Your body vs. implants - Kaitlyn Sadtler
Adults Biology
Why do medical implants like insulin pumps and prosthetic knees need replacement? Explore how the immune system fights implants and how new devices are trying to help.
What Happens To Your Memories After You Die?
Adults Biology
When we're no longer on this earth, what happens to all the memories in our heads? Do people remember their passing if they're brought back to life?
You Don’t Want to Live Forever
Adults Biology
The idea of immortality has long been a prominent fixture in storytelling, and serves as a much sought after goal even here in real life.
The mysterious science of pain
Adults Biology
Explore the biological and psychological factors that influence how we experience pain and how our nervous system reactions to harmful stimuli.
The Secrets of Extreme Breath Holding
Adults Biology
Humans can hold our breath longer than we think by taking advantage of our body’s innate survival instincts - and then ignoring them.
What Happens If Your Stomach Gets Removed?
Adults Biology
Can you survive without a stomach? What happens when your stomach is gone?
The wild world of carnivorous plants
Adults Biology
Venus fly traps, bladderworts and sundews, oh my! Learn about carnivorous plants and their predatory antics to lure, trap and digest prey.
How to biohack your cells to fight cancer
Adults Biology
Check out the science of biohacking, where biologists go into a patient’s genetic code and reprogram their immune system to recognize and fight cancer cells.
What Happens When You Go To Sleep High?
Adults Biology
Dude. Sleeping high does what?
Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields?
Adults Biology
Research has found some human brains can pick up on rotations of geomagnetic-strength fields as evidenced by drops in alpha wave power following stimulus.
You Are A Fish
Adults Biology
With our current understanding of evolutionary history and our strategy of cladistic naming, if we wanted to have both goldfish and sharks under a single group called "fish", then mammals must also be called fish.
What Happens When You Freeze To Death?
Adults Biology
Good reason to stay inside during this Polar Vortex!
Could A Plant Grow Inside You?
Adults Biology
Plants can live in all kinds of environments...even inside the your body?
Aliens under the Ice – Life on Rogue Planets
Adults Biology
Out in the vast coldness of outer space, there are planets that travel alone through darkness without the boundaries of a system. Here’s how this can happen – and why these frozen deserts might secretly harbor alien life.
Can animals be deceptive?
Adults Biology
A male firefly emits a series of enticing flashes. He hopes a female will respond and mate with him.
Do Fish Pee?
Adults Biology
You know you’ve wondered. Do fish actually pee? And what does that make the ocean… one big toilet?
Why Is The Very Hungry Caterpillar So Dang Hungry?
Adults Biology
Because it's hoarding protein. Not just for itself, but for the butterfly it will become and every egg that butterfly will lay. And it's about to lose its mouth... as it wriggles out of its skin during metamorphosis.