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Your Body Killed Cancer 5 Minutes Ago

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Somewhere in your body, your immune system just quietly killed one of your own cells, stopping it from becoming cancer, and saving your life. It does that all the time.

Ancient Humans Made Millions Of These - We Don’t Know Why

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The Acheulean handaxe was the most common tool of early humans, but we still don’t know what the heck they used it for.

1816: The year with no summer - David Biello

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Dig into geoengineering, which uses technology to manipulate Earth’s environments to counteract climate change.

Why Lightbulbs Might Be The Best Invention Ever

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Lightbulbs might be the best idea ever – just not for light.

Corn Shouldn't Be Food, But It Is

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You probably have a bag of frozen corn in your freezer, or have chowed down on a buttery ear of corn at a cookout.

The HUGE Problem with ChatGPT

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Free-to-use, exceptionally powerful artificial intelligences are available to more people than ever, seemingly making some kind of news every day.

The “afterlife” according to Einstein’s special relativity

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Sabine Hossenfelder discusses the physics of… dead grandmothers?

How to Make Money on YouTube with 20M Subs

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In 2023, Kurzgesagt has existed for 10 years (which is insanely long in internet years).

How Caffeine Accidentally Took Over The World

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Plants don't make caffeine just for us, so what DO they make it for?

Explaining concrete while getting buried in it

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Concrete = cement + sand + gravel. Cement is the most important man-made material on Earth.

You’re Not a Lab Mouse, but You Might Be a Wild Mouse

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The lab mice we use for genetic studies are not only closely related, but live out their whole lives in a sterile environment, so they don’t tell us everything we need to know about actual humans.

Why We Haven’t Learned More In 101 Years Of Trying

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Almost everything we know about the reproductive practices of European eels comes from a genius study conducted more than 100 years ago.

The man who lost his sense of touch

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Explore the science behind how your body and brain process different sensations like touch, pain, temperature, and spatial awareness.

How Quantum Computers Break The Internet

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A quantum computer in the next decade could crack the encryption our society relies on using Shor's Algorithm.

How Wildfires Spawn Deadly Firenadoes

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Climate change is causing wildfire season to get worse every year. And our models of wildfires can't keep up with the things fires can do... like spawn devastating fire tornadoes.

Porcelain in the Wreckage | Drain the Oceans

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Vanessa Litzenberg discusses the porcelain from the wreck. Drain the Oceans dives deep into the unknown; a truly epic, original series that takes underwater adventure and earth science illustration into a whole new era.

Primitive Technology: Iron Bacteria Cement

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I developed a cement made from iron bacteria, then made pots from it to test its ability to set and not dissolve in water.

You Can’t Actually Die Of Old Age

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Despite centuries of death records to the contrary, “dying of old age” is not medically possible; instead, it’s just a convenient catch-all.

World's Strongest Magnet!

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The world's strongest magnet is a million times stronger than Earth's magnetic field. Learn more about sustainability and Google’s efforts at sustainability.google. Part of this video was sponsored by Google.

How Smart Are Crows Actually?

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Have you seen that adorable clip of a raven sledding down a snowy roof? We have, so we took a deep dive into how crows and other corvids exhibit tool use, intelligence, and maybe even consciousness.

The Biology Behind The Last of Us | WIRED

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The infection from HBO's The Last of Us is actually based on a real parasitic fungus. This fungus turns insects into zombies. The creators of the game and the show were inspired by zombie carpenter ants.