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The Blinding White Remains of a Dying Sea | Weird Places: White Sands
The aptly named White Sands National Park is home to over 400 square kilometers of blindingly white sand. It's the culmination of a remarkable 250 million year process of sorting, transporting, and purifying gypsum to make a truly...
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Record Cold Winter Could Be Thanks To Global Warming
Some people argue that the Polar Vortex is evidence against global climate change, but there’s actually growing evidence that a warming Arctic means colder winters.
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On Venus, You're Walking on Eggshells | SciShow News
Earth's thick crust might one of the reasons our planet can support life. But scientists are looking for something a little more brittle.
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No, We Didn't Discover a Bizarro Universe | SciShow News
Scientists picked up two unusual signals that seemed to be coming up from the ground instead of down from space. They're still working on understanding why, but despite what you may have heard, they aren't evidence for a parallel...
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A Planet Only Half Covered in Volcanoes | SciShow News
Scientists have found a world that might be half volcanoes, half ball of ice, and it could teach us a lot about how life began on earth.
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The World's 5 Rarest Animals
Today's extraordinarily depressing dose comes to you in honor of Lonesome George, the world's last Pinta Island tortoise, who passed away earlier this summer - Hank brings us the stories of five more extremely rare animals who may be...
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TED-Ed: The myth of Pegasus and the chimera | Iseult Gillespie
Shielded from the gorgon's stone gaze, Perseus crept through Medusa's cave. When he reached her, he drew his sickle and brought it down on her neck. From Medusa's neck sprung two children. One was a giant wielding a golden sword; the...
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The First Volcano Power Plant!
Be blown away with this episode of SciShow News as Hank talks about using the power of one of earths most powerful energy sources: Volcanoes!
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We Are Sending a Probe into the Sun
Why are we sending a rocket into the sun? SciShow Space explains the why, what and how of Solar Probe Plus, a mission that'll give us our closest look yet at our nearest star.
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A New Binary Asteroid (That's Also a Comet!)
Astronomers discovered something cool about an object in the asteroid belt (2006 VW139/288P), and the European Space Agency is conducting a bed rest study that could help us get on our way to Mars.
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Multicolored Meteor Shower!
Those bright spots on Ceres? We've got some new insight into what they might be! Also, the Geminids meteor shower is coming up and will peak on December 13-14.
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Destroying Space Junk With Lasers, and Two Rare Eclipses!
This week on SciShow Space News, astronauts had to take the scenic route to the ISS because of some space debris. And this month, you might get to see two eclipses: a solar eclipse, and a rare supermoon eclipse.
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An Earth-Sized Telescope Just Snapped Two Pictures
We may soon have a direct image of a black hole, and we have the first detection of an atmosphere on an Earth-sized exoplanet!
TED Talks
Ray Anderson: The business logic of sustainability
At his carpet company, Ray Anderson has increased sales and doubled profits while turning the traditional "take / make / waste" industrial system on its head. In a gentle, understated way, he shares a powerful vision for sustainable...
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A Tribute to John Glenn
The first American astronaut to orbit Earth, John Glenn passed away yesterday in Ohio. But he leaves an admirable legacy.
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The First Exoplanets Were Found Around... a Pulsar
The first time scientists found exoplanets, they were orbiting something very different from our sun: a pulsar.
TED Talks
TED: Inside an Antarctic time machine | Lee Hotz
Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate.
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Hotter Than Death Valley | Weird Places
With acidic puddles, lava lakes, and one of the most important early hominid discoveries, the Danakil Depression is home to all of the extremes.
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Spider Rain?!!
Hank sets the record straight for us, discussing a rain of spiders in Brazil (!?), a new virus that has the internet all a-twitter, and another asteroid recently found to have hit the Earth (not the one in Siberia!) - are you ready for...
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GRACE Mission Data Informs Climate Science: Getting Beyond the Spin About Sea-Level Rise
Hank sets the record straight on some of the findings of NASA's GRACE mission and how they relate to predictions about sea level rise and climate change.
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The Mysterious Green Glass on the Moon (Plus: How to See Comet NEOWISE!) | SciShow News
Earlier this month, a Chinese moon rover discovered a mysterious glittery substance at the bottom of a lunar crater. How did it get there? Also, Comet NEOWISE takes thousands of years to circle the Sun, and right now we can see it in our...
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Mercury Is So Hot, It’s Making Ice
Scientists first saw patches of ice on Mercury 20 years ago, and that discovery raised a lot of questions: How could ice survive on one of the solar system’s hottest planets, and how did it get there in the first place?
TED Talks
TED: We could kick-start life on another planet. Should we? | Betül Kaçar
Life makes our planet an incredibly exotic place compared to the rest of the known universe, says astrobiologist Betül Kaçar, whose research uses statistics and mathematical models to simulate ancient environments and gather insights...