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These Overlooked Organisms Are The Key To Life As We Know It

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Plankton may be tiny, but they have a huge impact on the Earth. And they're in space?! Get 15% off http://www.domain.com's domain names and web hosting when you use coupon code DNEWS at checkout! Learn More About DNews After Dark ???? http://dne.ws/1Fa2Tp
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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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How Sea Organisms Are Changing The Way We Make Glue | Think Like A Tree

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Your new kitchen cabinets might contain a glue in them that was inspired by mussels. Explore the chemistry that mussels use when attaching to boats and find out how that science is being imitated to develop strong adhesives that don’t rely on toxic formal
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Microscopic Ink Slides

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Ever wondered what your books look like under the microscope? Curious about the difference in InkJet and Laser prints? Learn how to prepare a paper microscope slide and see what ink looks like at a microscopic level! -- Sci Files posts all kinds of scienc
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Plankton. The Most Vital Organisms On Earth - World Oceans Day - BBC Earth

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Happy World Oceans Day! Click here to watch our SpongeBob SquarePants video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLNe3TutnNM The BBC Earth Unplugged team take over BBC Earth to delve a little deeper into why plankton are the most important organisms on the pla
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Making Microscopic Popcorn

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Today we're taking some amaranth and trying out a few different recipes. But most importantly, we're seeing if we can make microscopic popcorn.Check out the TKOR Shop: http://bit.ly/2UCNpEbSee What Else We're Up To:TKOR Discord: http://bit.ly/2LTTRoyTKOR
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Feed Me: Classifying Organisms - Crash Course Kids #1.2

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FEED ME! In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina has a chat with us about what living things eat to get energy. What makes something an omnivore, or a carnivore, or an herbivore? And how do plants fit in to all of this? This first series is based on
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Microscopic Time-Lapse: See the Crazy Chemistry of Reacting Metal | Short Film Showcase

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When describing chemistry, beauty doesn't usually come to mind. However, the scientists at Beauty of Science have made it their mission to change that through their incredible visuals of the world beneath the microscope. In this video from their "Envision
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How Millions of Microscopic Fibers Are Ending Up in Our Bodies | The Swim

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Every day, billions of sharp, invisible fibers are making their way out to our oceans and air, and into our water, wine, beer, and cells. Read More How much plastic is your washing machine sending out to sea? https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/19/178006
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Do Microscopic Immortals Actually Exist?

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Are you immortal if you never age? Defying death is not as clear-cut as it might initially seem. What we define as immortality depends a bit on what you think it means to die.Support the Microcosmos:http://www.patreon.com/journeytomicroFollow Journey to t
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How Microscopic Hunters Get Their Lunch

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On this week's journey, we explore the ways things eat in the microcosmos, from Stentors filter feeding to Dileptus hunting down and absorbing its prey.Follow Journey to the Microcosmos:Twitter: https://twitter.com/journeytomicroFacebook: https://www.face
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The New Science of Microscopic Robots

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Get our exclusive NordVPN deal here https://NordVPN.com/sabine It's risk-free with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee! Injecting tiny remote controlled robots into the human body isnt all that far-fetched any more. What tiny robots are scientists working
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Microscopic Bullet Hole through Glass

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See what happens when a high voltage electric spark smashes itself through a plate of glass.
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A microscopic look at why the world is running out of sand

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Humans are using more sand than the Earth is naturally producing, and that’s a problem for the global construction industry. But it turns out that the usefulness of sand depends on the science of each tiny little grain. We went on a sand scavenger hunt to
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Microscopic View of Ballpoint Pen and Other Items

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Learn how different things work by combining macro and slow motion
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This Marine Behemoths Favorite Food is Practically Microscopic

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The whale shark is one of the largest creatures in the sea which makes it particularly ironic that its diet is composed almost entirely of one of the smallest: plankton.From the Series: Great Blue Wild: Sea of Cortez http://bit.ly/2VOecBd
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The World's Smallest "Pewdiepie"—The Microscopic Writing Experiment

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Get your Action Lab Box Now! https://www.theactionlab.com/ Original SEM video channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxeZMMojtmY_8sdAOw5hUw In this video I show how a scanning electron microscope works and then show you how to use it to actually burn
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The strange fluid dynamics of microscopic animals and other daphnia facts

