From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. In this world, there are so many unanswerable questions. What’s the meaning of life? Where did my car keys go? Could I make out with a T. rex? And fortunately, science can help with that last…

From SciShow. In December 2024, 38 scientists teamed up to issue a warning about a potential upcoming global catastrophe. The cause? Mirror bacteria. No, these aren’t bacteria with tiny goatees from an evil Star Trek universe, but if scientists ever do manage to make them, we might find ourselves living in a disaster movie. Hosted…

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From SciShow. Go to http://complexlylearnathon.com to check out the Learnathon schedule and support our cool stuff! They may not be our favorite thing to think about, but viruses have shaped our lives for thousands of years. In this SciShow compilation, we explore the most surprising things about them—including the debate over whether they’re even alive.…

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From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. You’ve probably heard of scurvy and think of it as that weird sickness pirates get. But the thing is, for most of human history, we’ve had a cure for scurvy and known all about it. We…

From SciShow. As a human, there are a lot of critical skills you have to develop to go from a completely dependent potato (better known as a baby) to a fully functional, self-aware person. But when did you acquire them? When did you learn to lie, or internalize the concept of possibility? Science has a…

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From SciShow. Go to http://complexlylearnathon.com to check out the Learnathon schedule and support our cool stuff! There are a lot of places, conditions, and situations that just don’t seem all that survivable for most people. But for certain populations of humans, conditions that would be fatal for most of us are no sweat. Here are…

From SciShow. Go to http://complexlylearnathon.com to check out the Learnathon schedule and support our cool stuff! Most science experiments take a few months or years, but some take a whole lot longer. Here are six of the longest-running experiments of all time, including one expected to last 500 years. Hosted by: Madelyn Leembruggen (she/her) ———-…

From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. It looked like a boring metal ball. Shiny, silvery, and roughly the size of a grapefruit. But in two separate lab accidents, it took the lives of Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin without either of them…

From SciShow. Semaglutide, the drug famously sold under brand names like Ozempic and Wegovy, has boomed in popularity in just a handful of years. It’s not limited to doing just one thing inside your body… making it a double-edged sword with both benefits /and/ risks. We’re starting to learn what all those things are, and…

From SciShow. Go to http://complexlylearnathon.com to check out the Learnathon schedule and support our cool stuff! If you’ve heard of the Kardashev Scale, you might be a fan of Sci-Fi. Or maybe you’re just interested in when Earth will achieve that elusive Type 1 status. But since its inception, people who aren’t Kardashev have had…

From SciShow. According to legend, Helen of Troy was so beautiful that her face launched a thousand ships, leading to the Trojan War more than 3000 years ago. But other stories suggest that it might not have been her face, but her /jewelry/ that was the key to her desirability. This month’s SciShow Rocks Box…

From SciShow. Adventure called, and valiant members of Team SciShow and Friends have answered! Tune in for a special TTRPG event featuring some of the crew behind your favorite SciShow (and Crash Course!) videos as we explore, puzzle, and fight our way through a custom one-shot. Who knows what curiosities we may encounter…? Learn more…

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From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. There are a lot of scary science stories that go around the Internet. It’s easy for a single paper to get spun up into a media frenzy, and harder for the level-headed truth to prevail. From…

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From SciShow. Mark your calendars and go to http://complexlylearnathon.com to check out the schedule of events! We’ve been transplanting human hearts and lungs for decades, but only JUST transplanted the first human bladder in 2025! Here’s what took so long. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow…