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Why Do Some Animals Eat Poop?
Animals eat their own poop in order to gain extra access to nutrients or to microbes that help digest those nutrients. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: Coprophagy:...
SciShow
Are Hand Dryers Sanitary?
Public bathrooms are teeming with microbes! You know to wash your hands, but when choosing between a hand dryer or a paper towel to dry them off, what's your cleanest bet?
SciShow
New York Citys Microbiome
You might guess that big city subways would be filled with all sorts of nasty pathogens just waiting to infect the nearest unsuspecting human, but science doesn’t back this up at all.
SciShow
Why Getting Sick in Space Is the Worst
We've talked about some of the ways microgravity can negatively affect humans, but for bacteria, being in space might be quite beneficial!
SciShow
Weird Places Blood Falls
In our continuing series on Earth's weirdest places, Hank describes the crazy place in Antarctica known as Blood Falls in all its scientifically strange majesty.
SciShow
Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
SciShow takes you inside the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster to show you how, nearly 30 years later, life has adapted and persisted.
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Weird Places: The Jacuzzi of Despair
There's a lake so deadly that anything that goes for a swim gets pickled. Yet there's a thriving ecosystem literally living on the edge, which might give astrobiologists a hint at how life could thrive on other worlds.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Why isn't the world covered in poop? - Eleanor Slade and Paul Manning
Each day, the animal kingdom produces roughly enough poop to match the volume of water pouring over Victoria Falls. So why isn't the planet covered in the stuff? You can thank the humble dung beetle for eating up the excess. Eleanor...
SciShow
Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
SciShow takes you inside the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster to show you how, nearly 30 years later, life has adapted and persisted.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Are spotty fruits and vegetables safe to eat? - Elizabeth Brauer
In 2010, 30 billion dollars worth of fruits and vegetables were wasted by American retailers and shoppers, in part because of cosmetic problems and perceived spoilage. But what are these spots, anyway, and are they okay to eat? Elizabeth...
Crash Course
How Do Outbreaks Start? Pathogens and Immunology - Crash Course Outbreak Science
You may not realize it, but your body is like a fortress, designed to defend you from tiny foreign invaders known as pathogens. This seemingly small world is actually super diverse, and sometimes super dangerous too. That’s why in this...
SciShow
How Often Do You Really Need to Shower?
Do you really need a daily shower to stay clean, or is it doing more harm than good? Some scientists have recommendations based on what we know about our skin , and what might be living on top of it.
TED Talks
TED: How to grow a forest in your backyard | Shubhendu Sharma
Forests don't have to be far-flung nature reserves, isolated from human life. Instead, we can grow them right where we are -- even in cities. eco-entrepreneur and TED Fellow Shubhendu Sharma grows ultra-dense, biodiverse mini-forests of...
SciShow
Is There DNA in Dirt?
You know about fossils, but what other secrets are lurking in the ground beneath our feet?
Curated Video
Mars: Dead Planet
Scientists hoped the first mission to Mars would reveal life on the red planet. What did the mission find? Physics - Universe - Learning Points. Percival Lowell believed there were canals and cities on Mars. In 1965, NASA probe Mariner 4...
Curated Video
Mars: Under the Ice
Scientists have found microbes frozen deep in the Antarctic ice sheets, in conditions very similar to the red planet's surface. Could life exist on Mars, in suspended animation? Physics - Universe - Learning Points. In 2001, a frozen...
Curated Video
Biosphere
All the parts of the earth and its atmosphere in which living organisms can exist. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions. Twig Science Glossary...
Curated Video
Winter Woes: Unmasking the Spread of Seasonal Illnesses
Discover the intriguing science behind how common winter illnesses like the flu and colds spread, as demonstrated through lively experiments at the Pasteur Institute and the Pierre-Gilles de Genne Science Forum in Paris. Learn about the...
Curated Video
Braving the Freeze: Protecting Your Body Against Extreme Cold
Explore effective ways to shield your body from severe cold conditions, as demonstrated during a harsh winter in Chicago with record low temperatures. Learn why our lips crack and fingers numb, and discover preventative measures from...
Curated Video
When Antibiotics Fail, What's Next?
Antibiotic overuse and misuse is driving resistance in bacteria. Without new therapeutic tools, we could by 2050 see 10 million deaths annually from “superbug” infections. Co-hosts Alok and Sheena explore how phage therapy and other...
Curated Video
GCSE Chemistry - Waste Water #57
In today's video we'll cover: - What waste water is - The different sources of waste water - How we can treat waste water
Curated Video
Why fish spoils so fast
Why does fish go bad so quickly - and what can you do about it?
Curated Video
Fermentation
Fermentation analyzes the process of fermentation by describing how cells and organisms acquire and release energy.