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How Spielberg Created Iconic Scenes | Classic Clip + Bonus Feature | E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
235 views / 0 likes - addedGo behind the scenes of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for an inside look at how the movie was made, and watch the 'E.T Phone Home' scene. Journey back to the magic and adventure of "one of the great American films" (Leonard Maltin) with E.T. The Extra-Terres
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5 Genius Ways to Water Your Plants When You are Away on Vacation - Indoor Plants Automatic Watering
1,096 views / 1 likes - addedWhen 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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How to Draw ET | The Extra Terrestrial
993 views / 0 likes - addedhttp://www.youtube.com/user/cartooning4kids Good morning everyone! Today I'll be showing you How to Draw E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. Grab your ink and paper and lets get started! New lessons posted 7 days a week so be sure to SUBSCRIBE and click that bell
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Plants In Space!
792 views / 1 likes - addedFor 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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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Commercial - A Holiday Reunion Xfinity 2019
196 views / 1 likes - added‘E.T.’ Phones Home Again In Reunion Short Film Premiering On NBC And Syfy EXCLUSIVE: A short film reuniting the creature from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and Henry Thomas, who played Elliott in the 1982 Steven Spielberg film, is premiering Thur
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Discovering underwater lake ecosystems for Blue Planet II #OurBluePlanet - BBC Earth
698 views / 0 likes - addedBrine pools are saltwater lakes at the bottom of our oceans that we know little about. Dive down into the deep sea with the Blue Planet II and Alucia Productions team to discover how they filmed the incredible ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico. Subscribe t
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Are Plants Conscious?
882 views / 2 likes - addedScientists 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
264 views / 0 likes - addedSubscribe 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
951 views / 2 likes - addedMany 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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What Do Healthy Ecosystems Sound Like? | NOVA
1,911 views / 0 likes - addedWhat can sound tell us about the health of an ecosystem? NOVA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NOVAonline NOVA Twitter: https://twitter.com/novapbs PRODUCTION CREDITS Produced, Animated and Narrated by Elizabeth Gillis Editorial help from Anna Rothschil
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Can Plants Talk To Each Other? - Richard Karban
1,368 views / 2 likes - addedView 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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The amazing ways plants defend themselves - Valentin Hammoudi
785 views / 1 likes - addedCheck 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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These Plants Eat Salamanders | National Geographic
597 views / 1 likes - addedAt 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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Meet the obscure microbe that influences climate, ocean ecosystems, and perhaps even evolution
620 views / 1 likes - addedProchlorococcus is thought to be the most abundant photosynthetic organism---why don't we know more about it? Learn more: http://scim.ag/2lEoLp6
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The Eden Project Houses Multiple Ecosystems In These Incredible Geodesic Domes
461 views / 1 likes - addedImpossible Engineering | Thursdays at 9/8c Located in Cornwall, England, these biomes are home to many diverse climates and environments. Full Episodes Streaming FREE on Science Channel GO: https://www.sciencechannelgo.com/impossible-engineering/ More of
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How Plants Tell Time - Dasha Savage
1,329 views / 0 likes - addedView 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
424 views / 0 likes - addedPlants 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?
851 views / 4 likes - addedScientists 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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Roots from different plants compete for prime real estate underground
357 views / 0 likes - addedMathematical 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
1,392 views / 0 likes - addedHank 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
1,104 views / 1 likes - addedThe 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
604 views / 0 likes - addedAir bubbles prove deadly for parched plants. Learn more: http://scim.ag/1qEpCUS
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CAM Plants
918 views / 0 likes - addedHow 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 Caused the First Mass Extinction
388 views / 0 likes - addedCheck 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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4 DEADLY Carnivorous Plants
961 views / 2 likes - addedHere 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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Glowing plants provide light to read
701 views / 0 likes - addedMIT 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
1,520 views / 0 likes - addedView 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 Plants Drink Fog!
270 views / 0 likes - addedTrees 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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How Astronauts Grow Plants In Space
1,008 views / 2 likes - addedRecently, 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
48 views / 0 likes - addedCarnivorous 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
1,030 views / 3 likes - addedWhy 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
559 views / 0 likes - addedHey 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
349 views / 0 likes - addedThere 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
1,212 views / 4 likes - addedA 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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Growing Plants Without Soil! | Squeaks Grows a Garden! | SciShow Kids
136 views / 0 likes - addedTeachers 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 in a Jar Test the Conservation of Mass
1,152 views / 1 likes - addedPeople 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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Talking Plants Mini-Myth
843 views / 1 likes - addedDo 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
1,716 views / 0 likes - addedHank 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
800 views / 0 likes - addedVenus 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
595 views / 0 likes - addedFossil 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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Do Plants Think?
