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How to master your sense of smell

AdultsBiologyHumanScience...
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.

The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves

AdultsPhysicsTechnologyScience
A head-vaporizing laser with a perfect wavelength detecting sub-proton space-time ripples.

Why Doesn't Time Flow Backwards?

AdultsPhysicsScience
Thanks to Google Making and Science for supporting this series, and to Sean Carroll for collaborating on it!

m&m's Dissolving in Water - 4K

AdultsFilmFoodScience...
We dropped m&m's chocolate in water and discovered something really wonderful!

Forget Oxygen-This Leaf Produces Medicine

AdultsHealthNatureTechnology...
This artificial leaf creates medicines using sunlight.

How Big do Tsunamis Get?

AdultsNatureWorldScience...
How big do Tsunamis Get? The answer is pretty terrifying, and pretty big.

Google Timelapse Walks You Through Decades of Change in Seconds

AdultsHistoryTechnologyWorld...
Three decades of change in five seconds.

Why doesn't anything stick to Teflon?

AdultsScienceTechnologyHistory
Teflon was in the spacesuits the Apollo crew wore for the moon landing, in pipes and valves used in the Manhattan project, and it may be in your kitchen, as the nonstick coating on frying pans and cookie sheets.

How These Sea Shells Know the Weather in Greenland

AdultsAnimalsBiologyNature...
Foraminifera - tiny, single-celled marine life forms - build gorgeous houses that record how much ice there is on the planet.

Handheld TESLA COIL GUN at 28,000fps

AdultsFilmScienceTechnology...
This is a the musical Tesla coil used in the video, It was a lot of fun and I recommend getting one!

Death From Space

AdultsScienceSpaceTechnology
There are cosmic snipers firing at random into the unvierse. What are they and what happens if they hit us?

You Can't See This (MIND TRICKS)

AdultsHumanNeurosciencePsychology...
Your eyes aren't always telling the truth.

The Future Of Agriculture Is Here

AdultsNatureTechnologyBiotechnology...
Project Flora Robotica studies the symbiotic relationships between robots and plants.

What the Fahrenheit?!

AdultsHistoryScience
The crazy story of the arbitrary temperature scale used in a tiny minority of countries.

Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Concussions?

AdultsAnimalsNatureScience
Don't be hard-headed.

How do whales sing?

AdultsAnimalsNatureScience
Communicating underwater is challenging. Light and odors don't travel well, but sound moves about four times faster in water than in air - which means marine mammals often use sounds to communicate.

Is It Okay to Touch Mars?

AdultsScienceSpace
What exactly makes a journey to Mars so perilous? Is it okay to touch Martian dirt with your bare hands?