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What Would Humans Look Like If We Never Evolved?

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Here's what you'd look like without evolution!

The World in UV

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UV cameras expose a hidden world and reveal the incompleteness of our perception.

Which Life Form REALLY Dominates Earth?

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Are humans really Earth's most dominant species? Let's put all of the planet's living things on a scale and see what has amassed the most mass.

3 Arguments Why Marijuana Should Stay Illegal Reviewed

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We take a fair look at some of the best counter arguments for legalization and see how they hold up in review.

How Evolution Turned A Possum Into A Wolf

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ntil the early 20th century, Tasmania was home to a very weird wolf-like creature. Except that it wasn't a wolf. Even though it looked like a wolf.

Are naked mole rats the strangest mammals?

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What mammal has the social life of an insect, the cold-bloodedness of a reptile, and the metabolism of a plant?

How Long Can We Live?

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The human lifespan might be limited, in part, because natural selection just stops working late in life.

The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth - The Bacteriophage

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A war has been raging for billions of years, killing trillions every single day, while we don't even notice. This war involves the single deadliest being on our planet: The Bacteriophage.

How squids outsmart their predators

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There are about 500 species of squid, and they live in all the world's oceans, making them a reliable food source for whales, dolphins, sharks, seabirds, fish - and even other squids. As a result, the squid's most extraordinary adaptations are those that have evolved to help them thwart these predators.

What Happens When You Take Steroids?

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How do steroids work? The pros and cons.

Your Body is Amazing ft. Christine Sydelko

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Discover why your body is a wonderland with Christine Sydelko!

What Would REALLY Happen If You Cloned Yourself?

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What happens when we clone things? Is cloning people even possible?

Could You Be Immune To Everything?

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Do you remember having a cold in 5th grade? Or the flu a couple years ago? Your immune system does.

Can We Really Touch Anything?

AdultsBiologyScience
Can we really touch things? Well if by touch we mean exchange a force-carrying particle with, then yes.

The science of skin - Emma Bryce

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Between you and the rest of the world lies an interface that makes up 16% of your physical weight. This is your skin, the largest organ in your body: laid out flat, it would cover close to 1.7 square metres of ground.

Why Don't Sheep Shrink In The Rain?

AdultsAnimalsNatureScience...
Getting wet isn't REALLY what makes wool shrink; it merely exacerbates the friction between the wool fibers, which is stronger in one direction than another, so when agitated in the washer or dryer, they migrate in relation to each other in a process called "felting."

Why Are There As Many Males As Females?

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In almost every animal species on Earth, equal numbers of males and females are conceived. Why is that?