02:06 Glorious HD video of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches, replete with slow-motion sections and HDR footage of rockets taking off, shot from many different angles. It’s utterly compelling.

04:38 This animation explores how Vincent Van Gogh’s colorful brush work captured the chaos of natural mathematical concepts like turbulence.

07:23 We live in a world of unseeable beauty, so subtle and delicate that it is imperceptible to the human eye. To bring this invisible world to light, filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg bends the boundaries of time and space with high-speed cameras, time lapses, and microscopes. In this video he he shares mind-blowing images from his new 3D film “Mysteries of the Unseen World,” which slow down, speed up, and magnify the astonishing wonders of nature. You’ll never look at the world the same way again.  

05:34 The guys visit the GE Labs and play with a super-hydrophobic surface, recording the results of pouring water onto it. In super slow motion of course. The colored water literally bounces off the special surface. In another experiment, they use a magnet to attract a magnetic liquid with nano bits of iron in it and record how it gloriously jumps up into a spiky liquid ball.

01:39 A lovely companion animation to Carl Sagan’s lyrical and resonant ode to the planet Earth as seen from a great distance. Much like Sagan’s original musings, the 2D animation is understated, while contemplating our place in a vast universe.

06:26 In a fun way SmarterEveryDay explains the how and why, and includes some real stunt-cat dropping photographed with a high-speed camera. Archival footage of Cats in zero G trying to right themselves is very cool, and demonstrates the physics behind the phenomenon. As far as I can tell, no cats were harmed in the making of this video – though they seemed, at the very least, displeased.

01:48 This simple, short animation could well be the best explanation ever of the unanswered questions in quantum physics and quantum mechanics.

04:21 Welcome to science class — only it’s less boring and more SNL-inspired than usual, because Ze Frank is in charge giving us an owl reality check with all the facts you need to know about their sharp talons, vicious methods for killing, and infinite cuteness.

03:35 Tyson’s answer is as eloquent as it is mind-blowing and as beautiful as it is sublime. This video ties his insights together with breathtaking visuals to create a powerful representation of the science behind Tyson’s answer, which is perhaps best revealed in one particular quote: “We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.”

08:48 Gravity. The stars in day. Thoughts. The human genome. Time. Atoms. So much of what really matters in the world is impossible to see. This video will have you questioning what you actually know.

03:58 NASA collected images of the sun over three years and stitched them together into a visually stunning time lapse of the sun’s sizzling, bubbling, exploding glory. The video brings to life two images snapped of the sun per day, during a period when the sun moved toward its “solar maximum,” the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle.

01:38 Watch oscillations at work. Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly) random motion.

17:40 In this compelling talk backed by stunning illustrations, Professor David Christian offers an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life, and humanity, set against our slim share of the cosmic timeline.

02:11 Science made easy and adorable! This science lesson on the structure of the atom is taught with the visual aid of a crack team of golden retrievers. The video was made as part of an experiment for a science magazine to explore factors that make internet videos go viral: 1) Cute animals. 2) Cute animals doing cute things. This one has it all. We’d love learn more science lessons from this gang of retrievers!

02:08 This is more than just another cute animal video compilation. This is science. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology filmed 33 wet animals as they shook themselves dry. Watch their super slow motion footage and find out how the shakes work and how fast different species need to shake.

03:49 There’s something incredibly awe-inspiring about this time lapse video.It’s a must-watch. Sit back, relax and revel in the beauty that is our planet. You’ll see an amazing montage compiled by Knate Meyers from a huge store of images captured by the International Space Station of our planet Earth as it goes about its daily business of spinning serenely through the endless inky void of space.

01:08 This video gives an incredible overview of the entire eclipse from start to finish, showing the sun in ways you’ve never seen. Cory Poole, an amateur astrophotographer, watched the event from Redding, CA – which was directly in the path of the moon’s shadow – allowing him to capture the full extent of the “ring of fire” by stitching together 700 still images. During this annular eclipse, the moon was slightly too far from the Earth to completely block out the sun, leaving a bright red ring.

04:35 This stunning video of the Northern Lights and aurora-filled Arctic skies shows the glorious effects that the Sun’s increasing activity has had on our planet’s upper atmosphere. It was assembled from 150,000 digital photos taken over the course of eight months and was shot in Norway, Finland, and Sweden.

01:38 Watch amazing images of movement in slow motion shot at 1,000 fps, highlighting the effects of vibration normally invisible to the naked eye.

05:00 This stunning view of Earth from space is an incredible time lapse sequence of photographs taken on board the International Space Station as it orbited above places such as the US, the Sahara desert, and Australia. It’s accompanied by a beautiful minimal electronic soundtrack.

09:15 A Carl Sagan tribute that’s a wonder to see and hear. HD edits of Carl Sagan’s narration “A Pale Blue Dot” with video from Discovery’s “Into the Universe” and the BBC’s “Wonders of the Solar System,” set to “Jack’s Theme” from “Lost.”

01:02 One of the most incredible time lapse videos ever made. It’s taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica.

