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The North Star wont always be the North Star
37 views / 0 likes - addedEarths axis is slowly wobbling away from the North Star. In the distant future, other stars will take Polariss present place as our North Star. Read the full story to learn more: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earths-wobble-wreaks-havoc-on-ast
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Go Inside an Anti-Poaching Unit in Kenya to See How They Protect Sea Turtles
47 views / 0 likes - addedSammy Safari is a ranger with Bahari Hai, a marine conservation nonprofit organization that works to empower coastal communities to manage and protect their own resources in East Africa. Sammy runs an anti-poaching team that protects sea turtles. This is
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This Astrophysicist Makes Stellar Nurseries That Fit in the Palm of Your Hand
41 views / 0 likes - addedHow artist and astrophysicist Nia Imara makes 3-D prints of the birth of stars
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The first glow-in-the-dark house plant
41 views / 0 likes - addedThe hottest floral gift this year is a bioluminescent petunia. Mushroom DNA is the key to making these pretty petunias glow in the dark. You can add one to your houseplant obsessioner collection, starting in April! Read more at https://www.scientificameri
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Why insects are attracted to light
55 views / 0 likes - addedContrary to popular belief, insects don't fly to lights at night because they mistake light for the moon or because they are attracted to the warmth. In reality, insects are trying to turn their backs on the light in order to orient themselves in space an
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These Salamanders Steal Genes and Can Have Up to Five Extra Sets of Chromosomes
92 views / 0 likes - addedThe genus of uni-sexual salamanders appear to be unique in the world--they are the only genus of creature that does this...and scientists aren't exactly sure why they do it. But they have some ideas.
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An Archeological Dig in Michigan Turns Up Some Surprising Artifacts
92 views / 0 likes - addedArcheologists have found a small mountain of artifacts buried in a farm field that show the presence of some of the first peoples to inhabit the Americas.
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Some Scientists Are Racing to Save Parasites. Why?
73 views / 0 likes - addedYouve probably seen a Save the Whales T-shirt before. But have you ever seen a Save the Parasites one? A group of researchers thinks that maybe it is time to start making them.To most of us, that might seem like a hard sell. The word parasite conjures ima
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Unearthed: The Mysterious Microbes in the Earth's Crust Could Help Us With The Climate Crisis
95 views / 0 likes - addedClimate 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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Is this the weirdest matter in the universe?
84 views / 0 likes - addedThe inner lives of neutron stars have long been a mystery, but it is one that scientists are starting to crack. Clara Moskowitz Kylie Murphy https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neutron-stars-natures-weirdest-form-of-matter/
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Bee bots to the rescue
118 views / 0 likes - addedThe buzzy industry of robotic bees is setting its sights on indoor farms for urbanand extraterrestrialenvironments Sophie Bushwick Kylie Murphy Molly Glick & Emily Harwitz https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/robotic-bees-could-support-vertical-farm
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This Particle Accelerator Makes A Substance That Hasn't Existed in 13 Billion Years: 'Quark Soup'
79 views / 0 likes - addedBy using one of the most complicated and powerful machines on the planet, scientists have found a way to glimpse back to the very beginning of time itself.
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Where Did All the Gold in the Universe Come From?
64 views / 0 likes - addedFor a long time, no one knew how "heavy metals" formed--or showed up on Earth. Now, some new evidence finally points the way to an answer.
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Did We Domesticate Plants--or Did They Domesticate Us? The Answer Might Not be so Clear.
91 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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Decoded: Can We Stop Aging?
91 views / 0 likes - addedWhat really happens to our bodies when we age and could we find a way to slow it down?
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These Researchers Used Artificial Intelligence to Design an 'Animal Robot' That Has Never Existed
80 views / 0 likes - addedXenobotsareliving, swimming, self-powered robotsless than a millimeter across, evolved by artificial intelligence and built out of frog stem cellsand they could open new medical frontiers.
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What if Pi was a song? What would it sound like? And would it help you memorize its digits?
136 views / 0 likes - addedDevin Powell, a science writer and multimedia creator, wanted to figure out a way memorize as many digits of Pi as he could. So, he used a trick he learned from memory champions...but his associations where through song.
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A Surprising Thing Happens When Two Black Holes Slam Together
91 views / 0 likes - addedWhat is the "chirp"? And why is it important to astronomers? Some of the most violent cosmic collisions in the universe occursilently in the vacuum of space, but with the right instrumental ears, we can still hear it happen. Here's how.
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This Astoundingly Simple Ancient Technique Is Helping to Beat Back Drought
100 views / 0 likes - addedAmid a warming world, these conservationists have brought back a very old and very low-tech drought-busting practice and they are getting results.This story created in partnership with @RETROREPORT. View more of their documentaries here: https://www.retro
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13,000 Crabs Crawl into a Museum
157 views / 0 likes - addedThe American Museum of Natural History recently received the lifes work of a professor in Wisconsin1,274 jars of crabs collected over decades from around the world.
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These researchers are using drones and machine learning to detect land mines--and save lives
138 views / 0 likes - addedIn a field in Oklahoma, researchers are using new technology to spot deadly munitions built to maim and kill.
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How To Improve Indoor Air Quality
146 views / 0 likes - addedWhy do we pay attention to the quality of our drinking water, but not to our indoor air? Scientific American's Senior Health Editor, Tanya Lewis, explains how and why this matters.
