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What Are Plants Made Of? Crash Course Botany

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When you eat a salad for lunch, you’re digging into a giant pile of plant organs. That’s right—plants are made up of organs, only theirs follow a totally different set of rules from our own.

Panda Mother Teaches Cub To Eat Bamboo

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Panda babies aren’t actually born with the essential stomach enzyme needed to break down bamboo. So, how do they eat it?

Your Body Killed Cancer 5 Minutes Ago

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Somewhere in your body, your immune system just quietly killed one of your own cells, stopping it from becoming cancer, and saving your life. It does that all the time.

The Guts

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Today, we will learn about how your gut works through a rather gross science experiment.

Do Butterflies Taste With Their Feet?

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Butterfly and moth expert Dr. David Lees explores what we know about butterflies’ sense of taste.

You’re Not a Lab Mouse, but You Might Be a Wild Mouse

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The lab mice we use for genetic studies are not only closely related, but live out their whole lives in a sterile environment, so they don’t tell us everything we need to know about actual humans.

Microworlds: Bug Mimics

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Mimicry takes a few forms here on the coast in the world of bugs, all in the name of survival.

Why do we have crooked teeth when our ancestors didn’t?

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Explore the prevailing scientific theory of why crooked teeth and impacted wisdom teeth are recent developments in human evolution.

How Do We Move Our Fingers

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Learn about how we move our fingers and more fun scientific facts related to hands.

How Your Immune System Works

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Today, we are finding out how your immune system works through a science experiment!

How to master your sense of smell

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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 man who lost his sense of touch

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Explore the science behind how your body and brain process different sensations like touch, pain, temperature, and spatial awareness.

How Does Our Sense Of Balance Work?

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Today, you will learn about how you BALANCE!

Just How Good is Eagle Vision?

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In a remote part of Scotland, expert bird handler Lloyd Buck sets up a game of hide and seek for his golden eagle Tilly to test just how good her eyesight is.

The Best Way to Boost Your Immune System

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There is this idea floating around that what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.

What Was The Biggest Dinosaur That Ever Lived?

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What was the largest dinosaur? And how did it get so big? If you're shouting 'Diplodocus!' and 'Brachiosaurus!', you're on the right track.

You Can’t Actually Die Of Old Age

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Despite centuries of death records to the contrary, “dying of old age” is not medically possible; instead, it’s just a convenient catch-all.

Magenta: The Colour That Doesn't Exist

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When we look at a rainbow, we see a full spectrum of light. Every colour we could imagine. Except one – magenta.

How Close Are We To Uploading Our Minds?

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Investigate the possibility of scanning the human brain and uploading our minds and consciousness to a digital world.

The Biology Behind The Last of Us | WIRED

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The infection from HBO's The Last of Us is actually based on a real parasitic fungus. This fungus turns insects into zombies. The creators of the game and the show were inspired by zombie carpenter ants.

What Is Symbiosis?

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You might think symbiosis is when two different species live in perfect harmony— but that’s just one kind of interaction.