The hardened residue scraped off your teeth at the dentist is called your dental calculus, and your dental calculus is the only part of your body that actually fossilizes while you’re alive! And scientists have figured out how to study &...

Infectious disease has affected the human species for as long as we’ve existed, but in that time we’ve come a long way in understanding what they are and how they spread. In this episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science, we’ll introduce...

Bacteria from a sneeze was inadvertently sent to the Moon. When it returned to Earth, it came back to life. What does this mean for the possibility of life in the Universe?



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This video discusses how flies, typically associated with filth and disease, could potentially be a valuable source of new antibiotics. Researchers at Sydney's Macquarie University have already extracted antibiotics from various species...