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Food Myths: Do Carrots Improve Your Eyesight? | WIRED

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Your parents always told you to eat your veggies, especially carrots if you want good eyesight. But can they really improve your vision? WIRED takes a look.

Crash Course Physics Preview

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It's time! Crash Course Physics is coming soon and here is your introduction to our host for this series, Dr. Shini Somara. You can find out more about her linked below!

4 Plants that Hunt Underground

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Carnivorous plants tend to live in environments where the soil can’t provide enough of the nutrients they need to survive, so they have developed all sorts of methods to trap and consume the critters of the area, including hunting underground!

How Entomologists Use Insects to Solve Crimes | WIRED

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"Insects never lie. Insects are tiny witnesses," says forensic entomologist Dr. Paola Magni. On a crime scene, insects like maggots play a key role in determining time of death. Dr. Magni uses the learnings from these insects to give justice to victims.

Harp Seal Pups are Losing their Homes I Our Frozen Planet I BBC Earth

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On opposite ends of our planet, two remarkably similar stories are playing out... and what links them is our changing climate. Meet the scientists witnessing events unfold in these polar regions, and discover their hopes for a better future.

Let’s Travel to The Most Extreme Place in The Universe

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This time you can join us on a journey through the microcosm. Curious? Head over to our shop and get it while supplies last.

Mushroom Wars

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Two mushroom guilds with vastly different strategies are locked in competition for forest dominance.

Stress is Bad for Your Health: Crash Course Public Health #5

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Our identities, societies, and health are all mixed together in cool, weird, and often deeply unfair ways. One of the big factors that comes out of that mix is stress.

Exploring the Active Volcano of Mauna Loa | National Geographic

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National Geographic Explorer Andrés Ruzo joins chef Melissa King in Hawaii to summit the world's largest active volcano, source local ingredients, and create a dish inspired by the island. Paid Content for Mazda.

Primitive Technology: Smelting Iron In Brick Furnaces

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I made 3 furnaces from bricks using different configurations to test their effectiveness. The benefit of using bricks to make a furnace is that it's quicker, easier, re-useable and portable relative to a furnace constructed in-situ from clay.

What Happens if a Supervolcano Blows Up?

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The Earth is a gigantic ball of semi-molten rock, with a heart of iron as hot as the surface of the Sun. Titanic amounts of heat left over from its birth and the radioactive decay of trillions of tons of radioactive elements find no escape but up.

There’s No Such Thing As “Warm-” Or “Cold-” Blooded

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The concept of warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals is outdated because there are actually tons of different animal thermoregulation strategies.

The Real Reason Leaves Change Color In the Fall

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Want to learn more about the topic in this week’s video? Here are some keywords to get your googling started: Leaf senescence, chlorophyll, carotenoid, anthocyanin

Flavor Science: What's Really in a Pumpkin Spice Latte

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If you take a look at an ingredients list, odds are you’ll find natural and artificial flavors somewhere in there.

Civilian Tries on NASA Spacesuit For the First Time

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How does WIRED's Brent Rose feel about being the first person outside of the space program to try on a pressurized space suit?

Protecting the Okavango Ecosystem | National Geographic

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From the air to the ground, innovations in science and technology are helping scientists explore an ecosystem of rivers that supply water to the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

Primitive Technology: Rock-Throwing Catapult (Trebuchet)

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I built a trebuchet, a type of catapult that uses a counter weight to store gravitational potential energy which is then used to fire a projectile via a sling.