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Why Did It Take Us So Long?
We've long known that animal pollination is an important way plants reproduce on land, but we're only just finding out animals also pollinate plants underwater.
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The Species That Broke Evolution?
The ancestors of gars, horseshoe crabs and coelacanths looked almost the same as their modern relatives. Darwin called species like these “living fossils'' because they seem like they are evolutionarily frozen in time. But Darwin was wrong.
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Why Don't We Eat Carnivores?
Humans eat a lot of different animals, but almost none of them are carnivores - why?
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Why does the north get more total eclipses?
Solar eclipses can happen anywhere on earth, but if you want to see a total eclipse, you need to go to the far north, because the Earth’s shape and orbit determine the high latitudes and eclipse hotspot.
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What’s Eating The Titanic?
When a ship sinks, lots of factors, like the ship’s materials, the water quality, and the depth of the seafloor all play a role in determining how long the ship will last down there - as a result, the Titanic will be gone in fifty years,...
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Weird Things Animals Do During Eclipses
For centuries, humans have reported animals freaking out during solar eclipses, like birds falling from the sky and bees hiding in their hives, but the animals most affected by eclipses might be us.
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Inside The Sunny Center of a Hurricane
Why is the middle of a hurricane sometimes so clear and calm?
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How To Name A Disease (Like COVID-19)
We’ve changed - and standardized - the way diseases get named because the old way was often stigmatizing and confusing.
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How Tall Can Mountains Be?
What is the maximum height for a mountain on Earth!? And why?
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How Risky Are Vaccines?
Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here's a keyword to get your googling started: herd immunity: immunity that occurs when the vaccination of a portion of a population provides protection for individuals who have...
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How Many Mass Extinctions Have There Been?
Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here are some keywords/phrases to get your googling started: - Mass Extinction Event: a significant, global decrease in the diversity of life - "Big 5": The five biggest mass...
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How Fighting Wildfires Makes Them Worse
Today's wildfires burn, on average, twice the amount of land they did in 1970. The reason? We've been working too hard to put them out. Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here's a keyword/phrase to get your googling...
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How Do Trees Survive Winter?
Humans can go inside or put on clothes, but trees spend winter naked in the cold. Why don't they all die?
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Epigenetics: Why Inheritance Is Weirder Than We Thought
Epigenetics: Why Inheritance Is Weirder Than We Thought
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DemDebate Secret Video - What The U.S. Promised in Paris
NBC & YouTube actually asked us to make TWO videos for the Democratic Presidential Debate on January 17th, 2016. Here's the video that DIDN'T get shown at the debate. Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here are some...
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400 Parts in a Million - The World's Biggest Experiment
400 Parts in a Million - The World's Biggest Experiment