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How A Single-celled Organism Almost Wiped Out Life On Earth - Anusuya Willis

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-a-single-celled-organism-almost-wiped-out-life-on-earth-anusuya-willis There’s an organism that changed the world. It caused the first mass extinction in Earth’s history … and also paved the way for complex
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The worlds largest organism - Alex Rosenthal

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Discover the worlds largest organism: Pando, an enormous and ancient quaking aspen, and find out how it became so huge.--The largest animal in the world is the blue whale, which weighs a massive 150 metric tons. Even so, its not remotely close to being th
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The Biggest Organism On Earth

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What Is The Biggest Single-celled Organism? - Murry Gans

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-the-biggest-single-celled-organism-murry-gans The elephant is a creature of epic proportions — and yet, it owes its enormity to more than 1,000 trillion microscopic cells. And on the epically small end o
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Snippet: Seemingly longest organism ever recorded, other deep-sea species discovered

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The deep sea is largely unexplored and marine scientists are constantly surprised by the creatures they find roaming the depths in darkness. While exploring the Ningaloo Canyons off the coast of Western Australia with the SuBastian underwater robot, a tea
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What Is The Smallest Organism On Earth? - Wonders Of Life W/ Prof Brian Cox - BBC

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Professor Brian Cox looks at the organism that takes up most of our planet, the smallest microorganism of all, bacteria. Taken from Wonders of Life. Subscribe to BBC Earth: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=BBCEarth BBC Earth YouTube Cha
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This Brainless Organism is Mapping Dark Matter

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The food-seeking behavior of slime mold is helping astronomers map dark matterheres how. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.com Scientists are trying
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Meet the obscure microbe that influences climate, ocean ecosystems, and perhaps even evolution

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Prochlorococcus 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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What Has No Brain And the Ability To Self-Heal?!

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With its ability to self-heal and farm bacterial crops, slime mold is challenging everything we know about intelligent life. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http://sh
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You are your microbes - Jessica Green and Karen Guillemin

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/you-are-your-microbes-jessica-green-and-karen-guillemin From the microbes in our stomachs to the ones on our teeth, we are homes to millions of unique and diverse communities which help our bodies function. Jess
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Researcher raises botflies under his skin I NOVA I PBS

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"I know it sounds weird, but I felt an almost father-child relationship with this organism that was growing in my body," the entomologist says.Stream "NOVA Wonders: What's Living in You?" online or on the PBS app now at: pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wonders/#living-
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How We Think Complex Cells Evolved - Adam Jacobson

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-we-think-complex-cells-evolved-adam-jacobson Imagine you swallowed a small bird and suddenly gained the ability to fly … or you ate a cobra and were able to spit poisonous venom! Well, throughout the history
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How CRISPR lets you edit DNA - Andrea M. Henle

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Sign up for our newsletter and never miss an animation: http://bit.ly/TEDEdNewsletter View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-crispr-lets-you-edit-dna-andrea-m-henle From the smallest single-celled organism to the largest creatures on Earth, ever
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Why The Octopus Is The Weirdest Animal On Earth

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Octopuses are unlike any other organism on Earth. They can regrow limbs, change colors whenever they want, and use tools to their advantage. But perhaps the most unique thing an octopus can do is edit its RNA. By editing their RNA, octopuses make temporar
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TIL: 20% Of Our Oxygen Comes From A Bacteria

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When you think of bacteria, you might think of the flu, your kindergartner, or the TV remote, but you probably don’t think of oxygen. Get this: Bacteria provide oxygen for about one in five of your breaths. Without these microbes, you, your family, and mo
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How This Blob Solves Mazes | WIRED

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Physarum polycephalum is a single-celled, brainless organism that can make decisions, and solve mazes. Anne Pringle, who is a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains everything you need to know about what these slime molds are and how
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Stentors: Single-Celled Giants

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It's time to meet a single-celled organism that is bigger than a tardigrade! We'll learn how Stentors reproduce, why they look like trumpets, and why some of them are just SO BLUE! Follow Journey to the Microcosmos:Twitter: https://twitter.com/journeytomi
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MinuteEarth Explains: Size

