Video of the Day
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How to feed the world
Is this the future of food? Efficient farming in the Netherlands is producing 20 times more produce with one quarter of the water — and one of the most sustainable agriculture systems in the...
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Typhoon terror
Typhoon Hagibis is one of the strongest storms to hit Japan in decades and brought torrential rain and ferocious winds, causing widespread flooding and damage. Witness the awesome destructive...
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Why is Turkey bombing the Kurds?
Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in northern Syria, as Turkish forces step up their cross-border offensive on Kurdish-held areas. International clamour has increased for Turkey...
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The great betrayal
The Kurds are an ancient and noble people who, for years, have been the primary “boots on the ground” against ISIS in the Middle East. They are 35-million strong worldwide, the largest people...
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The genius of Ada Lovelace
To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day this week, we found this lively, video tribute to a trailblazer of British women in tech. Born the daughter of Lady and Lord Byron in 1815, she was a maths prodigy...
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The murderous legacy of Captain Cook
Captain Cook arrived in New Zealand exactly 250 years ago, leading the first European fleet to reach its shores. New Zealand is marking the anniversary in a big way, but Maori activist Tina...
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Would you want baboons for parents?
They live in close communities, care for each other, make sounds like speech, and spend a lot of time playing. In this wonderful short film, BBC Earth watches the way animal society works for...
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Paralysed man becomes walking miracle
A man has been able to move all four of his paralysed limbs with a mind-controlled exoskeleton suit, French researchers report. Thibault, 30, said taking his first steps in the suit felt like...
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Brexit made simple
Today’s news is dominated by one thing: Boris Johnson’s Brexit plan. We have deliberately not written one of our main stories about it because it is very complex (a bit like medieval theology)...
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The loneliest place on earth
Sometimes, the world feels boring. All the remote islands are visited, the arctic conquered, the dense jungles discovered. Except there is still a place to explore: a wet, deadly desert where...
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The unstoppable blob
A shooting star crashes onto Earth and a hideous blob emerges. It creeps and leaps, it glides and slides. It’s also unstoppable: no matter what you throw at it, it just re-grows and continues...
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Learning how to goose-step
Eye-witness memories of the dramatic day that China declared itself a Communist state, 70 years ago today. Young soldiers had to learn how to march in perfect unison as massive crowds gathered...
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Beyonce’s black history tribute
In February this year, for US Black History Month, Beyonce released a collage of 45 outstanding black men and women. She said she was inspired to create it by her memories of doing projects in...
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Do phones make us stupid?
Last year, a study found that the average human attention span fell from 12 seconds, in 2000, to just eight seconds. Could our smartphones be to blame? This intelligent video...
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Why is the media so confusing?
The BBC, The Times, The Guardian — like other mainstream titles, they are supposed to help us see the big picture and hear the important messages amidst the background noise. So, why do they...