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Can We Turn Back Our Biological Clocks?

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What If You Could Turn Back Your Biological Clocks? Unlock your secrets. Discover your Biological Age: https://trudiagnostic.comCheck out Lifespan now: https://www.lifespan.io/ !ALL THE LINKS! - https://linktr.ee/lifenogginDirector/Voice - Pat Graziosi: h
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Oxidation and Reduction Review From Biological Point-of-View

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Taking a looking at oxidation and reduction in a biological context More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=orI2m6IarJg
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Biological Molecules - You Are What You Eat: Crash Course Biology #3

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Hank talks about the molecules that make up every living thing - carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins - and how we find them in our environment and in the food that we eat. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dftba.com/product/1av/CrashCou
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The 2017 Nobel Prizes: Biological Clocks and Microscopy

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Last week, the recipients of the 2017 Nobel Prizes were announced. We take a closer look at the winners of the Physiology and Chemistry Awards, whose breakthroughs change the way we study sleep, and allow us to look at microscopic biological systems in a
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Tactile Sensing For Small Legged Robots - Bipedal Running Experiments

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We equipped a small bipedal running robot with tactile sensors to perform terrain classification using machine learning. See our latest results in Robotic Automation and Letters!
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A 3D Printer For The Zombie Apocalypse: Brains, Veins And Hearts.

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3D printers can replicate hard, bony body parts for use as implants in personalized medicine. But printing soft, flexible, and functional biological materials that can support their own weight during the printing process has remained a challenge. Now, Car
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What Happens When Continents Collide? - Juan D. Carrillo

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-happens-when-continents-collide-juan-d-carrillo Tens of millions of years ago, plate tectonics set North and South America on an unavoidable collision course that would change the face of the Earth and spel
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You're Actually More Than One Age

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If you're only as old as you feel, ' . How old do YOU feel?Discover your true age AND support Life Noggin: https://novoslabs.com/?ref=LifeNogginEnter to become a Life Noggin Character!: https://gleam.io/v0Qft/life-noggin-giveawayWatch more Life Noggin "Wo
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Jumping robot leaps to record heights

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Roboticists have designed all sorts of jumping robots over the years, and many of them have been inspired by biology. But, as diverse as the natural world is, evolution hasnt cracked every option.Now a team of researchers has investigated the differences
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Enzymes

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Enzymes as catalysts for reactions in biological systems. Discussion of substrates, active sites, induced fit, activation energy and denaturation.
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Programmable Droplets

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Biologists in a lab spend, on average, 30-50% of their time manually moving fluids using disposable pipettes. Programmable Droplets are a low-cost lab-on-a-chip designed to make testing cheaper, faster, and more portable for biological sampling. Using ele
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The momentous transition to multicellular life may not have been so hard after all

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Single cells had many of the genes and functions needed for complex life to evolve. Learn more: https://scim.ag/2Kjutt7 Credits: producer/editor/script/narrator Nguyen Khoi Nguyen supervising producer Sarah Crespi original story Elizabeth Pennisi graphics
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How Exactly is the Human Body Organized?

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Welcome to Seeker's newest series, Human! Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.comThis Seeker health mini-series will take a deep dive into the cellular structures, human systems, and overall anatomy that
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What The Color Of A Star Reveals About Its Composition

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People have noticed this range of colors in the stars throughout history and its actually a pretty good indicator of a stars temperature, chemical composition and life stage. In this episode, we explore why stars sometimes change color and how to spot an
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A Festival Full of Twins in Twinsburg

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Welcome to Twins Days, the largest annual festival for biological twins in the world. Every summer since 1976, thousands of pairs of twins have convened in Twinsburg, Ohio, to celebrate the uniqueness of twinship. Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/vi
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Quantum Biology: An Introduction

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What is quantum biology? Philip Ball explains how strange quantum effects take place in the messy world of biology, and how these are behind familiar biological phenomena such as smell, enzymes and bird's migration. Subscribe for regular science videos: h
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Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Twix | Gourmet Makes | Bon Apptit

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Twix. Theyve been at the heart of a debate that goes back more than five decades. Lines have been drawn so intractable that friendships, relationships, even nations have been ruined. Who could forget the Great Twix Battle between the UK and Finland in 198
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The Taxonomy Of Candy

