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1816: The year with no summer - David Biello

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Dig into geoengineering, which uses technology to manipulate Earth’s environments to counteract climate change.

Why Lightbulbs Might Be The Best Invention Ever

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Lightbulbs might be the best idea ever – just not for light.

Corn Shouldn't Be Food, But It Is

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You probably have a bag of frozen corn in your freezer, or have chowed down on a buttery ear of corn at a cookout.

The HUGE Problem with ChatGPT

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Free-to-use, exceptionally powerful artificial intelligences are available to more people than ever, seemingly making some kind of news every day.

The “afterlife” according to Einstein’s special relativity

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Sabine Hossenfelder discusses the physics of… dead grandmothers?

How to Make Money on YouTube with 20M Subs

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In 2023, Kurzgesagt has existed for 10 years (which is insanely long in internet years).

How Caffeine Accidentally Took Over The World

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Plants don't make caffeine just for us, so what DO they make it for?

Explaining concrete while getting buried in it

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Concrete = cement + sand + gravel. Cement is the most important man-made material on Earth.

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.

Why Aliens Might Already Be On Their Way To Us

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The universe is magnificent and vast. Hundreds of billions of galaxies, trillions of stars, and even more planets. If even the tiniest fraction are habitable, then the Universe should be teeming with life. And yet we see nothing, only vast emptiness. Where is everyone else?

Why We Haven’t Learned More In 101 Years Of Trying

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Almost everything we know about the reproductive practices of European eels comes from a genius study conducted more than 100 years ago.

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 NASA Reinvented The Wheel

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A huge thanks to everyone at NASA Glenn Research Center for having us at the SLOPE Lab, showing their work on this indestructible tire, and helping with the science and animation.

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 Quantum Computers Break The Internet

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A quantum computer in the next decade could crack the encryption our society relies on using Shor's Algorithm.

How Wildfires Spawn Deadly Firenadoes

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Climate change is causing wildfire season to get worse every year. And our models of wildfires can't keep up with the things fires can do... like spawn devastating fire tornadoes.

Porcelain in the Wreckage | Drain the Oceans

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Vanessa Litzenberg discusses the porcelain from the wreck. Drain the Oceans dives deep into the unknown; a truly epic, original series that takes underwater adventure and earth science illustration into a whole new era.

Primitive Technology: Iron Bacteria Cement

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I developed a cement made from iron bacteria, then made pots from it to test its ability to set and not dissolve in water.

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.

World's Strongest Magnet!

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The world's strongest magnet is a million times stronger than Earth's magnetic field. Learn more about sustainability and Google’s efforts at sustainability.google. Part of this video was sponsored by Google.