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Could A Plant Grow Inside You?

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Plants can live in all kinds of environments...even inside the your body?

The Most Important Dinosaur

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Dinosaurs!

Aliens under the Ice – Life on Rogue Planets

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Out in the vast coldness of outer space, there are planets that travel alone through darkness without the boundaries of a system. Here’s how this can happen – and why these frozen deserts might secretly harbor alien life.

Can animals be deceptive?

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A male firefly emits a series of enticing flashes. He hopes a female will respond and mate with him.

Do Fish Pee?

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You know you’ve wondered. Do fish actually pee? And what does that make the ocean… one big toilet?

Why Is The Very Hungry Caterpillar So Dang Hungry?

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Because it's hoarding protein. Not just for itself, but for the butterfly it will become and every egg that butterfly will lay. And it's about to lose its mouth... as it wriggles out of its skin during metamorphosis.

Non-Invasive Brain Surgery

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Scientists have combined ultrasound, viruses and synthetic drugs to control regions of the brain.

Jellyfish Acceleration | Because Science Live

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How Jellyfish move.

What If You Only Ate Chips?

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What if you only consumed potatoes forever?

Why Are Fewer People Getting Appendicitis?

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There are many other unforeseen health changes that seem to be related to the forces of modernization, like the increase in rates of diabetes, Crohn’s disease, and ADHD.

Can We Get Older Without Aging?

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Nothing is guaranteed in life except death, taxes, and entropy. What do other life forms have to teach us about staying alive as we get old, and will we ever conquer death?

Why is meningitis so dangerous?

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In 1987, thousands of people gathered in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage. But what started out as a celebration led to a worldwide health crisis: more than 2,000 cases of meningitis broke out, spreading across Saudi Arabia and the rest of the world.

This Strange Condition Keeps You Looking Young Forever

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What if you were forever stuck in the aging process? Could you actually stay looking young for the rest of your life? What problems would you face if you had a growth hormone deficiency that caused you to never actually age?

This Rare Mutation Gives You Massive Muscles At Birth

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This RARE mutation can make you VERY muscular, but what exactly is happening to cause this? Is it harmful?

The Largest River On Earth Is In The Sky

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What’s the largest river on Earth? If you said “the Amazon”… you’re only half right. Scientists have discovered an even bigger river in South America, and it’s in the sky above the Amazon rainforest.

Why Snakes Are Disappearing From Southeast Asia’s Largest Lake

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Some vulnerable species of water snakes are disappearing due to overfishing in the world’s most biodiverse lake—the Tonle Sap, in Cambodia.

Where Do Teeth Come From?

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Teeth. We’ve all got ‘em (most of us, anyway). But how do they grow? Teeth are made from some biological nanotechnology that will blow your mind.

Can Math Explain How Animals Get Their Patterns?

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How Alan Turing's Reaction-Diffusion Model Simulates Patterns in Nature.

What Would Humans Look Like If We Never Evolved?

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Here's what you'd look like without evolution!

The World in UV

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UV cameras expose a hidden world and reveal the incompleteness of our perception.

How Small Is An Atom? Spoiler: Very Small.

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Atoms are very weird. Wrapping your head around exactly how weird, is close to impossible - how can you describe something that is SO removed from humans experience? But then again, they kind of make up everything, so let us try anyways.