What Is Something?
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What is something? On the most fundamental level thinkable, what are things? Why are things? And why do things behave the way they do?
What Happens When Your Brain Is Split
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What Happens When Your Brain Is Split In Two - And You Survive?
Why do some people have seasonal allergies?
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Ah, spring. Grass growing, flowers blooming, trees budding. For those with allergies, though, this explosion of new life probably inspires more dread than joy. So what's behind this annual onslaught of mucus? Eleanor Nelsen explains what happens when your immune system goes rogue.
Mimic Octopus
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Most Intelligent Mimic Octopus In The World
How Long To Fall Through The Earth?
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Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute!
Backwards Brain Bike
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Destin from Smarter Every Day challenged me to learn to ride the Backwards Bran Bike for 50 meters.
How Far Can We Go? Limits of Humanity.
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Is there a border we will never cross? Are there places we will never be able to reach, no matter what? It turns out there are. Far, far more than you might have thought...
How do we separate the inseparable?
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Your cell phone is mainly made of plastics and metals. It's easy to appreciate the process by which those elements add up to something so useful.
Why Does a Pool Table Need a Super Strong Magnet?
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In a pool table's 30 year life span, it can rack up half a million games. What's underneath the green felt that keeps this game playable?
The threat of invasive species
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Massive vines that blanket the southern United States, climbing high as they uproot trees and swallow buildings. A ravenous snake that is capable of devouring an alligator. Rabbit populations that eat themselves into starvation.
Flavored Oxygen Taste Test
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Can we figure out what flavor oxygen we're breathing?
How Does An Owl Fly So Silently?
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Using sensitive sound equipment the team try to find out how an owl can fly so silently compared to other birds.
Smarter Every Day
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Can You Land A Helicopter Without Engine Power?
Can You Hear Colors?
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Have you ever heard of synesthesia?
Why is being scared so fun?
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At this very moment, people are lining up somewhere to scare themselves, be it with a thrill-ride or a horror movie. In fact, in October of 2015 alone, about 28 million people visited a haunted house in the US.
James Webb Space Telescope
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Known as Hubble's successor, it uses 18 mirror segments to collect light from galaxies billions of light years away.
Where Does the Smell of Rain Come From?
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I smell a science storm a-comin'!!
The Turing test: Can a computer pass for a human?
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What is consciousness? Can an artificial machine really think? For many, these have been vital considerations for the future of artificial intelligence.
NASA | A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2
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An ultra-high-resolution NASA computer model has given scientists a stunning new look at how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere travels around the globe.
The reason you feel awful when you're sick
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It starts with a tickle in your throat that becomes a cough. Your muscles begin to ache, you grow irritable, and you lose your appetite. It's official: you've got the flu. It's logical to assume that this miserable medley of symptoms is the result of the infection coursing through your body - but is that really the case? Marco A. Sotomayor explains what's actually making you feel sick.
This Video Has Consumed 30.1 Household-Days of Electricity!
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The title of this video is changing every 10 seconds to reflect an estimate of the actual energy used just by people (like you!) watching it. Thanks to Jasper Palfree for doing the computer magic that makes that possible!