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How Will You Die?

AdultsData ScienceLifeScience...
Science, statistics and lifestyle can help predict how you will die!

How smart are orangutans?

AdultsAnimalsNatureScience
Along with humans, orangutans belong to the Hominidae family tree, which stretches back 14 million years.

Incredible footage of hermit crab changing shells

AdultsAnimalsNatureScience
In this exciting excerpt from the third season of Jonathan Bird's Blue World, Jonathan films a hermit crab changing shells and then also transferring its anemones from one shell to the other.

How Do Animals See in the Dark?

AdultsAnimalsBiologyNeuroscience...
To human eyes, the world at night is a formless canvas of grey. Many nocturnal animals, on the other hand, experience a rich and varied world, bursting with details, shapes, and colors.

The Twins Paradox Primer

AdultsPhysicsScienceSpace
How can time be slower and faster at the same time?

Enter the Deadliest Garden in the World

AdultsEcologyNatureScience
Locked behind black steel doors in Northumberland, England, the Poison Garden at Alnwick Castle grows around 100 infamous killers.

Interactive Dynamic Video

AdultsFilmPhysicsTechnology...
Image-Space Modal Bases for Plausible Manipulation of Objects in Video" ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2015) by Abe Davis, Justin Chen, Fredo Durand

How a single-celled organism almost wiped out life on Earth

AdultsBiologyLifeWorld...
There's an organism that changed the world. It caused the first mass extinction in Earth's history

Is Most Published Research Wrong?

AdultsSocietyData ScienceScience...
Mounting evidence suggests a lot of published research is false.

Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever

AdultsBiotechnologyFutureGenetics...
Designer babies, the end of diseases, genetically modified humans that never age. Outrageous things that used to be science fiction are suddenly becoming reality. The only thing we know for sure is that things will change irreversibly.

Real life sunken cities

AdultsCitiesHistoryScience...
Though people are most familiar with Plato's fictional Atlantis, many real underwater cities actually exist. Peter Campbell explains how sunken cities are studied by scientists to help us understand the lives of our ancestors, the dynamic nature of our planet, and the impact of each on the other.

What Is Life? Is Death Real?

AdultsBiologyGeneticsLife...
So what is the difference between you and a rock? This seems like an easy, even stupid question. But even the smartest people on earth have no idea where to draw the line between living and dead things.

One Year on Earth

AdultsFilmSpaceWorld...
On July 20, 2015, NASA released to the world the first image of the sunlit side of Earth captured by the space agency's EPIC camera on NOAA's DSCOVR satellite. The camera has now recorded a full year of life on Earth from its orbit at Lagrange point 1, approximately 1 million miles from Earth, where it is balanced between the gravity of our home planet and the sun.

Why do we hiccup?

AdultsBiologyScienceHealth
The longest recorded case of hiccups lasted for 68 years ... and was caused by a falling hog. While that level of severity is extremely uncommon, most of us are no stranger to an occasional case of the hiccups. But what causes these 'hics' in the first place? John Cameron takes us into the diaphragm to find out.

7 Tips To Wake Up Without Coffee

AdultsFoodHealthScience...
How can science help you wake up without coffee?

Why the metric system matters

AdultsHistoryPhysicsPolitics...
For the majority of recorded human history, units like the weight of a grain or the length of a hand weren't exact and varied from place to place.

The Death Of Bees Explained

AdultsAnimalsLifeNature...
In 2015 the bees are still dying in masses. Which at first seems not very important until you realize that one third of all food humans consume would disappear with them. Millions could starve.