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Introducing Tap to Translate

Adults Language Technology
Tap to Translate: instantly translate text within any app on your Android phone. No more app switching. Just copy the text and your translation pops up right there.

The Real Reason Leaves Change Color In the Fall

Adults Environment Nature
The chlorophyll breaks down, the green color disappears, and the yellow to orange colors become visible and give the leaves part of their fall splendor.

Inside the Svalbard Seed Vault

Adults Food Nature World
A rare look inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault which is closed ~350 days a year

How do we separate the inseparable?

Adults Physics Science Technology
Your cell phone is mainly made of plastics and metals. It's easy to appreciate the process by which those elements add up to something so useful.

Why Does a Pool Table Need a Super Strong Magnet?

Adults Science Sports
In a pool table's 30 year life span, it can rack up half a million games. What's underneath the green felt that keeps this game playable?

Man Goes The Distance For Tiny Hummingbird

Adults Animals Pets
A man in Whittier has gone the distance for a tiny hummingbird his once-feral dog helped rescue.

Tilt Brush: Painting from a new perspective

Adults Art Creativity Technology
Tilt Brush lets you paint in 3D space with virtual reality. Unleash your creativity with three-dimensional brush strokes, stars, light, and even fire. Your room is your canvas. Your palette is your imagination. The possibilities are endless.

Electric Cars Could Wreak Havoc

Adults Global Warming Technology Transportation Automotive
February 24 -- There are more than one billion cars on the road worldwide today, and only one tenth of one percent of them have a plug. OPEC contends that even in the year 2040, EVs will make up just one percent.

The threat of invasive species

Adults Environment Nature
Massive vines that blanket the southern United States, climbing high as they uproot trees and swallow buildings. A ravenous snake that is capable of devouring an alligator. Rabbit populations that eat themselves into starvation.

What If The Earth Stopped Spinning?

Adults Physics World
What if the Earth stopped spinning? What would happen to you?

Easy Butter Chicken

Adults Creativity Food
Serve garnished with cilantro on top of rice. Enjoy!

Flavored Oxygen Taste Test

Adults Humor Internet Culture Science
Can we figure out what flavor oxygen we're breathing?

Do You Speak English?

Adults Film Humor
Simon Pegg and the Big Train comedy sketch team perform a funny short on life of an English speaking tourist in France.

This Number is Illegal

Adults Cybersecurity Math Technology
85650789657397829 + 1402 more digits is an illegal number. To understand why this is, we need to learn a little bit of cryptology, a little bit of math, and a little bit of programming.

Could anyone make a Jackson Pollock painting?

Adults Art Creativity
If you visit a museum with a collection of modern and contemporary art, you're likely to see works that sometimes elicit the response, "My cat could make that, so how is it art?" But is it true?

How Does An Owl Fly So Silently?

Adults Animals Nature
Using sensitive sound equipment the team try to find out how an owl can fly so silently compared to other birds.

Woven bark fiber

Adults Construction Nature Technology
I made a rough type of textile from bark fibre. This is the same tree I use for making cordage though I don't know its name. It has been raining a lot here lately (the video also shows how well the hut stands up to rain) and this caused a large wattle tree to fall down taking a few smaller trees with it.

Smarter Every Day

Adults Technology Transportation Physics
Can You Land A Helicopter Without Engine Power?

Did The Past Really Happen? Vsauce

Adults History World
Greece is full of wonderful new things and wonderful old things. But when WE become old things, will our ruins also be tourist attractions?

Can You Hear Colors?

Adults Psychology Science
Have you ever heard of synesthesia?

Why is being scared so fun?

Adults Human Science
At this very moment, people are lining up somewhere to scare themselves, be it with a thrill-ride or a horror movie. In fact, in October of 2015 alone, about 28 million people visited a haunted house in the US.