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Cat domestication: From farms to sofas

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Years before they conquered the Internet, cats colonized our sofas. But they haven’t spent the last ten thousand years just snoozing. A new study reveals that tamed cats swept through Eurasia and Africa carried by early farmers, ancient mariners and even
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5 Genius Ways to Water Your Plants When You are Away on Vacation - Indoor Plants Automatic Watering

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When you are away from home you need to make provisions to ensure that your plants stay healthy. If you are unable to get a friend or neighbour to come in and water your plants, there are some easy tips you can follow to keep your plants in great conditio
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Leonardo da Vinci's Drawing Materials

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In this short film, conservator Alan Donnithorne explores the materials that Leonardo da Vinci used to produce his magnificent drawings. Using examples from the holdings of the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, the film looks at how Leonardo achieved th
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Plants In Space!

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For humans to travel to the Moon and Mars, they'll need a companion - a lowly weed. Just as Matt Damon survives on Mars in The Martian because he cultivates plants in the red planet's hostile conditions, astronauts will need to understand how to grow plan
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Are Plants Conscious?

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Scientists have found evidence that plants have senses, memories, and can even communicate with each other. But does this mean they're conscious? Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com: http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/botany/plants-feel-pain.htm Share on F
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'Plants FIGHT one another, plants STRANGLE one another!' The Green Planet BBC

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Subscribe and to the BBC https://bit.ly/BBCYouTubeSubWatch the BBC first on iPlayer https://bbc.in/iPlayer-Home Sir David Attenborough discusses the new landmark natural history series, The Green Planet, with executive producer Michael Gunton. They explai
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Meat Eating Plants

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Many animals eat plants, but did you know some plants eat animals? Jessi and Squeaks explore some of their favorite meat eating plants! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold y
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Mimicking This Tiny Glass Sponge For Stronger, Lightweight Modular Building Materials

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This video explores the Venus flower basket's incredible cellular architecture, and how engineers at Metavoxel Technologies have designed 3-D modular building materials that produce strong but lightweight properties. By learning from nature's way of doing
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Can Plants Talk To Each Other? - Richard Karban

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-plants-talk-to-each-other-richard-karban Can plants talk to each other? It certainly doesn’t seem that way: They don’t have complex sensory or nervous systems, like animals do, and they look pret
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Top 10 Materials That Seem To Defy The Laws Of Physics

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Some new found materials are so amazing, they seem to defy the laws of physics. Don't believe me? Keep watching to find out some of the most amazing substances and materials on earth! Subscribe for more! ► https://goo.gl/pgcoq1 ◄ Stay updated ► https://go
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The amazing ways plants defend themselves - Valentin Hammoudi

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-amazing-ways-plants-defend-themselves-valentin-hammoudi Plants are constantly under attack. They face threats ranging from microscopic fungi to smal
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One of the strongest lightweight materials known

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A team of MIT engineers has successfully designed a new 3-D material with five percent the density of steel and ten times the strength, making it one of the strongest lightweight materials known. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2017/3-d-graphene-stronges
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What Can Intelligent Materials Do? - with Skylar Tibbits

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How can we design simple and elegant intelligent materials, that may one day animate and improve themselves?Buy Skylar's book: https://geni.us/3ORQAAEWatch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/C1liR2zeS4sTodays researchers are designing materials that physically sen
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Explore How Conductive Materials Around Your House Are!

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In this activity, students will make a broken circuit. They will then use the loose wire ends to test the conductivity of various materials!Learn how to do this at home: https://bit.ly/sw-contesFor the first time in 30 years, Science World has closed its
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These Plants Eat Salamanders | National Geographic

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At a bog in Canada, spotted salamanders serve as a snack for carnivorous pitcher plants. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe#NationalGeographic #Salamanders #PlantsAbout National Geographic:National Geographic is the world's premium destination for s
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Strangest & Coolest Materials Which Actually Exist

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Strangest & Coolest Materials Which Actually Exist SUBSCRIBE and become part of the AzzyLand family :D OFFICIAL AZZYLAND MERCH https://www.azzyland.com/shop SOCIAL MEDIAInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/azzyland/Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@azzylan
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Paper Is Handmade From Recycled Materials

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Watch how paper is handmade from recycled materials by women at Fairy Hill Nature's Handmade Paper Project in Fairy Hill, Jamaica. Subscribe to our new channel, INSIDER food: http://insder.co/2kWwBKZ The INSIDER team believes that life is an adventure! Su
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9 Futuristic Materials

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Learn about some materials that seem like they should belong in science fiction, but actually exist today! Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go
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How Plants Tell Time - Dasha Savage

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-plants-tell-time-dasha-savage Morning glories unfurl their petals like clockwork in the early morning. A closing white waterlily signals that it’s late afternoon. And moon flowers, as their name suggests, on
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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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How Smart Are Plants?

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Scientists found plants might have the capacity to remember and even communicate. But just how smart could plants really be? 5 Weird Ways Plants Can Eat Animals ►►►► http://bit.ly/1o7dABK Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►► http://bit.ly/1myXbFG
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Neural Materials Are Amazing!

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Check out Weights & Biases and sign up for a free demo here: https://wandb.com/papers Their mentioned post is available here: https://wandb.ai/stacey/xray/reports/X-Ray-Illumination--Vmlldzo4MzA5MQ The paper "NeuMIP: Multi-Resolution Neural Materials" is
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Roots from different plants compete for prime real estate underground

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Mathematical modeling and greenhouse studies show complex interactions keep roots productiveWhen it comes to plants, the roots hidden underground are as importantif not more importantthan whats visible above ground. Now researchers have figured out how ro
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The Lives of Nonvascular Plants: Alternation of Generations - Crash Course Biology #36

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Hank introduces us to nonvascular plants - liverworts, hornworts&mosses - which have bizarre features, kooky habits, and strange sex lives. Nonvascular plants inherited their reproductive cycle from algae, but have perfected it to the point where it i
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Top 10 Most Dangerous Plants in the World

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The world is full of incredibly dangerous plants and some species pose a significant threat to us. Here are some of the most dangerous plants in the world! Subscribe for more! ► https://goo.gl/pgcoq1 ◄ Stay updated ► https://goo.gl/JyGcTt https://goo.gl/5
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Watch Plants Choke On Air

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Air bubbles prove deadly for parched plants. Learn more: http://scim.ag/1qEpCUS
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CAM Plants

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How CAM Plants are able to fix carbon at night so they don't have to keep their stomata open during the day More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=xp6Zj24h8uA
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How Plants Drink Fog!

