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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?

Do Plants Think?

AdultsBiologyEcologyNatureScience
What a Plant Knows?

How To (Literally) Save Earth

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

The Best and Worst Prediction in Science

AdultsCreativityFilmHumorScienceCulture
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.

What If All The Ice Melted?

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

How Will You Die?

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

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.

Why Are Teens So Moody?

AdultsHumanPsychologyScienceEducation
A look inside the teenage brain!

How smart are orangutans?

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

How Do Animals See in the Dark?

AdultsAnimalsBiologyNeuroscienceScience
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.

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.

Interactive Dynamic Video

AdultsFilmPhysicsTechnologyScience
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

Is Most Published Research Wrong?

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

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

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

Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever

AdultsBiotechnologyFutureGeneticsScience
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.

What Is Life? Is Death Real?

AdultsBiologyGeneticsLifePhilosophyScience
So what is the difference between you and a rock? This seems like an easy, even stupid question. But even the smartest people on earth have no idea where to draw the line between living and dead things.

Real life sunken cities

AdultsCitiesHistoryScienceNature
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.

Which sunscreen should you choose?

AdultsGlobal WarmingHealthEnvironmentScience
Sunscreen comes in many forms, each with its own impacts on your body and the environment. With so many options, how do you choose which sunscreen is best for you?

7 Tips To Wake Up Without Coffee

AdultsFoodHealthScienceSelf
How can science help you wake up without coffee?