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Do Black Holes Have Quantum Hair?

12th - Higher Ed
We don’t know what happens to stuff when it gets sucked into a black hole, but in the same instance, we don’t know what happens to the black hole. There’s a possibility that sucked up stuff might actually give the black hole “quantum hair”.
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The First Edible Bug Farm & The 9 Greatest Minds of 2014

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News gives you the latest developments from the world of science, including some bug-number-crunching behind America's first edible-insect farm, and a look at the discoveries that won the 2014 Kavli Prize.
Instructional Video5:38
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There's another Milky way out there

12th - Higher Ed
As a species, we like to think everything about us is one of a kind, including the Milky Way Galaxy, but new evidence shows that yet again, we're not so unique.
Instructional Video5:37
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Some of Earth’s Water Was Created by the Sun? | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
The source of earth's water is something of a mystery, and some scientists are starting to think that the sun might have provided the special ingredients to help.
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Everything You Need to Know About Living on Mars

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists are constantly researching different ways people could potentially live on Mars. Start making your future Martian travel plans with this collection of videos about the unique challenges of putting humans on Mars.
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The Biggest Water Reservoir in Space

12th - Higher Ed
In the late 2000s, scientists looking deep into space discovered the largest known water reservoir in the universe inside a quasar, orbiting a supermassive black hole. Learn more about quasars and what this water can tell us about the...
Instructional Video5:50
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The Chemist Decoding Our Cosmic Origins | Great Minds: Ewine van Dishoeck

12th - Higher Ed
The apparent void in the darkness of space is not as empty as you might think. In fact, it somehow holds the key to creating stars, planets, and even us! And Dutch super-scientist Ewine van Dishoeck made it her life's work to figure out...
Instructional Video5:23
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Why We Want to Find Plate Tectonics in Space

12th - Higher Ed
It’s not easy to find active plate tectonics on other worlds, but doing so may bring us one step closer to finding a planet that can support life.
Instructional Video4:55
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What’s Hiding Inside The Crab Nebula?

12th - Higher Ed
The Crab Nebula is one of the most studied things in the sky, but it took glimpses through various wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum to get a full picture of what’s hiding inside!
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Black Holes: The Hungriest Things in the Universe | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
If you thought a hot dog eating contest was impressive to complete, imagine if a black hole entered it! They eat up everything around them, including stars! But they’re not just gluttonous blobs of the universe. Like all things in space,...
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Dark Matter

12th - Higher Ed
Physicists estimate that dark matter accounts for about twenty three percent of the known universe - the only problem is that no one really knows what it is...
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This Stellar Blast Showered the Universe with… Calcium | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We knew some stars created large amounts of calcium, but no one really ever knew how...until now! Plus, astrophysicists believe they’ve finally seen evidence of the star that created one of the most important supernovas ever!
Instructional Video5:18
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Our Past Written in the Stars

12th - Higher Ed
Unfortunately, time machines don't exist, but there are other ways to learn about our sun's past.
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TED Talks

Federica Bianco: How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems

12th - Higher Ed
To study a system as complex as the entire universe, astrophysicists need to be experts at extracting simple solutions from large data sets. What else could they do with this expertise? In an interdisciplinary talk, TED Fellow and...
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What's It Like to Live in Space? | Compilation

12th - Higher Ed
If you want to spend any amount of time in space, you'll have to make adjustments to your lifestyle. From what you eat, to how you go to the bathroom, to regular activities you're simply not allowed to do on the ISS, SciShow Space has...
Instructional Video5:25
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A Violent Origin Story for Tiny Space Diamonds | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists may have discovered some clues to two vastly different anomalies. Microscopic diamonds inside of meteors, and why ancient black holes are so massive.
Instructional Video4:55
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Active Volcanoes on Mars?

12th - Higher Ed
Mars is covered with the remnants of long-dead volcanoes, but one of them might have been alive surprisingly recently.
Instructional Video5:18
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3 Mysteries Solved by Extraterrestrial Tsunamis

12th - Higher Ed
Earth isn't the only planet that gets rocked by giant tsunamis. In fact, giant waves on other planets have helped us solve a few mysteries about our solar system.
Instructional Video5:51
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Turns Out, the Sun Is... Pretty Chill | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Life on Earth depends on the steady nature of our star, and an international team of scientists searched thousands of other stars to try to find out if the sun has always been as consistent as it is now. And According to a study...
Instructional Video4:37
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Our First Glimpse of the Dark Side of the Moon

12th - Higher Ed
The dark side of the moon is full of mystery, and according to some, evil robots, but, in 1959 Luna 3 was able to shed some light on it for the first time.
Instructional Video5:12
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Maybe There's No Phosphine on Venus | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Remember when astrophysicists thought they'd found signs of life on Venus? A different team re-crunched the numbers, and their results raised some questions about that claim. Also, a bunch of exoplanets are doing a really precise dance...
Instructional Video4:15
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How to Find Dark Matter with a Billion Pendulums | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Are you there Dark Matter? It's me, a billion pendulums.
Instructional Video5:15
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We Almost Didn't See the North Pole Space Hurricane | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Astrophysicists have discovered an exoplanet that lost its atmosphere, but then, somehow, grew it back! Also, astronomers used satellite data to find a magnetic hurricane above the north pole that we almost missed!
Instructional Video6:12
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The First Time We Saw All of Venus: The Magellan Mission

12th - Higher Ed
NASA’s Magellan mission gave us unprecedented insight into Venus’s rocky surface, and even now, more than 25 years after the mission ended, it’s still one of our main tools for learning about our mysterious, next-door neighbor.