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The World's First Malaria Vaccine Gets a Shot in Africa | SciShow News

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Last week, the World Health Organization announced that a malaria vaccine has finally made it through all the regulatory hurdles and is being distributed in the country of Malawi. Learn how it works and why it’s taken so long to develop...
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The Truth About Asparagus and Your Pee

12th - Higher Ed
An astonishing amount of research has gone into the question of whether asparagus really makes your urine smell funny. Sci Show explains it all inside!
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The Tiny Fish That's Changing Modern Medicine

12th - Higher Ed
The little fish Danio rerio holds secrets to understanding how vertebrates develop, how diseases like cancer work, and how we might one day learn how to regenerate human heart tissue.
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The Strange Mystery of the Barreleye Fish

12th - Higher Ed
Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, there's a fish that's . . . a little different. Join us for a new episode of SciShow where Hank will tell you all about the Pacific Barreleye Fish and what makes it so mysterious....
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The Strange Life of a Giant Cell | The Xenophyophore

12th - Higher Ed
What on earth is a xenophyophore? It's a single-celled organism that unlike what you might think is NOT microscopically small. In fact, these ocean dwellers are a little heftier than that! Learn all about them in this new episode of...
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The Secrets of Life’s Toughest Material

12th - Higher Ed
One of the toughest materials known to science is made not by humans, but by nature... and it's inside of oysters.
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The Real Reason Peppers are Spicy

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow’s hot take: Peppers don’t produce that spicy goodness for the reason you think!
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The People Who Lived in Denisova Cave | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Once upon a time, we coexisted with other human species. And there’s one place on Earth that may have taught us more about that than any other single site.
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The Oldest Known Animal May Be a Weird, Fleshy Oval | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Dickinsonia might be the oldest known member of the animal kingdom, and the origin of birdsongs from the syrinx might be a little less mysterious.
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The Hardcore Crickets That Only Live on Bare Lava

12th - Higher Ed
Some animals live in pretty extreme places, but the lava cricket might be the most hardcore of them all. These crickets have only been observed right after volcanic eruptions, and scientists have questions, like “How does a flightless...
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The Fly That Lays Eggs in Toad Nostrils

12th - Higher Ed
We were probably all told to quit picking our noses at one point, and by most standards, this is good advice. But if you were a toad, it might come in handy to scratch away blowfly eggs.
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The First Extinction of 2019 Has Already Happened | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
On New Year's day, we said goodbye to George the Snail, marking the first extinction of 2019, and the way things are looking, it won't be the last.
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The Catastrophic Flood That Triggered an Ice Age | ft. PBS Eons

12th - Higher Ed
Did you know that a massive ancient flood triggered a thousand year ice age? 13,000 years ago, North America seemed to be thawing from a 2.6 million-year ice age. Then, a huge swath of Earth was suddenly plunged back into the cold for...
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The Biggest Volcano and Small Testes

12th - Higher Ed
Hank reviews the latest in science news, including the discovery of Element 115, the biggest volcano on Earth, and new insights into what it might mean to have small testicles.
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Scientists Just Transferred Memories... Between Sea Slugs

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists were able to transfer a specific memory from one sea slug to another! And research suggests that focusing on your breathing could help you focus on other things as well!
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Science on Trial in Italy

12th - Higher Ed
Hank has some thoughts on the news that several Italian scientists who were convicted of 29 counts manslaughter for making an "inadequate risk-assessment" before an earthquake.
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New Insights Into What Fruit Fly Sex Is Like

12th - Higher Ed
It's the year 2018, and we now know that flies like to ejaculate. But how does this tie into our understanding of addiction?
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Microbes Might Survive on Mars | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We’re all excited about the Mars rover Perseverance this week, but scientists are also working on some other exciting things!
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Liquid Water on Mars

12th - Higher Ed
Today, NASA announced that there is...occasionally...flowing, liquid water on the surface of Mars. What?!
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Lion's Mane Mushrooms Actually DO SOMETHING!

12th - Higher Ed
Turns out doing the crossword is only one way you can keep your head healthy because mushrooms can help your brain cells grow!
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Is the Mystery of Earth's 1.2 Billion Missing Years Solved? | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
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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Huge Sperm and Giant Tentacles: Relax, It's Marine Biology

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow shares the latest developments in science, this week including new insights into the evolution of giant sperm, and the discovery of a whole new order of animal. ----------
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How Old Are You? Well, Your Liver Is 3

12th - Higher Ed
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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How Hyraxes Preserve the Past in Poo

12th - Higher Ed
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.