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In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we tackle the science of size.We originally created the videos in the MinuteEarth Explains series for another project. But we know that lots of people right now are looking for really good online education
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UVM and Tufts Team Builds First Living Robots

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Scientists from UVM and Tufts repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. More: http://go.uvm.edu/firstrbts These tiny “xenobots” can move toward a target and heal themselves after being
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A New Genetic Alphabet Is Creating Things Nature Has Never Seen

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If you thought DNA was made of just A, T, G and C-- think again. Scientists have been expanding these options, and the resulting organisms could create the impossible. What Happens When CRISPR Backfires? - https://youtu.be/8b_d3RIJJmo Read More: Organisms
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Top 10 Most Bizarre Deep Sea Creatures Ever Discovered

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Deep Sea Creatures are as bizarre as creatures get. From angler fish to giant squid, here are some of the weirdest bizarre deep sea creatures caught on tape. Subscribe for more! ► https://goo.gl/pgcoq1 ◄ Stay updated ► https://goo.gl/JyGcTt https://goo.gl
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Why Are GMOs Bad?

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Why are GMOs bad? They aren’t. They just aren’t, not intrinsically, and certainly not for your health. We’ve been eating them for decades with no ill effects, which makes sense, because a genetically modified organism is simply an organism, like every oth
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Corals Collaborating to Eat Jellyfish: First-Ever Video | National Geographic

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Filmed for the first time, Astroides calyculariscoral trap and devour “mauve stinger” jellyfish. In the western Mediterranean Sea, the orange coral forms colonies of small organisms called polyps. The polyps are connected, and together act as a single org
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Vascular Plants = Winning! - Crash Course Biology #37

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Hank introduces us to one of the most diverse and important families in the tree of life - the vascular plants. These plants have found tremendous success and the their secret is also their defining trait: conductive tissues that can take food and water f
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Underwater robot may unearth climate mysteries

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Two hundred meters under the sunny waves of the ocean lies the mesopelagic zone, a cold, dark section of water where humans rarely venture. This area, dubbed the twilight zone houses animals like krill, squid, and jellyfish. Twilight zone animals play a m
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Bioluminescence Explained | Lights of the Deep Sea

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Bioluminescence in the deep sea is a natural phenomenon present in many deep sea creatures. Bioluminescent twinkling, flashing, pulsating lights are the result of a chemical reaction that produces light energy within the body of an organism. It is a commo
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There’s a Subterranean Biosphere Hiding in the Earth’s Crust and It’s MASSIVE

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

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It’s good hygiene to wash your hands after touching shared bathroom surfaces. But bars of soap are a shared surface. Does soap really help get you clean? Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com: http://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/cleansing/products/body-so
Ten Million Starlings Swarm (7 Tonnes of Bird Poo) | Superswarm | BBC Earth

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Rome plays host to one of the world's most amazing displays of aerial acrobatics, but it's not all beauty and grace... Subscribe: http://bit.ly/BBCEarthSub #BBCEarthWatch more: Planet Earth http://bit.ly/PlanetEarthPlaylist Blue Planet http://bit.ly/BlueP
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How Humans Made Malaria So Deadly

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Thanks to http://www.givewell.org/ for sponsoring this video! To learn more about the Against Malaria Foundation, visit: http://www.givewell.org/AMF or https://www.againstmalaria.com. Thanks also to our supporters on https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth __
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Can Slime Mould Solve Mazes? | Earth Lab

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We think of mould as a simple organism, but it's a fungus that can perform cleaver tricks to get to its objectives. Best of Earth Lab: http://bit.ly/EarthLabOriginals Best of BBC Earth: http://bit.ly/TheBestOfBBCEarthVideos The Doctors Are In The House: h
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TIL: Some Sharks Can Glow In The Dark

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You probably know that your visual perception of the world is a bit different than your pets’. Dogs see things with less color than humans, snakes can see infrared, and if you have a pet bull, it lives in a world where red and green are the same color. Th
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Glow In The Dark Worm Genes - Christmas Lectures with Alison Woollard

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Alison Woollard shows how we can use special genes to make worms' muscle cells glow in the dark. Watch the full first lecture of the series: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/2013/life-fantastic/where-do-i-come-from?utm_source=youtube&utm_medi
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Could You Be a Chimera?

