Trees are among the most extreme and successful forms of life on Earth. They build their bodies from thin air, move water ...

(via Kurzgesagt) Life has existed on one planet for about 4 billion years, for all we know. But it might have started right after the Big Bang, when the universe was much stranger and more fantastic ...

As it turns out, the cute, stylish visuals are the most comforting part of their latest video, which tackles the looming, unsolved, and somewhat disturbing mystery of the Fermi paradox—or, why ...

The YouTube channel Kurzgesagt has released a new video that aims to answer the question: How many people has nuclear energy killed? And not only is the number likely not what you’d expect (it ...

Oli Welsh is senior editor, U.K., providing news, analysis, and criticism of film, TV, and games. He has been covering the business & culture of video games for two decades. Here’s a union of two of ...

Science communication isn’t always easy, especially if you are trying to get across the mind-boggling complexity of immunology or climate change in a 10 minute video. But Philipp Dettmer, the founder ...

Can jellyfish power Tokyo? What would happen if it rained bananas for a day? We're taking two of your most absurd (and brilliant) questions and answer them with real science. Fentanyl is the deadliest ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Out of Scale: A Kurzgesagt Adventure In this VR app, you explore the worlds within worlds around you from inside your mobile scale lab as you travel to five ...