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How Mucus Keeps Us Healthy - Katharina Ribbeck
739 views / 2 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-mucus-keeps-us-healthy-katharina-ribbeck Your body produces more than a liter of mucus every day, and when you’re sick, it can be hard to miss. But what exactly is mucus? And what does it do, besides making
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MIT Scientists Create Synthetic Mucus in a Lab
226 views / 0 likes - addedResearchers at MIT created polymers replicating the structure of mucins, the protein building blocks of mucus. Heres why thats a big deal.
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What is a Booger?
584 views / 0 likes - addedYou know that green substance that comes out of your nose? Well that is a booger. Also known as snot or nose mucus, boogers either come out on their own or by you picking them out! But what exactly is a booger? Although they might look gross a booger is r
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Slime Houses of Pinky-Size Plankton Cycle Carbon
529 views / 0 likes - addedThis tiny larvacean blows up a mucus balloon up to a meter across. It pumps water through feeding structures to concentrate food particles, and may be an important player in oceanic carbon cycling. Subscribe to our channel: https://youtube.com/SciAmerican
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Why Your Nose Runs When It is Cold Outside
647 views / 0 likes - added→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say a
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What is Your Snot Saying?
595 views / 0 likes - addedAnna's Snot Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shEPwQPQG4I Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ACSReactions It’s peak cold and flu season, and mucus is making many of our lives miserable. But despite being a little icky, phlegm gets a bad rap. This germ-fighting
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Why Do Some People Have Seasonal Allergies? - Eleanor Nelsen
1,202 views / 0 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-some-people-have-seasonal-allergies-eleanor-nelsen Ah, spring. Grass growing, flowers blooming, trees budding. For those with allergies, though, this explosion of new life probably inspires more dread tha
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Help a Snail Find True Love!
570 views / 0 likes - addedYou can help a special snail find a mate—while also helping scientists unravel a mystery. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/ ↓Want more info?↓ Press Release from the Univ
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Everything You Didn't Want To Know About Snot
520 views / 1 likes - addedYou swallow a ton of snot every single day. Head over to Reactions for more snot science! https://youtu.be/RbcUcYDejks Previous collab with Reactions: http://bit.ly/2jojAsd Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tu
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How Do Snails Navigate Razor Blades Safely?
1,627 views / 1 likes - addedSnails and slugs can move over incredibly sharp objects thanks to their thin layer of mucus. How does it work? OUTRAGEOUS ACTS OF SCIENCE Wednesdays 9/8c on Science http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/outrageous-acts-of-science/ Watch full episodes: ht
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What Are Boogers?
748 views / 0 likes - addedWhat’s that stuff up your nose? Does it do anything? SciShow Kids explains the science of boogers! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome pr
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This Snail Goes Fishing With a Net Made of Slime | Deep Look
89 views / 0 likes - addedMost of the sea snails in this tide pool cruise around searching for food. But not the scaled wormsnail. It cements its shell to a rock and snags its meals using the one thing a snail has plenty of: mucus!SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! https://www.youtube.com/us
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The Strange Life of Garden Eels | ScienceTake
421 views / 0 likes - addedGarden eels live a strange life. They anchor themselves to the ocean floor using their own mucus, and contort into strange shapes and positions to catch plankton. Find out more about these weird and wonderful stay-at-home fish. Read the story here: https:
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The Sun Sneeze Gene
277 views / 1 likes - addedI have the photic sneeze reflex so I sneeze when I look at bright light.Check out 23andMe: http://ve42.co/23andme*So technically the single nucleotide swap (C instead of T) is not actually in a gene per se but in an intergenic region on chromosome 2. It's
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What Are Eye Boogers?
