Your Body is Amazing ft. Christine Sydelko
Adults Biology
Discover why your body is a wonderland with Christine Sydelko!
What Would REALLY Happen If You Cloned Yourself?
Adults Biology
What happens when we clone things? Is cloning people even possible?
Could You Be Immune To Everything?
Adults Biology
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?
Adults Biology
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
Adults Biology
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 Are There As Many Males As Females?
Adults Biology
In almost every animal species on Earth, equal numbers of males and females are conceived. Why is that?
Debunking Anti-Vaxxers
Adults Biology
Here's what to say to anti-vaxxers!
How did teeth evolve? - Peter S. Ungar
Adults Biology
You may take them for granted, but your teeth are a marvel. They break up all your food over the course of your life, while being strong enough to withstand breakage themselves. How do they do it?
Could we clone humans? - Earth Lab
Adults Biology
Dom Burgess investigates whether we could clone humans in the future.
How does your immune system work? - Emma Bryce
Adults Biology
The immune system is a vast network of cells, tissues, and organs that coordinate your body's defenses against any threats to your health. Without it, you'd be exposed to billions of bacteria, viruses, and toxins that could make something as minor as a paper cut or a seasonal cold fatal. So how does it work? Emma Bryce takes you inside the body to find out.
What are mini brains? - Madeline Lancaster
Adults Biology
Shielded by our thick skulls and swaddled in layers of protective tissue, the human brain is extremely difficult to observe in action. Luckily, scientists can use brain organoids - pencil eraser-sized masses of cells that function like human brains but aren't part of an organism - to look closer. How do they do it? And is it ethical? Madeline Lancaster shares how to make a brain in a lab.
How Close Are We to Curing HIV/AIDS?
Adults Biology
Current drug therapies mean it's possible to live a normal life span with HIV, but that's expensive and not a long term solution. What we really need is an HIV vaccine and a cure. So, how close are we?
Why Are You Anxious?
Adults Biology
When you're feeling or stressed, your body releases stress hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol...
Your Face Could Be Recreated From DNA: Should You Worry?
Adults Biology
Can we predict what a person's face looks like based solely on a sample of their DNA? A new study says yes, but geneticists aren't so sure.
Why is it so hard to cure cancer? - Kyuson Yun
Adults Biology
We've harnessed electricity, sequenced the human genome, and eradicated smallpox. But after billions of dollars in research, we haven't found a solution for a disease that affects more than 14 million people and their families at any given time. Why is it so difficult to cure cancer? Kyuson Yun explains the challenges.
One Shot Could Provide All the Vaccines You'll Ever Need
Adults Biology
Hate needles? Researchers may have found a way to combine all the vaccines you'll ever need into a single shot. Here's how it works.