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Daphnia look amazing under a microscope because their bodies are semi transparent. I learned some really interesting stuff about the effects of caffeine and temperature on daphnia and the way they've adapted to the viscus world of water.Get the uHandy Due
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Jellyfish Stinging In MICROSCOPIC SLOW MOTION - Smarter Every Day 120

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This microscopic world shows that beauty is all around us, even if it's invisible to the naked eye

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The Nikon Small World in Motion competition brings together talented microscopists from all over the world. What they have been able to capture will likely astound you, even though sometimes what you're seeing is pond scum. Please visit our website to dis
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Part 4: Microscopic Clues | SCHNECK AND ECK CRACK THE CASE

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Schneck and Eck discover a hair that could be the key to solving the case! How cool is your mom or your dad? Three teams, each comprising of a parent and kid, compete in this half hour game show. Parents are put to the test to find out how well they know
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There’s a Microscopic Robot On This Penny That's Built to Go Inside You…

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Engineers are building tiny magnetic robots that could deliver medicine to an exact spot in your body. Here’s how they work. One Shot Could Provide All the Vaccines You'll Ever Need - https://youtu.be/qQ1VKYX4Vl0 Read More: Medicine of the Future: New Mic
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Hunting microbe wields a “gatling gun” harpoon

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Single-celled organisms have intricate microscopic weapons evolved for capturing prey. Learn more: http://scim.ag/2ojUQ6t Read the paper (free): http://scim.ag/2ojkXum
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The Microbial Jungles All Over The Place (and You) - Scott Chimileski And Roberto Kolter

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-microbial-jungles-all-over-the-place-and-you-scott-chimileski-and-roberto-kolter As we walk through our daily environments, we’re surrounded by exotic creatures that are too small to see with the naked eye.
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Two Research Vessels Leave for the Twilight Zone

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A project jointly funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation is heading west from Seattle, straight for the twilight zone. Using two research vessels, the Export Processes in the Ocean from Remote Sensing (EXPORTS) oceanographic campaign will stud
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Pond Scum Under the Microscope - Pondlife, Episode #1

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We are surrounded by microscopic organisms that are too small to see with the naked eye. Follow Museum microbiologist Sally Warring as she reveals the invisible inhabitants of the green slime at the surface of a pond in Central Park. In this first episode
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Unearthed: The Mysterious Microbes in the Earth's Crust Could Help Us With The Climate Crisis

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Climate change is threatening human survival on this planet and decreasing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions alone will not reverse its potentially devastating effects. We need to pull existing greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere and put them somewhere sa
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The Surprising (and Invisible) Signatures Of Sea Creatures - Kakani Katija

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View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-surprising-and-invisible-signatures-of-sea-creatures-kakani-katija On land, animals leave footprints that tell us a lot about their size, form and capabilities. Marine organisms do this too, but these footp
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Planktonium

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Planktonium is a short film by Jan van IJken about the unseen world of living microscopic plankton. It is a voyage into a secret universe, inhabited by alien-like creatures. These stunningly beautiful, very diverse and numerous organisms are unknown to mo
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Sea Creature Makes A Thousand Eyes From Its Shell

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Microscopic eyes help slow-moving chitons evade predators. It's design may inspire materials scientists. Learn more: http://scim.ag/1l7TFRP Read the research ($): http://scim.ag/1PCr4kF
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Environmental DNA: How to see the genetic clues left behind in a drop of water

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Environmental DNA (eDNA) is the pool of genetic material that can be collected from an environmental sample. As organisms live and navigate in their aquatic habitat, they leave behind a trail of shed cells, skin, waste, and mucus. Just a few drops of wate
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The Secret Life of Plankton

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New videography techniques have opened up the oceans' microscopic ecosystem, revealing it to be both mesmerizingly beautiful and astoundingly complex. Marine biologist Tierney Thys has used footage from a pioneering project to create a film designed to ig
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The weird chemistry threatening priceless paintings — Speaking of Chemistry

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Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ACSReactions Did you know that thousands of precious paintings around the world are generating soap beneath their surfaces? Art conservators struggle with microscopic eruptions in masterpieces http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i21/Ar
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DNA Spells Evolution

