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How the Internet Was Invented | The History of the Internet, Part 1
The Internet is older than you might think!
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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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How Humans Are Almost Identical to Chimps, According to DNA
On the genetic level, we're not all that different from chimps. But those small differences in DNA can have massive effects. Learn what makes us truly different from chimpanzees in this new episode of SciShow!
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How Goldfish Went From Pretty To Invincible And Back Again
We began keeping goldfish as pets more than 1,000 years ago, but their beauty wasn’t the only thing they had going for them. Goldfish had a lot of really weird biological traits that made them incredibly resilient. And in an unfortunate...
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How AI Could Change Biology
You've likely been seeing the rise of AI technology everywhere—and some people are pretty concerned about what it could mean for the future. But did you know it might hold the key to understanding, and even changing, parts of our...
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Five Bizarre Places Frogs Call Home
Home is where the heart is - and these frogs manage to make their homes in a variety of bizarre places, from cloud forests to wastelands. And sometimes solving the challenges of living in these places involves solutions that are...
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Faster Than Light Facts, Horny Little Man, and Worst Science Movie Winner!
Hank gets to the bottom of this "faster-than-the-speed-of-light-neutrino" kerfuffle, discusses some ancient stuff, and announces the winner of the award for worst science in a film.
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Does Getting COVID-19 Make You Immune to It? | SciShow News
Like a common cold or a cold sore, would it be possible to get a reinfection of COVID-19? Would we be able to build up long-term resistance to it?
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Did We Find Longitude Thanks To A...Clock?
The equator is a clear and accurate line around Earth that makes measuring latitude a precise science, but when it came to figuring out how to do that with longitude, British sailors were at a loss. Until they devised a competition....
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Climate Change
In which Hank details the five scariest things that will likely happen because of climate change.
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Can You Solve These Dinosaur Mysteries?
We can learn a lot from dinosaur fossils, but figuring how they behaved is a real challenge.
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8 Creative Ways Animals Store Food
You aren't the only animal with a pantry! Hosted by: Michael Aranda
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7 Organisms That Can Clean Toxic Waste
Toxic waste, by definition, is harmful to living things, but there are actually a bunch of plants, animals, fungi, and microbes that can help us clean it up! Hosted by: Olivia Gordon
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5 Times Evolution Did Its Best
Usually when you think of evolution or natural selection, you think of survival of the fittest. But sometimes, the resulting traits of evolution aren’t the most efficient solutions to the problems at hand. With the bar set to “good...
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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.
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That’s Probably Not a Spider Bite
Unless you saw the spider bite you, that swollen, bite-looking lesion on your arm is probably something else, and blaming it on an innocent 8-legged critter might do more harm than good. Hosted by: Stefan Chin
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New York City's Microbiome
You might guess that big city subways would be filled with all sorts of nasty pathogens just waiting to infect the nearest unsuspecting human, but science doesn’t back this up at all.
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New Insights Into 'The Mind's Eye'
SciShow explores a newly identified neurological condition, aphantasia, the inability to visualize things in your imagination, and gives tribute to Dr. Oliver Sacks, popular explorer of the human mind.
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Lower Your Risk of Cancer Now with These 3 Strategies
Did you know there are everyday practices that can reduce your risk of Cancer? Science can prove it. In a study published this week in the journal Frontiers in Aging, researchers propose a combination of simple strategies to help prevent...
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Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR): Energy for the Future?
Hank addresses a highly requested topic - liquid fluoride thorium reactors - and tells us how LFTR might be the future of energy in ... China?
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Limnic Eruptions: When Lakes Explode
SciShow takes you inside a limnic eruption, a natural disaster that’s as deadly as it is rare.
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It's Weird How Many Species Live At Both Poles
We know that lots of animals and plants can be found all over the world. But there's plenty that manage to live at the furthest points from each other they possibly can - and are /still/ the same species. It's called being bipolar, and...
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It Seems like Trees Caused a Mass Extinction
When it comes to mass extinctions, you probably imagine giant volcanic eruptions or asteroids raining fire from the sky, but sometimes these events can have some unexpected causes. Hosted by: Michael Aranda
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Is the Five-Second Rule Real?
Oops! You drop your precious midnight snack on the floor! You just picked it up really quick, like less than five seconds, so it is ok to eat, right? But is the 5-second rule really legit? Hosted by: Michael Aranda ----------