02:05 Shows asteroids, moons, planets, dark matter, and more. The footage was captured by NASA using the Cassini Imaging Science System.

01:50 Stunning imagery from the Terence Malick film, backed with an ethereal soundtrack depicting the creation of the Earth and the cosmos.

03:12 This inspiring video combines stunning NASA imagery of space, nature, and humanity with a powerful narration by Carl Sagan from his book “Pale Blue Dot.”

03:04 A Venus Flytrap looks appetizing to a fly so he walks in. Big mistake. He sets off a couple of hair triggers and wham, he is a prisoner. Ten days later the plant has finished its meal and it opens again to welcome another visitor.

03:39 In this cool animation NPR’s Robert Krulwich and a medical animator explain how a flu virus can trick a single cell into making a million more viruses, showing that when you get the flu viruses turn your cells into tiny factories which help spread the disease.

02:18 Very cool and stunning display of life from 25 ocean regions shot by National Geographic photographers.  Watch the antics and sounds of jellyfish, octopus, sharks, and crustaceans.

03:30 Look up at the sky and what do you see? Well, blue, yes. And maybe a plane or a bird, but otherwise nothing. Or so you think. It turns out that right above you, totally invisible, is an enormous herd of animal life – tiny bugs riding the wind currents. This is a fantastic animated report from NRP about billions of bugs in the sky.

10:09 Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships, and how we act in the world. Our often unconscious attitudes toward time can shape our personalities, work, health, well-being, and the life we lead. This powerful message is expressed through animated infographics synced to a talk by Stanford Professor Philip Zimbardo.

03:44 A beautiful film inspired by numbers, geometry, and nature – with reference to The Fibonacci Series and Spiral, The Golden and Angle Ratios, and The Delauney Triangulation and Voronoi Tessellations.

07:06 You’ve never seen water drops like this. It’s amazing. A water droplet falls as a sphere because of surface tension. That same tension can keep it from breaking and even allow it to bounce off a minuscule layer of air. This clip from “Time Warp” reveals things you never knew about the behavior of water, shot using a high-speed camera at about 1000-10000 fps and color to add to the wonder. The most fascinating examples start at 05:39.

06:19 He’s got an awesome, witty answer for everything.

04:12 This fascinating video packages scientific knowledge and philosophy into music, auto-tuning the voices. It draws from Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos,” “Universe series,” Richard Feynman interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye’s “Eyes of Nye,” with added visuals from “The Elegant Universe,” “Stephen Hawking’s Universe,” and “The Powers of 10.”

07:07 Celebrated physicist Richard Feynman explains what fire, magnets, rubber bands (and more) are like at the scale of the jiggling atoms they’re made of. This accessible, enchanting BBC conversation reveals a teeming nano-world that’s just plain fun to imagine.

06:31 Watch a fascinating tour of our universe. Start on Mt. Everest and get pulled through the Earth’s atmosphere to glimpse the inky black of space. Then zoom through the solar system and the Milky Way to mysterious quasars and supernovae, all the way back to the afterglow of the Big Bang. It’s not a dramatization, it’s a map backed with a very spacey sounding soundtrack.

01:37 Physicists illustrate how this impossible trick is possible. This will blow your mind.

25:03 The answer comes from a theory describing the birth of the universe which is being developed from new lines of investigation and technologies that let us peer into the most distant realms of the cosmos and the behavior of matter and energy on the smallest of scales.

05:23 Stephen Hawking’s theory of black holes and Richard Gott’s theory of cosmic strings show a possible way for us to time travel in this clip from Naked Science, a National Geographic show.

03:17 Drawings and animation from the Fast Draw team show how biomimicry works and what it is all about – and demonstrate why scientists refer to it as the perfect way to copy nature.

52:18 This episode from “The Nature of Things” illustrates the science of biomimicry and introduces leading figures in the field including Wes Jackson, Ray Anderson, Paul Hawken, and Janine Benyus. Biomimicry (from ‘bios’ meaning life, and ‘mimesis’ meaning to imitate) is a science that studies nature’s best ideas and imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. 

09:02 Clark introduces the visually stunning Mandelbrot Set and relates it to nature in a way that seems to identify the hand of God in the design of the universe itself. He includes a wealth of illustrations as well as insights from leading scientists including Mandelbrot and David Hawkins.

01:40 Fractals are representations of objects with an infinite amount of detail. When magnified they remain as complex as they were without magnification. This video provides a sublime view, intensified by the powerful soundtrack, Theme by Jon Brion.

03:38 Extraordinarily stunning underwater video footage of an annual event on the Great Barrier Reef set to ethereal music. Cued by the sun and the moon, you’ll see the incredible phenomenon that is mass coral spawning.

23:59 In this illuminating talk about biomimicry Janine Benyus illustrates fascinating examples of ways nature influences the products and systems we build.

19:07 In this vibrant talk string theorist Brian Greene explains how our understanding of the universe has evolved from Einstein’s notions of gravity and space-time to superstring theory, where minuscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe.

03:26 This brilliant animation tells the duel story of Earth’s origins (religion and science) via a dizzying and provocative journey through the history and language that mark human thought.