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In our previous video 'What is a Species?,' we talked about the many ways scientists approach classifying organisms. So, I thought it'd be fun to get a few scientists from The Field Museum to apply their taxonomic know-how on something we're all familiar
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The three different ways mammals give birth - Kate Slabosky

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-three-different-ways-mammals-give-birth-kate-slabosky All mammals share certain characteristics, like warm blood and backbones. But despite their similarities, these creatures also have many biological diffe
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I, Octopus

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SCIENCE FRIDAY'S CEPHALOPOD WEEK 2016 BEGINS May 17th! http://www.sciencefriday.com/cephalopodweek With thousands of chemically-sensitive suckers, color-changing skin, and a brain that literally stretches when they eat, octopuses seem like aliens living i
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What can you learn from ancient skeletons? - Farnaz Khatibi

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-can-you-learn-from-ancient-skeletons-farnaz-khatibi Ancient skeletons can tell us a great deal about the past, including the age, gender and even the social status of its former owner. But how can we know a
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Why The Octopus Brain Is So Extraordinary - Cláudio L. Guerra

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-the-octopus-brain-is-so-extraordinary-claudio-l-guerra Octopuses have the ability to solve puzzles, learn through observation, and even use tools – just like humans. But what makes octopus intelligence so am
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Why Are Human Bodies Asymmetrical? - Leo Q. Wan

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-are-human-bodies-asymmetrical-leo-q-wan Symmetry is everywhere in nature. And we usually associate it with beauty: a perfectly shaped leaf or a butterfly with intricate patterns mirrored on each wing. But it
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Why our skin heals faster during the daytime

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Every cell in your body has a biological clock. And scientists just discovered those clocks have an enormous impact on how quickly you heal when you're wounded. SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/kdDpXu FOLLOW QUARTZ: Facebook: https://goo.gl/DsmLvx Twitter: https
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The mysterious nanotube network connecting cells

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Strange protrusions have been observed growing between cells. Often referred to as ‘tunnelling nanotubes’ or ‘membrane nanotubes’, their biological significance is not yet clear. Are these a previously unknown method of cell communication? Or an insignifi
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What Makes A Dinosaur?

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Thanks to 23andMe for sponsoring this video! http://www.23andme.com/minuteearth Due to a revolution in our understanding of the tree of life, birds are dinosaurs, while dimetrodons are not. Thanks also to our supporters on https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEa
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How Birds Almost Escalated The Cold War

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To find out how you can help Nature Canada protect at least 30% of the worlds lands and ocean by 2030, visit https://www.naturecanada.ca/?utm_source=MinuteEarth.A technology to ignore birds on radar ended up being useful to study and conserve them.LEARN M
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Does Sugar Make Kids Hyper?! Debunked

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Parents have been telling us for years, that if you give a child candy and cola it will hype them up and make them go nuts! But, how much truth is there to the 'sugar rush', and how much of it is just in the parents perception? Thanks for watching and sup
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The Largest Collection of Cephalopods

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http://www.patreon.com/scifri - Please Help Support Our Video Productions! Brett Grasse lovingly calls the Cephalopod Operations division at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) the “cephalopod empire.” The lab in Woods Hole, Massachusetts h
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Why Do Men Have Nipples?

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Men don’t usually lactate – but they can! Cristen explores how breast tissue develops in human embryos of both sexes, and explains why mice are more advanced, evolution-wise. Check out Cristen's article at HowStuffWorks.com: http://health.howstuffworks.co
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Inside a Synthetic DNA Factory Thats Building New Forms of Life

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In this DNA factory, organism engineers are using robots and automation to build completely new forms of life.Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Focal Point | https://bit.ly/2M3gmbKGinkgo Bioworks, a Boston company specializing
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The Worlds First Living Robots Just Got an Upgrade, Meet Xenobot 2.0

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In 2020, the world saw its first glimpse of a living robot that could move, self-heal, and work with other bots to meet a common goal. But all these features have gotten a massive upgrade including...memorymeet Xenobot 2.0. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit
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How evolution creates problem-solving machines | Michael Levin

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Evolution doesnt fix things it reinvents them. Michael Levin, a biologist, explains.This interview is an episode from @The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the @JohnTempletonFoundation. Subscribe to The Well o
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Watch this caterpillar fling its beetle attacker through the air

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Hornworm moth larvae have several tricks to defend themselves against predators. Learn more: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/watch-caterpillar-fling-its-beetle-attacker-through-air Read the paper ($): https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/advance-art
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Do Jellyfish Sleep?

