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This week in SciShow News, Hank tells us about some weird science, including a squid that's not a squid, animals that can talk, and new insights into how you can mess up your body much faster and for much longer than you ever thought...

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Dean Ornish shares new research that shows how adopting healthy lifestyle habits can affect a person at a genetic level. For instance, he says, when you live healthier, eat better, exercise, and love more, your brain cells actually...

Welcome back to SciShow News. We are working on creating organisms with a minimal genome to sustain life as well as researching what and how much we inhale with e-cigs.

Cigarettes aren't good for us. That's hardly news -- we've known about the dangers of smoking for decades. But how exactly do cigarettes harm us, and can our bodies recover if we stop? Krishna Sudhir details what happens when we smoke --...

We’re learning more about the differences in health between early risers and night owls, and new research could offer even more evidence that vaping is just different from smoking, not necessarily better.

You might have one of them, e-cigarette. Some people switch to it from average tobacco to quit smoking. But is it really a better and safer option for you?

Hank describes how our brains respond biochemically to various addictive substances and behaviors and where those responses have come from, evolutionarily speaking.

E-cigarettes and vapes have exploded in popularity in the last decade, especially among youth and young adults -- from 2011 to 2015, e-cigarette use among high school students in the US increased by 900 percent. Biobehavioral scientist...

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