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Anal Jets and Frog Urine | SciShow Quiz Show
Stefan returns to challenge Hank on Quiz Show, and the rest of the SciShow Tangents crew decided to join in the fun!
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We Live in a Chimney
There are some captivating things when you look up at the night sky, but our location in the Milky Way may be fogging up our view.
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Found: The Missing Link of Black Holes | SciShow News
Astronomers have been trying to figure out black holes for hundreds of years, and newly published research may hold some big clues! Plus, rust isn’t supposed to happen in dry and airless places like the Moon. Could the elements that...
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3 Awesome Discoveries Made by Curiosity
Happy birthday, Curiosity! Michael Aranda and SciShow News celebrate the first anniversary of the Mars Science Laboratory landing on Mars with 3 awesome discoveries that the universe's coolest rover has made so far. Hints: they involve...
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We Know More About That Underground Lake on Mars | SciShow News
Scientists have taken a look at the underground lake found on Mars in 2018, and it might not be the only one! Plus, new clues might help us understand why the Sun’s atmosphere is so much hotter than the surface!
MinuteEarth
How Fighting Wildfires Makes Them Worse
Today's wildfires burn, on average, twice the amount of land they did in 1970. The reason? We've been working too hard to put them out. Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here's a keyword/phrase to get your googling...
TED Talks
Gian Giudice: Why our universe might exist on a knife-edge
The biggest surprise of discovering the Higgs boson? That there were no surprises. Gian Giudice talks us through a problem in theoretical physics: what if the Higgs field exists in an ultra-dense state that could mean the collapse of all...
TED Talks
TED: Why design should include everyone | Sinead Burke
Sinead Burke is acutely aware of details that are practically invisible to many of us. At 105 centimeters (or 3' 5") tall, the designed world -- from the height of a lock to the range of available shoe sizes -- often inhibits her ability...
TED Talks
TED: How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies | Natasha Hurley-Walker
Our universe is strange, wonderful and vast, says astronomer Natasha Hurley-Walker. A spaceship can't carry you into its depths (yet) -- but a radio telescope can. In this mesmerizing talk, Hurley-Walker shows how she probes the...
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Genesis, IBEX, and Cassini: SciShow Talk Show
Dan Reisenfeld from the University of Montana joins us this week to talk about his work with three different NASA missions (Genesis, IBEX, and Cassini), and Jessi from Animal Wonders brings along Ginger and Maui the Green Cheek Conures!
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The United Nations' First Space Mission
With a recent announcement from the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, the doors to space research have been opened for many new countries.
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Could We Really Visit Other Stars?
We might be getting a little closer to making interstellar travel a reality just not for humans.
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A Runaway Supermassive Black Hole
Black holes are a wondrous force of the universe! Hank explains how we found a supermassive rogue black hole & how DNA behaves in space!
MinutePhysics
Shells of Cosmic Time (ft. @AstroKatie)
Thanks to @AstroKatie (http://astrokatie.com) for the collaboration! This video is about the cosmic distance scale and how we see objects farther away in space (ie at higher red shift) farther back in time because light takes time to...
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Cassini’s Last Hurrah & Hints About Saturn’s Rings
Cassini is about to take its final dive into the rings of Saturn, and scientists are still debating the status of water on our moon.
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Spotted One of the Fastest Pulsars Ever Seen SciShow News.mp4
Astronomers have found a new celestial object, and it's moving really, really fast!
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We're Sending a Drone to Saturn's Moon Titan! SciShow News
NASA is sending a robot to Saturn’s giant moon Titan and instead of landing, orbiting, or driving when it gets there, this mission will fly.
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Life Beyond Neptune The Kuiper Belt & Scattered Disc
The solar system is enormous, and includes the Kuiper Belt and the Scattered Disc, both of which turn out to be really weird in some pretty awesome ways.
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Cruithne, the Asteroid With a Horseshoe Orbit
There’s a small asteroid that appears to orbit Earth in a horseshoe shape. Sometimes referred to as Earth’s second moon, but it's orbit is much weirder than that.
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Suicide Space Robots
Let's take a moment to remember the selfless sacrifices made by some amazing robotic explorers.
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What to Do With All This Space Poo?
There are so many things we can do with poo! Waste is the enemy in matters of space exploration, but there are plenty of ways to use that waste to help make a mission successful.
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We're Getting Closer to Predicting Solar Flares | SciShow News
A new model has been able to predict solar flares with up to about 20 hours of warning, and our galaxy is farting blobs of cold gas inside the Fermi Bubbles!
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3 Times We Intentionally Crashed into Other Worlds
Most of the time, it’s not great when an expensive spacecraft slams into an extraterrestrial body. But now and then mission control intentionally crashes a spacecraft for science!
TED Talks
TED: How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets | Dimitar Sasselov
(NOTE: This talk was given in 2010, and this field of science has developed quickly since then. Read "Criticisms & updates" below for more details.) Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth-like planets that may,...