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DNA weaves together the tapestry of life on Earth. It mutates, which can lead to variation among organisms. Watch how natural selection relies on DNA to mold organisms to suit their environments. Play the Evolution Lab: http://www.pbs.org/nova/labs/lab/ev
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Boiled Dirty Water under the Microscope

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A microscopic examination of dirty water before boiling and after boiling. The magnification in each shot is shown in the bottom right hand corner. Camera - Nikon D3300 Microscope - Leica ATC 2000
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Microorganisms | The Dr. Binocs Show | Learn Series For Kids

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Ever wondered what happens when you look through a microscope? You find a whole new world of Micro organisms! Join Dr. Binocs as he teaches you more about micro organisms in a fun and simple way! Share on Facebook - https://goo.gl/uMQnBC Tweet about this
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Lactic Acid Fermentation

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Lactic acid fermentation. How organisms like lactobacillus convert pyruvic acid to lactic acid and oxidize NADH to NAD+ in the process.
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Hydras: Our Immortal, Tentacled Friends

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While humans age and die (which is kind of a bummer), it looks like hydras will stay young and fertile forever. Why is this? And what can we learn from these tentacular microscopic organisms? Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the fol
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How To Find Water Bears

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Let's do a fun science experiment! We're going to learn how to find Water Bears. Join me to learn about these awesome microscopic creatures! Tardigrades, also known as Water Bears, are adorable microscopic animals. They look like caterpillars and walk lik
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We Don't Know: Magnetoreception

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This episode explores animals' ability to perceive magnetism or “magnetoreception." We know from behavioral evidence that many organisms, from bacteria, to lobsters, to pigeons sense and respond to magnetic fields but we are just starting to learn how thi
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There’s a Subterranean Biosphere Hiding in the Earth’s Crust and It’s MASSIVE

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This mysterious new ecosystem is being called the ‘subterranean galapagos’ and it’s almost twice the size of earth’s oceans. We’ve never seen anything like it. Thumbnail image courtesy of Gaëtan Borgonie, ELI, Belgium. A New Genetic Alphabet Is Creating T
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Discovering Life Under Antarctica’s Ice

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Drew Lohrer is the principal investigator at Science Under the Ice, a project dedicated to studying the resilience of organisms under Antarctica’s frozen ocean. Along with his team of nine scientists, Lohrer dives deep to collect data on sea organisms and
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Searching For Life In Volcanoes And Other Extreme Environments - Nat Geo Live

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Found everywhere from the rim of a lava lake to the inside an iceberg, microbes are remarkable organisms that can live in places humans can only dream of. How do they do it? And what can we learn from them about the limits of life both on our planet and e
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A New Genetic Alphabet Is Creating Things Nature Has Never Seen

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If you thought DNA was made of just A, T, G and C-- think again. Scientists have been expanding these options, and the resulting organisms could create the impossible. What Happens When CRISPR Backfires? - https://youtu.be/8b_d3RIJJmo Read More: Organisms
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What Is The Biggest Single-celled Organism? - Murry Gans

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-the-biggest-single-celled-organism-murry-gans The elephant is a creature of epic proportions — and yet, it owes its enormity to more than 1,000 trillion microscopic cells. And on the epically small end o
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7 Surprising Uses For Diamonds

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Diamonds are usually seen atop an expensive engagement ring, but these precious rocks hold more worth than you think. Charge Your Phone In 5 Seconds ►►►► http://dne.ws/1Pq6UZr Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►► http://dne.ws/1McUJdm Read More:
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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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Why are coral reefs turning white?

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Coral reefs are home to an abundance of wildlife and help protect coastal communities against floods and storms. Their bright vibrant colors come from algae living in coral. But rising ocean temperatures stress out coral and cause them to expel the tiny o
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How Natural Selection Works

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Through natural selection, living things have evolved over billions of years from simple cells into an awe-inspiring array of organisms. “Life at the Limits” Co-curators John Sparks and Mark Siddall explain how over time natural selection leads to changes
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Why do animals have such different lifespans? - Joao Pedro de Magalhaes

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-animals-have-such-different-lifespans-joao-pedro-de-magalhaes For the microscopic lab worm C. elegans, life equates to just a few short weeks on Earth. The bowhead whale, on the other hand, can live over
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Mariana Trench Creatures That Are Scarier Than Megalodon

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The dark and high pressured environment of the deepest place on earth, the Mariana trench, means that not only is it incredibly difficult to explore, but the animals that live down there have had to adapt to an extremely hostile environment. Virtually eve
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Body Code

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Body Code is a selection of biomedical animations that explore the human body at the microscopic and molecular scale. Body Code was designed for museum and art gallery exhibition, with the goal of reaching public audiences who do not usually seek out or a
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Disappearing Water Trick - Science or Magic?

