How to Win an Interstellar War
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Could aliens destroy us from light years away? Another day at Kurzgesagt Labs, where we answer the most important questions with science.
World's Best Night Vision Goggles
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We visited the US Navy to test the best night vision goggles in the world.
How Did Humans Evolve? Crash Course Biology #19
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What’s a human? And how did we become humans, anyway?
You Went Through Puberty as a Baby
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We all remember the woes and trials of our adolescence.
4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour
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Earth is 4.5 billion years old - which is approximately the same amount of time it took us to create this video.
The Problem With Science Communication
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Holographic wormhole, via Nature:
Eclipses Used To Be Terrifying
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Because eclipses are powerful and frightening events, ancient cultures went to great lengths to understand eclipses, leading to remarkably accurate predictions and helping invent the science of astronomy.
Why Korea is Dying Out
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Every two years one million Japanese disappear, China’s population will halve by the end of the century, the median age in Italy has reached 48. All around the world birth rates are crashing – Is humanity dying out? What is going on and how bad is it?
How Did Life Begin? (Evolutionary History): Crash Course Biology #16
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Humans may have been around for a long time, but life has existed for way longer. In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll journey through deep time to uncover the history of life on Earth.
Brian Cox on how black holes could unlock the mysteries of our universe
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When black holes disappear, what happens to the stuff that fell in? Physicist Brian Cox explains.
The Truth About Space Combat
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George Lucas and the release of Star Wars in the 1970s unintentionally set a precedent for how almost every single piece of sci-fi media would depict space combat.
The Woman Who Saved the World
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On her way to winning the 2023 Nobel Prize for her pioneering work on mRNA vaccines, Katalin Karikó lived a life made for the big screen.
Why Did It Take Us So Long?
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We've long known that animal pollination is an important way plants reproduce on land, but we're only JUST finding out animals also pollinate plants underwater.
Ancient Life as Old as the Universe
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Life has existed on one planet for about 4 billion years, for all we know. But it might have started right after the Big Bang, when the universe was much stranger and more fantastic than today.
How To Make The Best Coffee, According To Science
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If you drink coffee, you might wonder if you're doing the most to make your absolute best cup of coffee.
The best pregnancy test used to be this frog ... no, really - Carly Anne York
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Dig into how African clawed frogs can help detect human pregnancy, and how their use in experiments had unintended consequences.
CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think
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You've probably heard of CRISPR, the revolutionary technology that allows us to edit the DNA in living organisms.
How The Most Useless Branch of Math Could Save Your Life
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There is an entire branch of math simply devoted to knots
Yes, this is how we know the Earth is slowing down
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Without eclipses, our world would be a lot different because eclipses give us the ability to do science we otherwise wouldn’t be able to.
You're a Dream of the Universe (According to Science)
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Absolutely everything you think about yourself and the universe could be an illusion. As far as you know, you are real and exist in a universe that was born 14 billion years ago and that gave rise to galaxies, stars, the Earth, and finally you. Except, maybe not.
What Happens If You Destroy A Black Hole?
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Black holes can destroy everything – but can they be destroyed? What happens if we push physics to the absolute limits, maybe even break it and the universe in the process?