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Cool Facts About Snakes, Lizards and Dragons

KidsAnimalsNatureFactsScience
There are over 8,000 species of snakes and lizards. Find out some of the secrets behind their scaly skin.

VFX Artist Reveals The True Scale Of The Universe

YouthCreativityScienceSpace
If The Earth was shrunk down to the size of a tennis ball, how big would the universe be?

You Are Not Where You Think You Are

AdultsLifeScienceSpacePhilosophy
Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of that?

The Super Secrets of Sewage

AdultsBiologyHumanScienceHealthEnvironment
In 2020, many cities started monitoring wastewater for viruses, and there are a lot of non-virus reasons to keep doing it.

How To Make Elephant Toothpaste

KidsScienceExperimentsHow-to
For this fun experiment, we have transformed our kitchen into a laboratory.

How does heart transplant surgery work? - Roni Shanoada

AdultsBiologyHumanTechnologyHealthScience
Dig into the science of how heart transplants happen, how donors are matched and find out how this complex surgery saves lives.

25 MILLION Orbeez In A Pool

YouthHumorScienceFunEntertainment
We filled a pool with 25 million Orbeez so I could settle an argument about how far you sink if you jump in.

Food And Culture On The Space Station

YouthSpaceWomenFoodCultureScience
Learn about the intersection of food and culture in space from NASA astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams.

How Tutankhamun Got His Gold

YouthHistoryWorldScience
Archeologists are trying to find out how the pharaoh mined and amassed so much gold.

Normal Stuff In Not-So Normal Places

YouthScienceNature
So, what happens to normal stuff (like water) when it goes to not so normal places?

How Is Cotton Candy Made?

KidsEducationScienceFoodHow-to
Learn how cotton candy machines turn regular sugar into fluffy, delicious cotton candy.

Cool Facts About Sharks

KidsAnimalsScienceNature
Did you know there are over 300 different species of sharks in our oceans?

Combinations of 52 cards (52 factorial)

AdultsMathPsychologyScience
Whenever you shuffle a deck of 52 cards, it is quite likely that you are achieving something never done before in history. The number of combinations is 52 factorial.

Time Zones For Kids

YouthHistoryWorldEducationScience
Do you know what a time zone is, or which time zone you live in?

Planetary Plants

YouthScienceSpaceBiology
What could plant life look like on other planets?

Floating Dry Ice Experiment

KidsScienceExperiments
What happens when dry ice is added to a shallow amount of water? In this experiment, you can test this out for yourself.

Cool Facts About Alligators And Crocodiles

KidsAnimalsEducationScienceNature
Find out how alligators and crocodiles are different in “Things You Wanna Know.”

The Most Horrible Parasite: Brain Eating Amoeba

AdultsHealthHumanNatureScience
If you too want to overcome your existential dread, make your life beautiful and support Kurzgesagt, you can get sciency products made with love in our shop. Thanks so much to everyone who's supporting us.

Geoengineering

YouthScienceSpaceEnvironment
What is geoengineering, is it really an option and what if it goes wrong?

Petrified Forest National Park

KidsTravelWorldNatureScienceHistory
Learn cool facts about petrified wood––like how it became fossilized and why it’s scattered in eastern Arizona.

A Picture of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

AdultsEducationScienceSpace
This is an image of the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.