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Craig Beals explains the science behind a magic trick he uses in his classroom to introduce polymers. Water is added to Sodium polyacrylate in this experiment and the polymer soaks it up. Craig also answers the question: how do diapers work? He explains h
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The best photos taken through a microscope

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An octopus egg hatching, a glistening fingerprint, and fungus attacking a mosquito: this is the best microscopic photography of the year. SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/kdDpXu FOLLOW QUARTZ: Facebook: https://goo.gl/DsmLvx Twitter: https://goo.gl/rY7pSX Check
Slime molds are gorgeous (you just never knew it!)

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Meet two amateur naturalists who comb the Pacific Northwest woods for a fascinating creature with an unappealing name: slime molds. One of the longest-living life forms on the planet, these single cell organisms have been long overlooked and underapprecia
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How Marvel Built the VFX in Ant-Man and the Wasp | WIRED

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Go behind the scenes of "Ant Man and the Wasp" with Danielle Costa, vice president of visual effects for Marvel Studios, as she explains all the amazing ways that CGI experts made characters bug-sized, enormous, and microscopic. "Ant-Man and the Wasp" is
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Going inside animal brains in VR

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Scientists in Geneva are using virtual reality and next-generation microscopes to do what flat microscopic images can't: Go inside an animal's brain. Seeing these images in 3D could help surgeons better prepare for complicated procedures. SUBSCRIBE: https
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Slow motion tongues offer a snapshot of evolution

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Read the article: https://www.science.org/content/article/how-tongue-shaped-life-on-earthAn early interest in feeding ecology led evolutionary biologist Kurt Scwhenk to study the tongues of lizards. Like Darwins finches, the various forms and functions of
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Where Do Genes Come From? - Carl Zimmer

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/where-do-genes-come-from-carl-zimmer When life emerged on Earth about 4 billion years ago, the earliest microbes had a set of basic genes that succeeded in keeping them alive. In the age of humans and other larg
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What Is The Oldest Living Thing?

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From eldritch aspen colonies to immortal jellyfish, the world is lousy with long-lived organisms. But what’s the oldest? Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com Share on Facebook: https://goo.gl/IDNsbs Share on Twitter: https://goo.gl/QXC2XL Subscribe: http://goo
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Microsculpture by Levon Biss

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Microsculpture- The insect photography of Levon Biss. A groundbreaking photographic exhibition of Science and Art. A special exhibition from 27th May until October 2016 at Oxford University Museum of Natural History. microsculpture.net Microsculpture is a
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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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You are your microbes - Jessica Green and Karen Guillemin

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/you-are-your-microbes-jessica-green-and-karen-guillemin From the microbes in our stomachs to the ones on our teeth, we are homes to millions of unique and diverse communities which help our bodies function. Jess
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Myths And Misconceptions About Evolution - Alex Gendler

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/myths-and-misconceptions-about-evolution-alex-gendler How does evolution really work? Actually, not how some of our common evolutionary metaphors would have us believe. For instance, it's species, not individual
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The Fascinating World of Cnidarians

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The phylum Cnidaria contains such creatures as jellyfish, anemones, siphonophores and corals. Together, they consist of around 13,000 living species - surprisingly simple, yet beautiful organisms. The importance of these cnidarians cannot be understated.
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The Arctic Vs. The Antarctic - Camille Seaman

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-arctic-vs-the-antarctic-camille-seaman How can you tell the two poles apart? Where are the penguins? What about the bears? The Arctic pole is located in the Northern Hemisphere within the deep Arctic Ocean,
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The virtually indestructible tardigrade

