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Why Miners Are Flocking Back to This Abandoned Mine
There's a town in northern Mexico called Ojuela that's got a rich history of valuable mining industry, but nowadays is largely deserted. But it's getting a new, second life thanks to a type of mineral forming process fittingly called...
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What Does The Vagus Nerve ACTUALLY Do?
The vagus nerve is kind of a wellness it-girl right now. But some of the claims that influencers make about it are a little... out there. So we decided to do some research and get to the bottom of what this nerve can and can't do, and...
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Could a Time Traveler Survive History’s Worst Diseases?
If you were a time traveler, would you survive the Black Death? Smallpox? Tuberculosis? What about the unknown diseases of the future? And is it safer to travel back or forward in time? We attempt to answer these questions. Hosted by:...
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How Killing Trees Could Save The Planet
When it comes to fighting the climate crisis, one thing that we know we need to do is carbon capture and long-term carbon storage. But researchers have been struggling to find ways to actually get this to work. Which is why they've had...
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Could Balloons and Elevators Replace Rockets for Space Travel?
From hypothetical magnetic levitation trains and space elevators that aren't even attached to the ground, to very real space cannons tested in the 1960s, humans have come up with a lot of ways to hurl stuff into outer space. Hosted by:...
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Earth Had A Ring & It Changed Life Forever
It may seem like Earth isn't as well-decorated as its ring-bearing neighbors in the solar system, but new research suggests that may not always have been the case. Not only did our planet maybe once have a ring, but our ancient bling may...
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There's a Third Kind of Cholesterol (It's Really Bad)
You might know about HDL or good cholesterol. And you might know about LDL or bad cholesterol. But do you know about LP(a) or Lipoprotein A? It's pretty common and pretty bad and we should talk about it. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him)
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The Heaviest Things Humans Have Ever Built
From the Great Pyramid at Giza, to one-quarter of the Netherlands, to continent-spanning electrical grids, humans are great at making really BIG things. Hosted by: @NotesByNiba (she/her)
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This Anti-Aging Supplement Might Actually Work
If you've wandered down a supplement aisle recently, you may have come across a bottle for sale that has "anti-aging" ingredients to help your body make a molecule called NAD+, better known as nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide. Your body...
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Why Do We (Still) Have Wisdom Teeth?
Why do we have wisdom teeth? They're just going to come in wrong and cause problems. Wisdom teeth are a souvenir from our early human ancestors, and we actually understand less about them than you might think. Hosted by: Reid Reimers...
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AI Doesn't Need To Be Self-Aware To Be Dangerous
Artificial Intelligence always takes over humanity in the movies when it gains consciousness. But even without getting into sentience, it's capable of influencing our lives in a lot of ways already. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him)
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The REAL Science of Groundhogs
Groundhogs are famous in North America for "predicting" when spring will come (and also that Bill Murray movie). But while they might make for terrible meteorologists, they actually play a valuable role in several other scientific...
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Dams Are Great. They Need To Go
Dams are great for humans, providing hydroelectricity and flood control. They're also horrible for the rivers they block. Here are three success stories of ecosystems that bounced back after a dam was removed. Hosted by: Savannah Geary...
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Why Planes Drop Millions of Flies on Panama Every Day
Every day, airplanes fly over the Panama-Colombia border and drop millions of flies from the sky. It's part of an intense effort to control a deadly pest called screwworms, and believe it or not, it works. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him)
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So You Want to Carve an Ad Into the Moon
In 2020, students from the University of Texas proposed sending a fleet of rovers to the Moon that, for a price, would carve words and symbols into the surface for *you*, random human. And that got us thinking, how big would such a...
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Poop Treats Parkinson’s (and Allergies, and MS, and Liver Disease, and...)
Fecal transplants are often associated with treating intestinal issues, but they have uses far beyond that. In this List Show, we explore five surprising conditions they improve. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him)
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Trees Are All Dead Inside (And That's a Problem)
Trees are dead inside. It's true: the xylem tissue that supports their trunks technically isn't alive. Archaeologists hate that because this problem, the old wood problem, can cause carbon dating to be off by hundreds of years. Hosted...
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How To Solve Game Theory's Unsolvable Problem
One of game theory's most famous quandaries is the Tragedy of the Commons. But, through her years of research, Nobel Prize winner, Elinor Ostrom, showed us that we're not doomed to tragedy after all. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him)
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What Made These Rainbow Mountains?
China's Zhangye Danxia National Geopark is home to strikingly beautiful rainbow mountains -- yes, what you're seeing is real! But the secret to this amazing sight might be something incredibly humble: dirt. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him)
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The Octopuses Are Making Fish Armies
Octopuses are smart. Like, gather a posse of fish to do their hunting for them smart. And when the fish step out of line, the day octopus punches them. Really. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him)
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How Shaking Unmixes Your Breakfast Cereal
Have you ever wondered why all the tasty parts of your box of cereal rise to the top? There's a lot of physics behind why mixtures can sometimes un-mix themselves, and if you use it to steal all the marshmallows, we won't tell. Hosted...
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The Oldest Living Thing was Trapped for 2 Billion Years
Two billion years ago, an igneous rock in northern South Africa formed. Not long after, some bacteria crawled into cracks in that rock, and got trapped inside when the cracks got plugged up by a bunch of clay. But that bacterial colony...
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This Canadian Lake Changes Its Spots Every Year
This lake in Canada sports a stunning summer look - spots! And the weird geology and hydrology that makes these spots is definitely worth talking about. Plus, Spotted Lake may not be the only one of its kind, and might tell us more about...
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The Wildest Ways We Remove Lice from Salmon
If you've ever had lice, you probably think of them as a temporary annoyance. But for the salmon industry, these pesky invertebrates cause real damage. So here are some of the wildest ways that science helps us fight these infestations,...