SciShow
Bdelloids: The Most Hardcore Animals in the World?
Bdelloid rotifers have a superpower. If their DNA is shredded to pieces, whether from a lack of water or a blast of radiation, they can put it back together.
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Life Inside a Dead Whale
Ever wonder what it'd be like to have a whale as a house? Wonder no more after you watch this episode of SciShow!
SciShow
How to Make a Superbug, and an Even More Super-Collider!
SciShow News explains how evolution and antibiotics have teamed up to produce an ordinary germ that can now, sometimes, kill people. Also, our favorite piece of science equipment -- the Large Hadron Collider -- has big plans for this...
SciShow
Terpenes: The Most Common Language in the World
The most popular language on earth isn't spoken, it's smelled. Those smells are made up of terpenes, a multipurpose class of chemical compounds.
TED Talks
Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994)
From deep in the TED archive, Danny Hillis outlines an intriguing theory of how and why technological change seems to be accelerating, by linking it to the very evolution of life itself. The presentation techniques he uses may look...
SciShow Kids
Where Does Yogurt Come From?
When we think of Yogurt, we think of a tangy and sweet treat that's good at any time! But there's a tiny little ingredient in there that helps to make it what it is!
SciShow
Your Appendix Isn't Useless, After All
You probably think the appendix is a useless organ left over from our evolutionary past, but it turns out it may be doing something important after all.
TED Talks
TED: A forgotten Space Age technology could change how we grow food | Lisa Dyson
We're heading for a world population of 10 billion people -- but what will we all eat? Lisa Dyson rediscovered an idea developed by NASA in the 1960s for deep-space travel, and it could be a key to reinventing how we grow food.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Human sperm vs. the sperm whale - Aatish Bhatia
Traveling is extremely arduous for microscopic sperm -- think of a human trying to swim in a pool made ofother humans. We can compare the journey of a sperm to that of a sperm whale by calculating the Reynolds number, a prediction of how...
TED Talks
Juan Enriquez: The life code that will reshape the future
Scientific discoveries, futurist Juan Enriquez notes, demand a shift in code, and our ability to thrive depends on our mastery of that code. Here, he applies this notion to the field of genomics.
SciShow
The Strange Case of the Missing Sunscreen Gene
If you've ever spent too much time in the sun and forgotten to put on sunscreen, you know how painful a sunburn can be. But for some animals, forgetting the sunscreen wouldn't be a problem because they can just produce their own!
TED Talks
TED: What will humans look like in 100 years? | Juan enriquez
We can evolve bacteria, plants and animals -- futurist Juan enriquez asks: Is it ethical to evolve the human body? In a visionary talk that ranges from medieval prosthetics to present day neuroengineering and genetics, enriquez sorts out...
SciShow
How Close Are We to Cavity-Proof Teeth?
There’s nothing fun about getting a cavity! It can feel like there’s not much you can do to prevent them, but researchers are working on several ways to tackle their main cause so we can create a cavity-free world!
SciShow
Eyeball Licking: Please Don't
So you think eye licking (also known as worming) is just a harmless bit of foreplay? Think again.
SciShow
7 Species That Really Are What They Eat
There are creatures who get some super important and recognizable part of their biology from their diets.
SciShow
Why Do Some Farts Smell So Bad?
Sometimes your farts stink, and sometimes they don't—and it's not because of methane.
SciShow
How to Avoid Corpse-Flavored Water
As organisms decompose their chemical and bacterial components can leach into the surrounding ground and water. The bodies buried in cemeteries are no exception.
SciShow
The Women Who Killed Whooping Cough
Whooping cough used to infect hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. and kill thousands of children every year. Join us as we learn about the women who developed the vaccine that has since saved thousands of lives.
TED Talks
Nathan Wolfe: What's left to explore?
We've been to the moon, we've mapped the continents, we've even been to the deepest point in the ocean -- twice. What's left for the next generation to explore? Biologist and explorer Nathan Wolfe suggests this answer: Almost everything....
SciShow
Why You Might Want Someone Else's Poop Inside You
Donating your blood could save someone's life. And so could donating your poop.
SciShow
Cutting Beef Could Reduce Emissions. No, Like, a Lot
Switching from beef to a specific kind of vegetarian protein just once a week could have huge environmental benefits, according to a study out this week in Nature. And, in a study in Nature Communications, researchers in the US have...
SciShow
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TED Talks
Stephen Palumbi: Hidden toxins in the fish we eat
What's link between the ocean's health and our health? Marine biologist Stephen Palumbi shows how toxins at the bottom of the ocean food chain find their way into our bodies -- and tells a shocking story of toxic contamination in the...
SciShow
Wood-eating Clams: The Real Kraken?
For thousands of years, a sea creature has plagued sailors by attacking and devouring their ships. It is so destructive that reportedly it swiss-cheesed the hulls of Christopher Columbus’s ships, sinking at least two of them.