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More Info: http://www.caltech.edu/news/surprising-ancient-behavior-jellyfish-79701 Three Caltech graduate students have discovered that jellyfish sleep. The work was a collaboration between three Caltech laboratories led by: - Paul Sternberg, Thomas Hunt
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Artificial brain reveals why we can't always believe our eyes

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A computer network closely modelled on part of the human brain is enabling new insights into the way our brains process moving images - and explains some perplexing optical illusions.Find out more here:https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/artificial-brain-
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Why Daffodils Grow in the Same Place Every Year

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Spring is almost here, and that means daffodils are blooming around the fort. But how do these flowers survive the long cold winters?----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowIf you
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How Old Is The Oldest Fairy Tale?

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We know folklore goes back hundreds of years, but thanks to a new study using biological research methods, we now know it’s even older than that. Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com: http://people.howstuffworks.com/10-da... Share on Facebook: https://goo.gl/K
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This MIT Engineer Built His Own Bionic Leg

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At MIT's Media Lab, researchers are developing prosthetic limbs that users can control with their minds, making a robotic foot move as seamlessly as a biological one. Video by Alan Jeffries -------- Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg on YouTube: http
Making a Strawberry-Powered Aquarium (With No Filter)

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Homegrown strawberries taste sweeter when you don't have to remember to water them. This time I setup a small, cube ecosystem using an old, used aquarium I found for free on Marketplace. After ripping out the factory filter, I let it develop its own biolo
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Micro ASMR: Soap Bubbles | Macro Video of Iridescent Soap Bubbles

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ASMR sound with soap bubbles. An intense close up look at iridescent soap bubbes in vivid detail. Like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/stereokroma See more at: http://tv.stereokroma.com Take a closer look at soap bubbles, did you ever notice how
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We're Not The Only Species To Cause A Mass Extinction

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Over the last several hundred million years, there have been many mass extinctions. Who caused the first & should we worry about the next? What's The Best Way To Stop Mass Extinction? - http://bit.ly/2bkskfY Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http:/
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Here's How To Fight Zika: With More Mosquitoes | WIRED

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Scientists in California are breeding and releasing mosquitos into Zika hotspots. While it may seem like they're making matters worse, they are actually releasing a kind of biological trojan horse. Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► http://w
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Can We Create New Humans With Bacteria?

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Scientists took 473 genes and created a cell that survived and reproduced on its own! How do scientists combine genes to make a cell function? Check out the all new Seeker! http://www.seeker.com Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here ►►►► http://bit.ly/1U
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Animal Development: We're Just Tubes - Crash Course Biology #16

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Hank discusses the process by which organisms grow and develop, maintaining that, in the end, we're all just tubes. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dft.ba/-8css Like CrashCourse on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/youtubecrashcourse
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What Is Life? | Jeff Marlow | TEDxBeaconStreet

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What is life? Even as we send robotic explorers into space to look for signs of life and answer eternal questions of life beyond Earth, scientists lack a coherent definition of the phenomenon. A theoretical underpinning of life is needed, and expeditions
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Weird and Wonderful: This little siphonophore has a big impact on deep-sea food webs

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Siphonophores (pronounced sigh-fawn-oh-fours) are delicate drifters made up of specialized segments that work together as one. These animals are like living commuter trains. Pulsing bells up front pull a long chain of segments specialized for feeding, def
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Otters Can't Wait to Swim in New Pool

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About Asian Small-clawed Otters First, otters are different from sea otters. Sea otters spend most of their time in the water, but otters can live both on the ground and in water. A few years ago, trafficking otters became a serious problem, and in 2019,
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Echolocation: The Evolution of a Superpower

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We have brand new watches! Enter the contest to be the first person to get one of these awesome watches. Click here to enter: https://www.undone.com/en/giveaway-animalogicBats, dolphins, oilbirds and shrews all speak the same language. We just cant hear i
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How To Trick Your Body To Be A Morning Person