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Trees need water to grow, so how do Redwood trees get so big, despite the fact that it gets so dry?----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowIf you have a question for Jessi, Squeak
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These Liquid-Repelling Materials Defy Nature’s Design, Here’s How

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Materials with liquid-repelling properties are for more than just your phone. They can reduce drag for boats and help heat transfer at nuclear plants. Here’s how scientists are making these seemingly impossible materials. These Strange Metals Could Make E
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Glowing plants provide light to read

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MIT engineers have been able to induce plants to give off a dim light for nearly four hours. And they believe that, with further optimization, such plants will one day be bright enough to illuminate an entire workspace. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/20
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How Mendel's pea plants helped us understand genetics - Hortensia Jiménez Díaz

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-mendel-s-pea-plants-helped-us-understand-genetics-hortensia-jimenez-diaz Each father and mother pass down traits to their children, who inherit combinations of their dominant or recessive alleles. But how do
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How Astronauts Grow Plants In Space

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Recently, astronauts were able to grow and eat lettuce in space! How was this possible? Help support DNews by completing this one-question survey http://bit.ly/dnewssurvey Read More: Meals Ready to Eat: Expedition 44 Crew Members Sample Leafy Greens Grown
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These carnivorous plants won the evolutionary jackpot

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Carnivorous plants have evolved all kinds of traps and tricks to capture their prey, from the snapping jaws of Venus flytraps to the slippery walls of pitcher plants. Although we often think of evolution as a process driven by strong selective pressure an
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Why Are Plants Green? | COLOSSAL QUESTIONS

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Why are most plants green?Images used under license from Shutterstock.comWelcome to Colossal Questions, the show that answers all of life's most pressing questions!
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10 AWESOMELY BEAUTIFUL CRAFTS WITH PLANTS

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Hey guys! I can't wait for you to see this video! There are tons of extremely beautiful and crafty ideas for your house plants! Now you'll know how to make brand new pot out of broken one or make a cool lighthouse from boring pots! Go ahead and try!
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Farming Metal From Plants Could Be the Future of Sustainable Tech

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There are plants that ooze metaland were farming them. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.com Hyperaccumulators are plants that have evolved to absorb
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The Ingenious Ways Plants Defend Themselves

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A new study has found that when certain plants are damaged, they can emit a chemical to ward off insects. They can even team up with other plants to keep pests away! 5 Weird Ways Plants Can Eat Animals - https://youtu.be/6j8IFHaHYFY Sign Up For The Seeker
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Plants in a Jar Test the Conservation of Mass

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People are generally confused about how matter works. I do a little experiment with a terrarium to test one of the most important laws in physics: the conservation of mass. If matter cannot be created or destroyed, then how do plants grow?
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14 DIY Projects With Drinking Straws -Easy Crafts Using Recycled Materials

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14 DIY Projects With Drinking Straws -Easy Crafts Using Recycled Materials Fun, Cute and Easy Crafts: Girl Crafts00:00 Easy Photo Holder Idea00:13 Flower Decor Idea01:05 Cute Photo Frame Idea01:37 Easy Pencil Holder Idea02:05 Lavender Decor Idea02:43 Hear
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Talking Plants Mini-Myth

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Do plants grow better with sweet talk and classical music? Maybe yelling and constant heavy metal music does the trick. Stream Full Episodes: https://www.sciencechannelgo.com/science/shows/ For More: http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/abou
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The Plants&The Bees: Plant Reproduction - CrashCourse Biology #38

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Hank gets into the dirty details about vascular plant reproduction: they use the basic alternation of generations developed by nonvascular plants 470 million years ago, but they've tricked it out so that it works a whole lot differently compared to the wa
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The wild world of carnivorous plants - Kenny Coogan

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Venus fly traps, bladderworts and sundews, oh my! Learn about carnivorous plants and their predatory antics to lure, trap and digest prey. -- Around the world there are more than 600 plant species that supplement a regular diet of sunlight, water and soil
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History's Most Powerful Plants

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Fossil fuels are made from the remains of extinct organisms that have been exposed to millions of years of heat and pressure. But in the case of coal, these organisms consisted largely of some downright bizarre plants that once covered the Earth, from Col
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Shape-shifting materials

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Metamaterials don’t react the way you would expect. Push down on this cube from the top and a face appears on the side. The secret? A carefully designed substructure… Read the paper here: http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nature18960 28th July 2016
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Why Superhydrophobic Materials Never Get Wet

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For more water-repelling chemistry, check out this great graphic from our friends at C&EN and Compound Interest: http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i15/Periodic-graphics-Water-repelling-chemistry.html Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ACSReactions Raincoats, car winds
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Do Plants Think?

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Get yourself an awesome I DID A SCIENCE shirt! http://dftba.com/besmart Tweet this video ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSplant Share on FB ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSplantFB ↓ More info and sources below ↓ Learn more/references: “What a Plant Knows” by Daniel Chamovitz ht
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Biophilia Expert Explains How to Pick the Right Office Plants | WSJ

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Research shows that exposure to nature, even indoors, can help reduce stress. Biophilia expert Rebecca Bullene shows you how to pick the perfect plants (like the ZZ and the sansevieria) for your office and the best ways to take care of them.Photo: Natalia
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Controlling Plants With My Brain

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I show you how to make plants communicate with each other through action potentials. I even connect it to my arm and control the plant as well. My shorts channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA19mAJURyYHbJzhfpqhpCAGet Your Experiment Box Here: https:
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We Taught an AI To Synthesize Materials

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Our paper "Photorealistic Material Editing Through Direct Image Manipulation" and its source code are now available here:https://users.cg.tuwien.ac.at/zsolnai/gfx/photorealistic-material-editing/ Pick up cool perks on our Patreon page: https://www.patreon
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Vascular Plants = Winning! - Crash Course Biology #37

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Hank introduces us to one of the most diverse and important families in the tree of life - the vascular plants. These plants have found tremendous success and the their secret is also their defining trait: conductive tissues that can take food and water f
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How Plants Became Carnivores

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Go check out Overview on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHMZwaopAaIDeep Looks episode on Sundews! https://youtu.be/D4kBrsyWhS4How and why does botanical carnivory keep evolving? It turns out that when any of the basic things that most plants n
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17 STUNNING CRAFTS OUT OF WASTE MATERIALS

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Don't be too quick to throw away old things. I've got plenty ideas on how to make brand new items out of them! Check it out! Subscribe to 5-Minute Crafts GIRLY: https://goo.gl/fWbJqz 5-Minute Crafts KIDS: https://goo.gl/PEuLVt ----------------------------
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Photosynthesis: The Biochemistry Behind How Plants Make Their Food

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Plants, unlike most living things, produce their own food through a process called photosynthesis. Photosynthesis means 'making using light'. Plants use the energy from the sunlight to make food. The food matter comes from carbon dioxide present in the ai
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Plants with Weapons!

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Jessi and Squeaks learn about plants with defensive weapons! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowkids ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http
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4 DEADLY Carnivorous Plants

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Here are four ingenious ways carnivorous plants catch their prey. Head over to BrainCraft to watch Plants Can Learn, Too—and don't forget to subscribe! https://youtu.be/s0prAxQTuAA Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_scie
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The Wonderful World of Plants! | Compilation

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Plants are AMAZING! Join Squeaks and Mister Brown as they talk about the adventures they've had in the fort's garden, and beyond!----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowIf you hav
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How Artemis Astronauts Plan to Grow Plants on the Moon | WIRED

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As NASA ramps up the Artemis program, growing plants using water and soil from the moon could become a necessity during longer duration stays there. When space biologists recently grew plants in actual moon soil, it was a game changer. WIRED spoke with Sh
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These 'Resurrection Plants' Spring Back to Life in Seconds | Deep Look

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Rain falls and within seconds dried-up moss that's been virtually dead for decades unfurls in an explosion of green. The microscopic creatures living in the moss come out to feed. Scientists say the genes in these “resurrection plants” might one day prote
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Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2 - My First Game

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Welcome to my first video on plants vs zombies garden warfare 2. In this video I explore some of the new characters while playing with Martyn (Inthelittlewood) and iBallistic Squid. Squid's Channel - https://www.youtube.com/iballisticsquid Martyn's Channe
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We Taught an AI To Synthesize Materials | Two Minute Papers #251

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The paper "Gaussian Material Synthesis" and its source code is available here: https://users.cg.tuwien.ac.at/zsolnai/gfx/gaussian-material-synthesis/ Our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/TwoMinutePapers We would like to thank our generous Patreon sup
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These Hybrid Metallic Crystals Are Chemistry’s New Miracle Materials

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This chemistry experiment conducted 4200 meters above Melbourne, Australia, could revolutionize how we scrub greenhouse gases or deliver targeted drugs. Why Do Rocks the Size of Cars Suddenly Break From Cliffs? - https://youtu.be/8WIAYqU2r9s _____________
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How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction

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Check out Journey to the Microcosmos: https://youtube.com/microcosmosIn the middle of the Cambrian, life on land was about to get a little more crowded. And those newcomers would end up changing the world. The arrival of plants on land would make the worl
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Growing Plants Without Soil! | Squeaks Grows a Garden! | SciShow Kids

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Teachers and parents: scroll down to check out the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for this episode!Today, Squeaks and Mister Brown explore the world of plants with an experiment! They'll learn what plants actually need to grow, which can help th
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Plants That Keep Themselves Warm

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Sometimes, plants do unexpected things. Like control their own body temperature. ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, John Szymakowski, Fatima Iqbal, Justin L
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Why aren't plants black?

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Why are plants green? Is there a reason plants evolved to be green, globally? What does it have to do with the color of the sunlight coming down through our atmosphere? http://physicsgirl.org/ http://twitter.com/thephysicsgirl http://facebook.com/thephysi
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Sesame Street: Grover Talks About Plants

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Your cute, furry, blue, gardening monster Grover is here to tell you all the things plants need to grow and stay healthy. A plant needs sunlight and soil. What else does a plant need? Subscribe to the Sesame Street Channel here: http://www.youtube.com/sub
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These animals are also plants wait, what? - Luka Seamus Wright

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Explore the incredible adaptations of Elysia chlorotica, a species of sea slug that can photosynthesize food. --The species of slug known as Elysia chlorotica may not look like much it resembles a bright green leaf but its one of the most extraordinary cr
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The Secret Social Life Of Plants

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Thanks to Audible for supporting MinuteEarth - get a FREE audiobook at http://www.audible.com/minute Subscribe to MinuteEarth! - http://www.youtube.com/user/minuteearth?sub_confirmation=1 And support us on Subbable! - https://subbable.com/minuteearth ____
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Grow Your Own Plants! - #sciencegoals

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Plants are all around you! You walk on them, eat them, and even climb them! And guess what? You can even grow your very own! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids
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How Plants Attract Bodyguards

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Lots of plants make nectar to attract pollinators, but some make special, extra nectar pots outside their flowers to feed their bodyguards. To get a free Audible trial membership, go to www.audible.com/scishow Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Dooblydo
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How to Draw Ghost Pepper | Plants vs Zombies

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http://www.youtube.com/user/cartooning4kids Check out our Plants vs Zombies Playlist here: goo.gl/pbVZQK We're just warming up for Halloween season. Here's this week's BONUS lesson, How to Draw a Ghost Pepper from Plants vs Zombies. We hope you enjoy and
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Replica WW2 Planes Built From Recycled Materials - COOLEST THING I'VE EVER MADE EP 17

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WW1 and WW2 History and aircraft are something Ian Baron truly loves. He also happens to be a talented builder and welder. So when he retired from being a millwright (someone who repairs equipment at a mill) he turned his attention to making incredible fu
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10 Herbs That Just Need Water - Indoor Water Plants

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Link to The Video about Plants that Repel Insects/Mosquitoes:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgWvaCl2IdkMany people like the thought of growing herbs in clay pots and setting them on their kitchen window sill to use when they cook. But potting soil is mes
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Flip-Flops Made From Plants And Algae Can Help Reduce Plastic Pollution | World Wide Waste

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Researchers at the University of California San Diego have figured out how to turn algae into flip flops. They founded a startup to sell the shoe, but face a challenge in getting their invention mass produced: There aren't enough algae farms to support th
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Cop PLANTS DRUGS On INNOCENT MAN, What Happens Is Shocking | Dhar Mann

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Whatever happens in the dark always comes to light. Hi #DharMannFam, thanks for watching my video! For exclusive giveaways & more inspirational content follow me on Instagram here: http://bit.ly/2Kcbgs2 MOBILE APP App Store = https://apple.co/3nhvjapGoogl
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What Happened to Our Plants?

