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How Earth's Rotation Affects Our Oxygen | SciShow News
Oxygen is crucial for life as we know it, but before it could build up in our atmosphere, earth had to slow down.
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Do-It-Yourself Photosynthesis Is Here!
Photosynthesis, the elegant process of making fuel from sunlight, might be the future of how we power, well, just about anything. Plants may have invented it, but humans are taking the model and really running with it, to make anything...
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Astrobiology & the Search for Alien Life
Hank talks about astrobiology - the study of and search for life in the universe off Earth. Right now, the field has more questions than answers, but all they all seek to answer that one fundamental query: are we alone in the universe?
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How Quantum Mechanics Affects Your Life
While you might not think about quantum mechanics being part of your everyday life, it turns out that it might play a role in some of the most familiar things, from the sunlight in the trees to the nose on your face!
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What Actually Happens on the Full Moon? | 8 Full-Moon Myths & Facts
From menstrual cycles to rainfall, there are lots of claims about the moon's influence. In today's episode, Hank is here to set the record straight with 8 myths & facts about our moon.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: 1816: The year with no summer | David Biello
In 1815, Mount Tambora erupted and its emissions spread across the globe, blotting out the sun for almost an entire year. This wreaked havoc on agriculture, leading to famines all across the Northern hemisphere. It was the year without...
SciShow Kids
Let's Plant a Garden! | Squeaks Grows a Garden! | SciShow Kids
As the winter turns to spring, Squeaks and Mr. Brown begin planning the garden they’re going to grow this summer! But they need a little help, so The Fort’s gardener, Juniper, stops by to make sure they grow the best garden they can!
SciShow Kids
Make a Calendar of Seeds! | Squeaks Grows a Garden!| SciShow Kids
Every plant has different needs! So Mister Brown and Squeaks have asked their friend Juniper the Earthworm to teach them more about the things they want to grow in their garden and help them make a seed calendar so they know when to...
SciShow Kids
Watch a Seed Sprout! | Squeaks Grows a Garden! | SciShow Kids
Squeaks and Mister Brown are just about ready to start their garden, but first they want to learn all about how the tiny little seeds they'll plant in the ground will grow into vegetables they can eat! And Juniper stops by to explain how...
SciShow Kids
The Layers of the Redwood Forest | Explore the Redwoods | SciShow Kids
There's all sorts of life in the Redwood forest, but not just in the ground, different animals live in all layers of the Redwoods!
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5 Ways Biology Is Transforming Buildings
Throughout history humans have come up with lots of different ways to build shelters for themselves. But sometimes, inspiration for better construction materials comes from nature, in structures you might not expect — like the scales on a
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Weird Places Movile Cave
In 1986, a prospecting crew in southern Romania was looking for a good place to build a geothermal power plant, when they accidentally discovered one of the oddest caves of all...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Earth's mysterious red glow, explained | Zoe Pierrat
In 2009, a satellite circled Earth, scanning and sorting the wavelengths reflecting off the planet's surface. Researchers noticed something baffling: an unexpected wavelength of unknown origin. They tried looking at Earth with only this...
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Does Anti-Aging Cream Work?
You can't open up a magazine without seeing someone with impossibly smooth skin selling some sort of "anti-aging" cream, but could some of these products actually work?
SciShow Kids
Solar-Powered Slugs
We need to eat food to fuel our bodies, but this special slug, called emerald elysia, can make food using sunlight - just like plants do! All organisms have external parts. Different animals use their body parts in different ways to see,...
SciShow Kids
Why Don’t Animals Need Sunscreen?
You should always wear sunscreen when you're playing outside, but you may have noticed that animals are outside all the time and they don't need sunscreen. Why?
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What Causes Sunburns?
Why does too much sun turn some people's skin all red and shiny? Quick Questions explains!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can the ocean run out of oxygen? | Kate Slabosky
For most of the year, the Gulf of Mexico is teeming with marine life, from tiny crustaceans to massive whales. But every summer, disaster strikes. Around May, animals begin to flee the area. And soon, creatures that can't swim or can't...
SciShow
How Earth's Rotation Affects Our Oxygen | SciShow News
Oxygen is crucial for life as we know it, but before it could build up in our atmosphere, earth had to slow down.
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8 Truths and Myths About the Full Moon
With so many claims about the moon’s influence over everything from menstrual cycles to rainfall, SciShow is here to set the record straight with these 8 truths and myths about our moon. CHAPTERS View all HUMANS GET LESS SLEEP 1:27...
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This Plant Attracts Bats With a Satellite Dish
Most plants use colorful flowers to attract their favorite pollinators. But Marcgravia evenia is trying to attract bats, so it needs to do things a little differently, leading to some unique-shaped leaves.
Crash Course Kids
Gas Giants Weather
Last time, we learned that there is in fact weather on other planets. But those were the rocky planets, like Earth. What about the big Gas Giants? What's the weather like there? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina takes us on a...
SciShow Kids
From the Ground to the Sky: The Layers of the Redwood Forest
There's all sorts of life in the Redwood forest, but not just in the ground, different animals live in all layers of the Redwoods!
Disciplinary Core Ideas:
LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems - Plants depend on water and...
TED Talks
TED: The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet | Penny Chisholm
Oceanographer Penny Chisholm introduces us to an amazing little being: Prochlorococcus, the most abundant photosynthetic species on the planet. A marine microbe that has existed for millions of years, Prochlorococcus wasn't discovered...