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How often do you cling to your bed for a few extra minutes of sleep? If you're not a morning person, here's why it's not your fault! Why Does White Noise Make You Fall Asleep? - http://bit.ly/28MNqkE Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/
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Gastrotrichs: Four Day Old Grandmothers

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These little hairy-bellied friends lead a very interesting life, albeit a short one.Pick up your own Stentor pin!https://store.dftba.com/products/stentor-coeruleus-enamel-pinSupport Journey to the Microcosmos:https://www.patreon.com/journeytomicroFollow J
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Taxonomy: Life's Filing System - Crash Course Biology #19

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Hank tells us the background story and explains the importance of the science of classifying living things, also known as taxonomy. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dft.ba/-8css Like CrashCourse on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/You
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This desk knows when you’re stressed at work

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This desk changes with your mood. A new project from MIT Media Lab, Mediated Atmosphere, seeks to improve productivity and happiness at work through design, technology, and psychology. The desk reads over 30 biological signals like heart rate and body tem
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Elon Musk And Stephen Hawking Fear A Robot Apocalypse. But A Major Physicist Disagrees.

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All new technology is frightening, says physicist Lawrence Krauss. But there are many more reasons to welcome machine consciousness than to fear it. Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/should-we-be-scared-of-ai Follow Big Think here: You
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Depressive and Bipolar Disorders: Crash Course Psychology #30

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You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Also, if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing great content.
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This Is How Your Body Turns Food Into Energy

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Your body needs energy to do, well, everything. But where does that energy come from? In this episode, Patrick dives into how exactly mitochondria power the cell, how ATP works, and, alas, the Krebs cycle. Buckle up! Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/sub
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Festo – BionicWheelBot

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Like its biological model, the flic-flac spider, the BionicWheelBot can both walk and roll. Together with its discoverer, Professor Ingo Rechenberg, the Festo bionics team has used these unique movement patterns and turned them into a technical masterpiec
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The science of the self explained by a biologist | Michael Levin

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How do you emerge from a collection of cells? A biologist explains. This interview is an episode from @The-Well our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the @JohnTempletonFoundation .Subscribe to The Well on YouTube https:/
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Is Your Eye Color Not Real?

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Check out Say It Loud from PBSDS https://www.youtube.com/SayItLoudPBS SUBSCRIBE so you dont miss a video! http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub More info and sources below The eyes are often the first thing we see when we look at someone. And when you look at them up c
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What's the point of pain? | BBC Ideas

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We all know what pain is. But why does it exist? And what's it like to live with chronic pain?Animation by Gemma Green-Hope.Made in partnership with the @royalsociety Subscribe to BBC Ideas https://bbc.in/2F6ipav0:26 Intro to the three types of pain0:30 D
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Coronavirus Drugs: Where Are We and What's Next?

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Antiviral drugs could help us fight the new coronavirus, but we dont currently have a highly potent and effective antiviral that cures COVID-19. Why not? We called a few virologists to find out.You might also like:Gilead's remdesivir gets emergency use au
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The Colors of Stars

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Sam the Bat noticed that some stars are different colors, so Mister Brown teaches him about what colors stars can be, and what all the colors mean!Hosted by: Anthony Brown ----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon
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Conservation And Restoration Ecology: Crash Course Ecology #12

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Hank wraps up the Crash Course on ecology by taking a look at the growing fields of conservation biology and restoration ecology, which use all the kung fu moves we've learned about in the past eleven weeks and apply them to protecting ecosystems and to c
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Cyborg Botany: Augmented plants as sensors, displays, and actuators

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Plants can sense the environment, other living entities and regenerate, actuate or grow in response. Our interaction and communication channels with plant organisms in nature are subtle - whether it be looking at their color, orientation, moisture, positi
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The Science of Slowing Down Aging | WIRED

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Aging is inevitable, but what if it wasn't? Let's take a look at the latest science and how it might be possible to slow our own aging. What's the difference between our chronological age, and our biological age? Dr. Morgan Levine, an expert on aging, sit
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The Amazing World of Gumball | Cheer Up Dad! | Cartoon Network UK

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Gumball and Darwin try to help Richard move on from a troubled relationship with his biological father, Frankie.Subscribe to the Cartoon Network UK YouTube channel: https://goo.gl/hRAVDf Visit the Cartoon Network UK website:http://www.cartoonnetwork.co.uk
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Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body? - Maryam Alimardani