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This tardigrade, or "water bear," came back to life and reproduced after being frozen for 30 years. These microscopic animals can survive in the harshest of environments. Scientists are still trying to discover the secrets to their incredible survival abi
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Bacteriopolis | Exploratorium

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The colored areas are different types of bacteria. The colors come from different pigment molecules that the bacteria use to capture energy from light. All these bacteria were in the pond mud we used to make this exhibit. But bacteria in a pond don't look
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BBC Earth: Life in VR - California Coast | Launch Trailer | Google Daydream

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Meet one of the furriest animals on the planet, experience life at microscopic scale and dive into the Deep Ocean with giants. Download for Google Daydream: http://bit.ly/BBCEarthLifeInVR BBC Earth: Life in VR - California Coast Launch Trailer An Official
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Can Plastic-Eating Worms Solve Our Trash Problem?

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Plastics are everywhere, and we can’t seem to get rid of them. Could a worm be the solution we need? Does Recycling Actually Help? ►►►► http://dne.ws/16zXnMX DNews Live Tickets Here ►►►► http://dne.ws/1Fa2OCh Read More: Why Doesn't Plastic Biodegrade? htt
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How Does Cooperation Evolve?

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If you find this animation helpful, consider supporting our work at http://statedclearly.com/contribute/ Lichen is a combination of algae and fungus (and in many cases, a third species of yeast) living together. This relationship allows the intertwined or
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Ancient supernovae might have upended Earths evolution

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When stars run out of fuel, they can collapse under their own gravity, exploding as supernovae that blast debris and radioactive nuclei far into space. Most of these events are too far from Earth to impact our planet. But if one happened nearby, the effec
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Light leaves leaves light | Photosynthetic Floatation - Science Snack Activity

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Light leaves leaves light. Photosynthetic organisms capture energy from the sun and matter from the air to make the food we eat, while also producing the oxygen we breathe. In this Snack, oxygen produced during photosynthesis makes leaf bits float like bu
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TIL: 20% Of Our Oxygen Comes From A Bacteria

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When you think of bacteria, you might think of the flu, your kindergartner, or the TV remote, but you probably don’t think of oxygen. Get this: Bacteria provide oxygen for about one in five of your breaths. Without these microbes, you, your family, and mo
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How A Single-celled Organism Almost Wiped Out Life On Earth - Anusuya Willis

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-a-single-celled-organism-almost-wiped-out-life-on-earth-anusuya-willis There’s an organism that changed the world. It caused the first mass extinction in Earth’s history … and also paved the way for complex
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Is There a Limit to How Small Life Can Get?

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Scientists have theorized how small life can actually get, but at what point is it so small, it's not considered life? Super Bacteria Has a New Enemy: The CRISPR Pill - https://youtu.be/zWzQf2xzJek Get 20% off http://www.domain.com domain names and web ho
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Food safety: the next frontier

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Mars, Incorporated and IBM Research explain how they are transforming our approach to global food safety using big data. The Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain are sequencing the genomes of millions of organisms to understand the microbiomes
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Dawn Of The Cyborg Bacteria

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http://www.sciencefriday.com In a basement laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, two roboticists have harnessed the innate sensing, swimming, and swarming abilities of bacteria to power microscopic robots. Even though their work sounds like the pr
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Old&Odd: Archaea, Bacteria&Protists - CrashCourse Biology #35

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Hank veers away from human anatomy to teach us about the (mostly) single-celled organisms that make up two of the three taxonomic domains of life, and one of the four kingdoms: Archaea, Bacteria, and Protists. They are by far the most abundant organisms o
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SpongeBob Ranking By Size! | SpongeBob

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SpongeBob has lived his life from a sweet baby sea sponge to a Sea Sponge with almost all the water in Bikini Bottom! Bikini Bottom decided to rank our favorite Sea Sponge, from SpongeBob's microscopic size to his gigantic size in Sandy Cheeks' home! Chec
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The microbial truth of how your cheese gets made

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Cheese is delicious, beloved by many, and a teeming mess of microbes. Which microbes, exactly, has long been a mystery, but modern DNA sequencing tech is allowing researchers to take a peek behind the microscopic curtain. We visit a professional cheese ca
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LifeStraw Filtered Dirty Water Under the Microscope

