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SciShow

9 Amazing New Arachnid Species

12th - Higher Ed
Whether they're dancing, hunting, or being a pain in the nose, these new arachnid species will knock all 8 of your socks off.
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SciShow

Pink Lake Mystery Solved!

12th - Higher Ed
Remember that episode we did on Australia’s Pink Lake? Well, we have a follow-up! Hank explains in this episode of SciShow News.
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SciShow

Good News, & Drinking Pigs

12th - Higher Ed
The SciShow Science News Bureau brings us some GOOD news this week - Hank tells us about a newly developed vaccine for dengue fever, a newly discovered monkey species in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and some happy pigs drinking...
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TED Talks

TED: 6 space technologies we can use to improve life on Earth | Danielle Wood

12th - Higher Ed
Danielle Wood leads the Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab, where she works to tear down the barriers that limit the benefits of space exploration to only the few, the rich or the elite. She identifies six technologies...
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SciShow

The First Star-Within-A-Star

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Space shares the latest news from around the universe, including the first observation of a star-within-a-star, and the debut image from the newest telescope to be enlisted in the hunt for alien worlds.
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SciShow

Did Scientists Really Make Metallic Hydrogen?

12th - Higher Ed
The Researchers reconstructed the face of the organism which might be one of our earliest ancestors. Meanwhile, two researchers from Harvard announced that they have created solid metallic hydrogen.
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SciShow

The Real Mayan Apocalypse

12th - Higher Ed
There are just six weeks left until the celestial odometer that is the Mayan calendar clicks over to the next b'akt'un, but in the meantime, scientists have been trying to solve the mystery behind the collapse of the Mayan civilization....
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SciShow

Your Head Might Be On Sideways

12th - Higher Ed
In your brain the right side controls the left half of your body and vice versa. We still aren't sure why this is, but some scientists have come up with a pretty bizarre explanation: that some ancient vertebrate ancestor was born with...
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SciShow

How Bacteria Helped Plants Take Over the World | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
This week, scientists think they may have found a missing link in regards to how plants went from living in the sea to on land, and also, in adorable news, surfing honeybees.
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SciShow

Futuristic Spy Tech Self-Destructs in Sunlight | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
This week scientists invented futuristic technologies that sound made up by Hollywood’s spy movies, and we might be able to have infrared supervision without goggles...soon.
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SciShow

How Pluto’s Heart Makes Its Atmosphere Spin Backward - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Pluto's heart is revealing itself to be a major influence on the dwarf planet’s landscape and atmosphere, and scientists used atom probe tomography (APT) for the first time on lunar soil to study it atom by atom!
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SciShow

Updates on the Hunt for Dark Matter - SciShow Space News

12th - Higher Ed
The hunt for dark matter is still on, and the candidates for it could be primordial black holes as massive as Earth, or axions, as tiny as the smallest subatomic particles in existence!
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SciShow

Will We Ever Run Out of Dinosaurs?

12th - Higher Ed
Some paleontologists wonder how many species of dinosaurs are left for us to discover, and how many fossils of them are out there. Find out how long the experts think the world's supply of dinosaur fossils will last!
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SciShow

Evolution & The Science of Popular Music

12th - Higher Ed
This week, researchers reveal the single most important influence on music since 1960. Also, turns out that sleepwalking and sleep terrors are genetically linked.
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SciShow

This Planet Used to Be the Core of a Gas Giant? | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists may have found the light from two merging black holes, and a gas giant, without the gas.
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TED Talks

Zach Kaplan + Keith Schacht: Toys and materials from the future

12th - Higher Ed
The Inventables guys, Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht, demo some amazing new materials and how we might use them. Look for squishy magnets, odor-detecting ink, "dry" liquid and a very surprising 10-foot pole.
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TED Talks

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere

12th - Higher Ed
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, a new way to see, hear and interpret scientific data. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements ... and detect previously unseen patterns that could lead to new...
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SciShow

The Antibacterial Benefits of Wasp Venom

12th - Higher Ed
This week, scientists turned to an unlikely source to try to solve the problem of antibiotic resistance, and got a peek at the lifestyle of some of the very first mammals... by studying their teeth.
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TED Talks

TED: How ancient Arctic carbon threatens everyone on the planet | Sue Natali

12th - Higher Ed
What will happen to the planet if climate change melts what's left of Arctic permafrost? Shedding light on this overlooked threat, Arctic geologist Sue Natali reveals the true danger of heating up the iciest place on the planet: the...
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SciShow

NASA Wants to Capture Asteroids…in Bags (And Other New Tech)

12th - Higher Ed
NIAC has awarded their first two grant winners for phase III: optical mining and 3D modeling craters, and researchers are further honing in on how to identify faraway habitable planets.
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SciShow

How Do Astronauts Do Their Business?

12th - Higher Ed
So how do astronauts manage to pee and poop in microgravity? And what happens to all of their waste? Do you really want to know? If you do, the answers are inside!
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PBS

Kronos: Devourer Of Worlds

12th - Higher Ed
What happens when a star eats its planets? Find out on today's Space Time Journal Club.
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TED Talks

Angelo Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space

12th - Higher Ed
"We will start inhabiting outer space," says Angelo Vermeulen, crew commander of a NASA-funded Mars simulation. "It might take 50 years or it might take 500 years, but it's going to happen." In this charming talk, the TED Senior Fellow...
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TED Talks

Victoria Gill: What a nun can teach a scientist about ecology

12th - Higher Ed
To save the achoque -- an exotic (and adorable) salamander found in a lake in northern Mexico -- scientists teamed up with an unexpected research partner: a group of nuns called the Sisters of the Immaculate Health. In this delightful...