What Mud From Glacial Lakes Can Tell Us About Our History | National Geographic
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See what challenges face a team of scientists gathering core sediment samples from a glacial lake in the Himalayas.
How To Turn Poop Into Power
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We could generate a lot of usable energy from human and animal poop through greater adoption of a process for using microbes to break down poop into methane gas.
How Could We Get To Mars In Only 28 Hours?
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There's a cheat code to getting to Mars. Can humans handle the harsh conditions that space will throw at them?
How to Fall from ANY HEIGHT and Survive
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Some creatures can theoretically survive a fall from ANY height. How? Kyle explains the science of fall damage.
Can You Survive A Nuclear Blast In A Fridge? DEBUNKED
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f you were seconds away from a nuclear blast, where would you hide? Indiana Jones opted for the fridge and survived, but just how safe would it be?
How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines
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Nothing in the Universe is static. In the milky way, billions of stars orbit the galactic center.
Some, like our sun, are pretty consistent, keeping a distance of around 30,000 light years from the galactic center, completing an orbit every 230 million years.
Why Most Resolutions Fail & How To Succeed
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Common pitfalls of New Year's resolutions and how I plan to avoid them.
The philosophy of cynicism
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Explore the ancient Greek philosophy of cynicism, which calls for the rejection of materialism and conformity in favor of a simple life.
Nobody Really Knows What A Concussion Is
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Experts can't agree on the definition of the term "concussion," which makes it difficult to diagnose, treat, and research this important brain injury.
How to Slow Aging (and even reverse it)
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Scientists like Prof Sinclair have evidence of speeding up, slowing, and even reversing aging.
How 1 In A Billion Chance Brought Down A Whole Airplane
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The crazy tragic story of Flight 232 was all over the news 1989, about an airplane with engine failure that had to attempt a crash landing.
How To Levitate | The Edge of Science
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Is levitation possible? YouTube Originals and BBC Studios bring you The Edge of Science, a scientific dive into the outer reaches of our understanding.
The Mysterious Event That Made Venus A Death Trap
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At one time long ago, the planet Venus had some similarities in its climate to that of Earth, and having the potential to be habitable for the existence of life, but something happened that made Venus an uninhabitable, rocky, desolate planet, but what?
The Great Acceleration
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We’re in the middle of a rapid, unprecedented, and world-changing increase in the intensity and scale of human activity on this planet.
The Science of the Butterfly Effect
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Chaos theory means deterministic systems can be unpredictable. Thanks to LastPass for sponsoring this video.
Hacking bacteria to fight cancer
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Explore how synthetic biologists are programming bacteria to fight cancer by manipulating their DNA.
Scientists Now Know Which Came First: The Chicken or The Egg
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The age old question "What came first, the chicken or the egg?" will FINALLY be answered! In today's video we're taking a scientific approach to find the true answer to a question many of the smartest people have pondered. Do you know which came first?
3 Perplexing Physics Problems
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Why does shaken soda explode? Does ice melt first in fresh or salt water?
1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook
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Getting to space is incredibly hard, expensive and needs a lot of resources.
Game theory challenge: Can you predict human behavior?
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Solve this classic game theory challenge: given integers from 0 to 100, what would the whole number closest to ⅔ of the average of all numbers guessed be?