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Download a free audiobook and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: http://www.audible.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/are-you-a-body-with-a-mind-or-a-mind-with-a-body-maryam-alimardani Our bodies – the physical, biological parts of u
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Personality Disorders: Crash Course Psychology #34

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The Physics of Life: How Water Folds Proteins - with Sylvia McLain

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Sorry about the audio problems for the first 30 seconds or so - stick with it, it levels out soon. Proteins are arguably the most important biological components in any living creature but only now are we beginning to look into the role water plays in the
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How to see more and care less: The art of Georgia O'Keeffe - Iseult Gillespie

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Get to know the life and works of painter and sculptor Georgia OKeeffe, whose art became a cornerstone of American Modernism. --Feeling disconnected from creating art within classical conventions, artist Georgia OKeeffe began experimenting with abstract d
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How Does Protein Build Muscle?

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Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ACSReactions For those striving to build muscle, protein is essential. While this is obvious to many athletes and gym-goers, the biological and chemical processes between drinking a protein shake and getting “swole” may not be so
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Homochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules

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The first 500 people to use this link will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/stevemould10Molecules of biological origin always have a fixed handedness or chirality. For example you only ever see right handed sugars and lef
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Do We Have To Get Old ?

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We’d like to thank Focus Features for sponsoring this video – and for inviting us to pre-screen their summer 2015 film “Self/Less”. It’s a sci-fi flick that explores memory, consciousness, and immortality, and it made us think about the types of immortali
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OCD&Anxiety Disorders: Crash Course Psychology #29

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You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Also, if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing great content.
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Biohacking our way to health with robot cells | Michael Levin

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This biologist built a living robot from frog cells and it could hold the key to the future of regenerative medicine:This interview is an episode from @The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the @JohnTempletonFo
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How Do Nerve Cells Carry Information? - Christmas Lectures with David Pye

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What is action potential and how does it help nerves carry information, such as pain or pleasure signals? Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Watch the full lecture: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1985/communicati
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What is Bandwidth - Christmas Lectures with David Pye

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How are signals transmitted and processed and what's the role of bandwidth within it? Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Watch the full lecture: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1985/communicating/no-man-is-an-isla
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Firefly Signalling - Christmas Lectures with David Pye

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Fireflies use their bio-luminescence to communicate with each other to find a mate. And to lure unsuspecting prey with false signalling. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Watch the full lecture:http://www.rigb.org/christmas-l
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What Color Is The Universe?

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Hint: It’s not black Subscribe: http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub Twitter: @okaytobesmart ↓ More info and sources below ↓ When you stare up at the night sky, you might think that the universe is really black, but that’s just because our eyes aren’t sensitive enough
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Why Does Your Stomach Growl When You're Hungry?

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→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the wate
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Inside the Lab Where Robots Run Their Own Experiments

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Recent breakthroughs in automation and active machine learning are taking laboratory science to the next level. What will the laboratories of the future look like? Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Focal Point | https://bit.ly/
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Could You Be a Chimera?

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Follow me to MONSTRUM! https://youtu.be/x-GjSU4nOxE SUBSCRIBE so you dont miss a video! http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub More info and sources below Ever feel like you aren't totally yourself? Well, maybe you aren't. In this video, we explore the idea of human chi
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The beauty of collective intelligence, explained by a developmental biologist | Michael Levin

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The strange science experiment that blew a worms head off and blew our minds.This interview is an episode from @The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the @JohnTempletonFoundation.Subscribe to The Well on YouTub
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Evolution: It's a Thing - Crash Course Biology #20

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Hank gets real with us in a discussion of evolution - it's a thing, not a debate. Gene distribution changes over time, across successive generations, to give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization. Crash Course Biology is now availabl
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Checking the Weather Report in 1985 - Christmas Lectures with David Pye

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Computers had come a long way by the 1980s. With only a few gadgets you could even get the weather report right to your computer screen without having to wait for the evening news. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Watch the
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Using Radar to Detect and Identify Movement - Christmas Lectures with David Pye

