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When you think of herbs, you might picture rosemary, basil, or dill weed, but you can add something a bit bigger than that to your mental herb collection: good ol' bananas.

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Joe Gebbia, the co-founder of Airbnb, bet his whole company on the belief that people can trust each other enough to stay in one another's homes. How did he overcome the stranger-danger bias? Through good design. Now, 123 million hosted...

If you watched a lot of cartoons as a kid, chances are you picked up some common animal stereotypes like "cats love milk!" or "bears can't get enough of that sweet, sweet honey!" What if we told you that everything cartoons taught you is...

Scientists think that evolution may not have prepared our brains for donuts, and an international research team has found out that some of earth’s oldest, largest trees are suddenly on the decline.

Imagine waking in the middle of the night to an elephant ripping the roof from your house in search of food. This is a reality in some communities in Africa where, as wild spaces shrink, people and elephants are competing for space and...

12,000 years ago, the earth was very different, and so were some of the animals living on it! Here are 5 giants creatures you might have seen back then.

You might want a really sturdy umbrella to dig into this video, because we’re discussing 5 animals that have a tendency to rain down from the sky and the reasons we think this might be happening!

It may be an impossible questions, but we can at least get close.

They don’t call water the building block of life for nothing, most living things need it. The palo verde tree, however, has managed to skate by needing it a lot less than the rest of us.

Why do fingers become pruney when they get wet? Likely, for the same reasons that tires have treads. Mark Changizi examines the evolutionary reasons for pruney fingers, while exploring natural and manmade phenomena, like river networks,...

As a breeze blows through the savannah, a snake-shaped tube stretches into the air and scans the horizon like a periscope. But it's not seeing— it's sniffing. Containing no bones and an estimated 40,000 muscles, an elephant trunk is one...

Nalini Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons -- she says both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partnership with the state of Washington, she brings science classes and conservation programs to inmates, with...

When you think of herbs, you might picture rosemary, basil, or dill weed, but you can add something a bit bigger than that to your mental herb collection: good ol' bananas.

The tale of the curious Elephant's Child and how it got the trunk all elephants have today.

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In this video transcript, we explore the incredible superpowers of elephants beyond their renowned super strength. From their versatile trunks that can delicately pick up a peanut to...

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