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How Michael Faraday Changed the World with a Magnet | Great Minds

12th - Higher Ed
From a blacksmith's son, to one of the most repeated names in physics textbooks, Michael Faraday epitomized the spirit of scientific exploration
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How Long Has Health Care Existed on Earth?

12th - Higher Ed
We know modern day healthcare to be a world of expensive premiums, long wait times and frustrating hospital bills. However health care has existed long before insurance premiums and online portals! Curious about when healthcare for...
Instructional Video3:28
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How Does a Photon Become a Film Photo?

12th - Higher Ed
The chemistry behind film photography is pretty fascinating. How do film cameras help us turn light into a physical image?
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How Do Wetsuits Keep You Warm?

12th - Higher Ed
Snorkelers, surfers, divers. They all use them… wetsuits! So how do they work to keep you warm? It turns out layers of materials, and water itself!
Instructional Video2:50
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How Do Turtles Live So Long?

12th - Higher Ed
We all know turtles live an amazingly long time, but what's their secret? And can we apply it to humans?
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How Do Honey Bees Survive Natural Disasters?

12th - Higher Ed
Honey bees may be small, but they manage to survive some pretty big disasters. Whether it’s hurricanes, wildfires, or even volcanoes, honey bees seem to have a plan for everything.
Instructional Video5:33
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How Climate Change Helped Dinosaurs Take Over

12th - Higher Ed
New research suggests climate change in the past might have helped dinosaurs spread across the world. And modern climate change is revealing some of the things they left behind.
Instructional Video2:51
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How Can a Saw Know What It’s Cutting?

12th - Higher Ed
Table saws, while quite useful for woodworking, are also dangerous machines, which is why some incredible safety mechanisms have been invented to help you remain one with your body parts. Hosted by: Stefan Chin
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Hacking the Brain: The Future of Prosthetics

12th - Higher Ed
We usually think of 'hacking' as a bad thing, but scientists are working on ways to hack the brain that will greatly benefit people with prosthetics, and maybe someday people with paralysis.
Instructional Video2:59
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Good News: Daffodils Are The Worst

12th - Higher Ed
Daffodils are cheerful symbols of spring… and also cold blooded killers. But it turns out, the poison in these plants may actually be helpful to us humans!
Instructional Video2:31
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Ghost Crabs Take Stomach Growling to a Whole New Level

12th - Higher Ed
You think your tummy rumbles? Meet the ghost crab — it growls using teeth inside its stomach, and not because it’s feeling peckish!
Instructional Video5:23
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From Scarred Lungs to Diabetes: How COVID May Stick With People Long-Term | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Even though we are still in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists are trying to figure out the ways in which this disease may stick with people in the long term - from lasting lung damage to potentially triggering...
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From Lifesaver Sparks to Life-saving Tech: The Science of Triboluminescence

12th - Higher Ed
You might know that if you chomp on a Wint-O-Green Lifesaver in a dark room, you can see little blue flashes of light in your mouth. What you might not know is that this is an example of triboluminescence: a fascinating, somewhat...
Instructional Video4:53
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For Some Animals, The World Moves in Slow-Motion

12th - Higher Ed
Does your cat have a concept of time? Is it different from a snapping turtle's? Scientists study how animals process sensory information to figure out how they experience time. Spoilers: human kids and adults might experience time...
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Fish Pee: The Coral Reef Superfood

12th - Higher Ed
Fish consider the ocean their own personal toilet. Well, researchers found out that's not such a bad thing!
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Finally, Some Good News About Corals | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Corals might have a fighting chance against bleaching, and fuzzy moths aren't just sporting their fur because it's adorable. Hosted by: Hank Green
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Extreme Engineering to Create the World's Stillest Rooms

12th - Higher Ed
There are labs so silent that most people can't stand being inside them, but that stillness lets us run some of our most sensitive experiments.
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eDNA: How Scientists See Hidden Animals

12th - Higher Ed
How do you track turtles that spend most of their time in muddy water and also look like rocks? It turns out, scientists have found a way to track such hidden animals using eDNA.
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Eating Your Immunizations

12th - Higher Ed
For those with a fear of needles, edible vaccines seem like some distant utopian dream, but that dream may soon be a reality... for chickens.
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Earth Is Losing its Roots

12th - Higher Ed
Roots do more than hold plants in place -- they hold the planet in place. They're an important defense against drought and climate change, and of course, our actions are changing them.
Instructional Video2:59
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Earth Has Another Magnetic Field

12th - Higher Ed
You probably know about the geomagnetic field that protects the earth from solar storms and radiation. But precision satellites have measured ANOTHER magnetic field coming from Earth, and its signals might hold the key to searching for...
Instructional Video4:40
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Don't Eat the Watermelon Snow!

12th - Higher Ed
You know, it's probably best to just not put snow in your mouth regardless of color. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon ----------
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Doggerland: A Real-Life Atlantis

12th - Higher Ed
Though we probably won’t find a literal Atlantis beneath the sea, that doesn’t mean that a human settlement hasn’t ever been lost to the water. Meet Doggerland.
Instructional Video2:24
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Do You Really Sing Better In The Shower?

12th - Higher Ed
Singing in the shower seems to sound better, but what is actually happening to the sound waves in that soapy, tiled room?