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From SciShow. You might not be a firefly (or any other creature known for its bioluminescence), but you too do glow. Some of that glow is simply because you’re warm. But at visible wavelengths, most of that glow comes from being alive. It’s just really, *really* hard to detect. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———-…
From SciShow. Use code scishow at https://incogni.com/scishow to get an exclusive 60% off. You might take it for granted, but the human ability to walk on two legs is pretty special. It’s been argued that basically everything we can do today stems back to the time our ancestors decided to start walking upright, so researchers…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Peggy Guggenheim purchased a painting she believed to be by the famous artist Fernand Leger. Almost immediately, there were questions about its authenticity. But it took 40 years and an unlikely group of art detectives to…
From SciShow. Alchemy might seem to us like the dark, shameful side of chemistry. Yet alchemists, through the pursuit of turning lead into gold via transmutation, were sincerely trying to understand how the world works. And no one shows it better than the great Sir Isaac Newton himself. In this SciShow Deep Dive, learn how…
From SciShow. We know you can’t stop watching true crime shows right before you go to sleep. So here’s the SciShow edition. Don’t worry, there’s plenty of murder investigation. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email…
From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. If you’re dreading losing your spark as you age, the science suggests you don’t have to worry. Staying curious is associated with less cognitive decline. It just might look different from your…
From SciShow. You might think that antidepressants are only for your brain. But there’s research to suggest that antidepressants may be able to help with stuff like cancer. Yes, for real – here’s how. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly:…
From SciShow. Does it seem like your workweeks are full of bright sunny days and then every weekend, every time you make plans, it rains? It’s not just you — at least if you live in the Northeastern US, it really does rain every weekend. The reason is the jet stream — here’s how it…
From SciShow. In the middle of the South Pacific lies Point Nemo: the most remote location on Earth. This super isolated spot is home to a graveyard filled not with human remains, but hundreds of broken up spacecraft and satellites. And after more than five decades of dumping our space junk there, some scientists have…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. How much information can a human brain store? If we treat them like computers, one estimate is that they can hold 55 million ebooks worth of information. But why restrict ourselves to biology? If you had…
From SciShow. Soviet agronomist Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was obsessed with plants. Especially finding out where domesticated crops first came from. And out of his research came a proposal that certain crops, like rye and oats, were evolutionary accidents. Stalin didn’t particularly like that idea. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on…
From SciShow. There’s one human innovation that’s so critical to our lives that every modern human group seems to have it. And you probably have some in your craft drawer – it’s glue! Turns out there’s a long history of glue-making that cements it as a foundational invention for all kinds of human innovations, from…
From SciShow. When particle physicist John Huth was briefly lost at sea, he started to wonder how the people around the world who navigate vast oceans figured their way around. What started as an afternoon activity gone awry led him to a years-long research journey, meeting many Pacific Islanders, expert navigators, and other researchers, hoping…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Even though cleft lips and palates are really common, there’s still a lot of research that needs to be done into why they form. But scientists have found a whole new line of evidence that might…
From SciShow. Most cultures who developed metalworking technology never let the skill go to waste. But in what’s now Michigan, Native Americans started making metal tools well before anyone else did, and then stopped. And the reason why this happened is hiding in the very metal that they were working: Copper. Thanks to Alexis Dahl…
From SciShow. To explain how the world works, scientists occasionally have an idea that — upon further testing — turns out to be wrong. From rays that carry coldness instead of heat, to a neighboring star that causes regular mass extinctions on Earth, here are 5 things that some natural philosophers and scientists thought could…
From SciShow. Space travel is infamously bad for your health. But it turns out that in some very specific cases, space travel may actually be beneficial. Like by strengthening your bones, or repairing your DNA. Hosted by:@NotesByNiba (she/her) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support…
From SciShow. Mushroom foragers rejoice! Your lives just got a whole lot easier! Now, we can farm four mushrooms that used to only be found in the wild: morels, huitlacoche, chanterelles, and truffles. Here’s why it took so long. Hosted by: Madelyn Leembruggen (she/her) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going!…
From SciShow. Endometriosis is a disease that affects about one in ten women, and comes from tissue inside the uterus making its way out. But it turns out that’s not the only way to get it, because there are people without uteruses who have it too. Here’s what science has to say about the paradoxical…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. If you’ve been around the internet long enough, you’ve probably heard of the “conspiracy” that birds aren’t real (It’s not a real conspiracy theory; it was started as a joke). Well for decades, scientists have been…
From SciShow. See if the ACT could be the right test for you at https://act.org/actenhancements When humans are gone, nature will reclaim our cities and break down much of what we’ve built. But some of the things we’ve made will last much longer than others, and they’re probably not the things you’d expect. Hosted by:…
From SciShow. Whether you saw a quantum computer featured in a tech news blog post, or that Black Mirror episode "Joan is Awful", the chandelier-like look may have inspired the thought "Why does it look like that?" Well, it’s not for the sci-fi aesthetic. It’s to make sure it can actually compute stuff! Hosted by:…