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Where Can We Find Water?

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Today, Jessi and Squeaks learn about all the places we can find water.

We Fell For The Oldest Lie On The Internet

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“Your blood vessels stretch a staggering 100,000 kilometers, enough to wrap around Earth twice!" Sounds amazing, right? We spent over a year trying to confirm this claim, and let's just say – things aren't as they seem.

How Do We Taste Our Food?

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Taste receptors in the mouth sense the five basic tastes: sweetness, sourness, saltiness, bitterness, and savouriness. Let's find out how it all works!

The real reason polio is so dangerous

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Explore what makes polio so dangerous, what is causing the 21st century resurgence of cases, and how we can eradicate the disease.

How Does A Wombat Poo In Cubes?

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Unlike some might believe, wombat's don't have square shaped bottoms, so how do they poo in cubes?

Why Do Butterflies Bother Being Caterpillars?

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It seems wild that some animals basically trade in their bodies for new ones during their lifetime, but it's actually really common – and it makes a lot of sense.

The Dirt On Decomposers

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In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about how everything starts... and ends. Decomposers!

We Only Discovered This 10 Years Ago

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Most living things on Earth need oxygen to survive, but scientists discovered a species of bacteria that uses oxygen totally differently from every other organism on Earth.

A Cute But Creepy Tiny Predator

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Despite their tiny size, tarsiers are excellent nocturnal hunters. With large eyes that enable them to see well in the dark and advanced hearing combined with huge hands, catching prey is almost too easy.

Fabulous Food Chains

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In this of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about the way energy moves, or flows, through an ecosystem and how that movement forms Food Chains!

You've Never Heard of the World's Most Common Mineral

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The most common substance in the world is literally IN the world. It's a mineral called bridgmanite, and it belongs to a class of minerals (called perovskites) that scientists are trying to use in the next generation of solar panels.

Are there any places on Earth with no bugs? - Charles Wallace

AdultsLifeNatureWorld...
Travel to some of the most extreme environments on Earth and see how insects are able to employ their skills to survive.

What Happens When Predators Disappear?

AdultsAnimalsLifeScience...
A world without predators. It sounds like a safer, happier world, but come on, this is SCIENCE…

There Is Something Hiding Inside Earth

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We’ve found a new planet, home to octillions of the most extreme beings living in the most absurd and deadly hellscape. In absolute darkness, crushed by the weight of mountains, starved of oxygen, cooked alive, bathed in acid, salt or radiation.

What Is Sickle Cell Disease?

YouthBiologyGeneticsScience...
You have around 35 trillion red blood cells moving around your body at all times. Typically they are rounded and flexible. What happens when they aren’t?

Groundbreaking chemist defines all of life in 2 words | Lee Cronin

AdultsLifePhilosophyScience...
What is life, really? Despite our scientific advancements, we still don’t really know.

Why Is Alzheimer's Disease So Difficult To Treat?

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While doctors have studied Alzheimer’s for decades, there is still no effective preventive treatment or cure. So, why is Alzheimer’s disease so difficult to treat?

The Species That Broke Evolution?

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The ancestors of gars, horseshoe crabs and coelacanths looked almost the same as their modern relatives. Darwin called species like these “living fossils'' because they seem like they are evolutionarily frozen in time. But Darwin was wrong.

Vegetation Transformation

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In this episode, Sabrina talks about how photosynthesis works!

5 Ways CRISPR Is About to Change Everything

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CRISPR-based gene therapies are already changing healthcare for things like sickle cell disease. But CRISPR is bigger than just medicine, and it could revolutionize everything from food and agriculture to green energy fuels to plastics.

Why is it so dangerous to step on a rusty nail? - Louise Thwaites

AdultsBiologyHealthHuman...
Explore how a toxin-producing bacterium causes tetanus, and how to identify its common symptoms and best prevention practices.