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Radars can be used to detect and identify all sorts of moving objects. David Pye demonstrates a handheld one and also shows how birds and planes can be detected. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Watch the full lecture: http:
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When women drink while pregnant, there's a chance that it will severely damage the fetus’ brain, but what happens to a baby if it gets drunk outside of the womb? How Much Alcohol Can A Pregnant Woman Drink ►►►► http://dne.ws/1UT8gvk Read More: Factors Tha
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Optical Fiber Cables - Christmas Lectures with David Pye

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In 1985, fiber optic cables were just starting to get widely adopted. David Pye shows the principles behind them and how old telephone cables were swapped out for new ones. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Watch the full lec
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Christmas Lectures 2018: Where Do I Come From? - Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght

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In the first lecture of the 2018 Christmas Lectures Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght explore the tree of life and see where humans come from. Watch more Christmas Lectures: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social
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The First Full-Size 3D Print of a Human Heart Is Here

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Imagine having the option to get a 3D-printed organ. Well, a team of biomedical engineers from Carnegie Mellon University has just developed the first flexible, full-size, 3D-print of a human heart, bringing us one step closer to that reality. Subscribe t
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Humans Are Smart. Why Are Babies So Unsmart?

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The Real Reason Planes Crash | Boeing 737 Max 8

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The WEIRD Way Monkeys Got to America

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The mathematicians of Lilliput assumed that Gulliver would need 1728 times as much food as an individual Lilliput. Philip Morrison shows why this is not true, using surface area to volume ratios. Watch the full lecture: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectu
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The Mind/Brain: Crash Course History of Science #30

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Scientists in the nineteenth century discovered a lot about life and matter. But exactly what kind of stuff is the human brain? That one wasand istricky.The brain scienceswith experiments and therapies tied to biological theories of the bodyemerged in the
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This Is Not A Bug

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Hank explains speciation - the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise - in terms of finches, ligers, mules, and dogs. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dft.ba/-8css Like CrashCourse on Facebook: http://www.facebook.c
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What is Chemical Evolution?

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Have you ever wondered how life first got started on Earth? So do scientists! Though the question has not yet been fully answered, a careful study of Chemical Evolution is beginning to shed light on this mystery. In this film you will learn what Chemical
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Where In The World Do People Live The Longest?

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Invasion Of The Earthworms!

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Christmas Lectures 2018: What Makes Me Human? - Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght

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In the second lecture of the 2018 Christmas Lectures Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght explore human evolution. Watch more Christmas Lectures: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=description Due to co
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Christmas Lectures 2018: What Makes Me, Me? - Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght

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The Disease We Barely Know Anything About

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Monkeys are our closest biological relatives, and they can't speak. But parrots don’t seem to have a problem at all. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In 2016 researchers released a study with an incredible headline: monkey vocal tracts are s
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Robots: the future of food? -Superabundant S1 E4

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Getting food from the ground to the table is not easy. Whether its a server battling sore feet, or a grape picker hustling to harvest while the fruit is perfect, innovators are looking for ways to lighten the load, using a new generation of robots. But wi
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Do Presidents Age Faster Than The Rest Of Us?

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Why Sugar Always Twists Light To The Right - Optical Rotation

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The first 100 people to go to https://blinkist.com/stevemould will get unlimited access for 1 week to try it out. You'll also get 25% off if you want full membership.A solution of sugar water can actually change the orientation of polarised light. Glucose
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Protein Folding and Particle Accelerators: A New Solution

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Support Stated Clearly on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/statedclearly Evolution is often considered a complex and controversial topic but it's actually a very simple concept to understand. Watch this short animation to see how evolution works. Share it
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VIRUSES | Everything You Need To Know About Viruses | 3by3

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Everything you need to know about viruses in a quick visual explanation. You can get the infographic image here https://flic.kr/p/2j2LDWs At the beginning of this pandemic like everyone I was hearing lots about viruses, but realised I didnt know that much
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The Most Radioactive Places on Earth

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Who on Earth is exposed to the most ionizing radiation? Check out Audible: http://bit.ly/AudibleVe I'm filming a documentary for TV about how Uranium and radioactivity have shaped the modern world. It will be broadcast in mid-2015, details to come. The fi
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How Bacteria Make It Rain (with Kim Prather) – Speaking of Chemistry Road Trip

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Did you know that the ocean launches bacteria and other goo into the atmosphere? And that those particles can seed clouds? Atmospheric chemist Kimberly Prather of UCSD and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography drops some serious knowledge on us. ↓↓More
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Are Negative Ions Good For You?