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A few weeks ago we started an experiment where we planted some seeds to see how they would grow! Today we get to check out our results! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowki
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Did We Domesticate Plants--or Did They Domesticate Us? The Answer Might Not be so Clear.

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Did humans domesticate plants, or did they domesticate us? Archaeologists at atalhyk, a 9,000-year-old site in Turkey, offer lessons on how agriculture and other major innovations can yield unexpected long-term consequences for human society and the world
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We've Got Ants In Our Plants!

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What is this? A forest for ANTS?! Deep Look: https://youtu.be/fguo3HvWjb0 Tweet this video ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSplAnts Share on FB ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSplAntsFB ↓ More info and sources below ↓ Want to wear your love for science? We’ve got merch: http://df
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Resurrecting the Genes of Extinct Plants

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Scientists at Ginkgo Bioworks have resurrected the smell of an extinct flower by putting together the pieces of its DNA. To learn more, read the "Ghost Flowers" by Rowan Jacobsen at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fragrant-genes-of-extinct-flow
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Watching plants grow has never been so exciting

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A new program lets microscope track tiny objects over time. Learn more: http://scim.ag/2nWVwdW
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Indoor Plants Can Clean Your Air

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Many houseplants can scrub irritants like acetone from the air, but which ones do it best?
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Plants Use An Internet Made of Fungus

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It's called the "Wood Wide Web." Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/ ↓Want more info?↓ Pathways for below-ground carbon transfer between paper birch and Douglas-fir seedli
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Plants have their own kind of nervous system

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Model mustard plant uses the same signals as animals to relay distress Read more-- https://scim.ag/2MsrniA Read the research-- https://scim.ag/2p4hTAE CREDITS editor/animator/narrator Meagan Cantwell supervising producer Sarah Crespi citation M. Toyota et
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Paper Towel Plants #Shorts

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Did you know paper towels are made from plant fibers? Watch as the water is drawn upward using capillary action and the colors will spread out in a really cool way! #Shorts
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These Sharks Eat Plants (And It Gets Weirder.)

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Check out Insectarium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOvZ2ELfN3E&The tiny bonnethead shark might be holding a secret or two. Host Jasmin Graham joins her former mentee Kathy Liu to uncover why male and female bonnetheads may be exhibiting sexual dimorph
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How To Draw Z Mech From Plants vs Zombies

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Soft Robot Moves by Mimicking Plants

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A tough but flexible bot unfurls like a plant using a pressurized plastic tube to inch through rugged environments. Subscribe to our channel: https://YouTube.com/SciAmerican Transcript: A new soft robot grows like a tendril. It unfurls from the inside to
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Will Kinetic Sand Change The Color Of Your Plants?

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Today we're testing whether or not beans can grow in kinetic, or hydrophobic, sand.Bored at home? Get a DIY Build kit for 20% off today!: http://www.bit.ly/TKORKitDiscountTo order Grant's book 52 Random Weekend Projects, click here: https://amzn.to/31MMoO
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Planetary Plants: Crash Course Kids #45.2

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So we know what life needs here to work, and we've talked a little about what life COULD look like on other planets. But what about plant life? What could plant life look like on other planets? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina chats to us jus
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MIT Researchers Develop Glow-In-the-Dark Plants

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Someday you might not flip a switch, but rather a branch to illuminate your home.
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From plants to prosthetics: the science of 3D-printing | We The Curious

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How does 3D-printing work? From making tools onboard the International Space Station to building bionic hands, the first stage of this revolutionary manufacturing process might surprise you...What's inside a furby? https://youtu.be/GtbCFjSibc4 Bionic hand
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How Do Pollinators Help Plants Grow? | SciShow Kids Compilation

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Summer is nearly here, and that means Squeaks and Jessi will be spending lots of time playing with dirt in the garden! But it wont just be those two out there making their garden grow big and beautiful. Theyll be getting help from lots of pollinators as w
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Smart plants could soon detect deadly radon and mold in your home

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Bioengineered leaves could change color in response to dangerous compounds Read more - https://scim.ag/2JEavUr CREDIT ------------------------ editor/animator/narrator Chris Burns supervising producer Sarah Crespi script Chris Burns Sarah Crespi Catherine
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Plants can grow their own glow-in-the-dark cotton, no genetic engineering required

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Method could pave the way for new smart clothing. Learn more: http://scim.ag/2xBTrgl Read the research ($): http://scim.ag/2xB3L8f
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Projecting Sunlight Pictures Onto Plants - Christmas Lectures with George Porter

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George Porter shows how we can project pictures onto geranium leaves using sunlight.Watch the full third lecture of the series: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1976/the-natural-history-of-a-sunbeam/a-leaf-from-nature?utm_source=youtube&utm_m
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Sesame Street: Elmo's Planty Song | Taking Care of Plants

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Elmo has planted a tiny apple tree seed and is excited for it to grow big and tall. But right now it's small and needs lots of water, sunshine, and love! -- Subscribe to the Sesame Street Channel here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=S
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This Village in India Plants 111 Trees Every Time a Girl Is Born

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In many parts of India, baby boys are favored over girls, whodue to the dowry systemcan be seen as a financial burden on families. But the people of Piplantri are fighting this prejudice. In Piplantri, villagers celebrate the birth of their girls by plant
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Velcro Plants! How Velcro Was Discovered.

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Velcro is pretty cool, but what would you think if the idea for it came from living things? Jessi and Squeaks talk about the origin of velcro! Hi there! We at SciShow want to learn more about you and your opinions! If you have time, please take a moment t
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Tomato plants from tomato slice

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In the honor of Italian pizza. These are three slices of tomato put in a pot with a varying amount of soil on top, to see how it affects the germination. It nicely shows the increased humidity that you get by putting some soil on top.
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4 Reasons Cows are Awesome!

