As winter approaches, V-shaped flocks glide overhead as the world's birds begin their long treks to warmer climates. Humans used to have some pretty crazy theories about where birds went for winter, like the moon, or to the bottom of...

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Hank gives us a summary of a strange new calculation, which estimates the total body mass of all the humans on earth.

Humans have been eating seafood for thousands of years, but some animals don’t grow very fast, and others taste pretty gross for at least part of the year. To solve these problems, scientists sometimes turn to genetics. If you eat...

How do we consume data? At TED@SXSWi, technologist JP Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food.

From the starter plants in your window to giant agriculture, there's a lot of science to cover before dinner.

Could King Kong ever evolve to exist? Could we simply scale up a gorilla? How and where could this giant ape develop? Join us as we explore the science behind the king of monsters!

This brief video tutorial briefly discusses body fluid compartments: 0:00​​. Introduction 0:33. Water contributes to 60% of our body mass 0:44. Water is found in intracellular compartments (2/3) and extracellular compartments (1/3) -...

This video provides an explanation of type 2 diabetes and its correlation with obesity. It discusses the rise in type 2 diabetes diagnoses and obesity rates in many countries, and highlights excess body fat as the strongest risk factor...

Bats can be carriers of the coronavirus but they are themselves highly resistant to the disease, according to University of Rochester researchers.

Dr. Scott Smith, NASA nutritionist and the manager for nutritional biochemistry, discusses the differences in the way astronauts have to eat in space versus the way we eat here on Earth. HWHAP Episode 43.

This video is a lecture presentation on pyramids of biomass. The presenter explains the concept of biomass and trophic levels in a food chain. The video provides a graphical representation of the relative amounts of organic matter found...