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Decoded: 'The Cloud' has you. Do you know what it is?
142 views / 0 likes - addedIt governs a lot of your digital life these days, but the story ofwhereitfirst materialized is likely deeper than you know.
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We'll Soon See Back to the Beginning of Time. James Webb Space Telescope's Big Reveal is Hours Away.
143 views / 0 likes - addedDecades of work, $10 billion in spending and nearly 14 billion years of cosmic history have brought us to this moment. The first science from the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most powerful observatory ever built. What questions will it answ
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Has the Black Hole Information Paradox Finally Been Solved?
152 views / 0 likes - addedBlack Holes. Wormholes and Entanglement. Einstein. Mysterious islands. And new science that sees how the inside of a black hole is secretly on the outside of a black hole. For even more on how theoretical physicists are trying to solve a decades-old parad
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The James Webb Space Telescope just revealed our universe anew--the view is absolutely stunning
114 views / 1 likes - addedDecades of work, $10 billion in spending and nearly 14 billion years of cosmic history have brought us to this moment: the first science from the largest and most powerful observatory ever built.
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Lose yourself in the beauty of every new image from the James Webb Space Telescope
125 views / 0 likes - addedThe galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 reveals thousands of galaxies. The interacting galaxies of Stephans Quintetis constructed from almost 1,000 separate images. The spectrum of the exoplanet WASP-96b reveals the presence of water vapor as well as clouds and haz
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Dive into a vanishing, invisible forest to see what climate has changed
111 views / 0 likes - addedOur underwater forests are largely unobserved, but now they are vanishing. To understand why, scientists dive underwater and look down from space--and their research reveals a complex system at risk of collapse.
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COSMIC SELFIE: The Black Hole in the middle of our galaxy looks like this...
152 views / 0 likes - addedIt took more than 300 researchers and 8 telescopes to capture an image of our galaxy's black hole.
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Artificial Intelligence is Helping Save This Small Town From its Toxic Nightmare
148 views / 0 likes - addedBenton Harbor needs to exhume thousands of corroded water service lines, and a machine learning algorithm is helping to figure out where to dig first.
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There's science inside your ice cream, and it tastes delicious
158 views / 0 likes - addedFrom sweet to savory, the ices cream wondrous variety is all due to chemistry. Here's how the treat inside your bowl or cone comes together.
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Would you ever eat algae? Chances are, you already have.
124 views / 0 likes - addedLong a background ingredient, algae are appearing on plates more and more as the star of the culinary show. They are versatile in taste and easy to grow. And they just might help us face an uncertain food future.
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Decoded: What is Machine Learning, and how does It work? A short primer.
166 views / 0 likes - addedDeep learning, neural networks, imitation gameswhat does any of this have to do with teaching computers to learn?
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What is Kombucha?
153 views / 0 likes - addedYou have probably seen it in supermarkets, health stores and even restaurants: Kombucha. This effervescent fermented tea is sometimes called an elixir of life by those who extol its supposed health benefits, but what is it, and how is it made? And where m
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Decoded: What is 5G and how does it actually work?
125 views / 0 likes - addedYou see it mentioned in countless commercials, and your phone might already use it, but do you know what it is?
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The Complex Chemistry of Edible 'Goo'
152 views / 0 likes - addedJell-O, salad dressings, puddings, jams and jellies, marshmallows, tofu, cream cheese, low-fat hot dogs: they all have it. And in fact, without it, they would not look or taste like they do.It alters the solid-state physics of these foods. It is a gelling
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Have you ever heard of inulin? You've probably eaten it, even if you haven't.
146 views / 0 likes - addedYou can find it in a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and herbs, including wheat, onions, bananas, leeks, artichokes and asparagus. And it has some surprising culinary abilities across a range of foods.
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Watch Some of the Best Video Microscopy in the World
158 views / 0 likes - addedNikons Small World in Motion video competition is filled with moving delights.You can see Nikon's full site here: https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2021-small-world-in-motion-competition
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Why did This Dinosaur Have a 'Crazy Straw' Inside its Head?
162 views / 0 likes - addedAnkylosaurs thick full-body armor protected them from predators, but it did not allow much heat to escape from their huge body. Paleontologists were puzzled at how these animals were able to regulate their temperature and survive under the blazing Cretace
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What is CRISPR and how does it work?
157 views / 0 likes - addedThis revolutionary gene-editing system has taken science by storm. CRISPR is the basis of a revolutionary gene editing system. One day, it could make it possible to do everything from resurrect extinct species to develop cures for chronic disease.
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Archeologists have discovered a mystery at the bottom of Lake Huron
251 views / 0 likes - addedTwo small artifacts recovered from the depths have a big story to tell. They are challenging what we think we know about how humans lived in North American nearly 10,000 years ago.
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You have 86 billion of them inside you, but what are neurons, really?
769 views / 0 likes - addedWithout them you wouldn't exist. They're the reason you can think, walk, breathe, move...be. And yet, you probably don't think about your neurons even though every second of your life, they're thinking for you.
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Decoded: How do vaccines actually work?
229 views / 0 likes - addedVaccines are medicines that train the body to defend itself against future disease, and they have been saving human lives for hundreds of years.Vaccines are medicines that train the body to defend itself against future disease.