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Follow me to MONSTRUM! https://youtu.be/x-GjSU4nOxE SUBSCRIBE so you dont miss a video! http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub More info and sources below Ever feel like you aren't totally yourself? Well, maybe you aren't. In this video, we explore the idea of human chi
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Arabidopsis time-lapse

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Arabidopsis thaliana or thale cress is a common weed which prefers to grow on sandy soil and occurrs all over the world. Because of its small rosette size and plain appearance the plant is often overlooked. However, its small size made it very convenient
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Evolution: It's a Thing - Crash Course Biology #20

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Hank gets real with us in a discussion of evolution - it's a thing, not a debate. Gene distribution changes over time, across successive generations, to give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization. Crash Course Biology is now availabl
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Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth - Crash Course Biology #17

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Hank introduces us to the relatively new field of evolutionary developmental biology, which compares the developmental processes of different organisms to determine their ancestral relationship, and to discover how those processes evolved. Also fruit flie
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Lichen: Two Living Things In One

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Join Jessi this week at the fort and learn about the unexpectedly awesome organism that's made up of two living things: LICHEN! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liqu
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What are mini brains? - Madeline Lancaster

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-we-grow-human-brains-outside-our-bodies-madeline-lancaster Shielded by our thick skulls and swaddled in layers of protective tissue, the human brain
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What Is The Oldest Living Thing?

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From eldritch aspen colonies to immortal jellyfish, the world is lousy with long-lived organisms. But what’s the oldest? Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com Share on Facebook: https://goo.gl/IDNsbs Share on Twitter: https://goo.gl/QXC2XL Subscribe: http://goo
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Acrobatic DNA Replication - Christmas Lectures with Alison Woollard

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Alison Woollard demonstrates how DNA replicates when it divides, with some acrobatic help from the Infinity Elites cheerleaders. Watch the full second lecture of the series: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/2013/life-fantastic/am-i-a-mutant?u
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Speciation: Of Ligers&Men - Crash Course Biology #15

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Hank explains speciation - the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise - in terms of finches, ligers, mules, and dogs. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dft.ba/-8css Like CrashCourse on Facebook: http://www.facebook.c
How Did Blue Whales Get So Big?

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Meet the largest animal that ever livedthe blue whale. Whats so great about being big? You can move faster and farther, you can avoid predators, and you can have a longer lifespan. In Part One of our four-part Giants of the Sea series, youll explore some
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Living Medicines - Christmas Lectures with Alison Woollard

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Alison Woollard explains how we can now use cell therapy to create living medicines, with help from Natalie Mount from Cell Therapy Catapult.Watch the full third lecture of the series: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/2013/life-fantastic/coul
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Community Ecology: Feel The Love - Crash Course Ecology #4

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Interactions between species are what define ecological communities, and community ecology studies these interactions anywhere they take place. Although interspecies interactions are mostly competitive, competition is pretty dangerous, so a lot of interac
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How Corals Hold Centuries of Ocean Climate Data

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Before we can make a plan to protect our oceans from climate change, we need to know what they were like before human impact. We haven’t been collecting ocean data for very long, but luckily one ocean marine organism has been keeping records for millennia
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Can The Human Brain Be Reprogrammed?

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What if you could flip a switch to change someone’s behavior? The key may lie in reprogramming neurons. Get 15% off http://www.domain.com's domain names and web hosting when you use coupon code DNEWS at checkout! Can You Survive Without A Piece of Your Br
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Taxonomy: Life's Filing System - Crash Course Biology #19

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Hank tells us the background story and explains the importance of the science of classifying living things, also known as taxonomy. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dft.ba/-8css Like CrashCourse on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/You
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Why You Can't Build A Clone Army... (Yet)

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Sign up for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/2UGB30qCbvs.Because of the way genetic reprogramming works, its hard to make one clone based on an adult cell, and its almost impossible to make a second-generation one.Thanks also t
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How to Bring an Extinct Animal Back to Life

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Get 1 year of both Nebula and CuriosityStream for just 14.79 here: http://curiositystream.com/realscience using the code "realscience"New streaming platform: https://watchnebula.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/realscienceTwitter: https://twitter.com/
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Comparative Anatomy: What Makes Us Animals - Crash Course Biology #21

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Hank introduces us to comparative anatomy, which studies the similarities and differences in animal anatomy to support the theory of evolution and the shared ancestry of living things. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dft.ba/-8css Like
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Can One Mathematical Model Explain All Patterns In Nature?

