Ever wondered who would win in a fight between a python and an alligator? What about a wolf versus a puma? SciShow has the answers. <b<br/>r/>

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The Inca Empire used bundles of knotted string called khipu to store and convey information. But how do you read a bunch of strings? And was this a unique form of writing... or knot?<b<br/>r/>

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On their opening weekend in March 2025, the New York Yankees hit 15 home runs. And the so-called torpedo bats they used to do it have real science behind them, thanks to MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt. But how good are they really? In...

You've heard of fake purses, and fake food, and fake concert tickets. But fake fossils? Turns out forging evidence of life in the ancient past isn't as uncommon as you might think. From another work by the infamous forger of the...

Space travel is infamous for the effects it can have on the human body. But some of those effects are a little more unusual than others. For example, if you ever had mono or chicken pox, it can reawaken those viruses that have been...

There's a hallucinogenic drug called ibogaine that some proponents say is the magic bullet for curing opioid addiction, sometimes in a single dose. But, it's illegal in a ton of countries. So let's talk about ibogaine, where it comes...

Nicotine is so addictive that most people who try to quit are not successful at first. So to up your chances of success, here's the data behind which methods are most effective, plus some cool ways you might be able to quit in the...

What was the biggest volcanic eruption of all time? Was it a huge explosion like Mt. Tambora? Not even close. In this episode, SciShow takes on the biggest volcanic eruptions to ever happen.<b<br/>r/>

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You may think of particle accelerators as massive underground tunnels like the Large Hadron Collider. But a new generation of accelerators are small enough to fit on a coin. Now the challenge is making them useful.
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You've heard of Stonehenge. It's that big rock circle over in England. But there's a lot more to it than that, and researchers have been studying it for centuries. From the people who lived near it to how and when it was made, here are...

China's Red Beach is a stunningly beautiful tourist destination. But the plants that make Red Beach red are hiding a secret -- one that could save other wetlands, if we can save this one first. <br<br/>/>

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It's not just fictional sitcom characters who struggle with navigating an oversized sofa around a tight corner. Mathematicians have their own version of the problem, and have spent the last six decades trying to not just find the...

If you were really into gift shops as a kid, you probably loved to look at all the shiny geodes. But those little geodes are nothing compared to the mother of all geodes, found is in Put In Bay, Ohio. So let's talk about how this...

In the early 1960s, NASA rolled up to a US Navy facility in Pennsylvania with one goal in mind: stick its newly-minted astronauts into one of the most extreme centrifuges that has ever been built, and whirl them around really fast to...

You can dye your hair, you can get a tan, but the color of your eyes is pretty much set in stone - or is it? From weird diseases to temper flare-ups and even iris implants, here are just a few ways that your eye color might not be so...

Your thyroid is a tiny gland in your throat, and what it lacks in size, it makes up for in power. This thing controls your metabolism, so you literally can't have power without it. And unfortunately, there's a lot that can go wrong...

The Stern-Gerlach Experiment in lauded in textbooks around the world for its contributions to the world of quantum physics. But for a few years, scientists unknowingly praised it for proving the wrong thing! Because instead of proving...

Diamonds are cool, but they form really far below the Earth's crust, and the main way they get to the surface(ish) is through rock formations called kimberlites. And these kimberlites are really rare and really weird. So let's talk...

The New Jersey earthquake of 2024 might have felt bigger than ones of the same magnitude on a Richter scale or intensity in California. That's because earthquakes in the eastern US go farther and hit harder than their western...

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You can turn all your old cooking scraps into gardening gold, thanks to hard-working microbes. Here's all the science of compost and everything you need to know to get started composting. <b<br/>r/>

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If all goes well, we'll be sending astronauts back to the Moon in just a couple of years. And scientists have a lot to figure out before then, including the answer to a seemingly simple question: What time is it up...

Everyone knows where Punt is, right? The Ancient Egyptians sure did — they traded with them for millennia. But apparently they were *so* familiar with its location, they never bothered to write it down for posterity. So archaeologists...

If someone (say, a small child) asks you why the sky is blue, you might dive into an explanation of Rayleigh scattering. But if you want to give them a way cooler explanation, you can tell them it's because of bacteria.



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