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A Pure and Restful Quiz Show | SciShow Quiz Show
Sally Le Page joins us on Quiz Show this week, where we celebrate the submission of her doctoral thesis with the most peaceful, relaxing questions we could devise, assuming you don’t count the volcanoes or screamed-at caterpillars
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Minerva and the New Hunt for Alien Worlds
SciShow explains the science of detecting exoplanets -- planets in orbit around distant stars -- and how a new observatory being built in California may open up whole new worlds to us, literally!
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Do Exoplanets Have Rings?
Exorings are pretty elusive, but we’ve already found what might be the first set of exorings, and if we find more, we’ll have a treasure trove of new information.
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Photonic Propulsion: Mars in 3 Days?
We can get to Mars in 3 days, . . .sort of, maybe. In this episode of SciShow Space Reid Reimers explains the possibilities of photonic propulsion in use with space travel.
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A New Idea About Tabby's Star!
Astronomers might have finally discovered part of why Tabby's Star acts so strangely and we have some new ideas about what triggers a type Ia supernova.
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Could We Hide The Earth?
Theoretically, we could hide the Earth from faraway telescopes, using a properly placed laser pointer.
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A Baby Planet May Have Once Smashed Into Jupiter - SciShow News
Shortly after Jupiter formed, it might have been struck by an object that may have otherwise become its own planet! And researchers have a new estimate of how many Earth-like planets might exist.
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4 Science Superlatives of 2014
SciShow News looks at some of the firsts, highests, and lowests of the year in science.
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SciShow Talk Show: Jimmy Henderson & The Red Eyed Skinks
SciShow Talk Show is back! Hank talks to Jimmy Henderson about project MINERVA, or is it the MINERVA Project? Special Guest Jessi Knudsen Castañeda introduces two red eyed crocodile skinks!
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The Most Common Planet in the Universe?
There’s one kind of planet we’ve found more often than any other in the universe so far: mini-Neptunes. Now, some scientists think they’ve figured out why there are just so many of them.
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8 New Earth-Like Planets Discovered!
SciShow Space starts the year off with a bang, and the discovery of 8 Earth-like planets, two of which may be the most promising candidates yet for harboring life.
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Future Space News of 2017
We bring you a few upcoming missions that will be testing technology for future asteroid prospecting, trying to find more exoplanets, and continuing China's quest for a crewed moon mission.
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The Surprising Secrets of Destroyed Exoplanets - SciShow News
Scientists are learning new things by looking at the remains of exoplanets, NASA has unveiled a new spacesuit design, and engineers fixed a problem from one hundred million kilometers away.
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What Knocked Over Uranus And Two Other Mysteries?
The most common type of exoplanets might be worlds like our ice giant, Uranus. Understanding it could be key to the history of planets all over the galaxy.
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Why These Two Planets SHOULD Be the Same
You'd think that two planets with similar stats, orbits, and parent stars would grow up to be pretty similar, but these twins have atmospheres that beg to differ.
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5 Spacecraft That Got a New Lease on Life
When something breaks on a spaceship, there's not an auto-shop it can pull up to, so NASA scientists have to get creative.
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3 Ways Pi Can Explain Practically Everything
What’s irrational and never ends? Pi! Hank explains how we need pi to explain some of the most basic but most important principles of the universe, in honor of Pi Day.
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Where Are All the Exo-Earths?
Scientists have discovered over 5,000 exoplanets in the last few decades, but where are the Exo-Earths?
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Do Any Stars NOT Have Planets?
Astronomers have used a few different methods to detect exoplanets, and improved telescopes are increasing the rate of discovery. But is it possible that any stars DON'T have planets, or are they just an expected feature of stellar...
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The Mysterious Cosmic Explosion Called “The Cow” | SciShow News
The exploding “cow” around 200 million light-years away is running astronomers for a loop, but if it is what some hypothesize, we are witnessing a first for astronomy! Meanwhile, we got photographic evidence of a planet orbiting a binary...
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Habitable Exoplanets Debunked!
When we say a planet is habitable, we aren't REALLY saying what we think we are saying. 'Habitable' means something else. Is Kepler 186f habitable, in the true sense of the word? And if not, what other planets should we be looking at?...
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Creating a Template for Habitable Exoplanets
We've found thousands of exoplanets over the years, but if we're going to find one that can sustain life, we need to take a look at the one planet we know that can, Earth.
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The Next Search for Alien Life, and Release the Cubesats!
SciShow Space explores the latest mission to search for extraterrestrial life, and the mission of two tiny satellites that aims to make space travel safer.