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Why Does Running Water Make You Want To Pee?
Listening to a bubbling stream can be pretty relaxing, up until the point when you realize you suddenly have to pee.
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The Secret to Becoming Immune to Mosquito Bites
Like most allergies, you can become immune to mosquito bites, but it might not be worth it.
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The Science of Parkour
Traceurs, or parkour athletes, seem superhuman in their ability to scale up walls and drop down from rooftops without injury. But it turns out that there’s a fair amount of biomechanics at play behind these powers.
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Why Don't Comets Ever Have a Green Tail?
There’s no question that comets have been regarded as some of the most beautiful things in the night sky for thousands of years. But why are their heads often green but never their tails?
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Attack of the Super Bugs
Don't panic! But you should really know about antibiotic-resistant bacteria, aka super bugs. They're here, and they're doing very well, thank you. SciShow explains what they are, how they're getting around our best drugs, and what...
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Do Animals Mourn Their Dead?
We can't know if or how animals understand death, but behavioral changes in some species could mean they experience something similar to human grief.
Amoeba Sisters
Ecological Succession: Nature's Great Grit
Discover a process that truly demonstrates nature's grit: ecological succession! The Amoeba Sisters introduce both primary and secondary succession
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New Elements and Exploding Whales
Hank introduces you to the latest element to be created -- and explains why we make them in the first place -- plus the science of exploding whales. It's a thing, people.
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Why is Red Meat ... Red?
When you cut into a nice, juicy steak what's all that liquid that pours out? Is it blood? It looks like blood. ...it's not blood.
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Why We Hate the Word 'Moist'
SciShow Psych tackles the science behind what might be one of the most hated words in the English language: moist.
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Gaslighting: Abuse That Makes You Question Reality
The term "gaslighting" has gained popularity in recent years, but what exactly does it entail?
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Zombie Stars Discovered!
SciShow Space reveals the discovery of a whole new kind of supernova, and the undead stars they leave behind.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How do nerves work? - Elliot Krane
At any moment, there is an electrical storm coursing through your body. Discover how chemical reactions create an electric current that drives our responses to everything from hot pans to a mother's caress.
SciShow
The Microscope That Uses Quantum Physics to Trace Atoms
In the late 1970s, two physicists in Switzerland set out to invent a new type of microscope using quantum physics that would allow them to do something no one had ever done before: see the individual atoms in a sheet of metal.
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How Different Types of Alcohol Affect Your Emotions
Despite popular belief, different types of drinks shouldn’t make you feel any differently because they’re all ethanol. Our brains are complicated, though, and there’s more to the story than just the drink itself.
TED Talks
Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do
At TED U, Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, spells out 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do -- and why a little danger is good for both kids and grownups.
TED Talks
Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit
Here's a powerful provocation from artist Jae Rhim Lee. Can we commit our bodies to a cleaner, greener Earth, even after death? Naturally -- using a special burial suit seeded with pollution-gobbling mushrooms. Yes, this just might be...
SciShow
Weird Things Whales Lost on Their Journey to the Sea
When the ancestor of cetaceans went back into the water some 50 million years ago, it left a few things behind—including the functioning of certain genes that seem like they’d be hard to live without.
SciShow
Fighting COVID-19 With... Llamas?!
Scientists have been researching whether or not antibodies from COVID-19 patients might help those infected with the virus, and one study has found promising results, in a llama.
SciShow
Can We Redirect Asteroids like in Armageddon? | SciShow News
If you think punching an asteroid to knock it off the course to Earth’s destruction is purely for science fiction, you might only be right a for a little longer! Plus, scientists are being thrown for a loop with the orbits of planets...
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Meet The Black Swallower Natures Top Competitive Eater
Deep in the ocean lives a fish that seems pretty normal right up until dinner time, when it reveals its secret talent: devouring meals much larger than itself.
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Mars Express: Triumph From Disaster
Mars Express, one of the longest-running planetary probes ever made, was only intended to last for about two Earth years, but it's still going at 17! And it's taught us an unbelievable amount, including everything from studying its...
Crash Course
Bureaucracy Basics: Crash Course Government and Politics
This week Craig Benzine discuses bureaucracies. Bureaucracies tend to be associated with unintelligible rules and time-wasting procedures, but they play an important, though controversial, role in governing. From the FDA to the EPA,...
SciShow
Is Sugar Alcohol as Awesome as It Sounds?
Sugar alcohol sounds like a fun adult dessert, but what is it really?