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All patterns in nature might be describable using this mathematical theory. How did Alan Turing influence how we see the natural world? Who Was Ada Lovelace, The World's First Computer Nerd? - http://bit.ly/290mnkb Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here -
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Ecology - Rules for Living on Earth: Crash Course Biology #40

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Hank introduces us to ecology - the study of the rules of engagement for all of us earthlings - which seeks to explain why the world looks and acts the way it does. The world is crammed with things, both animate and not, that have been interacting with ea
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Carl Sagan - One Planet (Music by Moon Hooch & Tonio Sagan)

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Carl Sagan - “One Planet” (Music by Moon Hooch & Tonio Sagan) “One Planet” from Ep.13 of Cosmos "Who Speaks for Earth" written by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, with music and video created by @MoonHooch and Tonio Sagan. Download A
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The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time

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The California condor is the biggest flying bird in North America, a title that it has held since the Late Pleistocene Epoch. It's just one example of an organism that we share the planet with today that seems lost in time, out of place in our world. Than
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Inside a Synthetic DNA Factory Thats Building New Forms of Life

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In this DNA factory, organism engineers are using robots and automation to build completely new forms of life.Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Focal Point | https://bit.ly/2M3gmbKGinkgo Bioworks, a Boston company specializing
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What The Heck Are These Cats Doing In Zero-G?!

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Animals have been used to study zero gravity since the 1950s, but how does that crazy research affect the space program today? Why Are Animals Having Sex In Space ►►►► http://bit.ly/1Sw2pQr Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►► http://bit.ly/1myXb
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Scientists Put the Brain of a Worm Into a Robot… and It MOVED

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This robot contains the digitized brain of a worm, and without any outside input it just... works! Here's what this could mean for the future of AI. This Is How Your Brain Powers Your Thoughts - https://youtu.be/yxUkUaV2VPs Thumbnail image courtesy of Ope
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Are You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?

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Follow me to Deep Look! https://youtu.be/Nx3Uu1hfl6Q Tweet this ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSslime Share on FB ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSslimeFB ↓ More info and sources below ↓ I really hope you guys check out Deep Look, it’s one of my favorite channels, full of great
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Your Immune System: Natural Born Killer - Crash Course Biology #32

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Hank tells us about the team of deadly ninja assassins that is tasked with protecting our bodies from all the bad guys that want to kill us - also known as our immune system. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dft.ba/-8bCC Like CrashCour
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The Oldest Plant-Like Fossils Ever

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Researchers might have discovered the 2 oldest plant-like fossils this week! Meanwhile, scientists learned more about another superpower of our favorite organism: tardigrades. Hosted by: Hank Green Get your Knowledge is Power shirt, poster and banner toda
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Aguahoja: A water-based design approach and fabrication platform

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Nature made us half water. With water, the biological world facilitates customization of an organism’s physical and chemical properties—through growth and degradation—as a function of genes and environmental constraints. Designed goods, however—including
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The Insane Biology of: The Platypus

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How Smart Are Plants?

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Scientists found plants might have the capacity to remember and even communicate. But just how smart could plants really be? 5 Weird Ways Plants Can Eat Animals ►►►► http://bit.ly/1o7dABK Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►► http://bit.ly/1myXbFG
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The Only Water on Earth Without Life

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When it comes to water on Earth, life finds a way. Even in the hottest, most acidic, and saltiest waters in the world, odds are you'll find some kind of organism adapted to live in it. There is, however, a place with water so extremely inhospitable that n
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"Tardigrade in the Shade" | SUNG SCIENCE

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The Worlds First Living Robots Just Got an Upgrade, Meet Xenobot 2.0

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In 2020, the world saw its first glimpse of a living robot that could move, self-heal, and work with other bots to meet a common goal. But all these features have gotten a massive upgrade including...memorymeet Xenobot 2.0. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit
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Why Apple Pie Isn't American

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

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We made this video in partnership with the Bik Lab at University of Georgia and the National Science Foundation.As the waters warm in the deep sea around Antarctica, ecosystem-crushing crabs are able to live closer and closer to the continent.LEARN MORE**
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If the Coronavirus is Mutating, What Does That Mean For Us?

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You've probably heard that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, is mutating. But what exactly does this mutation mean for us? Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Vi
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The New CRISPR Tool That Could Delete Disease From Our DNA

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CRISPR-Cas3 could be the new gene editing tool we need to finally eliminate diseases from our genome. Here's how it works.What Happens When a Human Gets Rabies? - https://youtu.be/0PHoioJ2ViYRead More: CRISPR-Cas3 innovation holds promise for disease cure
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The Science of Hobbit Gluttony

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Offset your carbon footprint with Wren! They'll plant 10 extra trees for each of the first 100 people who sign up at https://www.wren.co/start/minuteearth.Because smaller animals have to eat more relative to their bodyweight, Tolkeins hobbits need to eat
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Amazing Earth Facts To Blow Your Mind

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We live in a beautiful world, and these amazing facts will blow your mind. Subscribe, it's free! http://bit.ly/asapsci What If Humans Disappeared? https://youtu.be/guh7i7tHeZk Created by: Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown Written by: Rachel Salt, Greg Bro
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Dogs vs Cats: The Diversity Paradox

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To make our work paw-sible, join us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/MinuteEarth!Different dogs look incredibly different - but that doesn't mean they are necessarily more diverse. LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googlin
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Your Next Burger Could Be Made With Microbes

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Fermentation is a natural process that humans have been hacking for millennia. Now, scientists are customizing the process to revolutionize the future of food with alternative proteins. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Element
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How evolution creates problem-solving machines | Michael Levin

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Evolution doesnt fix things it reinvents them. Michael Levin, a biologist, explains.This interview is an episode from @The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the @JohnTempletonFoundation. Subscribe to The Well o
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Meet the True Bugs | SciShow Kids

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In this episode, Jessi and Squeaks learn what it takes to be a "true bug". Scientists use the word "bug" to refer to a special group of insects, so not all insects (or other critters like spiders) are bugs!Teachers and parents: scroll down to check out th
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25 BEST SUMMER FRUIT HACKS

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SUMMER FRUIT HACKS Summer season is the ultimate time to fill up your organism with vitamines and other useful substances. But first let's find out how to cut the fruits quickly and correctly. If you forgot a knife for your picnic and don't know how to cu
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Epigenetics: Why Inheritance Is Weirder Than We Thought

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Would You Drink Water Made From Sewage?

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Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minuteearth for sponsoring this video. Thanks also to our supporters on https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth : - Today I Found Out - Maarten Bremer - Jeff Straathof - Mark Roth - Tony Fadell - Muhammad Shifaz - 靛蓝字幕组 - Albe
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Why We Sucked At Counting Fish (Until Now)

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Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minuteearth for sponsoring this video. A new fish counting method has revealed there are ten times more fish in the sea than we previously thought.* *But unfortunately, this doesn't mean we're not overfishing. If you liked
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How To Go Extinct

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Sign up for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/Nkq830qWCShOur new evolution simulator reveals that extinction often happens when conditions change quickly. Check it out here: https://labs.minutelabs.io/evolution-simulator/Thanks
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Why Sewers Around the World Keep Overflowing

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Find out more about our sewers from the In Deep podcast at https://www.indeep.org.The old combined sewer systems of many major cities are no match for modern storms and impermeable surfaces.Thanks also to our Patreon patrons https://www.patreon.com/Minute
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7 Things We Don't Know About The Ocean

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The ocean covers 70% of the planet, but humans still don’t know very much about it. In this episode, Hank discusses seven mysterious ocean topics. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sc
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GIANT Pencil Made From CORN!?

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Science Matters: www.4-H.org/Bayer Big shout out to Bayer 4H Council for partnering with us on this video! Note: The vast majority of corn is for feed or fuel, not food for people https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sweet-corn-vs-field-corn_n_596f6718e4b0a03ab
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How We Evolved To Browse The Web

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Thanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/The decisions we make while we browse the internet are suprisingly similar to the ones animals make as they forage for food...here's why.Thanks also to our Patreon
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Why Malaria Isn’t Just a Tropical Disease

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Watch Hot Mess here! ►► http://bit.ly/hotmess_sub Malaria is a global disease that we've beaten back around the world, including in some tropical places, but we’ve had the hardest time in Africa. Thanks to our Patreon patrons https://www.patreon.com/Minut
This Mushroom Fakes Its Own Death To Trick Flies | Deep Look

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The cage fungus looks and smells like decaying meat on purpose. Its goopy lattice gives off a rotten odor that attracts flies, which help spread its spores far and wide. It's like a bee to a flower, but way more macabre and putrid.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look!
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The 3 Reasons This Tree Has Lived 5000 Years

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Keep exploring at https://brilliant.org/MinuteEarth. Get started for free, and hurry the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.Methuselahs environment lacks nutrients, water, and oxygen. In other words, its the perfect place to grow
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Why Don't All Skeletons Become Fossils?

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Skeletons of ancient animals sometimes become fossilized. But if this happened to every animal that ever lived, wouldn’t we be swimming in a sea of fossils right now? BrainStuff explains why only a fraction of animal bones turn into fossils. Learn more at
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This Pulsating Slime Mold Comes in Peace (ft. It's Okay to Be Smart) | Deep Look

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Are You Smarter Than A Slime Mold? Let’s go ask Joe Hanson: https://youtu.be/K8HEDqoTPgk SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK: a new ultra-HD (4K) short video series created by KQED San Francisco and presented by PBS Digital Studios. See
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We Have No Idea Why

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Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: https://www.wren.co/start/minuteearth The first 100 people who sign up will have 10 extra trees planted in their name!Also, our shop is getting a glow-up! Check out our shiny new story-based merch at https://dftba.com
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These Caterpillars Don't All Look Like Caterpillars | SciShow Kids

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Teachers and parents: scroll down to check out the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for this episode!Hosted by: Jessi Knudsen Castaeda (she/her/they/them)In this episode, Jessi and Squeaks explore the many ways that caterpillars use to avoid being
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What Gall! The Crazy Cribs of Parasitic Wasps | Deep Look

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Plenty of animals build their homes in oak trees. But some very teeny, tricky wasps make the tree do all the work. And each miniature mansion the trees build for the wasps' larvae is weirder and more flamboyant than the next. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http:
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How Caffeine Accidentally Took Over The World

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Hey MinuteEarthlings! If you join us on Patreon this month (April 2023) at https://patreon.com/minuteearth, we will draw you a custom MinuteEarth stick figure (that we could feature in an upcoming video) AND send you a custom coffee mug with your beautifu
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The Extinction Happening Inside You

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Thanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/Our modern lifestyle and diet are leading to the extinction of parts of our microbiome, but we can use what we've learned from dealing with nearly-extinct macrobio
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Meet the Most Important Animal You've Never Seen

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They predate the dinosaurs and they outnumber us by trillions, yet you might not ever have the pleasure of seeing one. So let us introduce to you, the nematode.Hosted by: Hank GreenSciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out
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Can Math Explain How Animals Get Their Patterns?

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How Alan Turing's Reaction-Diffusion Model Simulates Patterns in Nature Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minuteearth for sponsoring this video. Asparagus Pee Survey Results: https://goo.gl/8x7abL ___________________________________________ If you liked th
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I found the BEST coronavirus depiction (+ explanation)

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To start comparing quotes and simplify insurance-buying check out Policygenius: http://policygenius.com/minuteearth. Thanks to Policygenius for sponsoring this video!Ever found a fantastic coronavirus illustration that led him to learn about viral attachm
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Birds

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This summer, we partnered with Nate Senner of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Tebughna School in Beluga, Alaska to make this series of videos all about how, why, and where birds migrate. We had so much fun making these videos that we decided t
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How A Whale And A Bear Beat The System

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For your chance to win two seats on one of the first commercial flights to space with Virgin Galactic all while supporting a great cause enter at https://omaze.com/minuteearth.While the rest of the worlds megafauna are still foundering in the anthropocene
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Our Best View Of Bacteria Is...From Space?!

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Thanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/Observing the effects of microbes using satellites can give us all sorts of useful information about life on Earth ... and other planets too.Thanks also to our Pat

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