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Space Exploration Isn’t Great for the Earth (But It Could Be)
Building and launching rockets to learn about other worlds hasn't been great for Earth, but environmental engineers are working on changing that legacy.
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How Pluto’s Heart Makes Its Atmosphere Spin Backward - SciShow News
Pluto's heart is revealing itself to be a major influence on the dwarf planet’s landscape and atmosphere, and scientists used atom probe tomography (APT) for the first time on lunar soil to study it atom by atom!
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3 Bizarre Projects That Could Transform Exploration - NIAC 2019
Every amazing mission you know about today started off as just an idea, and some of 2019’s early phase NIAC concepts could mean big things for our future.
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How Ancient Pollen Can Predict The Future
We don't need a time machine to learn from the past (but let us know if you find one)! Air bubbles trapped in ice for millennia and ancient pollen grains can tell us a lot about climate shifts hundreds of thousands of years ago!
TED-Ed
TED-ED: How do we study the stars? - Yuan-Sen Ting
Our best technology can send men to the Moon and probes to the edge of our solar system, but these distances are vanishingly small compared to the size of the universe. How then can we learn about the galaxies beyond our own? Yuan-Sen...
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Humanity Breaks an Ominous Record
SciShow News explains an ominous record that Homo sapiens just broke: the highest levels of carbon dioxide emissions, the leading factor in global warming. Hank explains what it means, and what we can do.
TED Talks
TED: How to decarbonize the grid and electrify everything | John Doerr and Hal Harvey
The good news is it's now clearly cheaper to save the planet than to ruin it, says engineer and investor John Doerr. "The bad news is: we are fast running out of time." In this conversation with climate policy expert Hal Harvey, the two...
Be Smart
Your Climate Conscience - feat. Al Gore
News about climate change is often full of doom, guilt, and anxiety. This can make many people reluctant to pay attention to or discuss it. We asked former Vice President Al Gore to help us find a different way to talk about climate change.
SciShow
Could We Build Weather-Controlling Satellites?
In some science fiction movies, satellites control the weather in disastrous, but effective ways. Here in reality, we have attempted to influence the weather, with mixed results.
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Hottest Year Ever, and Amazing Gecko-Man Getup!
SciShow News explains the latest climate weirdness, and why the Global Warming Hiatus wasn’t really what it sounded like. Plus, see how humans have harnessed the climbing power of the gecko!
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The Coolest Things We Didn't Know About Pluto Two Years Ago
On July 14, 2015, New Horizons flew by Pluto. Scientists have used the data from the mission so far to uncover active geology, an enormous canyon, a unique case of chemical coloration, and more. What else might we discover as we venture...
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Bright Spots on Ceres, and Volcanoes on Venus
Dawn is spiraling in for a closer look at Ceres, and researchers have discovered the best evidence yet for active volcanoes on Venus. Plus, check out Venus and Jupiter right next to each other in the sky!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why the Sun could crash your internet | Fabio Pacucci
In September 1859, miners following the Colorado gold rush woke up to another sunny day. Or so they thought. To their surprise, they soon discovered it was actually 1am and the sky wasn't lit by the sun, but rather by brilliant drapes of...
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This is Weird but...COVID Decreased Lightning Strikes
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t just affected us. It’s also affected the weather. And this turns out to be a lucky natural experiment to help us understand how much we influence the world around us.
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Setting Spaceships on Fire
What's more exciting than a spaceship? A spaceship on Fiya! NASA plans on playing with fire. Caitlin Hofmeister explains in this episode of SciShow Space!
PBS
That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
What if we told you that there was a time when oxygen almost wiped out all life on Earth? 3 billion years ago, when the world was a place you'd never recognize, too much of a good thing almost ruined everything for everybody.
SciShow
NASA Wants to Capture Asteroids…in Bags (And Other New Tech)
NIAC has awarded their first two grant winners for phase III: optical mining and 3D modeling craters, and researchers are further honing in on how to identify faraway habitable planets.
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3 Solar Systems Scientists Still Don’t Understand
From gigantic planets too close to their stars, to those in unfathomably wide orbits, astronomers have discovered seemingly impossible solar systems that shouldn’t exist at all. But they do.
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400 Million New Stars in Our Galaxy!
The Gaia space observatory released a detailed 3d map of the Milky Way, and scientists have figured out why Charon's north pole is red!
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Astrobiology & the Search for Alien Life
Hank talks about astrobiology - the study of and search for life in the universe off Earth. Right now, the field has more questions than answers, but all they all seek to answer that one fundamental query: are we alone in the universe?
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Why We Want to Find Plate Tectonics in Space
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.
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Something Is Creating and Removing Oxygen on Mars - SciShow News
Oxygen levels in the Martian atmosphere are mysteriously inconsistent, and scientists don’t have a clear explanation for what’s behind the changes. Meanwhile, scientists DO have explanations for the tiger-like stripes on one of Saturn’s...
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A Year in Space, and the Lunar Eclipse!
Two astronauts are about to embark on the One Year Mission which can help us understand more about the long-term effects of being in space, and there is an upcoming total lunar eclipse (the shortest one this century)!
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Why Does the Ocean Smell Like That?
What gives the ocean its distinct, sometimes pungent smell? It turns out the answer is more than just dead fish or salt: it’s the scent of tons of phytoplankton being munched on!