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Microscopic footage of dirty water before and after it was filtered with the LifeStraw. At the end of the video I used tryptic soy agar petri dishes to grow the microbes in the dirty water before and after it was filtered. It was incubated for 24 hours at
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Bowling in the Street with a Rheoscopic Fluid Ball

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I took rheoscopic fluid which is current showing fluid and filled a super strong balloon and went bowling in the street to see if ti would pop! The pins were invisible. I also used food coloring to make many different colors of rheoscopic fluids. The ligh
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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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How Do Holograms Work? (Part 1 of 3)

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Science-fiction is littered with holograms, and they’ve become a staple of anything set in the future. But, they’ve been around longer than you think. Part 2 of 3 - https://youtu.be/c8pL6vW9R0I Part 3 of 3 - Coming Soon! Read More: The History of Holograp
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Snippet: Hitchhiking bacteria might help their host navigate via magnetic fields

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Deep in the mud of the Mediterranean Sea, scientists have caught microscopic protists dancing to a strange beat—the beat of Earth’s magnetic fields. Now, a new study reveals how these tiny clusters of cells orient themselves along those fields: by letting
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Are Any Foods Natural Anymore? GMOs Explained

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You've decided to only eat natural and organic foods from now on, but what does that actually mean? Check out the science behind GMOs. Why Does Everyone Taste Food Differently? ►►►► http://bit.ly/1VZGkKT Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here ►►►► http://
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How Phytoplankton Started Complex Life On Earth? | Plankton | The Dr Binocs Show | Peekaboo Kidz

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How Corals Hold Centuries of Ocean Climate Data

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Before we can make a plan to protect our oceans from climate change, we need to know what they were like before human impact. We haven’t been collecting ocean data for very long, but luckily one ocean marine organism has been keeping records for millennia
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'Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing

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Try CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Crocodiles, horseshoe crabs and tuatara are animals that have persisted for millions of years, said to have gone unchanged since the days of the dinosaurs. But even the most ancient-looking organi
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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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Animal Size Comparison

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Dear world, As people were always demanding comparison movies, and wanted to see a zoom into microscopic things, I noticed how complicated the realm of elementary particles is. Maybe another time. But what about life? How small can it go? It makes you rea
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Your Immune System: Natural Born Killer - Crash Course Biology #32

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Hank tells us about the team of deadly ninja assassins that is tasked with protecting our bodies from all the bad guys that want to kill us - also known as our immune system. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dft.ba/-8bCC Like CrashCour
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These Strange Metals Could Make Electronics Perfectly Efficient

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Scientists are hunting for the high-temperature superconductor that could revolutionize electronics, and new research takes us one step closer. How Supercapacitors Could Make Batteries a Thing of the Past - https://youtu.be/GeSvErqdmIM Read More: Physicis
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This Superfluid Is Alive, And It Could Power Machines of the Future

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Fluids with zero viscosity seemingly defy the laws of physics and they have endless applications. But they’ve been hard to make, until now. The secret? Bacteria! Scientists’ Crazy Plan to Power Solar Panels With E. Coli - https://youtu.be/_XZGrZ3DeLg Get
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GIANT Pencil Made From CORN!?

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Science Matters: www.4-H.org/Bayer Big shout out to Bayer 4H Council for partnering with us on this video! Note: The vast majority of corn is for feed or fuel, not food for people https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sweet-corn-vs-field-corn_n_596f6718e4b0a03ab
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Are we living in a simulation? - Zohreh Davoudi

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Is our reality a detailed computer simulation? And how can we know for sure? Explore the scientific and philosophical theories surrounding this debate. --All life on Earth living and inanimate, microscopic and cosmic is governed by mathematical laws with
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These Termites Turn Your House into a Palace of Poop | Deep Look

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Termites cause billions of dollars in damage annually – but they need help to do it. So they carry tiny organisms around with them in their gut. Together, termites and microorganisms can turn the wood in your house into a palace of poop. SUBSCRIBE to Deep
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In the Future, Broken Devices Could Heal Themselves

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Scientists are working on technology that could one day lead to self-healing devices. Here’s how it works. There’s a Microscopic Robot On This Penny That's Built to Go Inside You - https://youtu.be/u-RdudALSac Read More: Five Things You Should Know About
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We Can Power The World With Algae!

