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From SciShow. Get 20% off DeleteMe by going to https://joindeleteme.com/SCISHOW and use code SCISHOW to protect your privacy! If you’re a content creator on YouTube, thumbnails are super important because they help entice people to click on a video. But the fact that you also have thumbnails *on your thumbs* is also mighty helpful, whether…
From SciShow. Height is one of the first things we notice about someone, and it affects us all the time, whether you struggle to find pants that are long enough or can’t reach the top shelf. And the biology of how we reach our final adulthood heights is pretty complicated, from genes to environment and…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. There’s a saying that, when Rome falls, the whole world will fall. Which frankly seems a little melodramatic and egotistical on the part of the Romans. Except that they kinda had…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. There’s a saying that, when Rome falls, the whole world will fall. Which frankly seems a little melodramatic and egotistical on the part of the Romans. Except that they kinda had…
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. One of the classic things that people say makes humans special is, well, the language we use to say we’re special. But new research suggests that some of our evolutionary cousins might…
From SciShow. A lot more depends on fossil fuels than you might expect. Like your medicine cabinet. No, not the plastic pill bottles… the pills /themselves/ might be derived from crude oil. It might be possible to change that and use plastic instead, but we’ll need some unexpected help. Hosted by: Jaida Elcock (she/her) ———-…
From SciShow. Send a Cake is a great way to show your loved ones just how much they mean to you! Get 10% off your order by clicking the link and using the code SCISHOW: https://sendacake.com/scishowbirthdays3 Whether you’re out in the wilderness or just walking down the street, you might find yourself in a situation…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/SciShow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Listening to Muzak while on hold to make an appointment you don’t even want to go to can be infuriating. Especially because the sound quality of music transmitted over the phone…
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. In the spirit of Hot Ones, we rounded up the research on which beverages are best at putting out the fire in your mouth when you’ve had something spicy. Hosted by: Savannah…
From SciShow. Subscribe to the SciShow Rocks Box to receive your own Shungite here! https://complexly.store/collections/frontpage Not all minerals are beauty queens. But often, the ones that aren’t as interesting visually have a lot more to them than meets the eye. This month’s SciShow Rocks Box star is a mineral called Shungite that may not look…
From SciShow. The Pernkopf Atlas contains some of the most detailed illustrations of the human body ever created. That’s why many surgeons and anatomists still consult it today. But the book has a dark past. Its author and illustrators were Nazis, and many of the people depicted in it were political prisoners and petty criminals…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. In 2016, a baby boy was born in Mexico who was special. He had three genetic parents. In the nearly ten years since, he’s been joined by dozens of other babies…
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. We all make the resolution to start exercising at the New Year only to quit mere weeks later. But research suggests that the time we spent trying to live healthier really was…
From SciShow. Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel. Get up to 55% OFF Here: https://bit.ly/SciShowJan26 Astronomers might not know what dark matter is made of, and they might not be able to see it, but they know that it exists. So over the decades, they’ve proposed a lot of experiments that…
From SciShow. Instead of studying neurons like most neuroscientists, Beth Stevens studies a kind of brain cell that generations of her colleagues ignored: glia. While these cells were once thought to be little more than the glue that held the brain together, Stevens is learning that they may be the key to understanding multiple neurological…
From SciShow. SciShow and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios Field Trips have come together to bring you face to face with researchers at the cutting edge of scientific discovery in this all new series: SciShow Field Trips! Our first two episodes are live now! ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow…
From SciShow. When she was pregnant a few years ago, Hannah Yevick was reading about the placenta and learned it contained a cell whose surface spanned a whopping 13 square meters—larger than a King-sized bed sheet. The Brandeis University biophysicist was immediately fascinated, and her research on this giant cell is now revealing a lot…
From SciShow. When Feng Zhang was in his early 30s, he used a set of genes found in bacteria called CRISPR to pioneer a new kind of gene editing tool in human cells. Today, the MIT biochemist is studying a different set of microbial genes called TIGR. And they may be the key to developing…
From SciShow. SciShow and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios Field Trips have come together to bring you face to face with researchers at the cutting edge of scientific discovery in this all new series: SciShow Field Trips! ———- 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…
From SciShow. When it comes to exploring the unexpected in science, some stories are too big to cover in the studio. So we’ve come together with our friends at HHMI’s Tangled Bank Studios to bring you SciShow: Field Trips. Each episode, we’ll bring you face to face with researchers at the cutting edge of scientific…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. In Jervis Bay, off the coast of southwest Australia, octopuses have built two separate cities, which scientists nicknamed Octopolis and Octlantis…Or at least that’s what a variety of news outlets would…
From SciShow. Spontaneous remission happens more often than you might think. But that’s still super rare. So understanding how cancer goes away on its own is mainly exciting in the development of new therapies. 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. Send a Cake is a great way to show your loved ones just how much they mean to you! Get 10% off your order by clicking the link and using the code SCISHOW: https://sendacake.com/scishowbirthdays2 You’ve heard of the Salem Witch Trials, a series of accusations and executions based on the idea that witches…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. When was the last time your struggled to solve a maze (or, say, find the shortest route between two stops on a roadtrip)? If only you had a bit of slime…
From SciShow. Send a Cake is a great way to show your loved ones just how much they mean to you! Get 10% off your order by clicking the link and using the code SCISHOW: https://sendacake.com/scishowbirthdays1 Look at a map of the Yucatan Peninsula and you’ll immediately notice it’s lacking a feature that’s pretty common…
From SciShow. We all love a good mineral water. All those tasty particles must be great, right? Well, let’s talk about the one kind of mineral water you shouldn’t drink, because it’s trapped inside crystals. Also it might contain bacteria. Head to https://Complexly.store/rocks to check out all the rocks we have to offer! Hosted by:…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Every year, we dig up the most amazing fossil discoveries and explore what they reveal about the ancient past. Here are the winners from 2025! Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on…
From SciShow. You’ve heard of tool-making crows and chimps. But there’s a whole world of insects, spiders, and bugs that manage to get crafty with the things in their environment. Even some spiders, who use the bodies of other insects as the tools. Here’s a few of the weirdest ways they do it. Hosted by:…
From SciShow. When you think of animals of Antarctica, there’s nothing more classic than a penguin. But new research suggests that these lovable waddling water birds didn’t get their start on the icy continent. Turns out, they’re from Australia? Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going!…