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Why do we have crooked teeth when our ancestors didn’t?

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Explore the prevailing scientific theory of why crooked teeth and impacted wisdom teeth are recent developments in human evolution.
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How NASA Reinvented The Wheel

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A huge thanks to everyone at NASA Glenn Research Center for having us at the SLOPE Lab, showing their work on this indestructible tire, and helping with the science and animation.
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How to master your sense of smell

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Some perfumers can distinguish individual odors in a fragrance made of hundreds of scents; tea-experts have been known to sniff out the exact location of a particular tea; and the NYC Transit Authority once had a employee responsible only for sniffing out gas leaks.
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The man who lost his sense of touch

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Explore the science behind how your body and brain process different sensations like touch, pain, temperature, and spatial awareness.
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How Quantum Computers Break The Internet

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A quantum computer in the next decade could crack the encryption our society relies on using Shor's Algorithm.
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How Wildfires Spawn Deadly Firenadoes

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Climate change is causing wildfire season to get worse every year. And our models of wildfires can't keep up with the things fires can do... like spawn devastating fire tornadoes.
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Porcelain in the Wreckage | Drain the Oceans

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Vanessa Litzenberg discusses the porcelain from the wreck. Drain the Oceans dives deep into the unknown; a truly epic, original series that takes underwater adventure and earth science illustration into a whole new era.
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Primitive Technology: Iron Bacteria Cement

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I developed a cement made from iron bacteria, then made pots from it to test its ability to set and not dissolve in water.
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You Can’t Actually Die Of Old Age

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Despite centuries of death records to the contrary, “dying of old age” is not medically possible; instead, it’s just a convenient catch-all.
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World's Strongest Magnet!

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The world's strongest magnet is a million times stronger than Earth's magnetic field. Learn more about sustainability and Google’s efforts at sustainability.google. Part of this video was sponsored by Google.
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How Smart Are Crows Actually?

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Have you seen that adorable clip of a raven sledding down a snowy roof? We have, so we took a deep dive into how crows and other corvids exhibit tool use, intelligence, and maybe even consciousness.
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The Biology Behind The Last of Us | WIRED

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The infection from HBO's The Last of Us is actually based on a real parasitic fungus. This fungus turns insects into zombies. The creators of the game and the show were inspired by zombie carpenter ants.
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Your Immune System is More Dangerous than You Think

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There is this idea floating around that what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. That surviving a disease leaves you better off. And it seems to make sense because we have all experienced this.
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The Disease You Will Never Survive

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A simple mis-folding in a certain brain protein causes a disease for which we have no cure.
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Why Is Our Moon Two-Faced?

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The near side of the Moon has a thin crust and is covered in maria. The far side has a thick crust and almost no maria.
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Can We Capture Greenhouse Gases?

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It’s one thing to say a business is carbon neutral. It’s another to be able to truly account for that carbon at all stages of the production process.
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rimitive Technology: Decarburization of iron and forging experiments

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I took a brittle, high carbon/iron alloy (cast iron) made from local ore and used a decarburization method to reduce it's carbon content making it malleable and forged it flat by hammering.
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The Weird Sex Lives of Bluegills

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When it comes to the mating game, fish have some of the strangest ways of thwarting the competition.
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The continents are moving. When will they collide?

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Dig into the science of plate tectonics to find out when the next supercontinent will emerge— and how it could affect Earth’s environment.
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Black Holes

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Black Holes Aren’t Black or Even Holes. What Are They?
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What causes cavities? - Mel Rosenberg

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When a team of archeologists recently came across some 15,000-year-old human remains, they made an interesting discovery: the teeth of those ancient humans were riddled with holes.