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Decoded: How much do you really know about viruses?
637 views / 0 likes - addedThese sometimes deadly packets of genetic information are more numerous in number than the stars in the cosmos. Viruses are tiny infectious agents that dominate much of the microscopic world.Theyre incredibly abundant. There are more viruses in a single d
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Decoded: How do black holes work?
221 views / 0 likes - addedBlack holes are dark objects in space that have intrigued scientists for centuries. Studying them is like trying to solve a puzzle made of invisible pieces.Black holes hide behind a wide surface called the Event Horizon. Nothing that crosses the Event Hor
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Nature Can Help Us Prepare for the Next Pandemic
253 views / 0 likes - addedResiliency, redundancy, adaptability: COVID-19 has shown humanity that we need more of the qualities that are built into nature.
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HALLEY, 2061
276 views / 0 likes - addedThe intellectual taming of comets began with Edmond Halley (with an assist from Newton) in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. In the April 11, 1908, supplementary edition of Scientific American, astronomer S. I. Bailey wrote, Before Halleys time come
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Here's what we often get wrong about wildfires
271 views / 0 likes - addedFire is as natural as wind and rain in large forest and, in fact, needed.The 2020 wildfire season was the worst in Californias recorded history, with more than four million acres burned and almost 10,500 structures destroyed across the state. The fires we
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What is chronic kidney disease and how does dialysis work?
1,134 views / 0 likes - addedRead the full, 5-part series in partnership with Undark: Profit and Loss: America on Dialysis: https://undark.org/profit-and-loss-america-on-dialysis/ The kidneys are two bean-shaped organs, each about the size of a fist. They are located just below the r
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Experience Seven Minutes of Terror in New Perseverance Mars Rover Landing Video
256 views / 0 likes - addedLast weeks pinpoint touchdown of NASAs Mars Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater was historic for many reasons, chief among them the epochal nature of the missions task of seeking signs of ancient lifeand caching relevant samples for eventual return to Ear
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A Visual Guide to the New Coronavirus Variants
261 views / 0 likes - addedThe SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus seems to be suddenly acquiring mutations at a rapid rate. The most worrying variants, first discovered in South Africa and Brazil, increase the viruss contagiousness and may even help it evade the human immune system. These char
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Machine learning is getting really good at copying the human voice
296 views / 0 likes - addedSynthetic voices have become ubiquitous. They feed us directions in the morning, shepherd us through phone calls by day, and broadcast the news on smart speakers at night. And as the technology used to make them improves, these voices are becoming more an
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Watch the moon landing disaster speech that never happened...happen, thanks to a deepfake
275 views / 0 likes - addedWhat can former U.S. president Richard Nixon possibly teach us about artificial intelligence today and the future of misinformation online? Nothing. The real Nixon died 26 years ago. But an AI-generated likeness of him shines new light on a quickly evolvi
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How did the Universe gets its texture?
271 views / 0 likes - addedWhat do zebras have to do with the structure of the cosmos? Imagine a single zebra in your mind. With twitching ears, tufted hair, and a visual interference pattern wrapped over muscle and skin, the animal has its own contours, which are easy to make out
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Why is gravity different?
828 views / 0 likes - addedWe probably think we know gravity pretty well. After all, we have more conscious experience with this fundamental force than with any of the others (electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces). But even though physicists have been studying gr
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See how these bumblebees squeeze through tiny spaces
210 views / 0 likes - addedSridhar Ravi was outdoors with his colleagues on a summer day in Germany when a group of bumblebees grabbed his attention.As the bees made their way from flower to flower, they skillfully flew between obstacles, dodging branches and shrubs. These actions
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This map of a Grand-Canyon-sized chasm off California took 15 years to create
440 views / 1 likes - addedJust offshore from the small town of Moss Landing, Calif.once an important West Coast fishing hub and now a center of oceanographic researchstretches one of the countrys most magnificent but little-known geologic features: Monterey Canyon. Please visit ou
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Did the Universe have to be the way it is?
292 views / 0 likes - addedIf gravity were just a little stronger in our own three-dimensional world, the curvature of spacetime would be greater, and matter could more easily collapse in on itself. This arrangement would make stars, galaxies and planets extremely diminutive, compa
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Being cut off from other humans changes your brain. Here's the science on how.
395 views / 0 likes - addedOver the past few months, the phrase social distancing has entered our lexicon. Many of us have found ourselves separated from family and friendsor at least from our normal social lives. As humans grapple with pandemic-induced isolation, science is starti
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This microscopic world shows that beauty is all around us, even if it's invisible to the naked eye
306 views / 0 likes - addedThe 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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These researchers are putting fly babies into virtual reality
296 views / 0 likes - addedBugs and fish dont play video games or attend teleconferences, but they can still explore virtual realitycomplete with visual effects, tastes and smells. A new system called PiVRnamed after the low-cost Raspberry Pi computer that runs its softwarecreates
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This is some of the best, most beautiful video microscopy in the world
285 views / 0 likes - addedThe 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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Science Captures Close Encounters Between Great White Sharks and Beachgoers With Drones
368 views / 2 likes - addedOver the past decade, the number of encounters between humans and sharks swimming off the coast of California has risen dramatically. Chris Lowe, director of the Shark Lab at California State University, Long Beach, says this summer is shaping up to be a
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Watch a Robot AI Beat a World Class Curling Competitor
369 views / 0 likes - addedOn the ice, a machine-learning system often triumphed over high-level South Korean playersArtificial intelligence still needs to bridge the sim-to-real gap. Deep-learning techniques that are all the rage in AI log superlative performances in mastering cer
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On its 30th Birthday, the Hubble Telescope has a simple wish for the world
334 views / 0 likes - addedI have seen 160,000 sunrises and sunsets, more than anyone could hope for. Circling hundreds of miles above the surface of our big blue marble for 30 years, Ive had a remarkable view of the universe. I havent always been comfortable up here, but thanks to
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You will probably have to take a COVID-19 test. Here's how that test actually works.