855 views / 1 likes - addedGet 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
354 views / 0 likes - addedResearch 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
214 views / 0 likes - addedI 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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Vascular Plants = Winning! - Crash Course Biology #37
1,094 views / 0 likes - addedHank 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
410 views / 1 likes - addedGo 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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Photosynthesis: The Biochemistry Behind How Plants Make Their Food
696 views / 1 likes - addedPlants, 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!
732 views / 0 likes - addedJessi 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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The Wonderful World of Plants! | Compilation
823 views / 1 likes - addedPlants 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
178 views / 1 likes - addedAs 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
677 views / 0 likes - addedRain 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
1,157 views / 6 likes - addedWelcome 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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Plants That Keep Themselves Warm
819 views / 0 likes - addedSometimes, 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?
579 views / 0 likes - addedWhy 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
714 views / 1 likes - addedYour 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
728 views / 0 likes - addedExplore 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
651 views / 0 likes - addedThanks 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
2,168 views / 2 likes - addedPlants 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
613 views / 0 likes - addedLots 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
1,099 views / 1 likes - addedhttp://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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10 Herbs That Just Need Water - Indoor Water Plants
1,103 views / 0 likes - addedLink 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
300 views / 0 likes - addedResearchers 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
1,037 views / 3 likes - addedWhatever 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?
614 views / 0 likes - addedA 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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We've Got Ants In Our Plants!
633 views / 1 likes - addedWhat 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
441 views / 0 likes - addedScientists 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
510 views / 0 likes - addedA 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
578 views / 0 likes - addedMany 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
538 views / 1 likes - addedIt'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
417 views / 0 likes - addedModel 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
284 views / 0 likes - addedDid 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.)
43 views / 1 likes - addedCheck 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
1,424 views / 1 likes - addedBecome an Art Club member https://www.artforkidshub.com/join-art-club/ Learn more about the art supplies we love to use https://www.artforkidshub.com/art-supplies/ Learn more about us https://www.artforkidshub.com/about/ Subscribe to our channel here http
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Soft Robot Moves by Mimicking Plants
742 views / 1 likes - addedA 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?
442 views / 0 likes - addedToday 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
996 views / 0 likes - addedSo 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
177 views / 0 likes - addedSomeday 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
379 views / 0 likes - addedHow 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
468 views / 0 likes - addedSummer 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
445 views / 0 likes - addedBioengineered 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
488 views / 0 likes - addedMethod 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
265 views / 0 likes - addedGeorge 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
642 views / 0 likes - addedElmo 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
482 views / 0 likes - addedIn 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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Did We Domesticate Plants--or Did They Domesticate Us? The Answer Might Not be so Clear.
86 views / 0 likes - addedDid 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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Velcro Plants! How Velcro Was Discovered.
24.2k views / 3 likes - addedVelcro 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
380 views / 0 likes - addedIn 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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Environmental DNA
239 views / 0 likes - addedMonitoring biodiversity using traditional methods can often be challenging and costly. With threats to our natural world mounting, it is now more important than ever to monitor ecological systems quickly and efficiently, to help us protect and conserve th
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Moss That Drinks From Fog And Mist
610 views / 0 likes - addedNormally 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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Food Webs: Crash Course Kids #21.2
1,637 views / 4 likes - addedLast 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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Climate Change: Crash Course Kids #41.2
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Gas Giants Weather: Crash Course Kids #43.2
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How trees secretly talk to each other - BBC News
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1,323 views / 2 likes - addedWhy is my weather app sometimes wrong? Well it has a lot to do with wind. Jet Streams, air cells, the shape and movement of the Earth... there are a lot of things that make weather a little unpredictable. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talk
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Astronomer Explains How SETI Searches for Aliens | WIRED
403 views / 0 likes - addedIs there any life beyond Earth? SETI Institute Director Emeritus Jill Tarter believes we will find that answer in the 21st century. Jill explains the science and logistics that goes into searching for extra-terrestrial life, and the reasons why there's st
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Where Does Maple Syrup Come From? | Winter is Alive! | SciShow Kids
245 views / 0 likes - addedTeachers and parents: scroll down to check out the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for this episode!Jessi and Squeaks are eating some pancakes and learning all about their favorite pancake topping: maple syrup! Learn how maple trees use air, wate
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What Happens After An Oil Spill?
