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The FOMO Is Real - But You Can Overcome It
FOMO (the fear of missing out) is a fairly common phenomenon, especially in this digital age. It can cause you significant stress and anxiety, but luckily psychologists have come up with a few tricks to combat it.
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Plastic Bunny 3D Printed From Its Own DNA
A team is encoding digital data into DNA molecules which are then embedded into larger physical objects, like this plastic bunny! And researchers are working on a new, low maintenance oral contraceptive.
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Agriculture May Have Changed How People Speak | SciShow News
The development of agriculture was a huge game changer for human beings and it may have even changed the way we speak.
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What If Your Body Didn’t Paralyze You During Sleep?
Our body is supposed to be paralyzed during REM sleep, but REM sleep behavior disorder might not allow you to stay in bed. It could even cause you to act out your dreams in real life.
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Immortal Cells Turn 96
The world has a lot to thank Henrietta Lacks for, and yet many do not know what she has contributed. From helping to create the polio vaccine to the study of radiation, Henrietta and her HeLa cells have changed the world.
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Using Devil's Milk to Kill Superbugs
Scientists are turning to unusual places to find new compounds to fight off drug-resistant “superbugs.” The discovery came from milking ferocious mammals!
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5 Times Scientists Were Very Wrong About New Discoveries, Because of Hope
Passionate scientists constantly have revolutionary ideas, but when they seem too good to be true, they usually are.
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SPNs Might Change the World, So What Are They?
Researchers created a "super jelly" that can survive being run over with a car, and its weird properties take advantage of some novel chemistry.
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3 New Facts About Denisovans
Hank brings us some late-breaking news from the genus Homo - a team of scientists has sequenced the genome of the Denisova hominin, the latest member to be added to the human family tree.
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Parkinson’s Isn’t Inherited (Usually), but This Gene Matters
We don’t know what causes non-hereditary Parkinson's disease, but researchers have recently identified a gene that might help shed some light on those cases. And another paper suggests that the impact we're having on the frequency of...
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The World's Most Abundant Mineral, and Oddball Whales
SciShow News takes you to the depths of the Earth, where the world’s most abundant mineral is found, and to the Arabian Sea, where a strange population of whales has been living in isolation for 70,000 years!
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TED-ED: Could a breathalyzer detect cancer? - Julian Burschka
How is it that a breathalyzer can measure the alcohol content in someone’s blood, hours after they had their last drink, based on their breath alone? And could we use this same technology to detect disease by analyzing a person’s breath,...
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Exotic Chemistry: World's Oldest Water and The Rarest Element
This week's SciShow news brings you discoveries involving two of the most exotic substances on Earth - the world's rarest element and the world's oldest water. Two great tastes that taste great together? Stay tuned to find out.
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Why It Might Be Good to Have Herpes | Trained Immunity
While herpes viruses cause harmful or annoying afflictions like chickenpox and cold sores, there’s also evidence it can help your immune system fight unrelated attackers.
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What Your Family History Can’t Tell You
The first time you visit a new doctor, they’ll probably ask you about your family history - but it turns out that family history doesn’t tell you everything about the risks that can be hidden in your genes.
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Am I Really A Visual Learner?
You might consider yourself a visual learner, but is there really a way to categorize different types of students?
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What Do 'Smart Pills' Really Do to Your Brain?
Nootropics are a group of chemicals that supposedly make you “smarter” without any side-effects. But don’t rush into it yet! It might be still too experimental to test it out.
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Creating Artificial Life
Scientists are working on creating organisms with designer genomes -- and someday, we might end up with bacteria manufacturing our jet fuel.
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Oxygen Enemas Could Save Lives
Scientists have known for some time that certain animals can breathe using their butts, but now, researchers have determined that certain mammals can too! And in very much other news, researchers in Washington state have developed a new...
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4 Tiny Missions Answering the Biggest Questions in Astrophysics
The Astrophysics Pioneers program is funding four innovative new missions that read like a best-hits album of the most exciting astronomical frontiers: from galaxy evolution and exoplanets, to neutron star mergers and astroparticle physics.
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Maybe Life Doesn't Need Water, After All
Scientists have been searching for alien life by honing in on the existence of liquid water, but we might be overlooking some types of life out there that doesn't need water at all.
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Cosmic Cocktails Oxygen and Alcohol in Space!
Scientists studying Comets 67P and Lovejoy have discovered oxygen, alcohol, and the building block of sugar. Sounds like a regular Friday night on earth, but it’s the first time we’ve found any of these things on a comet.
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Why Being Introverted Doesn’t Make You Antisocial | Antisocial Personality Disorder
Introverts can often feel antisocial, but they are not always the same thing. In fact, psychologists found that they have great differences in their brain’s structure and function.
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Your Cat Questions Answered! | Compilation
The kitties we let into our homes and hearts can have some strange and endearing behaviors, and we've made a fur-midable number of episodes about them! If you love cats, we've got a feline you're going to love this compilation!