278 views / 0 likes - addedTechnologies such as PCR, serologic assays and rapid diagnostics help us understand the spread of COVID-19. But how do they do that?Please visit our website to discover the latest advances in science and technology: http://bit.ly/30Z4ZpZDiscover world-cha
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Inside the Race to Blast COVID-19 Off the Surfaces of New York City
351 views / 0 likes - addedTurning from bedbugs and carpet-eating moths to COVID-19, cleaners in New York City have joined the Coronavirus fight.
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Want to know whether the new coronavirus will spread or not? You have to know this one little number
379 views / 0 likes - addedCOVID-19. SARS. MERS. Ebola... whenever there's a new outbreak, scientists rush to calculate a number called the R0, or R-naught. Why? Its been a critical part of the scientific effort to understand just how transmissible the new virus is. Here's how.For
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There's a growing threat in the mountains thanks to climate change: glacial lake outburst floods
415 views / 1 likes - addedAs the climate changes and glaciers melt, a lesser-known threat lurks in alpine areas: glacial lake outburst floods. These events happen rapidly, releasing huge amounts of water with little or no warning. Unsuspecting communities lying in the flood path c
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Jumping with your jaws is NOT normal in the animal kingdom, but these ants are amazing at it
359 views / 0 likes - addedTrap jaw ants produce the highest acceleration ever recorded in an animal of their size when their jaws slam shut (and they fly into the air). Why do they do it? More films by Biographic: https://www.biographic.com/Video produced by Spine Films: https://w
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This researcher created an algorithm that removes the water from underwater images
578 views / 0 likes - addedWhy do all the pictures you take underwater look blandly blue-green? The answer has to do with how light travels through water. Derya Akkaynak, an oceangoing engineer, has figured out a way to recover the colorful brilliance of the deep.Read the full stor
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This space telescope can see black holes using the smoothest mirrors ever created
309 views / 0 likes - addedThe Chandra X-Ray Observatory was the heaviest payload to be carried into space by a shuttle. It's been looking at supernovas, black holes and spiral galaxies for two decades. Observatory director Belinda Wilkes gives you a tour of Chandra's universe.
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Can Noise Have Color?
479 views / 0 likes - addedIt turns out that it can. However, it doesn't have a color we can see, only one we can hear. What does that even mean? Watch and learn.
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Which foods are ultraprocessed? You might be surprised.
351 views / 0 likes - addedMany nutrition scientists blame overeating fats or carbohydrates for the world's obesity pandemic. But new research points to ultraprocessed foods such as chicken nuggets and instant soup mixes that dominate modern diets. These foods seem to distort signa
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How do fireworks actually work? Here's the explosive science.
341 views / 0 likes - addedWe take you inside a single fireworks shell to show you how it all works.
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New Model Re-creates Apollo 11 Mission in 3D
430 views / 0 likes - addedModern satellite imagery and 3D modeling create a multimedia view of how Apollo 11 played out on the lunar surface To learn more, read the story here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mapping-the-mission/
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Scientific American Editors Build Saturn V Rocket LEGO Set
490 views / 0 likes - addedIn the early morning hours of July 16, 1969, technicians at the Kennedy Space Center loaded upward of 750,000 gallons of fuel into the 363-foot Saturn V rocket that would successfully propel the Apollo 11 spacecraft toward the moon. It would be one of 13
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Resurrecting the Genes of Extinct Plants
444 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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Are 2 Snowflakes Ever Identical?
813 views / 2 likes - addedIs the “unique snowflake” just flake news? Mother Nature might never produce two identical snowflakes, thanks to the near-infinite variability of the conditions affecting ice crystal formation. But a Caltech scientist has developed a process for growing p
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Scrubbing Carbon from the Sky
423 views / 0 likes - addedThe first direct air capture and storage plant in the world is powered by geothermal heat in Iceland. Is it enough to reach negative carbon emissions? To learn more about this technology and others, read "Scrubbing Carbon from the Sky" by Richard Conniff
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How Does the Color of a Glass Bottle Affect the Beer Inside?
401 views / 0 likes - addedLight triggers chemical reactions that make beer taste like skunk spray and onions.
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Destructive Hippos, Chatty Whales, and More: 60 Second Science Podcasts
415 views / 1 likes - addedExplore Arctic ponds created by invading beavers, reefs ruled by sharks, streams shaped by salmon, and oceans filled with whales propelling, snacking, and talking. Reported by Jason G. Goldman, Emily Schwing, and Christopher Intagliata. Beluga sounds prov
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What Do Honeybees Do in Winter?
381 views / 0 likes - addedTo survive the cold winter months, honeybees do something unusual: they hug.
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How Do Birds Know to Fly South?
493 views / 0 likes - addedBirds such as the Arctic tern used magnetic particles and eye pigments to navigate.
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How Can Scientists Help Make Cities More Sustainable?
417 views / 0 likes - addedResearchers have data. Corporate executives have innovations. Mayors have real problems to solve. Yet these people do not necessarily understand how they can help one another make cities healthier and more productive. Enthusiasts from all three groups met
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How Coastal Communities Are Already Retreating from Rising Seas
459 views / 0 likes - addedWhen it comes to the unsustainable development of the American coastline, New Jersey owns the honor of being the first and worst. But one town in the state is experimenting with moving a cluster of people out of harm’s way and turning the newly open land
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How Is the Declaration of Independence Preserved?
520 views / 0 likes - addedThe National Archives and Records Administration uses science and technology to keep one of America's most important historic documents safe.
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How Do We Measure the Distance to Stars?
429 views / 0 likes - addedThe answer lies in the tiny shifts we see in a star's position as Earth revolves around the sun.
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How Does Google Know Everything about Me?
436 views / 0 likes - addedYou may wonder how Google knows what you’re typing, where you are or even what you’re thinking—they use your data to do it all.
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What Sensors Are in a Smartphone?
372 views / 0 likes - addedSmartphone sensors locate your phone in time and space. Working together, several sensors can paint a fairly complete picture of your daily activity, with implications for your privacy.
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How Did Hawaii Form?
615 views / 1 likes - addedThe volcanic island chain was born when the Pacific tectonic plate drifted over a hotspot in Earth’s mantle.
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Why Don't Bees Celebrate Father's Day?
515 views / 1 likes - addedDrone bees don’t have fathers, but they still have family. Chromosomes are the key to understanding the buzz around a bee’s parents.
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Why Do Bananas Change Color?
998 views / 2 likes - addedBananas undergo chemical and physical changes to become more appealing.
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What Is the Bystander Effect?
462 views / 0 likes - addedIf you suffer a heart attack in a crowd, you would be less likely to get help than if there were only one or two people around you.
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Scaly Plastic Snakeskins Inch Immobile Robots Forward
671 views / 0 likes - addedThese stretchy skins help robots move across rough surfaces, and potentially promote exploration and environmental monitoring.
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The Neuroscience of Figure Skating
444 views / 1 likes - addedSkaters' brains adapt to their complex routines.
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Why Do Curling Stones Curl?
418 views / 0 likes - addedCurling at the highest level requires careful calculations and a little finesse with physics.
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Origami Lattice Folds between Dimensions
520 views / 1 likes - addedOrigami lattices have twofold benefits for nanotechnology and medical care.
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Air-Water Robot Uses Explosive Launch
665 views / 1 likes - addedAn insect size robot converts water to gas and ignites it to spring free of water and take flight.
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Spincredible--How to Spin the Dreidel Longer
744 views / 0 likes - addedBecome a dreidel “spinologist” and compete for the longest time of spin.
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Snap, Crackle, Whop--How to Win the Wishbone
630 views / 0 likes - addedDon’t crack under pressure! Explore the scientific—and sometimes sleazy—secrets to win a wish at this year’s Thanksgiving wishbone pull.
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The Secret Social Life of a Solitary Puma
497 views / 0 likes - addedHidden cameras caught these cats sharing prey with their neighbors, suggesting pumas have a more complex society than previously believed.
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New Frizzy-Haired Orangutan Species
565 views / 1 likes - addedAn isolated group of orangutans in Sumatra is the first new great ape species described since the 1920s, and could be the most critically endangered.
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Neutron Star Collisions Create Gold
561 views / 0 likes - addedAstrophysicists searching for gravitational waves have finally learned what happens when you crash two neutron stars together--and it's very, very shiny.
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The Pitfalls of Growing a Monster Pumpkin
477 views / 0 likes - addedSquashing the competition at a giant pumpkin weigh-off requires patience, persistence—and a little bit of luck.
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Wild Dogs Sneeze to Vote
1,052 views / 0 likes - addedAfrican wild dog packs have a sneeze democracy. When a dog tires of napping and is ready to hunt, they sneeze. If enough dogs in the pack join in the sneeze vote, the whole pack sets out. Dominant individuals have influence, but the group can outvote thei
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Robot Uses Exoskeletons to Float and Fly
578 views / 0 likes - addedThis versatile bot clads itself in different exoskeletons that let it tackle unique environmental challenges.
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How to Explore Otherwordly Oceans
509 views / 0 likes - addedAs NASA continues exploring other worlds across the solar system, tools deep ocean biologists use to study communities of bacteria on the sea floor could come in handy. This short film dives into a new observatory called ABISS, which can transmit video an
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Cassini’s Grand Finale
575 views / 0 likes - addedThe Cassini spacecraft has spent the last two decades exploring Saturn and its unique moons, making discoveries that will advance space exploration for years to come. Scientific American editors Lee Billings and Mike Lemonick offer a proper sendoff for th
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VR Theme Park Hopes to Push Public Pickup
623 views / 0 likes - addedVR World is a virtual reality theme park that presents curated video games and 360-degree artistic cultural experiences in order to help the public overcome some of the barriers that have prevented mass adoption. The team wants to prime people for the VR
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What Is a Skin Allergy?
523 views / 0 likes - addedPoison ivy or a new perfume making you break out and itch? Your skin normally works as if in harmony to protect you from infection, but sometimes the tune your killer T cells are playing is bad news for your skin cells. Produced with support from SC Johns
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Well-Preserved Armored Fossil Reveals Cretaceous Camouflage
445 views / 1 likes - addedThe Cretaceous Period was a dangerous time for many animals, even for the “dinosaur equivalent of a tank.” Watch how researchers analyzed the pristine remains of a heavily armored nodosaur to discover this dino’s additional layer of defense. Subscribe to
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03:55
Witness the Solar Eclipse without Frying your Eyes or your Camera
567 views / 0 likes - addedAmerica is preparing for a sea-to-shining-sea solar eclipse. Here’s how you can watch the spectacular display, and maybe even snap a photo to commemorate the event, without burning your retinas or damaging your camera’s optics.
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02:13
Racing to a Future of Autonomous Cars
563 views / 0 likes - addedThe Robocar, a fully autonomous electric racecar, recently debuted in Times Square, New York City. Watch how the Roborace team behind it imagine a new motorsport and how the Robocar might accelerate the development of the consumer autonomous car. Subscrib
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Damaged Bears Find Solace in Rehab
635 views / 2 likes - addedWatch how Carpathian brown bears, scarred by the practice of training bears to dance for entertainment, are being given the chance to live out their lives in an environment tailored to creature comfort. Filmed on location in Synevyr National Park in Weste
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Soft Robot Moves by Mimicking Plants
748 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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Giant Model Mimics Damaged Dam Spillway
622 views / 0 likes - addedWhen the Oroville Dam spillway cracked and failed after a wet California winter, a team of scientists created a one fiftieth–scale model of the damaged concrete and eroded hillside to help guide the reconstruction.
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Fire Ants Build "Eiffel Tower" Structures
888 views / 0 likes - addedWhen fire ants build a structure, they avoid getting crushed by their fellow ants by following a simple set of rules to distribute the load evenly.
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A Close-Up of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
499 views / 0 likes - addedNew photos were just released from Juno’s most recent flyover of the enormous, centuries-old storm raging on Jupiter.
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Why Do Allergies Make You Sneeze?
1,190 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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How to Weigh a Star Using Gravitational Lensing
460 views / 0 likes - addedAstronomers recently tapped Einstein's concept of gravitational lensing to determine the weight of a distant star. Watch and learn how this concept came to be and how it works. Subscribe to our channel! https://www.youtube.com/SciAmerican
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Searching for Life at the Bottom of the Arctic
575 views / 0 likes - addedCreatures living among the hydrothermal vents burbling under the Arctic Ocean's ice layer have been historically difficult to study, but an underwater vehicle, the Nereid Under Ice, can get close to the vents to peek in at the animals and their homes with
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Tackling China’s Devastating Yellow River Floods
753 views / 2 likes - addedAfter learning how the waterway transports a billion tons of sediment into the sea each year, scientists built a tool that may help predict the inundations that impact some 80 million people. Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/SciAmerican R
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Wing Windows Reveal Insect Origami
710 views / 0 likes - addedLadybird beetles fold their hindwings into a tidy, Z-shaped package under their bright spotted shell. Scientists made a clear plastic window to peek in at how the wing folds upon itself. Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/SciAmerican Find t
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Watch This Parrotlet Nail a Long Jump
528 views / 0 likes - addedThis palm-size parrot uses a touch of wing to leap from branch to branch so it can save energy as it looks for dinner or a mate. Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/SciAmerican
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02:49
Interstellar Projectiles Zoom around Us at Blistering Speeds
442 views / 0 likes - addedZipping around us at millions of miles per hour are hypervelocity stars, the black holes that launch them, and more. Find out how we aren't traveling as sedately through space as you might think. Subscribe to our channel! https://www.youtube.com/SciAmeric
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Slime Houses of Pinky-Size Plankton Cycle Carbon
536 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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400 Fish Released into the Revitalized Bronx River
774 views / 0 likes - addedThe release of 400 alewife herring marks a significant milestone in a broader river cleanup effort. Subscribe to our channel: https://youtube.com/SciAmerican Transcript: Wriggling through this transfer tube are 400 alewife herring. The Bronx River was onc
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How Honeybees Brush Their Eye Hairs
725 views / 0 likes - addedFlitting among the flowers can be messy, sticky work. Honeybees consume pollen for nutrition, so their entire bodies are covered in tiny hairs to capture as much pollen as possible. Even their eyes have a coat of hair. So how do they keep themselves clean
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The 10 Weirdest Things in the Solar System
601 views / 0 likes - addedPierogi moons, rubber duckie comets and spewing ice balls: We have some very strange neighbors among the myriad planets, moons and objects that circle our sun. Scientific American editors Lee Billings and Michael Lemonick pick the pasta shaped moons Pan a
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02:46
Tracing a Gaze to Understand Language Delays
597 views / 0 likes - addedResearchers use eye-tracking software to peek inside a child's mind when words fail, reading eye patterns to understand language production and combat conditions such as specific language impairment. Subscribe to our channel: https://youtube.com/SciAmeric
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Asthma Preventing Microbes, Pollinator Plant Preference, and More: 60 Second Science Podcasts
640 views / 0 likes - addedListen and learn about the microbes that may lower children's risk of having asthma, why an early flower bloom might be a sign of low biodiversity, how pollinators shape plant evolution, how treating disease might involve treating poverty, and how the gut
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Winter Boot Safety Is a Slippery Slope
496 views / 0 likes - addedResearchers put a tiny ice rink on a tipping platform to measure how much grip winter boots really have.
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Jumping Spiders See with Rose-Colored Glasses
818 views / 1 likes - addedHuman suitors may woo with red wine and roses, but these jumping spiders come courting with fancy dress and choreography. Now scientists know more about how spiders perceive their admirers' flamboyant display. Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/SciAmerica
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How to Calculate a Bigger Slice of Pi
488 views / 0 likes - addedFor thousands of years people have struggled to pin down pi. Watch how mathematicians from Archimedes to those today have wrapped their heads around the math of circles.
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Gravitational Waves, Theoretical Alien Antenna, Europa and More: 60-Second Science Podcasts
513 views / 0 likes - addedListen to the experts discuss the use and misuse of science in the courtroom to interpret forensic science, how ancient dental plaque can be used to understand what Neandertals ate, the instruments like Pulsar Timing Arrays that could detect gravitational
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This Itch Is Contagious
559 views / 0 likes - addedMany social animals start to feel itchy after watching one of their fellows scratch, and scientists now have a better understanding of why an itch can spread through a group.
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This Beat-Bot’s Got Groove!
688 views / 0 likes - addedCould the drummer robot lead its cyber brethren to march in sync—or maybe someday even start a band?
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A Tasty Trove of Exoplanets at TRAPPIST-1
491 views / 0 likes - addedA baker’s half-dozen of Earth-size worlds is orbiting a (relatively) nearby star—and some could be habitable Subscribe to our channel! https://www.youtube.com/SciAmerican TRANSCRIPT: There's big news this week from 40 light years away, a star system calle
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Planet Formation out of Black Hole Belches
591 views / 0 likes - addedNew studies suggest lonely planets flying through intergalactic space were formed by star-destroying supermassive black holes. Subscribe to our channel! https://www.youtube.com/SciAmerican The conventional understanding of how planets formed has undergone
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Earth-Size Telescope Will Make Black Holes Say "Cheese!"
702 views / 0 likes - addedNobel laureate Robert Wilson discusses how a network of telescopes might illumine a black hole, after the 92nd Street Y’s Bang! Bang! event. For more black hole coverage, check out Scientific American's Dark Star Diaries: https://blogs.scientificamerican.
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Stalagmites Point to Caves' Shaky History
604 views / 1 likes - addedResearchers can crack open stalagmites to uncover ancient earthquakes and changes in cave climate.
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Robo-Bat Flaps Like the Real Thing
751 views / 1 likes - addedEngineers simplified the complex bat wing to create a flapping robot capable of the same nimble flight.
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Soft, Sticky Frog Tongues Slurp Supper
683 views / 0 likes - addedScientists discovered a frog’s ability to nab an insect in a fraction of a second depends on the fluid mechanics of its spit.
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How the Military Surveils Santa
459 views / 0 likes - addedIn a Christmas tradition, the defense organization NORAD helps us keep track of Santa as he zips around the world delivering toys.
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Is It Time to Give Up on Dark Matter?
466 views / 0 likes - addedThere is still good reason to think undiscovered fundamental particles act as gravitational glue for galaxies.
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Lasers and Drones Help Preserve Ancient Temples
668 views / 1 likes - added3-D digital preservation not only helps save the memories of historical sites, it also guides restoration projects after natural disasters, such as the earthquakes that damaged the temples of Bagan. Editor's Note: Viewers sensitive to flashing light may w
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Indoor Plants Can Clean Your Air
583 views / 0 likes - addedMany houseplants can scrub irritants like acetone from the air, but which ones do it best?
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The Math Behind the Polls
359 views / 0 likes - addedWhen polls try to tease out what a group of people is thinking, what are they measuring and how can they go wrong?
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These Greek Villagers Whistle to Chat
470 views / 0 likes - addedWhistles let shepherds communicate between distant hillsides because a whistled sound wave travels farther than spoken words.
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Math Puts a New Twist on Solving a Rubik's Cube with the Fewest Moves
711 views / 1 likes - addedFor this puzzle with over 43 quintillion permutations, author Ian Scheffler explains how players have found the most efficient route to resolving a Rubik’s cube.
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Solving the Rubik's Equation
601 views / 2 likes - addedAuthor and “Speedcuber” Ian Scheffler reveals some of the math behind how you could solve the Rubik’s cube puzzle.
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Read My Beard--Lizards Change Neck Color to Chat
987 views / 2 likes - addedThe central bearded dragon can rapidly shift its body color to soak up extra sun or cool off, while using its neck color to communicate with other lizards.
