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From SciShow. Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code SCISHOW at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/scishow Nicotine is so addictive that most people who try to quit are not successful at first. So to up your chances of success, here’s the data behind which methods are most…
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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. Space travel is infamous for the effects it can have on the human body. But some of those effects are a little more unusual than others. For example, if you ever had mono or chicken pox,…
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. You’ve heard of fake purses, and fake food, and fake concert tickets. But fake fossils? Turns out forging evidence of life in the ancient past isn’t as uncommon as you might think.…
From SciShow. On their opening weekend in March 2025, the New York Yankees hit 15 home runs. And the so-called torpedo bats they used to do it have real science behind them, thanks to MIT physicist Aaron Leanhardt. But how good are they really? In this video, we’ll explain the physics behind the bat that…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. The Inca Empire used bundles of knotted string called khipu to store and convey information. But how do you read a bunch of strings? And was this a unique form of writing… or knot? Hosted by:…
From SciShow. See if the ACT could be the right test for you at https://www.act.org/SciShow Ever wondered who would win in a fight between a python and an alligator? What about a wolf versus a puma? SciShow has the answers. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow…
From SciShow. Head to https://complexly.store/collections/sale to check out all the deals! It’s been said that your body contains billions of atoms from every famous person who ever lived. But is that true? And how do we know? Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Today, a lot of us walk about in leather, cotton, or other boring fabrics. But researchers are working to make the future way cooler, with flame retardant seaweed fabrics, self-healing sea silk, and polar bear inspired…
From SciShow. This month’s Rocks Box is the perfect combo of beauty and brains. Sodalite is a gorgeous blue mineral that has a superpower – its tiny pores can trap all kinds of molecules, making it the perfect sieve for everything from industrial practices to cleaning up pollution. And this month’s Rocks Box subscribers get…
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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 In order to study the smallest particles in the known universe, physicists have to build incredibly huge detectors. One of them, currently under construction, stretches across the Mediterranean from France to Greece. And despite being under…
From SciShow. To read “The Inner Clock” and other SciShow recommended reading, go to https://bookshop.org/lists/scishow-recommended-reading. Have you ever wondered where giant beasties of folklore, like the chupacabra, came from? Not every mythological creature has a scientific explanation, but here are a few that might. Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on…
From SciShow. Great white sharks have nothing on these terrifying jaws. Some marine animals have adaptations that turn their jaws into harpoons, fishing nets, claw machines, and more. 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 list…
From SciShow. Try Rocket Money for free: https://rocketmoney.yt.link/o9h5UGq. In March 2025, astronomers announced the "largest cosmic structure discovered to date". They called it Quipu. And Quipu is just the latest entry in a list of structures that are too big for cosmologists to explain without revisiting one of the most fundamental assumptions they have about…
From SciShow. See if the ACT could be the right test for you at https://www.act.org/content/act/en/students-and-parents/sf-science.html In your travels on the Internet, you might’ve seen some strange names and even stranger claims about supplements. From ashwagandha to valerian root, l-lysine to vitamin D, here’s just a few of the most hyped supplements and whether or not…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. The Voynich manuscript is a subject of fascination with its mysterious drawings of plants, people, and stars, as well as its indecipherable text. But rather than hiding ancient secrets, this book might be a medieval fraud,…
From SciShow. Something about digging a hole makes it one of the most satisfying and universal human experiences. We all did it as a kid, but some of us never stopped digging! Let’s explore some of the ways scientists and engineers have used digging to learn about our planet, ancient civilizations, or just to get…
From SciShow. We’ve been using lab rats for over a hundred years, and they’ve been part of some of the biggest medical breakthroughs ever. But what comes next? From organs on a chip to computer simulations, here are some of the ways that science might use to say bon voyage to the humble lab rat.…
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From SciShow. See if the ACT could be the right test for you at https://www.act.org/content/act/en/students-and-parents/sf-learning-styles.html It’s really rare to find fossils, which means that when they’re lost again after someone dug them up, it really hurts. These are a few of the most famous fossils that went missing after someone found them, and what researchers…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. From fake Etruscan clay statues to reburied Japanese Stone Age tools; from a prank that spiraled out of control to a simple case of black market greed, here are the stories of four artifact forgeries. Hosted…
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. Today, the Great Salt Lake of Utah has multiples of the ocean’s salt concentration. But it didn’t used to be so salty. In fact, it used to be Lake Bonneville. And we…