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In The Future, Death Will Be Different

AdultsHealthHistoryHuman...
In the future, humans will likely die of a very different suite of causes than we do now, thanks to advances in healthcare, an aging population, and changes in the environment.

Clownfish Teamwork

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A family of saddleback clownfish have found an excellent home, however, they need a place to lay their eggs.

The Most Dangerous Weapon Is Not Nuclear

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A breathtaking scientific revolution is taking place – biotechnology has been progressing at stunning speed, giving us the tools to eventually gain control over biology. On the one hand solving the deadliest diseases while also creating viruses more dangerous than nuclear bombs, able to devastate humanity.

Cool Tissue Wiggly Worm Experiment

KidsExperimentsMusicScience
Bring a cherished nursery rhyme to life by introducing simple science to your little ones.

Why Does NASA Observe The Sun In Different Colours?

YouthScienceSpaceAstronomy
The Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, sees the Sun in more than 10 distinct wavelengths of light, showing solar material at different temperatures.

Blindness Isn't a Tragic Binary — It's a Rich Spectrum | Andrew Leland | TED

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When does vision loss become blindness? Writer, audio producer and editor Andrew Leland explains how his gradual loss of vision revealed a paradoxical truth about blindness -- and shows why it might have implications for how all of us see the world.

How Fish Get Away With Being Colourful

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Coral reef fish get away with being colourful thanks to a weird quirk of underwater optics.

How To Get Venom From The World's Deadliest Spider

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Huge thanks to the Australian Reptile Park for having us over to film – special thanks to Jake Meney for showing us the spiders and Caitlin Vine for organizing the shoot.

How Do Great Lakes Form?

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Mister Brown is moving away to Wisconsin and wants to teach everyone about the place he's moving to and all the amazing glacial lakes he'll be living near!

The Reason Why Cancer is so Hard to Beat

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An undead city under siege, soldiers and police ruthlessly shooting down waves of zombies that flood from infected streets, trying to escape and infect more cities. This is what happens when your body fights cancer, more exciting than any movie.

It's Pareidolia!

YouthPsychologyScience
Dig into the phenomenon of face pareidolia, which is the tendency of our brains to see faces in everyday objects.

These Countries Are Cheating

AdultsEducationGlobal WarmingScience...
By overcounting how much carbon their forests suck up, and undercounting how much carbon their industries release, countries undercount their total carbon emissions.

Using Lasers To Disperse Ravens

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Chris uses one of the world's only remotely-fired lasers to safely disperse a gathering of thousands of ravens in the middle of the California desert.

Numbers They Don't Teach You In School

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There's a strange number system, featured in the work of a dozen Fields Medalists, that helps solve problems that are intractable with real numbers.

Melting Ice Experiment

KidsExperimentsGlobal WarmingScience...
Today, we delve into a crucial aspect of climate change - the melting of ice caps and how they impact sea levels.

Are There Earthquakes On Other Planets?

YouthScienceSpace
Are there earthquakes on other planets? There sure are, but we don’t call them earthquakes. Find out more in this video.

What Biologists Do: Crash Course Biology

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A biologist’s natural habitat is anywhere questions about life are being asked—whether the subject is a nematode or a narwhal, a single cell, or a whole ecosystem.

How To Design A Mars Rover

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Today, the crew at The Fort learn about engineers and how they design different ways to solve problems like they did for the rovers exploring Mars!

The Black Hole That Kills Galaxies - Quasars

AdultsEducationScienceSpace
The universe isn't just a vast empty ocean sprinkled with galaxies – most of the atoms are actually drifting in between, in the intergalactic medium.

What Cake Can Teach Us About AI?

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How is artificial intelligence (AI) a lot like cake?

The Real Reason Ghost Catfish Shimmer Like Rainbows

YouthAnimalsScienceNature
The cause of ghost catfishes’ rainbow shimmer has been hidden in plain sight all along.