Hollywood (and other fictional media) loves to show people dying in outer space. And it has several go-to causes of death, on a sliding scale of accuracy. But it turns out, reality has some ways to kill you that are far stranger than...

In the mid-1990s, a meteorite with the unmemorable name ALH84001 became the most famous rock in the world. Because one team of scientists proposed that it had the evidence of real, if microscopic, Martians.



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Today, humans live on just a few staple crops, like maize, rice, and wheat. But in the early days of agriculture, humans were domesticating foods left and right. Come with us as we discover the lost crops of North America, like pitseed...

Sometimes, humans invent a technology that changes the game. From ancient hand axes to gunpowder, here are 6 weapons that changed the course of human history.<b<br/>r/>

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Have you ever heard of the Emu War? It was a hilariously disastrous attempt at wild animal population control, and while you'd think that humans would have gotten better at that sort of thing in the last hundred-ish years, that doesn't...

In 1327, a monk named Richard of Wallingford drafted plans for an engineering marvel: one of the very first truly mechanical clocks in the world, which helped to usher in a complete reinvention of humanity's perception of time...

Because periods are inconvenient, many women are choosing to end them entirely with hormonal birth control. This episode explores the research on its safety. <b<br/>r/>

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Companies are putting CBD in just about every kind of product imaginable these days. Which ones actually work? <b<br/>r/>

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In the desert of Peru, hundreds of enormous ancient drawings are carved into the dirt. They're called the Nazca Lines, and archeologists are still arguing over what they mean. <b<br/>r/>

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Ever wondered why nuclear power plant cooling towers or salt storage domes are the shape they are? SciShow has the answers!<b<br/>r/>

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It's no secret that some people are bad at their jobs. But when those people are scientists, and their jobs are to publish papers about their work, well... Sometimes, bad papers hit the presses. These are a few stories about...

Batagay (aka Batagaika) Crater goes by many names. Scientists call it a retrogressive thaw megaslump; the internet may know it best as the Doorway to the Underworld. And since it opened up in the Siberian permafrost over half a century...

Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, better known as morning sickness, affects roughly 7 in 10 pregnant people. Scientists have spent decades hunting for the primary cause, and they seem to have finally found it: a hormone called...

Most of the research on psychedelic drugs is focused on their therapeutic potential. But some studies have investigated a different consequence of these chemicals: bad trips. <b<br/>r/>

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For everyone out there trying to live sustainably, you might also want to consider the best way for your loved ones to dispose of your body after you're gone. Is a green burial best? What about human composting (where it's legal)? And...

Trilobites are one of the most iconic fossil animals out there. And people have loved them for centuries! Let's talk about the people across time and space who have loved collecting trilobites, from Elrathia to Calymene, going back...

In November 2023, NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by the asteroid Dinkinesh and made a startling discovery: not only does this small asteroid have an even smaller companion (named Selam), that companion is shaped like a two-tier snowman....

The most common substance in the world is literally IN the world. It's a mineral called bridgmanite, and it belongs to a class of minerals (called perovskites) that scientists are trying to use in the next generation of solar...

Did the Easter Islanders really cause their own civilization's collapse? Probably not. In fact, they used rock gardens to grow food sustainably on the island of Rapa Nui for centuries.<b<br/>r/>

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Hurricanes are scary and the idea is usually to move away from them as much as possible. Then there are the intrepid scientist-pilots at NOAA who fly right into them. On purpose. And they do it to save lives.



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Back in the Victorian Era, Englanders thought that the famous Roman Baths were so healing because there was radium in the water. And there was, but that wasn't the real secret. Turns out that the baths are teeming with microbes that...

Humans aren't the only ones who refer to each other by name. Several species in the animal kingdom refuse to live in anonymity. <b<br/>r/>

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Vultures aren't most people's favorite animal. But when they began dying in India, they set in motion a domino effect that spread disease and cost the government billions of dollars. <b<br/>r/>

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You may have gotten a dose of laughing gas at the dentist at some point. But new research is suggesting that the same gas that helps you forget your toothache could be a future treatment for clinical depression.



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