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Can a Virus Get a Virus?

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Can a virus get a virus?

The Secrets of Extreme Breath Holding

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Humans can hold our breath longer than we think by taking advantage of our body’s innate survival instincts - and then ignoring them.

What Happens If Your Stomach Gets Removed?

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Can you survive without a stomach? What happens when your stomach is gone?

The wild world of carnivorous plants

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Venus fly traps, bladderworts and sundews, oh my! Learn about carnivorous plants and their predatory antics to lure, trap and digest prey.

How to biohack your cells to fight cancer

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Check out the science of biohacking, where biologists go into a patient’s genetic code and reprogram their immune system to recognize and fight cancer cells.

What Happens When You Go To Sleep High?

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Dude. Sleeping high does what?

You Are A Fish

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With our current understanding of evolutionary history and our strategy of cladistic naming, if we wanted to have both goldfish and sharks under a single group called "fish", then mammals must also be called fish.

Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields?

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Research has found some human brains can pick up on rotations of geomagnetic-strength fields as evidenced by drops in alpha wave power following stimulus.

What Happens When You Freeze To Death?

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Good reason to stay inside during this Polar Vortex!

Could A Plant Grow Inside You?

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Plants can live in all kinds of environments...even inside the your body?

The Most Important Dinosaur

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Dinosaurs!

Aliens under the Ice – Life on Rogue Planets

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Out in the vast coldness of outer space, there are planets that travel alone through darkness without the boundaries of a system. Here’s how this can happen – and why these frozen deserts might secretly harbor alien life.

Can animals be deceptive?

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A male firefly emits a series of enticing flashes. He hopes a female will respond and mate with him.

Do Fish Pee?

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You know you’ve wondered. Do fish actually pee? And what does that make the ocean… one big toilet?

Why Is The Very Hungry Caterpillar So Dang Hungry?

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Because it's hoarding protein. Not just for itself, but for the butterfly it will become and every egg that butterfly will lay. And it's about to lose its mouth... as it wriggles out of its skin during metamorphosis.

Non-Invasive Brain Surgery

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Scientists have combined ultrasound, viruses and synthetic drugs to control regions of the brain.

Jellyfish Acceleration | Because Science Live

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How Jellyfish move.

What If You Only Ate Chips?

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What if you only consumed potatoes forever?

Why Are Fewer People Getting Appendicitis?

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There are many other unforeseen health changes that seem to be related to the forces of modernization, like the increase in rates of diabetes, Crohn’s disease, and ADHD.

Can We Get Older Without Aging?

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Nothing is guaranteed in life except death, taxes, and entropy. What do other life forms have to teach us about staying alive as we get old, and will we ever conquer death?

Why is meningitis so dangerous?

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In 1987, thousands of people gathered in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage. But what started out as a celebration led to a worldwide health crisis: more than 2,000 cases of meningitis broke out, spreading across Saudi Arabia and the rest of the world.