Face To Face With A Living Fossil!
S2018E06
Defusing the Population Bomb
S2018E07
Why Are There As Many Males As Females?
S2018E08
Could You Be Immune To Everything?
S2018E09
Can You Bend Light Like This?
S2018E10
Where Did Life Come From?
S2018E11
97% of Climate Scientists Really Do Agree
S2018E12
What If You Never Forgot Anything?
S2018E13
Why Do We Itch?
S2018E14
The Deadpool Salamander
S2018E15
The Cosmic Origins of Earth's Water
S2018E16
Why Does This Wolf Have A Pouch?
S2018E17
What's The Hottest Hot and Coldest Cold?
S2018E18
Which Life Form REALLY Dominates Earth?
S2018E19
It's Okay to Fart
S2018E20
The Surprising Reason We Eat Spicy Food
S2018E21
The Only Animal That Weeps
S2018E22
3 Incredible Examples of Evolution Hidden In Your Body
S2018E23
Why Do Disney Princesses All Look Like Babies?
S2018E24
How Some Words Get Forgetted
S2018E25
How Habits are Formed
S2018E26
Will You Still Eat Raw Fish After Watching This Video?
S2018E27
Is Height All In Our Genes?
S2018E28
What Do Raindrops Really Look Like?
S2018E29
Where Do Teeth Come From?
S2018E30
The Largest River On Earth Is In The Sky
S2018E31
The Deadliest Flu Season in History?
S2018E32
What is Farthest Away?
S2018E33
The Dinosaur On Your Thanksgiving Table
S2018E34
Can We Get Older Without Aging?
S2018E35
The Raisin Bran Effect
S2018E36
Does Someone Else Have Your Face?
S2018E37
Do Fish Pee?
S2019E01
Is There Life on Earth?
S2019E02
The Impossible Hugeness of Deep Time
S2019E03
Are You Afraid of Holes?
S2019E04
Where Do You Weigh The Most?
S2019E05
Why Are So Many People Allergic To Food?
S2019E06
How to be Crushed by the Atmosphere!
S2019E07
Decoding the Great Monarch Butterfly Migration
S2019E08
Mexico's Monarch Butterfly Migration in VR180
S2019E09
Why We Get Dizzy (…and Astronauts Don't)
S2019E10
How To Drink Coffee In Space
S2019E11
Where Your Eye Color Comes From… SurprEYESing Science!
S2019E12
How To Make One Million Species Disappear
S2019E13
See INSIDE a Chrysalis! - Painting Wings with CRISPR
S2019E14
Could You Be a Chimera?
S2019E15
Seeing a Black Hole with a Planet-Sized Telescope - STELLAR
S2019E16
Apollo's Most Important Discovery (Inside NASA's Moon Rock Vault!)
S2019E17
Why We Are Losing the Night Sky
S2019E18
Is This Why We Haven't Found Alien Civilizations? - STELLAR
S2019E19
Do Trees Talk?
S2019E20
How Blind People See With Sound…
S2019E21
Why Don't Birds Lay Square Eggs?
S2019E22
7 Scientific Urban Legends Debunked!
S2019E23
Money Is A Technological Fiction (The Invention of $$$)
S2019E24
What's In a 20,000 Year-Old Cube of Ice?
S2019E25
This Face Changes the Human Story
S2019E26
What Would Trees Look Like On Other Planets?
S2019E27
IN YOUR FACE EXPLOSIVE CHEMISTRY!! (VR180)
S2019E28
What Color Is A Banana?
S2019E29
Evolution FAILS in the Human Body
S2019E30
I Ate Worms! Trying a Thanksgiving Feast Made from Bugs
S2019E31
Recycling Is Broken. Here's How We Can Fix It.
S2019E32
The Strange (Unexpected) Reason Ice is Slippery
S2019E33
Why We Should Put Rockets On the Moon
S2020E01
3 Ways Trees Can Save the Climate (With Our Help)
S2020E02
Can Supercrops Feed 10 BILLION People?
S2020E03
Humans Are Smart. Why Are Babies So Unsmart?
S2020E04
Sunlight Is Way Older Than You Think. Here's Why…
S2020E05
Fixing Daylight Saving Time Is THIS Easy
S2020E06
What This Chart Actually Means for COVID-19
S2020E07
Why Soap Is Still Our Best Weapon Against the Coronavirus
S2020E08
Why the Heck Are We Ticklish?
S2020E09
Fly Through a Nebula 163,000 Light Years Away (30 Years of the Hubble Space Telescope)
S2020E10
How Evolution Made COVID-19 Our Perfect Enemy (and Why We'll Beat It)
S2020E11
Counting the Species in my Backyard… for SCIENCE!
S2020E12
Why Do Other Animals Keep Giving Us Viruses?
S2020E13
How Did Giant Pterosaurs Fly?
S2020E14
What Is A Dinosaur And What Isn't?
S2020E15
How Well Do Masks Work? (Schlieren Imaging In Slow Motion!)
S2020E16
COVID-19 & Mask Myths DEBUNKED!
S2020E17
Why Is Our Skeleton On the Inside?
S2020E18
Why a Tuesday Can Feel Like July and Sometimes Never (How We Perceive Time)
S2020E19
The Fastest Animals Are Way Faster Than You Think
S2020E20
4 Ways to End the Universe
S2020E21
The Secret Behind a Gecko's Gravity-Defying Grip
S2020E22
Why Are There 7 Days In a Week?
S2020E23
The SHOCKING Truth About Ben Franklin and the Kite
S2020E24
Inside the Lab That Invented the COVID-19 Vaccine
S2020E25
Why the Heck Is Glass Transparent?
S2021E01
Why Do We Lie?
