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Could we survive prolonged space travel? - Lisa Nip

AdultsHealthHumanSpace...
Prolonged space travel plays a severe toll on the human body: microgravity impairs muscle and bone growth, and high doses of radiation cause irreversible mutations.

How sparrowhawks catch garden birds

AdultsAnimalsNatureScience
This bird's incredible acceleration and agility enable it to to sneak up on its prey.

How To Eradicate One Of Our Deadliest Enemies

AdultsHealthScienceBiotechnology
We have the choice to attack one of our oldest enemies with genetic engineering. But should we do it?

Why are there so many types of apples?

AdultsFoodBiologyBusiness...
Have you ever walked into a grocery store and wondered where all the varieties of apples came from?

Do Plants Think?

AdultsBiologyEcologyNature...
What a Plant Knows?

How To (Literally) Save Earth

AdultsGlobal WarmingWorldEnvironment...
Farming erodes soil 50 times faster than it forms. We can change that, but will we?

What If All The Ice Melted?

AdultsEnvironmentWorldScience
What If All The Ice Melted On Earth? ft. Bill Nye

The Best and Worst Prediction in Science

AdultsCreativityFilmHumor...
A guy who just got back from Burning Man struggles mightily to explain what Burning Man was like to a loser who's never been to Burning Man.

How Will You Die?

AdultsData ScienceLifeScience...
Science, statistics and lifestyle can help predict how you will die!

How smart are orangutans?

AdultsAnimalsNatureScience
Along with humans, orangutans belong to the Hominidae family tree, which stretches back 14 million years.

Why Are Teens So Moody?

AdultsHumanPsychologyScience...
A look inside the teenage brain!

Incredible footage of hermit crab changing shells

AdultsAnimalsNatureScience
In this exciting excerpt from the third season of Jonathan Bird's Blue World, Jonathan films a hermit crab changing shells and then also transferring its anemones from one shell to the other.

How Do Animals See in the Dark?

AdultsAnimalsBiologyNeuroscience...
To human eyes, the world at night is a formless canvas of grey. Many nocturnal animals, on the other hand, experience a rich and varied world, bursting with details, shapes, and colors.

The Twins Paradox Primer

AdultsPhysicsScienceSpace
How can time be slower and faster at the same time?

Enter the Deadliest Garden in the World

AdultsEcologyNatureScience
Locked behind black steel doors in Northumberland, England, the Poison Garden at Alnwick Castle grows around 100 infamous killers.

Interactive Dynamic Video

AdultsFilmPhysicsTechnology...
Image-Space Modal Bases for Plausible Manipulation of Objects in Video" ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2015) by Abe Davis, Justin Chen, Fredo Durand

What is the biggest single-celled organism?

AdultsAnimalsBiologyScience
The elephant is a creature of epic proportions - and yet, it owes its enormity to more than 1,000 trillion microscopic cells.

How a single-celled organism almost wiped out life on Earth

AdultsBiologyLifeWorld...
There's an organism that changed the world. It caused the first mass extinction in Earth's history

Is Most Published Research Wrong?

AdultsSocietyData ScienceScience...
Mounting evidence suggests a lot of published research is false.

Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever

AdultsBiotechnologyFutureGenetics...
Designer babies, the end of diseases, genetically modified humans that never age. Outrageous things that used to be science fiction are suddenly becoming reality. The only thing we know for sure is that things will change irreversibly.

Real life sunken cities

AdultsCitiesHistoryScience...
Though people are most familiar with Plato's fictional Atlantis, many real underwater cities actually exist. Peter Campbell explains how sunken cities are studied by scientists to help us understand the lives of our ancestors, the dynamic nature of our planet, and the impact of each on the other.