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Did you know that there were over 200 types of cows? Join Jessi and Squeaks as they discuss some cool facts about these amazing animals. ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowk
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Moss That Drinks From Fog And Mist

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Normally plants drink water through the roots but in arid areas sometimes plants need to get creative. Read more http://scim.ag/1PeABKj
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A better way to fertilize

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What if we could fertilize plants without releasing as many harmful greenhouse gases into the air? A company called Pivot Bio has genetically modified microbes to provide plants with the nitrogen they need without contributing as much to climate change. L
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What makes dogs so friendly? Study finds genetic link to super out-going people

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Childlike affinity toward humans may have been a first step in domestication Learn more: http://scim.ag/2uAZUpQ Read the research (free): http://scim.ag/2tgovfP
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Who Needs Dirt?: Crash Course Kids #27.1

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So... do plants need dirt? The truth might shock you. In this episode of Crash Course kids, Sabrina talks about how plants get energy and how that energy is transported around them. Also, she talks about dirt. Watch More Crash Course Kids: https://www.you
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Look Who's Talking: Crash Course Kids #27.2

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Plants! We absolutely depend on them. Oxygen, food, and looking super nice to boot! But, plants have a lot more going on than meets the eye. How do we know that? Investigations and Experimentations! Watch More Crash Course Kids: https://www.youtube.com/us
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Static Electricity- Triboelectric series // Homemade Science with Bruce Yeany

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Some simple demonstrations of materials and demonstrations of static electricity using materials listed on the triboelectric series
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Dogs Change Facial Expression When Humans Pay Attention | Nat Geo Wild

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A new study shows that when given human attention, dogs will produce a wider range of facial expressions. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoWILDSubscribe About Nat Geo Wild: Welcome to a place so wild, anything can happen. Nat Geo Wild is the network all a
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3D Printing Ceramics: New Shapes For Old Bakes

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Ceramics are incredibly useful materials but processing them into complex shapes has proven very challenging. Now researchers have combined 3D printing with polymer-derived ceramics, opening up a whole new way to shape ceramic materials. Read the research
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How Plant Seeds Travel the World

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All plants start as seeds, and they can travel all over the world in lots of different ways. They might even hitch a ride on you!----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowIf you hav
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Why Different Soils Feel Different

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Squeaks and Mister Brown do some experiments with soil, and learn all about why different soils feel different!----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowIf you have a question for J
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How does a Steam Turbine Work ?

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Please support us at Patreon.com so that we can add one more member to the team and will be able to release 2 educational videos/month. https://www.patreon.com/LearnEngineering Nuclear and coal based thermal power plants together produce almost half of th
How we make our highlighters? Faber-Castell

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The small, but highly efficient Engelhartszell plant is located on the banks of the Danube near the famous Danube loop. At our production location in Austria, around 35 million writing instruments are produced every year, and around 250 tons of ink are pr
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Why Pets Have Surprisingly Small Brains

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Thanks to 23andMe for sponsoring this video! http://www.23andme.com/minuteearth If you live outside the US, click here: https://www.23andme.com/ When we domesticate an animal species, their brains shrink and they freak out less. Thanks also to our support
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Trolls DIY Squishies Compilation | TROLLS

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Check out how to make 4 different DIY Trolls squishies! Tiny Diamond Materials: - Memory foam: Head 2x2 inch, Body 2x1.5 inch- Paint brush- Puffy Paint- ScissorsQueen Barb Materials: - Memory foam 4"x4"- Puffy Paint- Felting wool (white)- Paint brush- Fab
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Say Hello to Saber-toothed Smilodon! | SciShow Kids

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Teachers and parents: scroll down to check out the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for this episode!Smilodon the saber-toothed cat had really big teeth! Join Jessi and Squeaks and learn all about how fossils can tell us how these Ice Age animals
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Fungi: Why Mushrooms Are Awesome | Biology for Kids

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What's something that's neither vegetable or meat, digests food on the outside of its body, glows and the dark, and can go on top of your pizza? The amazing mushroom! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a patron on Patreon: ht
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Climate Change: Crash Course Kids #41.2

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How does climate change? And what happens to environments and ecosystems when it does? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us the effects that climate change can have and how one small change in an ecosystem can throw everything off. Watch
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The Dirt On Decomposers: Crash Course Kids #7.2

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We've talked about food chains and how energy moves through an ecosystem, but let's take a step back and see how everything starts... and ends. Decomposers! This first series is based on 5th grade science. We're super excited and hope you enjoy Crash Cour
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Fabulous Food Chains: Crash Course Kids #7.1

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Everyone eats, right? But how does that food get the energy to power you? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about the way energy moves, or flows, through an ecosystem and how that movement forms Food Chains! This first series is based on
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Photosynthesis educational video for kids with Ryan's World!!

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Photosynthesis educational video for kids with Ryan's World!! Have fun learning about how plants makes food!
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Science’s newest skin job: a robot that can change its texture on the fly

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Soft robot inflates its skin to blend in with rocks and plants. Learn more: http://scim.ag/2z2yZlt
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5 Amazing Physics Experiments

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These 5 holiday-themed physics experiments will keep you and your family busy with science during the winter holidays! All experiments involve materials found around the house. Parental supervision advised . Flame Eraser – put out a candle by pouring CO2
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Living Things Change: Crash Course Kids #41.1

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Have you ever heard of the Peppered Moth? It's a great example of how living things can change because their environment has changed. And it's not just them! There used to be giant insects roaming the world, but they got smaller through time because their
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Electrostatic floating Rings -toy physics = Homemade Science with Bruce Yeany

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Foam or plastic rings cut from a grocery bag can be made to float above a Plastic pipe or balloon by means of static electricity repulsion. Simple materials can be used to make this fun toy that teaches a little about electrical charges. There are several
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Time lapse Dandelion flower to seed head

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Filmed for my plant identification app https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/right-plants/id1361626912?mt=8 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.uk.app.rightplants4me Filmed for my rightplants app https://www.facebook.com/rightplants/ Time lapse dan
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The Future Of Warfare: Laser Cannons & Drone Armies

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Scientists recruited by the government have been developing some pretty crazy technology. What will weapons look like in the future? How Ex-Nazis & Jewish Scientists Got The U.S. To The Moon - https://youtu.be/VW2KTX0zg5g Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter
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C-4 Photosynthesis

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C-4 Photosynthesis: How some plants avoid photorespiration More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=7ynX_F-SwNY
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Angle of repose…Physics of toys // Homemade Science with Bruce Yeany

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The angle of repose or critical angle of repose is how steep various types of materials can be piled without slumping. The steepness of the side of a pile is determined by the amount of friction between the particles of matter. This can vary according to
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Is this the Farm of the Future?

