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Could a Shirt Hear Your Heartbeat? | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Microphones keep getting smaller and smaller, but have you ever asked what it would be like to have a bigger one in the form of a shirt? And though we tend to incorrectly think that we’re having two-way conversations with our pets, we...
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Wheezy Waiter on Movie Science, Mutant Flu Facts, and 2 Sounds You've Never Heard!

12th - Higher Ed
Wheezy Waiter announces the SciShow nominees for "Worst Science in a Film," & Hank talks about the bird flu and shares two sounds that had never been heard by human ears until very recently.
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People Grow Brain Cells Well Into Their 80s | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
This week, scientists announced great news about our brains and those discoveries may help us find the cure for a number of diseases and disorders.
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Whiteflies Destroy Crops Thanks to a Stolen Plant Gene | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
The silverleaf whitefly – a very prolific pest – is the only insect that we know of with a functional stolen plant gene.
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When Athletes Dope ... & Einstein FTW

12th - Higher Ed
This week's SciShow news has Hank bringing us a primer on the science behind various illegal and illicit ways in which athletes "improve" their bodies, proof of general relativity that we can actually see, and a new way to measure how...
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Exotic Chemistry: World's Oldest Water and The Rarest Element

12th - Higher Ed
This week's SciShow news brings you discoveries involving two of the most exotic substances on Earth - the world's rarest element and the world's oldest water. Two great tastes that taste great together? Stay tuned to find out.
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DeepDream: Inside Google's 'Daydreaming' Computers

12th - Higher Ed
It may produce creepy images with way too many dogs and eyeballs, but Google’s DeepDream program is actually a valuable window into artificial intelligence.
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A Kilogram Is Now a Kilogram—Forever | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
This week in SciShow News, there's a new kilogram in town, and we might be closer to understanding why people love coffee so much!
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The Toughest, Biggest, and Hottest Science of 2017

12th - Higher Ed
2017 has been an eventful year, so as it comes to a close we'd like to look back at some of its most superlative science.
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The Terrifying Promise of Robot Bugs

12th - Higher Ed
Imitating nature to build a better (or possibly more terrifying) future. We've been trying to build flapping-wing robots for hundreds of years, and now, ornithopters are finally being developed, and may be used mostly for military...
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The Tallest, Smallest, and Oldest Science of 2019

12th - Higher Ed
Scientific discovery often dabbles in the extreme, challenging and exceeding what we think of as "possible." And this year's discoveries were no different! We present to you three scientific discoveries made this year that set out to...
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The Science of Screaming, And What Was the Biggest Dinosaur?

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists dissect the human scream for the first time, and also re-think what was thought to be the biggest dinosaur in the world.
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The Science of Hyperloop

12th - Higher Ed
Michael Aranda explains the nuts and bolts of Hyperloop, the new magnet-driven, solar-powered transit system proposed by Spacex genius Elon Musk. Learn how Musk answered three vexing questions to create the transportation of the future...
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The Most Beautiful Science of 2012

12th - Higher Ed
Michael Aranda substitutes for Hank again in this week's News to tell you about the winners of the 2012 Visualization Challenge, an annual competition run by the journal Science that selects the most elegant and educational graphics,...
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How Dogs Really Listen to Us, and How Pufferfish Puff

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow News: Animals! New research has found how dogs actually listen to us in more complex ways than you probably thought, and also figured out how a kind of pufferfish gets its puff up.
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Chimera Cats and Your Mom

12th - Higher Ed
Hank talks about chimeras, and why Venus the cat probably isn't one - but your mom might be!
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We Found a Bunch of New Eye Color Genes | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
This week, scientists have managed to make tear gland organoids that cry, and have also found a bunch of new genes involved in eye color!
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The Biggest Psychology News Stories of 2016

12th - Higher Ed
From Pokémon, to fMRI, to the relationship between masculine norms and mental health, 2016 left us with some interesting psych news to ponder.
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More on Mating & Monogamy

12th - Higher Ed
Hank clarifies the misconceptions about Chagus disease, discusses a couple of interesting celestial events - one that happened in the past and one that will happen in the distant future, and sheds more light on the benefits of sexual...
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Man Made Earthquakes and More

12th - Higher Ed
Hank hits you with a ton of news this time - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has plans to retrieve Saturn V rocket engines from the bottom of the Atlantic; new research on the impacts from the Deep Water Horizon oil spill to life in the Gulf of...
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Faster Than Light Facts, Horny Little Man, and Worst Science Movie Winner!

12th - Higher Ed
Hank gets to the bottom of this "faster-than-the-speed-of-light-neutrino" kerfuffle, discusses some ancient stuff, and announces the winner of the award for worst science in a film.
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Does Getting COVID-19 Make You Immune to It? | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Like a common cold or a cold sore, would it be possible to get a reinfection of COVID-19? Would we be able to build up long-term resistance to it?
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Pollinating With Bubbles and Some Other Good News You Might Have Missed

12th - Higher Ed
We've found a microbe that might someday protect us from malaria parasites, and bees might have help with their jobs soon, thanks to bubble pollination!
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Our Roadmap to Fix Climate Change | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the final part of its sixth assessment report. In it, they steer away from the gloom and doom and remind us of a future that's still remarkably possible.