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The Largest Insect Swarm | Because Science Live!

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The Largest Insect Swarm ever!

Why Pink Himalayan Salt Is So Expensive | So Expensive

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Pink Himalayan salt is used in speciality foods, spa treatments, and even home design.

Could We Survive Without the Sun? | Because Space

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While gremlins, goblins, and Mr.Burns may think it sounds like a good idea, would a world without the Sun even be possible?

The lovable (and lethal) sea lion - Claire Simeone

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Plunge into the ocean’s depths to take a closer look at the sea lion’s hunting skills, and to learn more about how climate change is affecting its habitat.

Lions Hunt Zebra | Savage Kingdom

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Lions hunt and kill a zebra, the pride eat together.

Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir?

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I took a boat through 96 million black plastic balls on the Los Angeles reservoir to find out why they're there.

How To Survive The First Hour Of A Nuclear Blast

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The situation has played out in TV and movies for years, but what should you really do if a nuke detonated near you?

Hummingbird in a Rain Storm | Hostile Planet

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In the cloud forest a booted racket-tail braves a rain storm to find enough food to survive.

Primitive Technology: Fired Clay Bricks

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Creating fired clay bricks from scratch.

The wild world of carnivorous plants

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Venus fly traps, bladderworts and sundews, oh my! Learn about carnivorous plants and their predatory antics to lure, trap and digest prey.

How Spiders Use Electricity to Fly | Decoder

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Can spiders fly? When you think of the greatest aviators in the natural world, you probably think of the usual winged suspects like birds, bees, and butterflies. But some of the earth's eight-legged creatures also have specialized ways of soaring through the skies—no wings necessary.

Under the Dark Skies

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National Geographic partnered with the International Dark-Sky Association to provide families with a true ‘dark sky’ observatory experience, free from the artificial light prevalent in city and suburban communities.

Amphibians Face Mass Extinction as Fungus Spreads Across the World

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Results from a recent global survey of amphibians shows that chytrid fungus has threatened twice as many species than previously thought.

How to grow your own glacier

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Explore the ancient methods of growing glaciers, the homemade bodies of ice used as water sources, and how they can be used to combat climate change.

Why are earthquakes so hard to predict?

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Take a look at the theories behind why earthquakes occur, what makes them so hard to predict and the warning system technologies we rely on today.

Climate Research Offers Coffee Farmers Hope For Their Crops

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Guatemala's third largest export after raw sugar and bananas is coffee.

Why Can't We Get Power From Waves?

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Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things.

Primitive Technology: Grass thatch, Mud hut

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Primitive Technology: Grass thatch, Mud hut - Creating a grass thatch, mud hut from scratch.

You Are A Fish

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With our current understanding of evolutionary history and our strategy of cladistic naming, if we wanted to have both goldfish and sharks under a single group called "fish", then mammals must also be called fish.

A brief history of dogs - David Ian Howe

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Trace the history of how wolves, one of humanity’s oldest rivals, evolved into the domesticated dogs we call “man’s best friend.”

100 Gallons of Spider Silk | Because Science Footnotes

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Kyle discusses exactly how much spider silk Peter Parker would need to stop that train, responds to your comments, and more!