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Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ACSReactions For more on vertical farming, check out this article from ChemMatters: http://bit.ly/verticalfarmingchem There’s a new trend in agriculture called vertical farming. As humans learned to farm, we arranged plants outsid
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Everything Is Chemical

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Plants and animals are mostly composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. These chemicals – and how they are put together – underlie everything around us. That’s why chemistry is such a valuable tool for agricultural, environment
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8 PLANT HACKS FOR KIDS

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THE COOLEST IDEAS FOR YOUNG GARDENERS Plants are just like pets. It's such fun to watch them grow and take care of them. There are many awesome ideas regarding plants and pots. In this video, you can find a lot of cool crafts that you can make using borin
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How Caffeine Addiction Changed History (ft. Michael Pollan) | WIRED

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90% of the world's adults consume some form of caffeine everyday, making it the most widely used psychoactive drug on Earth. Michael Pollan, author of "This Is Your Mind On Plants," explains why. Michael goes into the history of coffee drinking, breaking
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Food Webs: Crash Course Kids #21.2

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Last time we put a Polar Bear in the desert and we still feel bad about that, but there's a lot more going on in ecosystems than just temperature. In fact, there are so many elements in ecosystems, that if just one leaves or gets out of whack, it can be t
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How Did Cats Spread Around The World?

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Humans love cats so much, but we haven't known a lot about their ancestry... until now. Has a new study found the answer to this mystery? Are Cat People Smarter Than Dog People? - https://youtu.be/FgTmKT8sARI Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http:
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Home Sweet Habitat: Crash Course Kids #21.1

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How would a Polar Bear do if you put it in the desert? Not well. But why? Why can't anything live anywhere? Well, this has to do with Habitats and how animals (including humans) are suited for living in one place over another. In this episode, Sabrina tal
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The Surprising Origin of Thanksgiving Foods

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I’m thankful for science. And also pie. SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub Tweet this video ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBStgvng2 Share on FB ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBStgvngFB ↓ More info and sources below ↓ Want to wear your love for science? We’ve got merch: http://df
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David Attenborough's "Extraordinary" Waterproof Plant | Nature Bites

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David Attenborough takes us into London's man-made rainforest at Kew Gardens - there, he finds a plant with a special adaptive quirk...The Taro plant, also known as the Colocasia esculenta, is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms, a root
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The Conservation of "Iron Workers by Reginald Marsh Narrated

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Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration in Chicago guides the viewer through the process of conserving this piece of Social Realism by Reginald Marsh. Techniques and materials are introduced and explained to aide those without experience in
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Bugs Arent Brainless! | Storytime: Charles Henry Turner

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Did you know that bees can remember things? It's true, and it's thanks to Dr. Charles Henry Turner that we know so much about insects!----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowIf yo
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How Cats Became our Friends

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Check out how cats became our favorite little murder machines. To learn how dogs and humans got together, watch the companion video over at It's OK To Be Smart: https://youtu.be/tggdERc8E6Y - be sure to subscribe while you're there! Thanks also to our sup
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The Biggest Flower in the World!

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Squeaks wants to know more about the biggest flower in the world! So Mister Brown teaches him all about this stinky, weird plant - called Rafflesia arnoldii!----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.p
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How humans disrupted a cycle essential to all life

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How one animal dug up carbon and put it back into the atmosphere at an astounding pace. Become a member of the Vox Video Lab! https://www.vox.com/join. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Carbon cycles through earth at a steady pace. Plants and
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Ants Are Growing Food and They're Better at It Than We Are

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Believe it or not, ants started farming way before we did. How do they do it? What A Bug Scientist Says About 'Ant-Man' - https://youtu.be/-nUpY4M1dWA Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: Ants Mastered Sustainable Agri
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Four Flourishing Stories About Our Natural World

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Celebrate the splendor of nature with stories about the world’s loneliest tree, a topiary garden grown from rescued plants and more. SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/vR6Acb #Nature #Plants #Earth This story is a part of our Planet Earth series. From mammals to i
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Beware of Blue Bananas

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I show you how to know when plants are going through a programed cell death called senescence. See the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivreuhQ9L6A#shorts
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Material World: Crash Course Kids #40.1

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So, we know what materials are, but can we make new materials? Or improve the materials we already have? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how Material Scientists are working on these two things today. Also, your cell phone holds the
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Plastic bricks in Kenya - NZAMBI MATEE - Young Champion of the Earth 2020 for Africa

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Nzambi Matee (Kenya), a materials engineer and head of Gjenge Makers, which produces sustainable low-cost construction materials made of recycled plastic waste and sand. “We must rethink how we manufacture industrial products and deal with them at t
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Why you're recycling wrong

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Knowing what you can and can’t recycle isn’t easy. But when you put stuff that can’t be recycled into that blue bin, it can turn entire hauls of otherwise recyclable materials into trash. Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-lab People try to re
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Meet the Redwoods: The Worlds Tallest Trees

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Jessi and Squeaks are thinking of visiting the redwoods, the tallest trees in the world, but there's lots for them to learn before they make their trip!----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.patreo
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The Amazing Adaptations of Cave Animals! | Let's Explore Caves! | SciShow Kids

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Teachers and parents: scroll down to check out the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for this episode!Mister Brown and Squeaks are visiting Sam the Bat's family in their cave! Now, animals that live in caves are pretty special. Since caves are real
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Learn Sink or Float Experiments For Kids with 1hr kids learning video!!

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Learn Sink or Float Experiments For Kids with 1hr kids learning video!! Fun learning video with Ryan's World about plants, recycle, photosynthesis, and much more!
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How horses changed history - William T. Taylor

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Explore how the domestication of horses influenced the fate of entire civilizations and dramatically altered human history.--People have been captivated by horses for a long time. They appear more than any other animal in cave paintings dating back 30,000
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The Mystery of Rattlebacks

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Rattle backs used to be regarded as mystical stones, but Rob reveals why they behave as they do and even how you can make your own out of everyday materials around the house.
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Kid Engineer: Seed Launching Backpack | Design Squad

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Kid engineer Amiyr wants his community to have more pollinator-friendly plants, so he invents a backpack that launches seeds as he walks around his neighborhood! For more videos, activities and games visit pbskids.org/designsquad
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Flowers and Their Pollinators: A Perfect Match!

