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Can you solve the virus riddle? - Lisa Winer

Adults Creativity Math
Your research team has found a prehistoric virus preserved in the permafrost and isolated it for study. After a late night working, you're just closing up the lab when a sudden earthquake hits and breaks all the sample vials. Will you be able to destroy the virus before the vents open and unleash a deadly airborne plague? Lisa Winer shows how.

Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food

Adults Genetics Health
Are GMOs bad for your health? Or is this fear unfounded?

5-Yr-Old Pool Prodigy

Adults Human Sports
Meet Keith O'Dell, a bonafide pool playing prodigy. At just five years old, Keith pockets balls like a pro. The sport is in Keith's genes - his parents play pool, his grandparents play pool, the family even eats dinner on the pool table. His father says Keith was "born to play pool." The question is, how will his incredible talent effect the life ahead of him?

How this guy found 83 messages in bottles

Adults Creativity Global Warming Science
Clint Buffington has found 83 messages in bottles - and you could probably do it too. Vox's Zachary Crockett and Phil Edwards found out how.

Minecraft isn't just a game. It's an art form.

Adults Art Creativity Gaming
Minecraft maps are unique worlds, but they can also be an art form.

Everything Scientists Could Learn By Looking At Your Skull

Adults Biology History Human
Our skulls are all unique, but they also share characteristics across groups of people. Scientists can use this information to learn a lot about the previous "owner" of the skull.

The incredible sport of cup stacking, explained

Adults Society Sports
Sport stacking, cup stacking, speed stacking - whatever you call it, this sport is mesmerizing to watch. Vox's Phil Edwards learned the basics about stacking.

How a 15-year-old solved a Rubik's Cube in 5.25 seconds

Adults Math Sports
Rubik's Cube world record-holder Collin Burns tells us how he did it.

How does your body know what time it is? - Marco A. Sotomayor

Adults Human Mental Health Science
Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball that's hurtling towards us. And we owe all these abilities to an interconnected system of timekeepers in our brains. But how do they work? Marco A. Sotomayor details how human bodies naturally tell time.

Why do people get so anxious about math? - Orly Rubinsten

Adults Math Psychology
Have you ever sat down to take a math test and immediately felt your heart beat faster and your palms start to sweat? This is called math anxiety, and if it happens to you, you're not alone: Researchers think about 20 percent of the population suffers from it. So what's going on? And can it be fixed? Orly Rubinsten explores the current research and suggests ways to increase math performance.

Teen Speaks Over 20 Languages

Adults Education Language
Prodigy hyper-polyglot Tim Doner has been teaching himself languages since he was 13. He now speaks nearly 20 languages! Join Tim on a cultural tour of New York unlike any you've ever heard!

The Healthiest Diet In The World Isn't Just About Food

Adults Food Health
Most people think the Mediterranean diet is just about restricting what you eat, but they're getting it all wrong.

A Huge Advancement in Mind-Controlled Tech

Adults Disability Software Engineering Technology
This tech helps paralyzed people type with their minds, but the sky's the limit.

We Found New Planets. No, You Can't Live There

Adults Life Space
Everyone is freaking out about the discovery of 7 new potentially-habitable exoplanets, but is Trappist-1 really as good as it sounds?

5 CARTOONS THAT LOOK DIFFERENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

Adults Art Creativity Culture
In several countries, some famous scenes from different animated films look quite different from the way they look in other countries. You might not know this, but people working in animated films love their work and their audience, and sometimes change their films to include some important aspects for this or that culture. So, here are 5 animated films that look different in other countries.

Indigenous Panamanians protect their forests with drones

Adults Ecology Nature Technology
Settlers are illegally clearing trees on their land. So indigenous people are employing modern technology to stop them.

Why wild African elephants get by with hardly any sleep

Adults Animals Nature
Scientists tracked elephants with devices like Fitbits, and discovered African elephants in the wild sleep far less than anyone expected. It proves there's a huge gap in what we know about how and why animals sleep.

The Crazy Way Scientists Launch Rockets From Balloons

Adults Space Technology
Large chemical rockets are needed to launch payloads into space from the ground, but could rockoons, rocket balloons, be a more efficient alternative?

Take Augmented Reality Onto the Squash Court

Adults Sports Technology
Improve your squash game in a surprising way.

The economics of beard popularity in the US

Adults Economy Philosophy Society
We may have reached "peak beard."

This Giant Neuron Could Explain Where Consciousness Comes From

Adults Biology Neuroscience Self
After uncovering three giant neurons, scientists could be one step closer to pinpointing where consciousness lives in the brain.