S2021E02
Visualizing Herd Immunity (with 500 Mousetraps!)
S2021E03
When Is Now?
S2021E04
The Golden Ratio: Is It Myth or Math?
S2021E05
What is Impossible in Evolution?
S2021E06
The Transcontinental Burrito Hypertunnel
S2021E07
How Ocean Currents Work (and How We Are Breaking Them)
S2021E08
Why Are We Warm-Blooded?
S2021E09
The Shocking Way Your Body Makes Electricity
S2021E10
A Brief (Scientific) History of Butts
S2021E11
Why Is Sex a Thing?
S2021E12
How Much Of You Is Alive?
S2021E13
This Simple Code Is Behind Nature's Most Complex Patterns
S2021E14
I Can't Believe We're Making Another COVID Video
S2021E15
Sand Dunes Shouldn't Exist (Here's Why They Do)
S2021E16
Inside the Largest Living Thing On Earth!
S2021E17
What Is Nothing?
S2021E18
Why Do We Dream?
S2022E01
Can We Actually Clean Up the Plastic Pollution Problem?
S2022E02
Here's What I Learned From Getting COVID
S2022E03
The Weird Brain Illusion That Makes Movies Work
S2022E04
How Do We Read? It's Magic (Almost)
S2022E05
What's Actually on the Other Side of a Mirror?
S2022E06
How Evolution Beat Cancer (…for Whales at Least)
S2022E07
Can Life Really Be Explained By Physics?
S2022E08
Can Illusions Teach Us How the Mind Works?
S2022E09
Are Humans Still Evolving?
S2022E10
This Machine Makes 300+ km/h Winds (INDOOR HURRICANE!)
S2022E11
Why You Can't Smell Yourself (and Other Ways Your Senses Lie to You)
S2022E12
Trying to Land a Plane (to Prove a Point)
S2022E13
Why No One Can Agree What's REALLY the Tallest Mountain
S2022E14
Why is Puberty so Weird?
S2022E15
The Crime Wave We Can Blame on… Neutron Stars?
S2022E16
The Biggest Myth About Climate Change
S2022E17
The Unbelievable Story of Earth's Most Epic Flood
S2022E18
Why 8 Eyes Are Better Than 2 (...If You're a Spider)
S2022E19
How We Solved the Greatest Riddle In Navigation
S2022E20
The Unexpected Measure that Makes the Modern World Tick
S2022E21
In Search of the Blackest Thing on Earth
S2022E22
Why Embarrassment Is Actually GOOD For You
S2023E01
The Evolutionary Purpose of Fun
S2023E02
The Dark Room Where Science Was Invented
S2023E03
The Beautiful Science of Iridescence
S2023E04
Can We Solve the Air Conditioning Paradox?
S2023E05
Why Does Every Animal Look Like This?
S2023E06
The Mystery Behind Earth's Most Epic Migration
S2023E07
How To Go Faster Than Light Speed
S2023E08
Why Y Is a Vowel (and so is W) According to Physics
S2023E09
How the CIA Secretly Spied On Climate Change
S2023E10
The Deadly Chemistry That Made Life Interesting
S2023E11
From Lab to Table: I Tasted the World's First Cultivated Meat!
S2023E12
How Scorpions Became Earth's Ultimate Survivors
S2023E13
The Truth About Butterfly Metamorphosis (It's VERY WEIRD)
S2023E14
Why ROYGBIV is Wrong
S2023E15
The Biggest Myth About Innovation
S2023E16
What Is the Most Average Thing?
S2023E17
Why Are We So Obsessed With X?
S2023E18
The Strange Psychology of Superfans
S2023E19
CRASH TEST Science! (Hacking Physics To Save Lives)
S2023E20
Can a Billion Oysters Save New York City?
S2023E21
How Scientists Made the Hottest Thing Ever
S2023E22
I Don't Know How to Feel About 2023
S2024E01
Maybe We've Already Made First Contact…
S2024E02
Why NASA Punched an Asteroid
S2024E03
This Is How We'll Clean Up Space Junk
S2024E04
Why Solar Eclipses Are Such a Big Deal
S2024E05
How the Heck Do you Measure an Entire UNIVERSE?
S2024E06
Can Humans Talk to Whales? This Might Let Us...
S2024E07
Computers Can Predict When You're Going to Die… Here's How
S2024E08
The Surprising Power of Sex in Evolution
S2024E09
The Real (Weird) Way We See Numbers
S2024E10
Why trees look like rivers and also blood vessels and also lightning…
S2024E11
Why Do We See Faces In Everything?
S2024E12
The Sun is NOT the Center of the Solar System
S2024E13
Why Do We HATE Certain Sounds?
S2024E14
Why Do We Vote? It's Not For the Reasons You Think…
S2024E15
Why Don't Humans Hibernate?
S2024E16
Camouflage Isn't What It Appears To Be
S2024E17
How To Turn Dead People Into Diamonds
S2024E18
Why Useless Knowledge Can Be So Useful
S2024E19
What Synesthesia Feels Like
S2025E01
The Weird Science That Lets Insects Fly in the Rain
S2025E02
Why Your Grandma Is an Evolutionary Mystery
S2025E03
What's inside the oldest rocks in the world?
S2025E04
Photosynthesis Has a Fatal Flaw (and We Can Fix It)
S2025E05
I Talked to the Scientists Who (Maybe) Brought Back the Dire Wolf
S2025E06
What could we see with a planet-sized telescope?
S2025E07
The Dinosaur Dilemma That Darwin Couldn't Solve
S2025E08
Why Are Blood Types a Thing?
S2025E09
The Randomness Crisis Threatening the Internet
S2025E10
Why Seedless Fruit Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen