You’ve Been Lied to About DNA Evidence

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Chimps Love “People Watching” Too

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. Admit it: we all love reality TV. But the phenomenon of social curiosity, or people-watching, may have evolved long before humans did, and that tells us a lot about our social…

Tales from an Italian crypt

From Science Magazine. Thousands buried in a 17th century Italian crypt reveal the lives of the working poor. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3PycotF CREDITS: (VIDEO PRODUCTION) M. CANTWELL/SCIENCE; (ILLUSTRATIONS) N. BURGESS/SCIENCE; (IMAGES) ARCHEOSFERA; IRCCS FOUNDATION CA’ GRANDA HOSPITAL MAGGIORE POLYCLINICLABANOF; L. BIEHLER-GOMEZ ET AL/ARCHAEOMETRY, 64:2 (2022) #Archaeology #Science #ScienceShorts

The Secret Spy Tech Inside Every Credit Card

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What Red and Black Tattoos Do to Your Immune System

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. Tattoos produce an immune response when you get them. But it turns out they keep affecting your immune system after that — and it might affect how effective your shots for…

A Scientist’s Guide to Wrinkle-Free Clothes

From SciShow. Support SciShow with a postcard or x-ray crystallography spinner! http://complexly.org/supportscishow SciShow posts a new video 4 times a week, and our science-backed videos were viewed 116 million times / 12.5 million hours last year. But SciShow has always needed your help to keep going, and that’s true now more than ever! We’re selling…

Ocean simulation game reveals how seals navigate underwater

From Science Magazine. This seal may look like it’s watching the latest sci-fi epic, but it’s actually playing a high-tech simulation—one that’s shining new light on how the marine mammals navigate their murky underwater world. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4rZWJAY FOOTAGE CREDIT: SANDOW ET AL./JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY #Seals #Science #ScienceShorts

Can you see these FORBIDDEN colors?!

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New weapons against a sexual scourge

From Science Magazine. Two new treatments for gonorrhea showed their mettle in large clinical trials in 2025, and both have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. CREDITS: (IMAGES) NIAID; RICHARD J. GREEN/SCIENCE SOURCE; SCIENCE; PHOTO LIBRARY/SCIENCE SOURCE; (VIDEO PRODUCTION) M. CANTWELL/SCIENCE #Health #Science #ScienceShorts *This video has been re-uploaded to correct a…

The 3 Strongest Lasers in the World (For Now)

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How Pressure Can Come From *Nothing*

From Veritasium. If you went to the emptiest part of the universe and took 2 uncharged objects with you, something really strange happens… They snap together almost by magic! This is called the Casimir Effect and the explanation is still an ongoing debate in physics!

Do Reishi Mushrooms Really Treat Cancer?

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.  For generations, Reishi mushrooms have been used to treat a variety of ailments. But a new line of research is testing their viability in the fight against cancer. Hosted by: Hank Green…

Watch a tower of worms wriggle like a single organism

From Science Magazine. A tower made of worms might seem like something out of a horror movie, but it’s the real deal. Last year, scientists for the first time filmed microscopic worms called nematodes in the wild as they glommed together and formed large wriggling masses, they reported in Current Biology. FOOTAGE CREDIT: PEREZ ET…

Powerful Connections Are Everywhere | Science Channel

From Science Channel. Explore thoughts and theories about black holes, twin suns, and extreme orbits that shed light on the powerful connections that keep the universe in a cosmic dance in this compilation from across the Science Channel’s entire catalog. Subscribe to Science Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@sciencechannel About Science Channel: Learn about outer space, leading scientific exploration,…

Memory doesn’t work the way you think

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Mussels hold tight, but let go with ease

From Science Magazine. Mussels have strong filaments called byssal threads to help them stick to rocky surfaces with surprising strength, to withstand the crashing waves. When needed, the bivalves can also release these threads with seemingly little effort. Deeper investigation and imaging revealed that friction between cilia in the living tissue and the nonliving byssal…

Why are these 3 letters on almost all of my zippers?

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Why Is This Persian Silver Hoard Buried in Yorkshire?

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How to build your dragon (training sold separately)

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Trash Batteries & 4 Other Weird Ways to Store Energy

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. From water, to very hot salt, to water (this time, solid), to microbe-filled soil, let’s unpack five ways to store energy that aren’t your typical, sometimes lickable, electrochemical battery. Hosted by:…

The Disappearing Star and The Oldest Story Ever Told

From SciShow. Head to https://www.squarespace.com/scishow to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using SCISHOW ! People all around the world, from North America to Australia, tell the story of a star in the Pleiades disappearing. There’s some evidence to believe this could be a memory of a real astronomical event.…

Triumph of calculation helps resolve particle mystery

From Science Magazine. For decades, particle physicists have longed for something—anything—their prevailing theory, the standard model, cannot explain. Last June, perhaps the most tantalizing sign of a new mystery vanished when a long-running experiment reported that, contrary to its earlier claims, a particle called the muon was not more magnetic than the standard model predicts.…

How to Live in the Harshest Place on Earth

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