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Do Exoplanets Have Rings?

12th - Higher Ed
Exorings are pretty elusive, but we’ve already found what might be the first set of exorings, and if we find more, we’ll have a treasure trove of new information.
Instructional Video2:21
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Ghost Crabs Take Stomach Growling to a Whole New Level

12th - Higher Ed
You think your tummy rumbles? Meet the ghost crab — it growls using teeth inside its stomach, and not because it’s feeling peckish!
Instructional Video3:56
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DeepDream: Inside Google's 'Daydreaming' Computers

12th - Higher Ed
It may produce creepy images with way too many dogs and eyeballs, but Google’s DeepDream program is actually a valuable window into artificial intelligence.
Instructional Video5:30
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Can Feeling the Love Save Lions? | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Can you feel the love tonight? Hopefully scientists can make this the case for the growing numbers of lions in animal sanctuaries.
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Photonic Propulsion: Mars in 3 Days?

12th - Higher Ed
We can get to Mars in 3 days, . . .sort of, maybe. In this episode of SciShow Space Reid Reimers explains the possibilities of photonic propulsion in use with space travel.
Instructional Video5:01
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A New Idea About Tabby's Star!

12th - Higher Ed
Astronomers might have finally discovered part of why Tabby's Star acts so strangely and we have some new ideas about what triggers a type Ia supernova.
Instructional Video3:29
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Why Comet 67P Is Shaped Like a Duck, and New Pluto Photos!

12th - Higher Ed
This week on SciShow Space News, photos of Comet 67P and Pluto are helping us solve old mysteries and creating some new ones.
Instructional Video5:43
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Could We Actually Detect Life on Other Planets?

12th - Higher Ed
There’s probably life somewhere besides Earth, but all the exoplanets are so far away we may never see their surfaces in detail or intercept a clear radio signal from them. How do we determine if a distant planet has life?
Instructional Video10:04
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6 Types of Odd Body Armor

12th - Higher Ed
From medieval knights to face shields, humans are pretty big fans of armor. But it turns out that other organisms use armor, too! Except sometimes, their armor doesn’t look like anything we’d expect.
Instructional Video2:49
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Bird Eggs Warn Each Other About Danger

12th - Higher Ed
Although they don’t seem like the talkative type, recent research suggests that bird eggs can use vibrations to relay warnings about the outside world to their nest-mates.
Instructional Video4:52
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Why Animals Keep Self-Amputating

12th - Higher Ed
Some lizards will lose a tail to avoid becoming a meal, but there's more than one reason for animals to self-amputate.
Instructional Video5:10
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These Ant Paramedics Save Their Injured Comrades

12th - Higher Ed
A species of ant has been discovered to rescue and tend to the battle wounds of other ants injured while hunting, and scientists think that this is the first time this behavior has ever been observed in insects.
Instructional Video4:49
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Big Breakthrough in Artificial Wombs | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
A new experimental design that can sustain mouse embryos outside the uterus means that soon, we may be able to watch mammalian embryo development in real time.
Instructional Video11:14
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5 Times Scientists Gave Animals Drugs (and What They Learned)

12th - Higher Ed
It might seem like researchers give animals drugs just to make a good headline, but these experiments have taught scientists a lot.
Instructional Video5:53
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Some Elements can be Liquid and Solid at the Same Time | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Some elements can basically be liquids and solids at the same time, which is a whole new state of matter, and scientists have discovered a new species of human in the Republic of the Philippines!
Instructional Video4:04
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The Space Station's Inflatable Room

12th - Higher Ed
An ISS resupply mission is launching today and the space station should have a new inflatable room to experiment with!
Instructional Video3:56
SciShow

RIP Philae? The Latest on the Comet Mission

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space News explains what happened to Philae, the first spacecraft on the surface of a comet, and shares what scientists say about the future of the mission.
Instructional Video4:45
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3 Extreme New Mission Concepts

12th - Higher Ed
From asteroid spaceships, to exploring ice volcanoes, let's look at a few of the NIAC's recently approved Phase I projects!
Instructional Video4:51
SciShow

The Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts

12th - Higher Ed
FRBs last just a few milliseconds, and astronomers have detected less than a couple dozen of them without our current telescopes. Where do scientists think they come from?
Instructional Video5:26
SciShow

10 Science Superlatives of 2012

12th - Higher Ed
This year's end News episode wraps up with nothing but superlatives: the biggest, oldest, first, last, smallest and hottest developments in science from 2012.
Instructional Video3:27
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The 3 Coolest Things Built By Birds

12th - Higher Ed
There are a number of bird species that construct pretty cool things - today on SciShow, we'll visit with three of them...
Instructional Video5:36
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Karaoke Lemurs and the Evolution of Music

12th - Higher Ed
By giving some fossils a dental exam, we've learned more about how tusks first evolved. And humans aren't the only primate that can get down at karaoke night.
Instructional Video4:32
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Dinosaurs Had a Bloodsucking Enemy

12th - Higher Ed
This week, scientists revealed a sample of amber containing an extinct tick that fed on dinosaurs. Unfortunately, we can't take a blood sample from it and make Jurassic Park a reality, but it can still tell us a lot about how dinosaurs...
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Anal Teeth, Paralyzing Farts, and Other Weaponized Butts

12th - Higher Ed
All animals have adaptations that help them survive in the wild...some just focus more on back-end development than others. Whether for offense, defense, or both, here are five creatures with butt-kicking behinds!