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This Massive Star Just... Vanished | SciShow News
Astronomers have some insights into the mysterious disappearance of the luminous blue variable star in the Kinman Dwarf Galaxy, and we're digging up more clues about how our friend the Moon may have formed.
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Why Mars Rovers Don't Study Water
Rovers like Curiosity search for life on Mars using rock and soil samples, but why don't they examine liquid or frozen water?
TED Talks
TED: How to fix a broken heart | Guy Winch
At some point in our lives, almost every one of us will have our heart broken. Imagine how different things would be if we paid more attention to this unique emotional pain. Psychologist Guy Winch reveals how recovering from heartbreak...
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Dry New Planets and The Search for Dirty Aliens
SciShow Space shares the latest news from space research, including the first definitive detection of water on an exoplanet, and a new theory for how we should search for alien civilizations.
TED Talks
Andrew Bastawrous: Get your next eye exam on a smartphone
Thirty-nine million people in the world are blind, and the majority lost their sight due to curable and preventable diseases. But how do you test and treat people who live in remote areas, where expensive, bulky eye equipment is hard to...
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What Honeybees Can Teach Us About Democracy
Hank fills us in on the democratic ways of the honeybee and makes a request for more interpretive dance in our own political systems.
TED Talks
TED: The search for microscopic aliens | Sarah Rugheimer
Astrophysicist and TED Fellow Sarah Rugheimer searches for aliens -- but not the cartoony green kind. She's looking for extraterrestrial microbes by studying how these single-celled organisms emit gases, which could reveal evidence of...
TED Talks
TED: Beware online "filter bubbles" | Eli Pariser
As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could...
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World’s Most Asked Questions: How Much Water Should I Drink a Day?
People ask Google everything under the sun. One of the most commonly searched questions in the world is “How much water should I drink a day?” SciShow has the answer!
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What is Salvia?
Salvia divinorum, despite sounding like a spell from the world of Harry Potter, can't turn you into an inanimate object, make you leave your body, or set your feet on fire. However, it can make you FEEL like all of those things are...
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How Computers Find Naked People in Photos
Why isn't the internet just covered in naked people? Algorithms! However, designing them to distinguish between pornography and people in skin tone clothing or swimsuits is harder than you'd think.
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Could We Actually Detect Life on Other Planets?
There’s probably life somewhere besides Earth, but all the exoplanets are so far away we may never see their surfaces in detail or intercept a clear radio signal from them. How do we determine if a distant planet has life?
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The Fermi Paradox and Our Search for Alien Life
At least some advanced civilizations might be producing tons of waste heat by now. And researchers are looking for them.
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Meteor Explosion
Hank talks about the search for pieces of a special meteoroid that exploded over California & Nevada last month.
MinuteEarth
How This River Made Chimps Violent
When a group of apes got split apart, slight differences in their new environments led to big differences in future generations.
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Rocket Landing on a Drone Ship!
Falcon 9 has successfully landed and NASA redirects the Kepler telescope out of emergency mode!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The Higgs Field, explained - Don Lincoln
One of the most significant scientific discoveries of the early 21st century is surely the Higgs boson, but the boson and the Higgs Field that allows for that magic particle are extremely difficult to grasp. Don Lincoln outlines an...
TED Talks
Stephen Lawler: Tour Microsoft's Virtual Earth
Microsoft's Stephen Lawler gives a whirlwind tour of Virtual Earth, moving up, down and through its hyper-real cityscapes with dazzlingly fluidity, a remarkable feat that requires staggering amounts of data to bring into focus.
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Why Killer Whales Migrate (It's Not Why You Think)
Killer whales migrate thousands of kilometers across oceans, because it's good for their skin?
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There's Clean (Frozen) Water on Mars!
According to two new papers, Mars may have gigantic drinkable glaciers and we might have found the reason that galaxies glow.
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InSight Landed on Mars! What's Next? - SciShow News
InSight has safely landed on Mars, and astronomers have some improved theories about the TRAPPIST-1 system.
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That Time NASA Recycled a Mars Lander
While most spacecraft are designed and built from scratch for one particular mission, the Phoenix Lander was pieced together from previous missions and rose from the ashes...all the way to Mars.
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On This Planet, the Floor Is Actually Lava | SciShow News
We have new insights into the bizarre nature of lava planets, and the icy moon Europa may yet reveal some of her salty secrets.