997 views / 0 likes - addedThe gunk builds up at the inner corners of our eyes is residue of the stuff the coats and protects our eyeballs all the time. Learn what it’s made of and why it turns to sand overnight. Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com: http://health.howstuffworks.com/huma
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Environmental DNA: How to see the genetic clues left behind in a drop of water
130 views / 0 likes - addedEnvironmental 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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How Your Dog's Nose Knows So Much | Deep Look
595 views / 1 likes - addedSupport Deep Look on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook Dogs have a famously great sense of smell, but what makes their noses so much more powerful than ours? They're packing some sophisticated equipment inside that squishy schnozz. SUBSCRIBE to De
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Banana Slugs: Secret of the Slime | Deep Look
578 views / 0 likes - addedBeneath the towering redwoods lives one of the most peculiar creatures in California: the banana slug. They're coated with a liquid crystal ooze that solves many problems slugs face in the forest -- and maybe some of our own. SUBSCRIBE: http://goo.gl/8NwX
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Why Do Humans Get So Many Sinus Infections?
265 views / 0 likes - addedSinus infections are incredibly common, and it could be linked to our evolution on this planet. In the season 2 premiere of Human, Patrick explains why humans are so prone to these painful infections. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Wat
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Animal Slime and Other Weird Stuff
800 views / 1 likes - addedEver wonder why some animals don't need sunscreen or how they can live in dry climates without water? Well, some of them can use the slime their bodies produce in weird and helpful ways! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a p
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Weird and Wonderful: Some worms like it hot
135 views / 1 likes - addedPompeii worms are enigmatic animals that are only found on the surface of active hydrothermal chimneys. Their name refers to the ancient Roman city of Pompeii that was destroyed by ash raining down from an eruption of the large volcano Mount Vesuvius just
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The Great Vertical Migration
235 views / 0 likes - addedDiel 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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Trypophobia! Boogers! Disgust! A Gross Science Q&A
644 views / 1 likes - addedWhere does disgust come from? What are boogers made of? What is trypophobia? Your questions... ANSWERED. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/ ↓Want more info?↓ More on Paul
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Why Do Allergies Make You Sneeze?
1,180 views / 0 likes - addedDo you suffer from allergies? Follow the dendritic cell and the entire Scientific American Allergy Orchestra to discover how allergens from pollen to pet dander can change the body’s tune. Transcript: Sneezy? Itchy? Perhaps your seasonal allergies have yo
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Your Immune System: Natural Born Killer - Crash Course Biology #32
907 views / 0 likes - addedHank 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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The Wonderful World of Deep Sea Worms
327 views / 0 likes - addedPolychaete worms in the deep sea are among the most diverse organisms in the ocean. From giant tube worms and Pompeii worms at deep sea vents, to the ghostly tomopteris in the twilight zone, they display a number of unique adaptations in order to survive
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Is Eating Boogers Actually Unhealthy?
689 views / 1 likes - addedOver 90% of adults pick their nose. And afterward, many people eat those boogers. But it turns out, that can be unhealthy and dangerous. Boogers trap invading viruses and bacteria before than can enter your body. So eating those boogers might expose your
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Why Some Animals Eat Poop
702 views / 0 likes - addedWhile humans do eat a lot of weird food items, one thing we never touch is fecal matter. This is because not only are we naturally grossed out by it, but also because we know that poop contains a lot of nasty pathogens that can get us really sick. However
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Have You Met a Hagfish? Its About Slime | Deep Look
163 views / 0 likes - addedWhat keeps the boneless, jawless hagfish thriving after more than 300 million years? SLIME. The goop it exudes a mix of mucus and special protein cells expands to 10,000 times its original volume in less than half a second, potentially clogging the gills
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These Tiny Robots Will Live Inside You? - Nanobots Explained
267 views / 0 likes - addedNanobots are the future of medicine, but how do these tiny robots work?Visit the Foresight Institute to learn about their work on advancing technology at https://foresight.org/Hi there and welcome to Life Noggin!Imagine a world where, if you get sick, doc
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8 Strange Animal Sleeping Habits
1,101 views / 0 likes - addedSleep is important, but not all animals need the same kind of deep rest as humans. From sleeping standing up to sleeping inside snot bubbles, here are 8 especially strange ways some animals catch their ZZZs. Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Support Sc
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The Science Of Hay Fever... Are Parasitic Worms The Cure?
775 views / 0 likes - addedHay fever has an awful habit of ruining what should be the nicest time of the year. But what is it? And why is it called ‘hay fever’? Kate explores the science of allergies, and hunts through the research for a cure. Subscribe for more from Kate: http://b
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