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The Most Complex Language in the World

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You are cells. Your muscles, organs, skin and hair. They are in your blood and in your bones.

The Weird Sex Lives of Bluegills

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When it comes to the mating game, fish have some of the strangest ways of thwarting the competition.

What Exactly Is Travel Sickness?

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Learn all about travel sickness from Dr Chris and Dr Xand!

The Geometry Of Life

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Researchers have come up with a new way to create patterns in petri dishes using bacteria.

Why Do We Cough?

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The doctors will explain this by teaching you all about your LUNGS in this lab experiment.

What Is The Rarest Colour In Nature?

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Discover what colors are the most rare to see in nature, and how physics and evolution drive their scarcity.

The Stickiest Non-Sticky Material

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Adhesives based on gecko skin can hold huge weights – without sticking to anything.

What Exactly Is Body Bacteria?

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Learn about body bacteria with Dr. Chris and Dr. Xand!

Plants In Space!

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Dr. Anna-Lisa Paul and Dr. Robert J. Ferl put weeds in unique situations to study their behaviour on a molecular level.

How Many Animal Species Are There, Really?

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It's harder than you might think to know how many animal species live on Earth.

How Do Oysters Make Pearls?

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Explore how oysters use calcium carbonate to create pearls, and how this chemical compound creates a vast array of other materials.

A Chameleons Race Against Time

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Discover how a Labord’s chameleon learns how to hunt for a meal and find a potential mate, all in a short lifespan of just four months.

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!

Humans Versus The Common Cold

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Dig into the two main ways we fight the viruses that cause the common cold, and find out if it’s possible to create a cure.

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

Exploring The Taiga Biome

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Taiga biomes cover about 11% of the planet and contain about 1/3 of all trees on earth.

What Is Algae?

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What exactly is algae and what are the different types of algae?

Video Lab: A Sign Of Photosynthesis

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By means of photosynthesis, plants convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose, which is their food.

Photosynthesis

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Hank explains the extremely complex series of reactions whereby plants feed themselves on sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, and also create some by products we're pretty fond of as well.

What is Mixotrophy?

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Meet the mixotrophs.