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SciShow

Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow takes you inside the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster to show you how, nearly 30 years later, life has adapted and persisted.
Instructional Video2:02
SciShow

How Do Oysters Make Pearls?

12th - Higher Ed
Quick Questions gives you the low-down on how oysters turn a tiny bit of gunk into a lovely, valuable pearl. ----------
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3 Things Your Dog Should Not Be Doing

12th - Higher Ed
Dogs do a lot of weird things, and sometimes they’re funny enough to post on Tumblr. But before you do, make sure li’l Scamp isn’t doing any of these three things -- because they spell trouble.
Instructional Video2:38
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What are Blood Types?

12th - Higher Ed
Quick Questions explains why, when it comes right down to it, there are really only eight kinds of people in the world.
Instructional Video4:58
SciShow

What Animal Dominates Earth?

12th - Higher Ed
There is a group of animals with more species than any other group, but Earth has such an astonishing variety of life that figuring out which group dominates is tricky.
Instructional Video5:58
SciShow

The World's First Malaria Vaccine Gets a Shot in Africa | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Last week, the World Health Organization announced that a malaria vaccine has finally made it through all the regulatory hurdles and is being distributed in the country of Malawi. Learn how it works and why it’s taken so long to develop...
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The Truth About Asparagus and Your Pee

12th - Higher Ed
An astonishing amount of research has gone into the question of whether asparagus really makes your urine smell funny. Sci Show explains it all inside!
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The Plants That Live on Artificial Light (and Why That’s Bad)

12th - Higher Ed
Plants are finding their ways into caves, and it's all our fault.
Instructional Video3:34
SciShow

The Hardcore Crickets That Only Live on Bare Lava

12th - Higher Ed
Some animals live in pretty extreme places, but the lava cricket might be the most hardcore of them all. These crickets have only been observed right after volcanic eruptions, and scientists have questions, like “How does a flightless...
Instructional Video5:19
SciShow

How Hyraxes Preserve the Past in Poo

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists who piece together our past can do so through the rare fossil or artifact, or they can go to one convenient location: a hyrax latrine.
Instructional Video3:25
SciShow

Do I Only Use 10% of My Brain?

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow debunks the myth that you only use 10 percent of your brain. So, how much do you really use? And how do we know?
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Bird Eggs Warn Each Other About Danger

12th - Higher Ed
Although they don’t seem like the talkative type, recent research suggests that bird eggs can use vibrations to relay warnings about the outside world to their nest-mates.
Instructional Video2:55
SciShow

Placebos & Nocebos: How Your Brain Heals and Hurts You

12th - Higher Ed
You've probably heard how some drugs and treatments make people feel better, even when they turn out to be fake. That's the placebo effect, but how does it work? And could the same effect backfire, causing your brain to make you feel...
Instructional Video2:54
SciShow

How Did North America End Up With a Marsupial?

12th - Higher Ed
Both North and South America have their own species of marsupial, the opossum, but how they got so far away from their Australian relatives is a bit of a mystery.
Instructional Video2:56
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Could Your Blood Type Ever Change?

12th - Higher Ed
From A positive to O negative, everyone's born with a blood type, and they're stuck with that blood type for their whole lives... or are they?
Instructional Video5:07
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3 of the World's Most Intensely Colored Living Things

12th - Higher Ed
For most living things the color you see when you look at them is determined by pigments. But some of the most vivid colors we see in nature get their signature looks WITHOUT colorful molecules. How do these intense colors get their power?
Instructional Video4:41
SciShow

3 Deadly Diseases You've Probably Never Heard Of

12th - Higher Ed
There are some diseases, like Zika or malaria, that get a lot of media coverage. However, every year, millions of people are infected with diseases that are just as deadly that we never hear anything about.
Instructional Video2:56
SciShow

We Finally Know How Anesthesia Works

12th - Higher Ed
Even though doctors have been using general anesthesia for nearly 200 years, they haven’t really understood the details of how it temporarily shuts down your brain — until now.
Instructional Video5:10
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The First Extinction of 2019 Has Already Happened | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
On New Year's day, we said goodbye to George the Snail, marking the first extinction of 2019, and the way things are looking, it won't be the last.
Instructional Video4:20
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The Biggest Volcano and Small Testes

12th - Higher Ed
Hank reviews the latest in science news, including the discovery of Element 115, the biggest volcano on Earth, and new insights into what it might mean to have small testicles.
Instructional Video5:33
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North America’s Destructive, Invasive… Earthworms

12th - Higher Ed
Earthworms may be good for your garden, but they also have the potential to disrupt forest ecosystems across much of North America.
Instructional Video3:58
SciShow

Huge Sperm and Giant Tentacles: Relax, It's Marine Biology

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow shares the latest developments in science, this week including new insights into the evolution of giant sperm, and the discovery of a whole new order of animal. ----------
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SciShow

Do Fish Drink Water?

12th - Higher Ed
They live in the water, but do they actually drink it? Turns out, some fish actually do! Learn all about how different kinds of fish get the fresh water that they need to survive in this new episode of SciShow!
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Bivalves Could Be the New Lab Rats

12th - Higher Ed
Bivalves—animals like mussels, clams and oysters—might be a more familiar sight in a restaurant than a lab. But it turns out that studying them might help us learn more about our own health.