TED Talks
TED: How to take a picture of a black hole | Katie Bouman
At the heart of the Milky Way, there's a supermassive black hole that feeds off a spinning disk of hot gas, sucking up anything that ventures too close -- even light. We can't see it, but its event horizon casts a shadow, and an image of...
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Life in a Mars Colony
Could we one day live on Mars? Reid Reimers explains Mars One could help colonize the red planet.
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The Rise and Fall of Cahokia: North America’s First City
They often don’t get as much attention, but North America had major cities long before European colonizers arrived, but the residents left behind no written history. How have archaeologists pieced together the details of these population...
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Anal Teeth, Paralyzing Farts, and Other Weaponized Butts
All animals have adaptations that help them survive in the wild...some just focus more on back-end development than others. Whether for offense, defense, or both, here are five creatures with butt-kicking behinds!
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Billions of Earth-Like Planets!
Hank tells us about the Kepler Space Telescope and its new data!
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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.
Bozeman Science
What is the HHMI? Why is it amazing?
I visited the Howard Hughes Medical Institute last week.
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How Space Might Have Shaped Our DNA
The DNA inside our cells almost exclusively twists in one direction, but the reason for this might be out of this world!
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Synthetic Jellyfish
Hank tells us of a fascinating new experiment in synthetic biology - scientists have created a jellyfish out of silicone and rat heart cells.
Be Smart
Venomous Creatures: The Evolution and Impact of Animal Venoms
Venom comes in all different types, so here's everything you'll ever need to know.
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The Fermi Paradox and Our Search for Alien Life
At least some advanced civilizations might be producing tons of waste heat by now. And researchers are looking for them.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Why the Arctic is climate change's canary in the coal mine - William Chapman
The Arctic may seem like a frozen and desolate environment where nothing ever changes. But the climate of this unique and remote region can be both an early indicator of the climate of the rest of the Earth and a driver for weather...
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Meteor Explosion
Hank talks about the search for pieces of a special meteoroid that exploded over California & Nevada last month.
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MU69 is Flat, and No One Knows Why - SciShow News
MU69 seems to be much flatter than we thought and the Gaia space telescope can tell us where galaxies have been and, maybe, where they're going.
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The Oldest Planet Ever Discovered
We've only found one planet in a globular cluster, where gravitational interactions should usually rip baby planets apart, but that's not all that excites astronomers about PSR 1620-26 b.
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The First Results on the Interstellar Asteroid!
Our asteroid news edition this week clears up some misleading headlines regarding 3200 Phaethon, and our interstellar visitor has both a new name and a shape we haven’t seen before.
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New Jupiter Discoveries from the Juno Mission!
The Juno spacecraft has been making close flybys of Jupiter and its measurements have revealed some new things about Jupiter’s interior. And astronomers were surprised after putting together the most complete atmospheric profile that’s...
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A New Kind of Northern Light - SciShow News
A glowing, purple ribbon of light named STEVE is weirder than we thought and we now have evidence that there is water ice on the moon!
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How Hyraxes Preserve the Past in Poo
Scientists who piece together our past can do so through the rare fossil or artifact, or they can go to one convenient location: a hyrax latrine.
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Antihistamines for Everything?
When you think of antihistamines, you're probably only thinking about getting rid of a runny nose, but we're learning that antihistamines can be used for nausea, insomnia, and even depression!
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The First Time We Met a Comet, We Blew a Hole in It
In the first mission of its kind, Deep Impact’s goal was to teach us about the interior of comets...by blowing a hole in the side of one!
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Why NASA Uses Satellites and Airplanes to Study Frogs
Frogs falling victim in the past to one of the biggest destroyers of biodiversity didn’t have much hope, that is, until humans thought to get a bird’s eye view.
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Why Can't Monkeys Talk Like Us?
For decades scientists believed that monkeys could not speak human language due to an anatomical difference in vocal tracts. Today, we're not so sure that this is the limiting factor after all.
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Nature of Science
Explore the nature of science with The Amoeba Sisters. This video discusses why there is not just one universal scientific method as well as the importance of credible sources when researching. Vocab in experimental design including...