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Why You Have to Blink to Walk
When we picture the first tetrapods, or land vertebrates, crawling out of the ocean, we probably imagine they need legs. But evolution also had to bestow another important adaptation before they could leave the water: blinking!
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What Happens When A Volcano Meets a Glacier?
Volcanoes might seem like an unstoppable force of nature - but there is at least one OTHER force on Earth that seems to be able to keep them down.
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The Rocket & String Paradox
This video is about Bell's Spaceship Paradox of Special Relativity, wherein a pair of rockets (or spacecraft) connected by a weak thread accelerate with uniform acceleration, maintaining the same separation, and the question is: does the...
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The Problem With The Butterfly Effect
One Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in one minute!
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Is Anything on the Internet Real?
One Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in one minute!
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Another Portal Paradox
What happens if you extend a piston through a portal? Or try to sandwich a cube between two portals? That's right, it's time to explore more portal paradoxes!
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Why is it Harder to Drive Backwards?
One Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in one minute!
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This Sturgeon-Paddlefish Hybrid Shouldn't Exist | SciShow News
Chromosome shenanigans have resulted in some unexpected hybrid fishes. Also, this record-breaking mouse lives at a ridiculous altitude.
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There Are Millions of Blood Types
You’re probably aware that your blood can be A, B, AB or O, but it turns out that blood types can get a lot more complicated than that! *We made a mistake in the credits of this video: The writer of this episode was Alane Lim.
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The Quietest, Oldest, and Magnetic-iest Science of 2018
2018 was full of exciting discoveries and incredible advancements in the field of science. So today, we are taking a look back at 2018 to highlight three more great science news stories!
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Earth's Not-So-Juicy Center
Hank takes us on a journey to center of the Earth to explain both how the solid core formed and why it is so important for life as we know it.
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5 Measurements You Might Not Realize Are Named After Scientists
Units are a major way we describe the world around us, and by looking at the scientists some of them are named after, we can get a sense of how we’ve learned so much about our universe.
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Nature’s Secret Weapon Against Microbes: Squid Skin
There's a compound found in squid skin that they use to change color and protect their cells, but it could also help us fight some of the most common disease-causing microbes out there.
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Obesity
Hank tells us some of the surprising things that could be causing or contributing to the obesity epidemic.
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If the Asteroid Hit 10 Minutes Later...
If the 10 kilometer wide asteroid that hit the Earth 66 million years ago hit just a few minutes later, would the outcome of the living creatures here have been different?
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Why Scurvy Doesn't Make Sense to Science
Scurvy isn't just a silly word used by pirates- it's actually a serious disease caused by a lack of Vitamin C that still occurs today! But did you know that our distant ancestors could make their own Vitamin C, making it impossible to...
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Why Haven't We Built a Better Battery?
Improving batteries is a tough problem, but it’s also an important one because in many ways the future of our planet also depends on the future of batteries. Luckily, scientists are on the case, figuring out ways to give this essential...
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Why are Insects Attracted to Light?
You know how moths like to fly into lamps or crawl all over your tv screen at night? Why do they do this?! The answer is more complicated than you might think...
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What's Up With That Russian Vaccine? | SciShow News
You might be wondering what we know about Sputnik V, the world’s first vaccine for widespread use against COVID-19. Well, so is everyone. Many experts are skeptical as to whether the vaccine actually works, because it’s been tested in a...
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Eating Your Immunizations
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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Can You Rip a Phone Book in Half?
If you can find a phone book these days, science is here to help you rip it in half with your bare hands!
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There Probably Aren't Different Strains of SARS-CoV-2 (Yet)
Scientists are closely watching SARS-CoV-2 to track mutations and see if it's developed into different strains. So, has it?
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The Most Metal Algorithm in Computer Science
Have a problem with many competing variables? Why not solve it with a computer algorithm based on cooling metal?
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Human Experimentation: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
In the early days of the space race, agency researchers in Russia and at NASA really weren't sure all what would happen to an astronaut in space. They didn't know if a human mind could handle actually seeing Earth or what would happen to...