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Rosalind Franklin: Great Minds
Rosalind Franklin was a British scientist who helped discover the structure of DNA, but you most likely haven't heard of her. Hank will attempt to fix this gap in your knowledge on today's SciShow: Great Minds
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Ghost Crabs Take Stomach Growling to a Whole New Level
You think your tummy rumbles? Meet the ghost crab — it growls using teeth inside its stomach, and not because it’s feeling peckish!
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A Very Handy Fish Fossil
This week, scientists discover something in a fish fossil that might give us a hand in finding our earliest land-dwelling ancestors.
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How Did We Figure Out What a Heart Attack Was?
Heart attacks are the number 1 cause of death worldwide in the 21st century, but we weren't sure what caused them until 1980.
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Parasitic Wasps Found Inside 30 Million-Year-Old Flies | SciShow News
This week, definitive evidence that wasps were just as brutal millions of years ago as they are today, and some interesting effects caused by naked mole-rat poop.
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How Kodak Discovered Radioactive Rain
The Trinity Test had some unexpected consequences, including the creation of radioactive rain found hundreds of miles away from the test site.
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Ghost Crabs Take Stomach Growling to a Whole New Level
You think your tummy rumbles? Meet the ghost crab — it growls using teeth inside its stomach, and not because it’s feeling peckish!
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The Deepest Sound in the Universe
Thanks to X-ray telescopes, scientists in the 1970s found the first real evidence that black holes actually existed, and astronomer Andrew Fabian has used X-ray research to unlock incredible mysteries ever since, including a giant sound...
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The Telescope That Revealed the X-Ray Universe
Some of the most exciting phenomena in space can’t be seen from Earth because our atmosphere soaks up high-energy light. That’s why NASA built Chandra, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever launched, and the observatory has helped...
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Why Skin Creams Give You Rashes
A lot of people react to certain compounds found in skincare products, and scientists may have figured out why these pesky rashes happen and how to prevent them. Meanwhile, a pair of papers published last week show how AI can be trained...
SciShow Kids
All About Your Body! | Human Body Compilation
The human body is a complicated thing! To be able to move, fight off diseases, and even see colors, lots of different systems and organs need to work together. Squeaks' robot body is pretty complicated, too, so Jessi has put together a...
Curated Video
Radiation
Though often used more narrowly to refer to ionising radiation, the term radiation refers to any form of energy that travels through a medium, radiating outwards from a source. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined...
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X-ray
Electromagnetic radiation present between ultraviolet and gamma rays on the electromagnetic spectrum, with wavelengths from about 0.01 to 10 nanometres. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using...
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Our Community Health Professionals
Dr. Forrester describes the different health care professionals in your community that provide you with care in an emergency.
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X-rays and Joints
Dr. Forrester explains what x-rays are used for. She teaches about different types of joints in your body.
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GCSE Physics - Electromagnetic Waves #64
In this video we cover the following: - The 7 different types, and order, of the waves in the electromagnetic spectrum - The phrase ROYGBIV to help you remember the order of colours in the visible light spectrum - The inverse...
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Let's Look for X
Miss Palomine explains that there are very few words that start with -X. She tells the student that Xavier X-ray is very jumpy. Sometimes he jumps to the second letter of the word and sometimes he jumps all the way to the end of the...
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Xavier X-ray Follows Ethan Eel
We find Miss Palomine at the exit of Alphabet Groceries. This begins a discussion of words that have an -X sound at the beginning, but that start with -E and then -X. She shows the Xx letter card, plays the Xavier X-ray music video, and...
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M through Z
Miss Palomine reviews the letters from Mm to Zz. She shows the letter characters associated with each letter, shows the uppercase and lowercase version of each letter and describes the sound(s) each letter makes.
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The Electromagnetic Radiation Spectrum
This video will explain the electromagnetic radiation spectrum, what it is, and how it can be used to observe space objects.
The Noted Anatomist
Anatomy of Hand X-rays_Revised
This video tutorial presents the anatomy of hand x-rays: 0:00. Intro hand x-rays 0:14. Standard hand series for x-rays 0:54. PA view (right hand) 7:16. Oblique view (right hand) 7:51. Lateral view (right hand) 8:37. In-a-Nutshell 8:43....
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NASA X-ray telescope detects biggest ever space explosion: study
Astronomers say they caught a glimpse of the biggest explosion in the cosmos ever observed by X-ray and radio telescopes.
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Scientists detect X-rays coming from Uranus
NASA reports that astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the first time, using its Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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XMM-Newton Celebrates 20 Years in Space
Scientists reflect on XMM-Newton’s 20th anniversary. The mission, led by ESA (European Space Agency), has dramatically improved our understanding of the cosmos thanks to detailed X-ray observations. NASA funded two of its three...