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Paleo Got It Wrong: We've Loved Carbs for Over 100,000 Years | SciShow News
If you’re on the “paleo diet,” you’ve probably been avoiding wheat and potatoes, but a new study published last week indicates that humans have been eating starches for more than 100,000 years! Chapters View all Paleo diet 0:17 electron...
TED Talks
TED: We can reprogram life. How to do it wisely | Juan enriquez
For four billion years, what lived and died on earth depended on two principles: natural selection and random mutation. Then humans came along and changed everything - hybridizing plants, breeding animals, altering the environment and...
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8 More Terrible Names for Living Things
Sometimes, the common names we use for things are really confusing! Here are 8 living things with terrible names!
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Stop Saying Sharks Will Cure Cancer
It seems like every time scientists learn something new about sharks, people wonder whether this new information will finally show us how sharks will cure cancer. There’s no doubt about it, sharks are awesome, but is there a magic cure...
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Do We Have To Give Up Bacon?
The IARC has categorized processed meat as a definite carcinogen. But how dangerous is it really? Do we finally have to give up bacon?
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TED-Ed: How we can detect pretty much anything | Hélène Morlon and Anna Papadopoulou
Scientists have been staking out a forest in Montana for an animal that's notoriously tricky to find. Camera traps haven't offered definitive evidence, and experts can't identify its tracks with certainty. But within the past decades,...
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TED: A simple new blood test that can catch cancer early | Jimmy Lin
Jimmy Lin is developing technologies to catch cancer months to years before current methods. He shares a breakthrough technique that looks for small signals of cancer's presence via a simple blood test, detecting the recurrence of some...
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There's a Single-Celled Dog
Is it possible for there to be a dog that is made of one very determined cell?
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Those White Crusts on Whales Are Alive and Full of Stories
You might think the white patches that grow on whale’s heads and faces are just weird skin growths, and you’re not wrong. But when you look closer, these patches are crawling with tiny stowaways!
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Researchers Reverse Alzheimer’s Memory Loss (in Mice) | SciShow News
As many as 50 million people worldwide may live with Alzheimer's and similar forms of dementia, and while we still don't understand a lot about it, scientists may be one step closer to an effective treatment.
TED Talks
Dina Zielinski: How we can store digital data in DNA
From floppy disks to thumb drives, every method of storing data eventually becomes obsolete. What if we could find a way to store all the world's data forever? Bioinformatician Dina Zielinski shares the science behind a solution that's...
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Angela Belcher: Using nature to grow batteries
Inspired by an abalone shell, Angela Belcher programs viruses to make elegant nanoscale structures that humans can use. Selecting for high-performing genes through directed evolution, she's produced viruses that can construct powerful...
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What If All Viruses Vanished?
In the past couple years, you may have found yourself wishing that all the viruses in the world just disappear. But be careful what you wish for...
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Why Billions of Passenger Pigeons Died in Under a Century
How could the most abundant bird in North America go extinct so quickly? Short answer: us.
TED Talks
Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research
How does cancer know it's cancer? At Jay Bradner's lab, they found a molecule that might hold the answer, JQ1. But instead of patenting it and reaping the profits (as many other labs have done) -- they published their findings and mailed...
TED Talks
Ellen Jorgensen: Biohacking -- you can do it, too
We have personal computing -- why not personal biotech? That's the question biologist Ellen Jorgensen and her colleagues asked themselves before opening Genspace, a nonprofit DIY bio lab in Brooklyn devoted to citizen science, where...
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Hospitals are Hotspots for Antibiotic-resistant Germs
While antibiotics have saved millions of lives, misusing them can speed up how fast bacteria evolve to resist them. And it turns out that one of the biggest hotspots for these antibiotic-resistant bacteria…is hospitals.
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The 2015 Nobel Prizes!
Over the past few weeks, the Nobel committees have been announcing the 2015 laureates. This year’s winners in the physics and chemistry categories made discoveries about the tiny neutrinos flying through all of us, and the ways our...
TED Talks
Juan Enriquez: The age of genetic wonder
Gene-editing tools like CRISPR enable us to program life at its most fundamental level. But this raises some pressing questions: If we can generate new species from scratch, what should we build? Should we redesign humanity as we know...
TED Talks
Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives
What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. elegans. The lessons from that discovery, and others, are pointing to how we might one day significantly...
TED Talks
Richard Resnick: Welcome to the genomic revolution
Cheap and fast genome sequencing is about to turn health care (and insurance, and politics) upside down. Richard Resnick shows how, in this accessible talk.
TED Talks
Wendy Chung: Autism — what we know (and what we don't know yet)
In this factual talk, geneticist Wendy Chung shares what we know about autism spectrum disorder — for example, that autism has multiple, perhaps interlocking, causes. Looking beyond the worry and concern that can surround a diagnosis,...
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The Tree of Life Is Messed Up
Taxonomy is a powerful tool, and one that modern biology wouldn't be able to function without. But trying to shoehorn the messy, complicated web of interrelationships that is biology into neat boxes has resulted in a pretty messy tree of...
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Mina Bissell: Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer
For decades, researcher Mina Bissell pursued a revolutionary idea -- that a cancer cell doesn't automatically become a tumor, but rather, depends on surrounding cells (its microenvironment) for cues on how to develop. She shares the two...