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Scientists are always looking for alternatives to fossil fuels, but what about algae? Can algae be used to create biofuel? How Algae Could Change The Fossil Fuel Industry - https://youtu.be/yCNkmi7VE0I Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.l
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What's the Largest Living Thing On Earth?

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Check out American Veteran on @PBS Voices https://youtu.be/P8bt1bwllZg Were on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart More info and sources below The biggest thing that has ever lived on Earth is a tree? Hard to believe, but
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What is Evolution?

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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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What Is A Species?

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New species of lifeforms are being discovered and described on our planet every single day -- but, when we talk about a species, what are we really referring to? Turns out, the answer is... complicated. This video is by no means comprehensive. Species con
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Sleep Can Repair Your Brain, But Only If You’re Doing It Right

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Sleep studies have found that quality, not quantity of sleep determines how rested you are. But what is quality sleep and how do we get it? Everything You Should Know About Sleeping - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxA23Fa76Dk&list=PL6uC-XGZC7X5HgCMHEDTx
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How Evolution Creates Hybrid Animals

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Right now coyotes, wolves, and dogs are creating a hybrid canine. How does this happen in the wild? Evolution Is Happening Right Before Your Eyes ►►►► http://dne.ws/1kLPA6e Get Awesome DNews Science Shirts! ►►►► http://dne.ws/dnewsmerch Sign Up For The Te
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Ingestible Tiny Robots Can Now Save Your Life

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Scientists make robots in all sizes, but did you know some are so small we can ingest them? Just how small can robots get? Why Astronauts Need Robots in Space- http://bit.ly/2cJBobI Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More:
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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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What is an Animal? Crash Course Zoology #1

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Check out Animal IQ on PBS Terra! https://youtu.be/Ejhbr_t7BlcSo what is an animal anyway? In our inaugural episode of Crash Course Zoology, well endeavor to answer just that because as it turns out, its complicated! But before we get there well need to i
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What are Eye Boogers?

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Watch PBS Eons! https://www.youtube.com/eons Eye crusties, sleep, sand, eye boogers. What’s that stuff in the corner of your eyes when you wake up? This week, Reactions explains the chemistry of the film that protects your eyes. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/A
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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 Cold Truth About Fat

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Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ACSReactions With the feasts and festivities of the holidays in full swing, we'll be kissing the passing year goodbye, but not without the addition of a couple extra pounds as a souvenir. Lucky for you, the winter also brings some
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These Metamaterials Go Beyond the Properties of Nature

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These nanostructures have been engineered to interact with radiation in unnatural ways. Here’s how they’re making microscopic optical lenses, chip-sized synchrotrons, and so much more. These Liquid-Repelling Materials Defy Nature’s Design, Here’s How - ht
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The Great Vertical Migration

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Diel vertical migration truly is a phenomenon. This migration serves as the anchor for the food web that supplies the entire planet. Every day, 5 billion metric tonnes of organisms migrate to the surface to feed. Predators chase prey, forming a layer of a
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TIL: From Fleece Jackets to Your Food: The Scary Journey of Microplastics | Today I Learned

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National Geographic explorer and grantee Gregg Treinish wants everyone to know about the hidden toxic cost of synthetic fabrics. Tiny, invisible microplastics are entering our waterways straight from our washing machines. About 2,000 synthetic particles a
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How Our Deadliest Parasite Turned To The Dark Side

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Around 10,000 years ago, somewhere in Africa, a microscopic parasite made a huge leap. With a little help from a mosquito, it left its animal host - probably a gorilla - and found its way to a new host: us. *****PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like yo
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The Great Marine Migrations

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Migrations are a key to survival in the marine ecosystem. From whales and turtles to sardines, by travelling to different locations, nektonic animals stand better chances offinding food or a suitable place to breed and raise their young. In this video, we
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Scientists’ Crazy Plan to Power Solar Panels with E. Coli

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New biogenic solar cells could be cheaper and more efficient than current solar technology. Here’s how they work. Your Gut Microbes Are Controlling Your Mind, Here’s What You’ll Do For Them - https://youtu.be/0raVj1BA7iU Read More: This bacteria could boo
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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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