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How do whales sing?

AdultsAnimalsNatureScience
Communicating underwater is challenging. Light and odors don't travel well, but sound moves about four times faster in water than in air - which means marine mammals often use sounds to communicate.

The Walking Water Mystery Solved!

AdultsFilmSciencePhysicsExperiments
Solving a 5 yr old personal mystery about "Why Water Walks on Water".

How Different Are Different Types of Dogs?

AdultsAnimalsPetsScience
The domestic dog is a domesticated canine which has been selectively bred over millennia for various behaviours, sensory capabilities, and physical attributes.

Welding in Space

AdultsSpaceTechnologyScience
In space, metals can weld together without heat or melting.

Could we survive prolonged space travel? - Lisa Nip

AdultsHealthHumanSpaceScience
Prolonged space travel plays a severe toll on the human body: microgravity impairs muscle and bone growth, and high doses of radiation cause irreversible mutations.

How sparrowhawks catch garden birds

AdultsAnimalsNatureScience
This bird's incredible acceleration and agility enable it to to sneak up on its prey.

Why are there so many types of apples?

AdultsFoodBiologyBusinessScience
Have you ever walked into a grocery store and wondered where all the varieties of apples came from?

How To Eradicate One Of Our Deadliest Enemies

AdultsHealthScienceBiotechnology
We have the choice to attack one of our oldest enemies with genetic engineering. But should we do it?

Do Plants Think?

AdultsBiologyEcologyNatureScience
What a Plant Knows?

How To (Literally) Save Earth

AdultsGlobal WarmingWorldEnvironmentScience
Farming erodes soil 50 times faster than it forms. We can change that, but will we?

The Best and Worst Prediction in Science

AdultsCreativityFilmHumorScienceCulture
A guy who just got back from Burning Man struggles mightily to explain what Burning Man was like to a loser who's never been to Burning Man.

What If All The Ice Melted?

AdultsEnvironmentWorldScience
What If All The Ice Melted On Earth? ft. Bill Nye

How Will You Die?

AdultsData ScienceLifeScienceHealth
Science, statistics and lifestyle can help predict how you will die!

Incredible footage of hermit crab changing shells

AdultsAnimalsNatureScience
In this exciting excerpt from the third season of Jonathan Bird's Blue World, Jonathan films a hermit crab changing shells and then also transferring its anemones from one shell to the other.

Why Are Teens So Moody?

AdultsHumanPsychologyScienceEducation
A look inside the teenage brain!

How smart are orangutans?

AdultsAnimalsNatureScience
Along with humans, orangutans belong to the Hominidae family tree, which stretches back 14 million years.

How Do Animals See in the Dark?

AdultsAnimalsBiologyNeuroscienceScience
To human eyes, the world at night is a formless canvas of grey. Many nocturnal animals, on the other hand, experience a rich and varied world, bursting with details, shapes, and colors.

The Twins Paradox Primer

AdultsPhysicsScienceSpace
How can time be slower and faster at the same time?

Enter the Deadliest Garden in the World

AdultsEcologyNatureScience
Locked behind black steel doors in Northumberland, England, the Poison Garden at Alnwick Castle grows around 100 infamous killers.

What is the biggest single-celled organism?

AdultsAnimalsBiologyScience
The elephant is a creature of epic proportions - and yet, it owes its enormity to more than 1,000 trillion microscopic cells.

Interactive Dynamic Video

AdultsFilmPhysicsTechnologyScience
Image-Space Modal Bases for Plausible Manipulation of Objects in Video" ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2015) by Abe Davis, Justin Chen, Fredo Durand