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Can We Capture Greenhouse Gases?

AdultsEnvironmentNatureWorld...
It’s one thing to say a business is carbon neutral. It’s another to be able to truly account for that carbon at all stages of the production process.

rimitive Technology: Decarburization of iron and forging experiments

AdultsConstructionCreativityLife...
I took a brittle, high carbon/iron alloy (cast iron) made from local ore and used a decarburization method to reduce it's carbon content making it malleable and forged it flat by hammering.

The Weird Sex Lives of Bluegills

AdultsLifeNatureAnimals...
When it comes to the mating game, fish have some of the strangest ways of thwarting the competition.

The continents are moving. When will they collide?

AdultsEnvironmentLifeWorld...
Dig into the science of plate tectonics to find out when the next supercontinent will emerge— and how it could affect Earth’s environment.

Black Holes

AdultsEducationEnvironmentScience...
Black Holes Aren’t Black or Even Holes. What Are They?

What causes cavities? - Mel Rosenberg

AdultsEducationHealthHuman...
When a team of archeologists recently came across some 15,000-year-old human remains, they made an interesting discovery: the teeth of those ancient humans were riddled with holes.

The 3 Reasons This Tree Has Lived 5000 Years

AdultsHistoryLifeNature...
Methuselah’s environment lacks nutrients, water, and oxygen. In other words, it’s the perfect place to grow very very old.

How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky

AdultsEducationHumanScience...
There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures.

How Can We Store Renewable Energy?

AdultsConstructionScienceTechnology...
Decarbonizing our power production is vitally important if we want to curtail climate change, but there are some major logistical issues we’re going to have to overcome before we can do that.

Primitive Technology: Cane Water Filter/Siphon

AdultsConstructionEducationNature...
I made a water filter from cane that siphons clean water from a dirty water while simultaneously using the xylem present in the the cane as a filter.

Why Do Heart Attacks Cause *Arm* Pain?

AdultsHealthHumanScience
When the brain receives pain from an internal organ, it often projects the pain in the wrong place because of the way sensory nerve paths converge.

How to deal with rejection

AdultsHumanPsychologyScience...
Dig into the psychology of why rejection causes us pain, and explore strategies to cope with this common experience.

The Stickiest Non-Sticky Material

AdultsAnimalsNatureScience...
Adhesives based on gecko skin can hold huge weights – without sticking to anything.

The Science Behind James Cameron’s Avatar

AdultsCreativityMediaTechnology...
James Cameron is diving into the deep: this time, into the oceans of an alien world. The director shares how Earth's oceans inspired The Way of Water—and his hope it will motivate viewers to protect our own planet.

How To Terraform Mars - WITH LASERS

AdultsDesignScienceSpace...
Mars is a disappointing hellhole lacking practically everything we need to stay alive. It looks like we’ll only ever have small crews spend a miserable time hidden underground.

When Was The Worst Time In History To Die?

AdultsHealthHistoryHuman...
By combining historical demography and epidemiology, we can (sort of) determine how people throughout history have died.

Explore the three main ways viruses can be driven to extinction, and dig into the possibility of COVID-19 dying out.

AdultsHealthHistoryHuman...
Viruses are wildly successful organisms. There are about 100 million times as many virus particles on Earth as there are stars in the observable universe.

I tested the US Military’s secret space weapon

AdultsConstructionHistoryScience...
An engineer came up with a plan to drop tungsten telephone poles from space - the idea has been seriously considered on multiple occasions, so we tested it.

Anthropology’s Greatest Hoax

AdultsHistoryHumanScience...
Scientists are sometimes deemed objective observers of the world in which we live, but that’s not entirely true. They’re still human and can find themselves victim to fraudsters just like the lot of us.

Why Do We Release So Much Gas?

AdultsHistoryHumanScience...
The carbon dioxide we’re pumping into the air every day is causing unprecedented global warming and climate change.

Black Hole Star – The Star That Shouldn't Exist

AdultsEducationScienceSpace
Black hole stars may have been the largest stars to ever exist. They burned brighter than galaxies and were Larger than any star today or that could ever exist in the future.