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The Ocean Holds Enough Uranium To Power The Planet For 10,000 Years

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Stanford University researchers have found a new way to extract particles of Uranium from seawater. Could this bring us closer to sustainable nuclear power?

Cloud Harvesting Nets Trap Drinking Water Like Cobwebs

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Watch the world's largest cloud harvester in action.

How the BBC makes Planet Earth look like a Hollywood movie

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The technology behind the cinematic style of the BBC's Planet Earth II.

Shredding Bacteria With Technology From Insect Wings

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Dragonfly wings are covered in bacteria-killing nanopillars, and scientists are taking inspiration from them to make smarter anti-bacterial surfaces!

Images of Our Changing Earth

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Amazing before and after satellite images taken from the International Space Station show how quickly our dynamic, but fragile planet can change.

Watch Dory, don't buy her

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The release of Pixar's Finding Dory could spell trouble for the blue tang, a species of tropical fish that the character Dory is based on.

7 Pets You Should Never Release In The Wild

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Sometimes, people release their exotic pets into the wild. Why can this cause such a huge problem?

This Terrifying Worm Snatches Fish from the Ocean Floor

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Sand strikers, also known as bobbit worms, are primitive-looking creatures that lack eyes, or even a brain. Despite this, they are savage predators who shoot out grapple-like hooks to reel in passing fish.

Forget Oxygen-This Leaf Produces Medicine

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This artificial leaf creates medicines using sunlight.

How Big do Tsunamis Get?

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How big do Tsunamis Get? The answer is pretty terrifying, and pretty big.

Crazy Lake Experiment

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1 tablespoon of olive oil destroys half an acre of waves on this lake. What The Physics?!

How These Sea Shells Know the Weather in Greenland

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Foraminifera - tiny, single-celled marine life forms - build gorgeous houses that record how much ice there is on the planet.

Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Concussions?

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Don't be hard-headed.

Do we really need pesticides?

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Annually, we shower over 5 billion pounds of pesticides across the Earth to control insects, unwanted weeds, funguses, rodents, and bacteria that may threaten our food supply. But is it worth it, knowing what we do about the associated environmental and public health risks?

How do whales sing?

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Communicating underwater is challenging. Light and odors don't travel well, but sound moves about four times faster in water than in air - which means marine mammals often use sounds to communicate.

Iguana vs Snakes - Planet Earth II

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This behaviour has never been filmed before! Hatchling marine iguanas are attacked by snakes hunting on mass. This clip was taken from the Islands episode of Planet Earth II.

Why Do Animals Eat Their Babies?

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Sometimes, it makes sense for critters across the animal kingdom to chow down on their own young.