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Rosalind Franklin: DNA's unsung hero - Claudio L. Guerra

AdultsGeneticsHistoryHumanScienceBiology
The discovery of the structure of DNA was one of the most important scientific achievements in human history.
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Are You More Forgetful Than A Fish?

AdultsAnimalsNatureSciencePsychology
How smart can fish actually be?
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Why is Mt. Everest so Deadly? | Mashable Explains

AdultsLifeNatureSportsScienceHealth
Here's a rundown of the most common ways people have died attempting to summit Mt. Everest.
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Will This Trick Your Brain?

AdultsHumanNeuroscienceSciencePsychology
Your eyes and brain are pretty amazing!
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What Does Your Accent Say About You?

AdultsLanguageScience
Can science explain the way you speak?
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What is obesity?

AdultsBiologyHealthWellnessScience
Obesity is an escalating global epidemic. It substantially raises the probability of diseases like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, and cancer.
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Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion

AdultsCreativityVisual DesignArtScience
Finalist of the Best Illusion of the Year Contest 2016
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Should You Be Worried About Zika?

AdultsHealthNatureScience
Zika virus is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that was first identified in Uganda in 1947 in monkeys through a network that monitored yellow fever.
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How the choices you make can affect your genes

AdultsBiologyGeneticsHumanScience
Here's a conundrum: Identical twins originate from the same DNA ... so how can they turn out so different - even in traits that have a significant genetic component?
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Holding and Explosion at 20,000 fps

AdultsFilmTechnologyScienceExperiments
I always thought firing from the center was the best way to do it. Turns out I'm probably wrong.
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Celsius Didn't Invent Celsius

AdultsHistoryScience
Celsius never devised nor used the scale that now bears his name.
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How the food you eat affects your brain

AdultsFoodHealthNeuroscienceScience
When it comes to what you bite, chew and swallow, your choices have a direct and long-lasting effect on the most powerful organ in your body: your brain.
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How Do Lie Detectors Work?

AdultsPsychologyWorkScience
Can you tell whether or not someone is lying? Greg Foot explains whether or not lie detectors actually work.
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Black Hole Comparison

AdultsPhysicsSpaceScience
This Crazy Black Hole Comparison Will Definitely Blow Your Mind
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How Big Can a Person Get?

AdultsAnimalsHumanScienceBiology
Some animals, like the blue whale, keep getting bigger and bigger over time! How big are humans able to grow?
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We Can Now Edit Our DNA. But Let's Do it Wisely

AdultsBiologyGeneticsScienceBiotechnology
Geneticist Jennifer Doudna co-invented a groundbreaking new technology for editing genes, called CRISPR-Cas9. The tool allows scientists to make precise edits to DNA strands, which could lead to treatments for genetic diseases.
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What Is Something?

AdultsPhysicsSpacePhilosophyScience
What is something? On the most fundamental level thinkable, what are things? Why are things? And why do things behave the way they do?
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What Happens When Your Brain Is Split

AdultsHumanMental HealthNeuroscienceScience
What Happens When Your Brain Is Split In Two - And You Survive?
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Mimic Octopus

AdultsAnimalsNatureScience
Most Intelligent Mimic Octopus In The World
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Why do some people have seasonal allergies?

AdultsHealthHumanBiologyScienceEnvironment
Ah, spring. Grass growing, flowers blooming, trees budding. For those with allergies, though, this explosion of new life probably inspires more dread than joy. So what's behind this annual onslaught of mucus? Eleanor Nelsen explains what happens when your immune system goes rogue.
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Backwards Brain Bike

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Destin from Smarter Every Day challenged me to learn to ride the Backwards Bran Bike for 50 meters.