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Why Do You Love Your Family?

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Why Are Mosquitoes So Good At Carrying Disease?

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I made a catapult to launch marshmallows! Thanks, Leonardo da Vinci.

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Its time to make a catapult.Welcome to our first-ever week of programming for kids! We wanted to launch some marshmallows, so we built a miniature machine based on Leonardo da Vincis designs.Leonardo da Vinci was a famous artist and inventor, and his sket
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Zombie Cells Are Hiding in Your Body, Could Killing Them Stop Aging?

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Why Does Some DNA Self-Destruct?

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Mitochondrial DNA is a lot more selective that we thought. Here's why mom (and not dad!) plays a crucial role in a baby's DNA development. How A Baby Can Have 3 Biological Parents http://bit.ly/29w7Dtn Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here http://bit.ly/
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Why Do Things Float in Space? | SciShow Kids

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Mysterious Trilobites! | The History of Life! | SciShow Kids

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Jumping Water Droplets Could Be the Future of Cooling Computers

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When Fish First Breathed Air

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Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/eons 385 million years ago, a group of fish would undertake one of the most important journeys in the history of life and become the first vertebrates to live on dry ground. But first, they had to acquire the
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Why Do Disney Princesses All Look Like Babies?

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This $8 Trillion Coronavirus Mistake Could Kill 100%, w Stephen Fry. AI Is Watching.

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Experts warned that a pandemic was inevitable. Preparing would have cost the US around $1billion. Instead, it will now cost $8 trillion, and over 200,000 deaths. We explore the greatest existential threats - AI, nuclear and biological - and how coronaviru
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Why Don't Ants Get Stuck In Traffic?

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The Best Dragon (According to Science)

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We Got Our DNA Tested, Here's How It Actually Works

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Trace and Amy get their DNA test results, and we talk to an expert about how scientists actually get genetic information out of DNA. How To Make Blood Glow Like On CSI - https://youtu.be/j8JmSGpjjK0?list=PL6uC-XGZC7X6OMFVzMUQfjWAUyFWNNU8V Sign Up For The
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Where The Weird Things Are

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We made this video in partnership with the Bik Lab at University of Georgia and the National Science Foundation.Life in Antarctica's ocean has followed a completely different evolutionary path from other ocean life because of how cold and isolated the oce
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When Tree Planting Goes Wrong

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How Many Friends Do You Really Need?

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Can Science Explain the Origin of Life?

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Is Soil Alive?

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The Strange Science Of The Placebo Effect

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What Can Intelligent Materials Do? - with Skylar Tibbits

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Heart Cells Are Bringing Robots To Life

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How Do We Know There’s A Planet 9?

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Are you having trouble keeping track of all the planets in the Solar System? Good news! Astronomers have found evidence that there’s another huge planet far out in the Solar System. Textbooks will need to be rewritten again. You’re welcome. Support us at:
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If An Asteroid Didn’t Kill All The Dinosaurs, What Did?

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What Happens To Your Brain When You Dream

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Cyclopia: A Rare Birth Defect That Could Help Cure Cancer

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Why Do Humans Have Less DNA Than This Flower?

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These Mites Rain Down To Save Your Strawberries | Deep Look

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Two tiny mites duke it out on strawberry plants throughout California. One is a spider mite that sucks the juices out of the delicious crop and destroys it. The other, persimilis, is a crafty predator that growers drop by the thousands from high-tech dron
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Why Don’t We Have Functional Biofuel Yet?

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Chameleons Are Masters of Nanotechnology

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Does the Theory of Evolution Really Matter?

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Pain is much more complicated than getting a nasty cut on your knee. In this episode of Human, Patrick breaks down how your body feels pain on a physiological level. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Human! http://bit.ly/HUMANp
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The Hidden Physics Behind Your Breath

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Everything Scientists Could Learn By Looking At Your Skull

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Have We Really Engineered a Plane That Prevents Jet Lag?

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Your Brain Changes All the Time, but Being a Mom Changes It Forever

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Meet the Autonomous Insect Robots That Will One Day Swarm the Skies

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