The Cruel Irony Of Air Conditioning
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The technology we use to keep cool is heating the world in a vicious feedback cycle, so we need to improve it and use it less.
How a Fish Saved the Vikings
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The Vikings suffered many hardships living in the north of Europe: long, cold winters and importantly a lack of sunlight. Luckily, they had cod.
Primitive Technology
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Primitive Technology: Polynesian Arrowroot Flour
Largest Known Marine Stingray Study
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What If We Just Burned All Our Trash?
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With Starbucks banning plastic straws and zero waste on trend, is the solution to plastic pollution and climate change burning all the trash?
How do crystals work? - Graham Baird
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What makes crystals grow into their signature shapes? Dig into the atomic patterns and unique properties of crystals.
These Plants Eat Salamanders | National Geographic
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Pitcher plants like these are known to feast on insects like flies. However, at a bog in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario Canada, scientists have found many pitcher plants with a more ambitious diet.
What If You Were Sent Back To The Ice Ages?
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What would happen if you traveled to the ice ages? Would you be able to survive the earth in it's dangerous icy state?
How to Sail on Sunlight | Because Space
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Sails have been helping us travel across water for centuries, but could this same idea help us travel across space?
The Largest Insect Swarm | Because Science Live!
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The Largest Insect Swarm ever!
Could We Survive Without the Sun? | Because Space
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While gremlins, goblins, and Mr.Burns may think it sounds like a good idea, would a world without the Sun even be possible?
Why Pink Himalayan Salt Is So Expensive | So Expensive
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Pink Himalayan salt is used in speciality foods, spa treatments, and even home design.
Lions Hunt Zebra | Savage Kingdom
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Lions hunt and kill a zebra, the pride eat together.
How To Survive The First Hour Of A Nuclear Blast
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The situation has played out in TV and movies for years, but what should you really do if a nuke detonated near you?
Primitive Technology: Fired Clay Bricks
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Creating fired clay bricks from scratch.
Hummingbird in a Rain Storm | Hostile Planet
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In the cloud forest a booted racket-tail braves a rain storm to find enough food to survive.
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.
Under the Dark Skies
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National Geographic partnered with the International Dark-Sky Association to provide families with a true ‘dark sky’ observatory experience, free from the artificial light prevalent in city and suburban communities.
Amphibians Face Mass Extinction as Fungus Spreads Across the World
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Results from a recent global survey of amphibians shows that chytrid fungus has threatened twice as many species than previously thought.
How to grow your own glacier
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Explore the ancient methods of growing glaciers, the homemade bodies of ice used as water sources, and how they can be used to combat climate change.
Why are earthquakes so hard to predict?
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Take a look at the theories behind why earthquakes occur, what makes them so hard to predict and the warning system technologies we rely on today.