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We Almost Didn't See the North Pole Space Hurricane | SciShow News
Astrophysicists have discovered an exoplanet that lost its atmosphere, but then, somehow, grew it back! Also, astronomers used satellite data to find a magnetic hurricane above the north pole that we almost missed!
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The First Time We Saw All of Venus: The Magellan Mission
NASA’s Magellan mission gave us unprecedented insight into Venus’s rocky surface, and even now, more than 25 years after the mission ended, it’s still one of our main tools for learning about our mysterious, next-door neighbor.
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Limnic Eruptions: When Lakes Explode
SciShow takes you inside a limnic eruption, a natural disaster that's as deadly as it is rare.
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The First Volcano Power Plant!
Be blown away with this episode of SciShow News as Hank talks about using the power of one of earths most powerful energy sources: Volcanoes!
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The Weirdest Places Made by Carbon Dioxide | SciShow Compilation
Carbon dioxide is the biggest player in the climate crisis, reshaping our world in an urgent way, but that’s not the only way CO2 has changed the world. It’s also contributed to making some of the weirdest places on Earth.
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The Most Common Planet in the Universe?
There’s one kind of planet we’ve found more often than any other in the universe so far: mini-Neptunes. Now, some scientists think they’ve figured out why there are just so many of them.
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Don't Worry About That Asteroid That Might Hit This Year | SciShow News
That asteroid the headlines have been warning people about isn't likely to actually hit us, and scientists might have solved a mystery that could save lives: the relationship between tides and earthquakes.
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How Old Are You? Well, Your Liver Is 3
This week, a group of researchers use nuclear fallout to figure out how old liver cells are, while another gets one step closer to predicting volcanic eruptions.
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Geological Misfits: 4 Small Weird Places
There are some places on our planet that seem pretty ordinary, they’re just… weirdly small. Like, a miniature desert, or a teensy volcano. But when you look a little closer, there’s a lot more to these tiny geological misfits than meets...
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Is the Mystery of Earths 1.2 Billion Missing Years Solved SciShow News
For the last hundred and fifty years or so, geologists have been trying to wrap their heads around the mystery: in some places, the geologic record just seems to jump by over billion years. And last week, a paper was published that may...
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Weird Places: The Lava Lake in Antarctica
What could be cooler than a permanent lava lake surrounded by snow!?
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World's Most Asked Questions Ten of YOUR Most Asked Questions!
SciShow answers ten of the most asked questions by YOU, our viewers, in the past month -- from “What is new car smell?” to “What would happen if you drilled a hole through the planet?”
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The Siberian Traps: A 250 Million Year Old Crime Scene
The event that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago might be the most famous mass extinction ever, but it's not the only one in Earth’s history, nor is it the worst... not by a long shot.
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That Time North America Tried to Tear Itself Apart
Looking at a map, you would never know that North America once almost ripped itself in half. But 1.1 billion years ago, it tried to - and had it succeeded, there would now be an ocean where Lake Superior is!
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Why Don't We Throw Trash in Volcanoes?
We have a garbage problem. Wouldn't it make sense to throw that trash into the nearest volcano?
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Jupiter's Moons May Keep Each Other Warm
As small as Jupiter's moons are in comparison to the giant planet, they may actually have an important role to play in keeping each other warm, heating the moons enough to have liquid oceans!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What makes volcanoes erupt? | Steven Anderson
In February of 1942, Mexican farmer Dionisio Pulido thought he heard thunder coming from his cornfield. However, the sound wasn't coming from the sky. The source was a large, smoking crack emitting gas and ejecting rocks, and would come...
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TED-ED: The colossal consequences of supervolcanoes - Alex Gendler
In 1816, Europe and North America were plagued by heavy rains, odd-colored snow, famines, strange fogs and very cold weather well into June. Though many people believed it to be the apocalypse, this "year without a summer" was actually...
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The Biggest Volcanic Eruption in Human History
Around 74,000 years ago, a volcano called Toba in Sumatra exploded, and some scientists think it had a serious impact on the human population and some...don't.
Crash Course
What Are Volcanoes? Crash Course Geography
Today we’re going to take a closer look at these beautiful but dangerous landforms as we explore the different types of volcanoes and trace the patterns of volcanic activity around the world. From the explosive power of a stratovolcano...
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The Plate Tectonics Revolution: Crash Course Geography
Today we're going to tell the story of a quiet revolution in the 1960s that shifted our entire understanding of how the Earth works. We currently believe that the Earth's broken outer shell rises from the mantle and folds back in - kind...
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You Don’t Need to Worry About Yellowstone (or Any Other Supervolcano)
You’ve probably heard that the supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park is a ticking time bomb ready to go off at any time. But as it turns out, volcanologists aren't too worried about it.
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TED-Ed: Iceland's superpowered underground volcanoes | Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl
While the weather in Iceland is often cold, wet, and windy, a nearly endless supply of heat bubbles away below the surface. In fact, almost every building in the country is heated by geothermal energy in a process with virtually no...
Crash Course Kids
Landforms, Hey!
If you look out your window, you'll probably notice a bunch of things; houses, streets... hopefully a tree. But beyond that you'll see things like mountains, rivers, volcanoes... well, hopefully not a volcano. These are landforms and...