568 views / 3 likes - addedAn oil spill has a tremendous amounts of deadly consequences. What happens after a disastrous amount of oil pours into our ocean? Watch more: How High Can We Build With Snow? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4tQoVfI6jIOcean Clean Up Efforts:https://4ocean
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Carl Sagan Christmas lecture 2 - The Outer Solar System and Life
151 views / 0 likes - addedFrom ancient organisms to the plants and animals we see today, our planet showcases a spectacular array of life. But beneath such diversity lies an underlying unity. All life on Earth is based on two molecules (the proteins and the nucleic acids) and the
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Will the ocean ever run out of fish? - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet
771 views / 1 likes - addedView full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/will-the-ocean-ever-run-out-of-fish-ayana-elizabeth-johnson-and-jennifer-jacquet When most people think of fishing, we imagine relaxing in a boat and patiently reeling in the day’s catch. But modern industrial
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Learning from leaves: Going green with artificial photosynthesis
637 views / 0 likes - addedTo 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
517 views / 0 likes - addedFor 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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Weather In Space (the Rocky Planets): Crash Course Kids #43.1
952 views / 4 likes - addedDo other planets have weather? It turns out that, yes, they do! But, the weather isn't all the same on other planets because of things like atmosphere. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina takes us on a tour of the weather on the rocky planets in
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12 Year Old Terrarium - Life Inside a closed jar, Over a decade in isolation
369 views / 0 likes - addedIn 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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From The Top Of The Food Chain Down: Rewilding Our World - George Monbiot
1,025 views / 1 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/from-the-top-of-the-food-chain-down-rewilding-our-world-george-monbiot Our planet was once populated by megafauna, big top-of-the-food-chain predators that played their part in balancing our ecosystems. When tho
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The Tyrant of the Deep | The Green Planet | BBC Earth
264 views / 2 likes - addedGiant 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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The Japanese Artist Who Sends His Work to Space | The New Yorker Documentary
336 views / 0 likes - addedIn 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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Current Events: Crash Course Kids #34.1
1,258 views / 2 likes - addedWhat are air currents? Air currents are like rivers of wind caused by areas of high and low pressure.The air above the land is warmer and less dense, so it rises. The air over the water is cooler and heavier. The cool air rushes in toward the low-pressure
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Where Did Earth's Water Come From?
696 views / 0 likes - addedThis video sponsored by our Subbable supporter Tab for a Cause: http://www.tabforacause.org?r=3 Please support MinuteEarth on Subbable - https://subbable.com/minuteearth Earth didn't have water when it formed, but it does now! How did it get wet? Created
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Is Your House Causing Global Warming?
690 views / 0 likes - addedEnergy 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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Gas Giants Weather: Crash Course Kids #43.2
760 views / 1 likes - addedLast time, we learned that there is in fact weather on other planets. But those were the rocky planets, like Earth. What about the big Gas Giants? What's the weather like there? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina takes us on a virtual tour of t
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Plant Cells: Crash Course Biology #6
1,492 views / 1 likes - addedHank 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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Did Scientists REALLY Find Signs of Life on Venus?
282 views / 1 likes - addedGenerally considered inhabitable, new observations suggest that Venus could in fact be harboring life. Where? In its clouds. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http://sh
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Say Hello to Saber-toothed Smilodon! | SciShow Kids
39 views / 0 likes - addedTeachers 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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How To Grow Strawberries - The Definitive Guide
195 views / 1 likes - addedStrawberries! 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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Radiation vs Radioactive Atoms
363 views / 0 likes - addedThere seems to be confusion about what radiation is and where it comes from. Many people believe it is the radiation that comes directly from nuclear power plants that poses a threat to public safety. In fact it is the radioactive atoms, which can escape
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Make a Calendar of Seeds! | Squeaks Grows a Garden!| SciShow Kids
78 views / 0 likes - addedEvery plant has different needs! So Mister Brown and Squeaks have asked their friend Juniper the Earthworm to teach them more about the things they want to grow in their garden and help them make a seed calendar so they know when to start planting!Hosted
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The Future of Farming Is Underwater
826 views / 2 likes - addedBeneath the glistening blue waves of the Bay of Noli in the Italian Riviera are biospheres bursting with basil, tomatoes, herbs and other plants. It's all a part of a science experiment known as Nemo's Garden. While growing plants underwater might seem st
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The Amazon Rainforest Doesn't Produce 20% of Our Oxygen, Here's Why
600 views / 1 likes - addedContrary to popular belief, the Amazon forest doesnt provide Earth with 20% of its oxygen supply. So how exactly do the fires currently destroying Earth's largest remaining rainforest affect us? Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch mor
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