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We Solved the Mystery of the Dying Birds
Across the southeastern United States, bald eagles have been dying unexplainedly for the past 25 years. In March of 2021, researchers announced that they had found the killer, and they hope we can use this knowledge to better protect...
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This Problem Could Break Cryptography
What if, no matter how strong your password was, a hacker could crack it just as easily as you can type it? In fact, what if all sorts of puzzles we thought were hard turned out to be easy? Mathematicians call this problem P vs. NP, it...
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The Problem with Bee Venom Therapy
Does bee venom therapy work? Stings cause pain, itching, or even death in some people, so how might potential benefits outweigh the risks?
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The Plants That Live on Artificial Light (and Why That’s Bad)
Plants are finding their ways into caves, and it's all our fault.
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The Key to an Artificial Heart ... and Open-Heart Surgery
Scientists have been trying to pull blood out of the body and put it back in again since the early 1800s, but bypass machines haven't been easy to get right.
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NASA Needs You
Hank usually likes to keep science and politics separated, but the reality is that a lot of scientific research in the United States is funded by the government. This is a problem right now because the disfunction in the world of...
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Kids, Kawasaki Disease, and COVID-19: What Parents Should Know
While children are only a small minority of those who test positive for COVID-19, we’re starting to see evidence of a rare, but serious, complication in children that resembles a condition known as Kawasaki disease. Here’s what doctors...
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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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What is Taxonomy and Why is it So Complicated?
The classification of animal groups is essential to the the development of modern biology—but it's extremely complicated. Trying to shoehorn the messy, complicated web of interrelationships that is biology into neat boxes has resulted in...
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Was The Apollo Mission a Mistake? | A SciShow Documentary
The Apollo program was famous for being risky and expensive. It sent multiple daring astronauts to the moon, but had a crunched timeline, and lacked modern tech. In this special episode of SciShow, we'll be discussing... was the Apollo...
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The Science of Anti-Vaccination
Fewer children in the United States are getting vaccinated. That’s bad news for those kids, and also for public health in general. Often, the response is to argue and debate and get angry at people who are we see as making terrible,...
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Why Haven't We Built a Better Battery?
Improving batteries is a tough problem, but it’s also an important one because in many ways the future of our planet also depends on the future of batteries. Luckily, scientists are on the case, figuring out ways to give this essential...
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Why Carbon Dating Might Be in Danger
Carbon dating transformed fields like archeology and paleontology, but its use might be in danger.
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When Sex is Hard
When it comes to sex things can be complicated, but for the three species we are looking at today, sex is really hard.
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A Surprisingly Simple Secret to Supersonic Flight
Making a faster plane takes more than building better engines and structures. To go supersonic, engineers had to solve hundreds of problems -- including ditching one of the biggest assumptions in aerodynamics!
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4 Weird Unsolved Mysteries of Math
There are lots of unsolved mysteries in the world of math, and many of them start off with a deceptively simple premise, like: What's the biggest couch you can slide around a 90-degree corner? Hosted by: Michael Aranda
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What Really Happened the First Time We Split a Heavy Atom in Half
When scientists first split the atom, they didn’t realize what they’d done until physicist Lise Meitner figured out they had discovered what we now call nuclear fission.
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Unexpected Ways Scientists Use GPS
GPS devices aren't just for keeping you from driving into a lake. They're also helping lots of scientists in unexpected ways.
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The Truth About the Keto Diet: Does Science Support It?
Keto was all the rage... until it wasn't. If you haven't heard of keto, welcome to the diet that promotes the consumption of ground beef, olive oil and lots of cheese... sounds like a dream, right? Maybe not. Join Michael Aranda for a...
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Introducing: SciShow Talk Show! Emily, Rhinos, and Cas the Arctic Fox
Featuring Emily of The Brain Scoop ( / thebrainscoop ) and Cas the Arctic Fox! We decided it would be cool to have guests come into the studio and talk about science with Hank.
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Interview with EPA Administrator McCarthy
Hank interviews Administrator Gina McCarthy of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. They discuss getting people to care about climate change, the EPA's goals going into the United Nations Climate Change Conference, and the...
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The Hymen Doesn't Tell You Anything About a Person
The hymen is a human structure that is surrounded by myths and misunderstandings. So today, we shed some light on what the hymen actually is, where it comes from, and why it can’t actually tell you anything about a person. Hosted by:...
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Nadine The Robot Is Amazing And Creepy
Nadine the robot has been unveiled, and as robotics technology gets more advanced, humanoid robots are looking more and more human. In this episode of SciShow News we explore how Nadine works and why a lot of people find it creepy.
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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....