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Mister Brown and Squeaks take a look at some flowers and their pollinators, and learn about special structures that help them work together perfectly!----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.
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We met the world’s first domesticated foxes

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This week, we meet the very cute and very bizarre result of an almost 60-year-long experiment: they’re foxes that have been specially bred for their dog-like friendliness toward people. We do a little behavior research of our own, and discover what
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The Carnivorous Plant That Feasts on Mice

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While the carnivorous cravings of most flesh-eating plants are limited to small insects, one exception is the pitcher plant. It can consume anything that fits in its mouth--including a mouse! From: CRAZY MONSTER: Gulpers http://bit.ly/2jdlwQt
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What Lives In Moss? - Pondlife, Episode #3

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Microbes aren't just found in ponds. They're also abundant in and around plants and soils. Mosses, some of the oldest plants on land, are home to many species of microbes. In Episode 3 of Pondlife, Sally and fellow Museum scientist Michael Tessler travel
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Momentum Marbles in a Newton's Cradle

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Often known as a Newton's Cradle, this little device is captivating and intriguing and, as Rob shows, easy to make from simple materials
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How These Handmade Tiles Lock Up Air Pollution | World Wide Waste

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A startup in India makes cement tiles using the black carbon that causes smog. But can new building materials help clear the air in a country with some of the world's worst pollution?MORE BUSINESS INSIDER VIDEOS: How Old Tires Are Turned Into Electricity
Sir David Attenborough Gives a Lesson on Seeds | The Green Planet | BC Earth

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Giant seeds, tiny seeds, floaty seeds and flying seeds. Sir David Attenborough gives us a quick biology lesson in all of them. #GreenPlanet will open your eyes to an undiscovered kingdom this is life from the perspective of plants. Discover more https://w
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What's Inside a Pinecone? | Winter is Alive! | SciShow Kids

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Jessi and Squeaks learn all about pine cones and their seeds today! Did you know that pine cones can open and close to help protect their seeds? Hosted by: Jessi Knudsen Castaeda----------First Grade Next Generation Science StandardsDisciplinary Core Idea
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New ‘superglue’ could seal the deal for stretchable batteries, soft robots

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Hydrogel adhesive fuses hard-to-bond materials like elastics and hydrogels. Learn more: http://scim.ag/2t2CzN8
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The Slipperiest Material In The World vs The Stickiest

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In this video I show you one of the slipperiest materials in the world and see if I can actually glue it with the stickiest glue, superglue! I talk about pitcher plants and why they are so slippery.Get Your Experiment Box Here: https://theactionlab.com/Ch
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How trees secretly talk to each other - BBC News

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Trees talk and share resources right under our feet, using a fungal network nicknamed the Wood Wide Web. Some plants use the system to support their offspring, while others hijack it to sabotage their rivals. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog
Vhils Uses Explosives, Chemicals and Power Tools to Create Fine Art | HypeArt Impressions

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Alexandre Farto, aka VHILS, is renowned for his monumental relief portraits in locations across the globe. Since the early 2000s, the Portuguese artist has spearheaded countless projects spanning graffiti, street art, site-specific works, installations, a
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Why Tapirs Love Spending So Much Time Underwater (4K)

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Tapirs love to dive into the water, where they’ll use their snout as a snorkel. There, they can evade jaguars, eat aquatic plants and wash off ticks. From the Series: Brazil Untamed: Bird Paradise http://bit.ly/2Z9QCxp
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Can scientists solve Darwin's 'abominable mystery' about the angiosperm explosion?

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Corpse Flower Stinks of Death I The Green Planet I BBC Earth

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It appears to have fur, whiskers and teeth. Its blood-red surface is tough and warty, and it reeks of death. But this is no animal Rafflesia is also known as the stinking corpse lily because of its powerful scent: rotting meat. But why has it picked this
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Do Trees Talk?

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Why the forest is more than the treesSUBSCRIBE so you dont miss a video! http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub More info and sources below Walk into any forest, and beneath your feet is an elaborate social network that helps make life on Earth possible. Its called the
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The Fungi in Your Future

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From bricks to furniture to leather, mushrooms can be made into a wide variety of materials. Philip Ross, of the San Fransisco based start-up, MycoWorks, explains how his company aims to fashion fungus into environmentally friendly clothing or structures
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Mutant Plant Glows When Attacked | National Geographic

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When plants are wounded, they send out warning signals that spread to other leaves, raising the alarm and activating defense mechanisms for the undamaged areas. Now, researchers have captured this burst of activity in a set of mesmerizing videos that are
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Solar-Powered Slugs

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We need to eat food to fuel our bodies, but this special slug, called emerald elysia, can make food using sunlight - just like plants do!----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowIf
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Rebuilding Homes for Tornado Survivors

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HUGE thank you to our sponsor Nord VPN. 100% of the sponsorship money is used to fund these projects around the world. Get exclusive NordVPN deal here https://NordVPN.com/beasthelps Its risk free with Nords 30 day money-back guarantee!This was a massive p
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Build a Tiny Plant World!

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Jessi and Squeaks just learned about terrariums, and now they want to make one for themselves! Join them to learn all about these tiny gardens in a bottle and how you can make one of your own! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Beco
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The sand acrobat performs

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This is a copy of an ingenious old folk toy that entertained children for many years. The originals were hand-carved but, as Rob shows, you can make it from simple materials around the home.
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Electromagnetism - Maxwell's Laws

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Easy to understand 3D animation explaining all of Maxwell’s Equations. Includes explanations of induction motors, magnetic materials, electromagnetic waves, and many other topics.
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How Old Tires Are Turned Into Electricity | World Wide Waste

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Every year, billions of tires end up in landfills around the world. Now, power plants like this one in Erzincan, Turkey are turning those tires into electricity for thousands of homes.MORE BUSINESS INSIDER VIDEOS:Plates Made From Pineapple Scraps Grow Edi
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When Trees Go Nuts

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Please support us through Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/minuteearth Or, click the "Sponsor" button to support us through YouTube itself. Thank you! Every once in a while, all the oaks or spruces or other plants in a region suddenly produce a tremendous
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SpaceX Just Sent Algae to the ISS, Here's How It'll Power Deep Space Missions

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SpaceX has taken over refueling missions to the ISS, and they're bringing some exciting new experiments along the way. NASA Just Launched a Mission to Mars to Dig Deep Inside the Planet’s Core - https://youtu.be/MusWmN1i5vE Read More: Plants, Algae and Ot
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Plant-to-human communication