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How Physicists Trapped Photons in a Box
547 views / 0 likes - addedPhysicist and Nobelist Serge Haroche describes using a mirrored box to trap photons to spy on them as they bounce around inside. This Nature Video was produced with support from Mars, Incorporated. All Nature Video content is editorially independent of sp
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Chilling Time: How to Build the Coolest Clock on Earth
500 views / 0 likes - addedBill Phillips explains how laser cooling, for which he shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, led to a revolution in timekeeping. This Nature Video was produced with support from Mars, Incorporated. All Nature Video content is editorially independent of
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Flavor of the Ray--Snagging the Mysterious Neutrino
574 views / 0 likes - addedIt takes a lot to stop an unstoppable subatomic particle. Art McDonald, co-recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, describes how he detected elusive neutrinos that were born in the center of the sun and change characteristics during their journeys.
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Listen to the Sounds of Knees Cracking
624 views / 0 likes - addedEavesdropping on the creaks and groans of an athlete’s knee could help doctors track healing after injury or surgery.
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Could the Nearest Earth-Like Planet Be Right Next Door?
565 views / 0 likes - addedResearchers discovered an exoplanet that could be habitable orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system. Produced with support from Explore Scientific (explorescientificusa.com)
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How Dogs Interpret Our Praise
462 views / 0 likes - added“Who’s a good boy?” Your dog construes your words and happy tone to know you mean him.
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Jupiter's Red Spot Is Red Hot
904 views / 2 likes - addedWhat Jupiter’s spot is not, is tranquil. New infrared images taken by Boston University scientists on a NASA telescope in Hawaii show that whereas Jupiter’s north and south poles are heated by strong magnetic fields, its large, stormy red spot generates i
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Musical Genes
525 views / 0 likes - addedMusicians and birds dial up the same special set of genes as they practice their music
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Gravitational Waves Are The Ringing Of Space-Time
529 views / 0 likes - addedThe universe is a noisy place, but we didn’t always have the right ears to hear the sounds. Until now.
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People And Pets Live Inside A Microbial Cloud
723 views / 1 likes - addedWe shed about 1 million particles an hour, including bacteria and dead skin cells.
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Yeast Cell - 3D
909 views / 0 likes - addedD. Allan Drummond, a professor at University of Chicago, prints these scientifically accurate budding yeast cells in brass at 10,000 times their actual size.
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Why Is Wool Warmer Than Cotton?
775 views / 1 likes - addedScientific American looks into the physical properties of socks.
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Why Do Autumn Leaves Change Color? - Instant Egghead #51
897 views / 0 likes - addedScientific American editor Mark Fischetti explains how the leaves of deciduous trees perform their annual chameleon act, changing from various shades of green to hues of bronze, orange and brilliant red. More to explore: Bring Science Home: Experiment on
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Why Is Yawning Contagious? - Instant Egghead #52
697 views / 0 likes - addedContagious yawning can be annoying, but it might also be a sign of good social skills. It's a type of emotional contagion, a phenomenon in which we tend to share the feelings of people around us. Scientific American MIND editor Sandra Upson explains. More
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How Does Meditation Change The Brain? - Instant Egghead #54
579 views / 0 likes - addedMeditation can sharpen attention, strengthen memory and improve other mental abilities. Scientific American editor Ferris Jabr examines the changes in brain structure behind some of these benefits. -- WATCH more Instant Egghead: http://goo.gl/CkXwKj SUBSC
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How To Find A Meteorite In Your Own Backyard
618 views / 0 likes - addedThe Earth is peppered by meteorites all the time. This is how you can find one on your own.
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Is Our Universe A Hologram? - Instant Egghead #63
861 views / 0 likes - addedWe take for granted that we exist as 3D beings in a 3D universe, but physicists suggest that our world is just the projection of a reality written in 2D. Scientific American editor Michael Moyer explains. -- WATCH more Instant Egghead: http://goo.gl/CkXwK
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Why Do Onions Make Us Cry? - Instant Egghead #62
1,156 views / 0 likes - addedAnyone that's chopped into an onion is familiar with the noxious fumes and irritating pain induced by an otherwise delicious vegetable. Scientific American editor Ferris Jabr explains how this bulbous member of the allium genus can bring us to tears. -- W
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Can Microbes Clean Up Our Oily Mess? - Instant Egghead #58
582 views / 0 likes - addedWith an estimated 70 oil spills every day in the U.S. and tons of plastic garbage littering our oceans, humans could really use some help cleaning up. Scientific American editor David Biello explains how bacteria and other microbes slowly consume our mess
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Why Do We Sleep? - Instant Egghead #55
693 views / 0 likes - addedWe spend nearly a third of our lives asleep, but scientists don't agree on sleep's purpose. Scientific American contributor Joss Fong explains what we know, and don't know, about our nightly slumber. -- WATCH more Instant Egghead: http://goo.gl/CkXwKj SUB
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The Mind-Blowing Mathematics Of Sunflowers - Instant Egghead #59
738 views / 0 likes - addedWhy do the number of spirals in a sunflower match up with the integers 34, 55, 89 and 144 -- numbers found in the famous Fibonacci Sequence? Scientific American editor John Matson explains. -- WATCH more Instant Egghead: http://goo.gl/CkXwKj SUBSCRIBE to
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When Black Holes Collide
642 views / 0 likes - addedWhen two supermassive black holes find each other, they can warp the fabric of space and time.
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