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Mimas: The Real-Life Death Star
One of Saturn's moons looks a lot like an infamous planet-destroying battle station from science fiction, but astronomers have some very real theories about the complex crater that gives Mimas its unique feature.
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Giant Antarctic Sea Spiders | SciShow Talk Show
Art Woods introduces us to Antartica's enormous sea spiders and Jessi from Animal Wonders brings in Fluffy the Chilean Rose Tarantula, a surprisingly big land spider.
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Don't Worry About That Asteroid That Might Hit This Year | SciShow News
That asteroid the headlines have been warning people about isn't likely to actually hit us, and scientists might have solved a mystery that could save lives: the relationship between tides and earthquakes.
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No Hips, No Problem: Better Hip Replacements From Snakes
If you want to make a better hip replacement, who better to turn to than… a snake? While these hip-less creatures might seem like a weird choice for help with this particular issue, a major part of creating comfortable, long-lasting...
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Will there be a ring in Mars's future?
Will Mars have a ring around it? Hank Green explains in this episode of Scishow Space News!
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Why the Arctic is climate change's canary in the coal mine - William Chapman
The Arctic may seem like a frozen and desolate environment where nothing ever changes. But the climate of this unique and remote region can be both an early indicator of the climate of the rest of the Earth and a driver for weather...
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A New Kind of Northern Light - SciShow News
A glowing, purple ribbon of light named STEVE is weirder than we thought and we now have evidence that there is water ice on the moon!
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The First Time We Met a Comet, We Blew a Hole in It
In the first mission of its kind, Deep Impact’s goal was to teach us about the interior of comets...by blowing a hole in the side of one!
Crash Course
What Are Glaciers? Crash Course Geography
Today we’re going to talk about glaciers. These behemoth globs of compressed ice and snow moving across the land created fertile soils and physical features while also serving as frozen time capsules. They recorded both Earth’s climatic...
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Saturn's 'Death Star' and Hubble's Latest Masterpiece
SciShow Space News takes you to the solar system's own Death Star -- Saturn's moon Mimas, where something mysterious is going on. Plus, we share a stunning new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope that holds a few surprises!
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We Just Shot an Asteroid... for Science! Space News
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft fired a bullet into an asteroid and Neptune officially has 14 moons!
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Our First-Ever Missions to Mars, and What We Learned From Them
A lot of our knowledge of the inner solar system was gained fairly recently, and the Mariner program led the way!
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The First Results from NASA's InSight Lander! SciShow News
We finally have some results from the InSight lander’s measurements on Mars, and the Japanese Space Agency is moving forward with a probe that will explore Mars’s moons.
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The Moon May Have Once Been Habitable! SciShow News
It's possible that the moon might have been able to support life billions of years ago, and scientists are using meteorites to learn about the history of our sun.
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Comet Chase & Molten Moons
In this episode of SciShow Space News, Hank details the work of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft. He also explains the new discoveries of Jupiter's moon Io.
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Move Over, Mars We Could Farm on Asteroids!
When people live throughout the solar system, we'll need some way to feed them that doesn't involve constant shipments of Earth-grown food. Will the asteroid belt be our new cosmic food court?
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An Impossible Black Hole, and Finally Meeting Ceres
SciShow Space takes you to a distant, ancient black hole that … really shouldn’t be, and psyches you up for the Dawn spacecraft’s final approach to Ceres!
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How Slime Mold Is Tackling Mysteries of Cosmology - SciShow News
We might be able to use slime molds to help predict the shape of matter in the universe, and the Rosetta mission may have figured out why many comets seem to be missing a bunch of nitrogen.
TED Talks
TED: The emergent patterns of climate change | Gavin Schmidt
You can't understand climate change in pieces, says climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. It's the whole, or it's nothing. In this illuminating talk, he explains how he studies the big picture of climate change with mesmerizing models that...
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Weird Places: Movile Cave
In 1986, a prospecting crew in southern Romania was looking for a good place to build a geothermal power plant, when they accidentally discovered one of the oddest caves of all
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Do Bacterial Cells Store Memories?
Some bacteria seem to be using a type of memory to help them alter future behaviors, based on their past experiences.
PBS
How to Estimate the Density of the Moon in Majora's Mask
Gabe breaks down the steps for how he determined the density of the moon in Majora's Mask.
SciShow
Why Was Mars's Underground Lake So Hard to Find? - Breaking News!
Researchers have discovered an underground, liquid water lake on Mars! What might it be like, and why did it take us so long to find it?
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NASA Just Arrived at an Asteroid! SciShow News
OSIRIS-REx finally entered orbit around the asteroid Bennu this week and new research has found an old recipe for RNA.