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MIT engineers have transformed spinach plants into sensors that can detect explosives and wirelessly relay that information to a handheld device similar to a smartphone. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/2016/nanobionic-spinach-plants-detect-explosives-103
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Marianne North's Obsession with the Carnivorous Pitcher Plant

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Painter Marianne North's obsession with local Borneo vegetation led her to one of the most unusual and rare plants in the world: the flesh-eating pitcher plant, located deep in the forests of Kuching. From: VICTORIAN REBEL: MARIANNE NORTH http://bit.ly/2n
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A group of French individuals are building a 13th century Castle with period-appropriate tools and m

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Watch as a group in France attempts to build an authentic 13th century castle using only the tools and materials they had at that time period.
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Turning up plant efficiency

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A small change to recovery mechanism means big change in crop output. Genetically modified tobacco plants turn on photosynthesis faster when shade follows dangerous sunlight. Learn more: http://bit.ly/2g28Knv Read the research: http://bit.ly/2gkxJVr
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How Garbage Is Recycled At The US' Largest Recycling Facility

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The Sims Municipal Recycling Facility in Brooklyn is the largest recycling facility in the country. In just one day, the facility sees about 800 tons of recyclable materials. That's the equivalent of nearly 100 elephants. Because of the amount of material
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The Darkest Black on Earth? Why Scientists & Artists Want the World's Blackest Substances | WIRED

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Artists and scientists are searching for ever more light-absorbing materials. To find out what's behind the quest for ultra-blacks, WIRED's Arielle Pardes talked with artist Stuart Semple and physicist John Lehman about these amazing materials.Still haven
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The Protein Folding Revolution

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Big leaps in our understanding of protein folding can open doors to new protein-based medicines and materials--designed from the ground up. Learn more: http://scim.ag/2a3mGvZ
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The Ocean Holds Enough Uranium To Power The Planet For 10,000 Years

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Stanford University researchers have found a new way to extract particles of Uranium from seawater. Could this bring us closer to sustainable nuclear power? The Internet Is Overreacting About Fukushima's Radiation, Here's Why - https://youtu.be/_jVm0N2dnh
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Why Apple Pie Isn't American

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Join our Reddit AskScience discussion at https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6d3a4b/discussion_minuteearths_newest_video_on_the/ Buy the map & T-shirts at our store: http://dftba.com/MinuteEarth Our diets are more global than we realize, because
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3D printing with living organisms

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A method for printing 3D objects that can control living organisms in predicable ways has been developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere. This technique may lead to 3D printing of biomedical tools that can be customized to
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Learning from leaves: Going green with artificial photosynthesis

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To turn troublesome carbon dioxide into useful chemicals, scientists have been taking a leaf out of plants' book. They’ve now developed a complete ‘artificial photosynthesis’ system that could work on large scales, and fight climate change. Read the paper
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Taking on Hawaii’s Plant Extinction Crisis

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For the past 45 years, Steve Perlman has dedicated himself to saving Hawaii’s dying species of plant life. As a field botanist for the Plant Extinction Prevention Program, Perlman focuses on cultivating rare plants in the wild, often navigating unchartere
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How To Make My Little Pony Boots And Shoes - Easy Doll Crafts

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How to Make My Little Pony Boots and Shoes - Easy Doll crafts This video is part of a simplekidscrafts series on how to make dolls shoes using different materials . Learn how to make these boots and shoes for your My Little ponys in no time! with easy to
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12 Year Old Terrarium - Life Inside a closed jar, Over a decade in isolation

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In this video we take a look at the terrarium my brother made during his childhood. This terrarium was made between 2007 - 2008. This makes the terrarium at least 12 years old. Inside there is a variety of organisms. All of which have persisted within the
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The Tyrant of the Deep | The Green Planet | BBC Earth

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Giant water lilies clear competition from the water’s surface by wielding their buds like a club. Once clear, they claim their space and grow up to 20cm a day. Their leaves can measure around 2m across, blocking out the light from anything below the
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Supercharging the Fun Fly Stick - Van Der Graaf Generator // Homemade Science with Bruce Yeany

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Adding a metal soda can dome to the top of a Fun Fly Stick will considerably increase it's voltage allowing for some additional demonstrations that can be done with it, sort of supercharging it. The voltage is high enough to produce small sparks up to aro
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How semiconductors work

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A detailed look at semiconductor materials and diodes. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/beneater
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The Dead Are Supposed To Glow. Why Can't We See It?

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What do , , and - have in common?Check out the SENS Research Foundation and the amazing work they do! Learn more about the SENS Research Foundation's End of Year Fundraiser here - https://www.sens.org/eoy2022/SENS Website: https://bit.ly/SENSLNSENS Intro:
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The Japanese Artist Who Sends His Work to Space | The New Yorker Documentary

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In Flower Punk, Japanese artist Azuma Makoto uses plants to create stunning sculptures that connect humanity and nature.Still havent subscribed to The New Yorker on YouTube http://bit.ly/newyorkeryoutubesub The Japanese Artist Who Sends His Work to Space
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How to image atoms

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In the basement of MIT.nano there is a specialized microscope able to image materials at the atomic level. In this video we go through each step of how to image the tiny building blocks for all materials: atoms. (Learn more about MIT.nano: https://mitnano
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The grand challenges of climate change

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Bill Gates explains that to solve climate change, we need to get to near-zero emissions on all the things that drive it, including making building materials. Learn more at https://b-gat.es/2TEVd7O
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Is Your House Causing Global Warming?

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Energy efficiency at home is crucial to protecting the environment. Where exactly do our houses waste the most, and how can we fix it? The Difference Between Global Warming and Climate Change - http://bit.ly/1Od6jXZ Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Her
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Plant Cells: Crash Course Biology #6

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Hank describes why plants are so freaking amazing - discussing their evolution, and how their cells are both similar to&different from animal cells. Crash Course Biology now available on DVD! http://dftba.com/product/1av/CrashCourse-Biology-The-Complete-S
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How To Grow Strawberries - The Definitive Guide

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Strawberries! The official flavor favorite of summertime. Delicious red globes of juicy goodness that we can't wait to bite into. The real beauty of Strawberry plants is that not only are they an absolute delight to eat, they are also very easy to grow! I

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