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Tiny Extremophiles Living in Rocks!
In freezing cold sand, a burning hot mine, or even inside solid rock – these extremophiles live anywhere that you wouldn’t want to live. What are they? How can they live in such extreme places?In freezing cold sand, a burning hot mine, or even inside solid rock – these extremophiles live anywhere that you wouldn’t want to live. What are they? How can they live in such extreme places?
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8 Creepy Animals That Are Actually Harmless
Claws, teeth, stingers... there are a lot of things that can make an animal look downright scary and dangerous. Sometimes, though, looks can be deceiving! Face your fears and learn about eight animals that use their tough looks to hide the fact that they're basically harmless.
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The Rise and Fall of Islam's Golden Age
While Muslim countries are now criticized over education and expression, the Golden Age of Islam wasn't. So what was this prosperous period?
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How to build a grass hut
With nothing but your hands (and nature)
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The Peter Principle: the scientific reason everything is a bit s**t
We live in times of seemingly unending progress - and yet somehow things still always go wrong: trains are late, broadband speeds suck and the promotion always goes to the wrong person. Well, it turns out there's an explanation for all this - and progress itself is the problem. Meet The Peter Principle.
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Why Are You Multicellular?
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This Pulsating Slime Mold Comes in Peace (ft. It's Okay to Be Smart) | Deep Look
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9 Animals That Will Outlive Us
Lack of food, no sunlight and nuclear disaster might mean the end of the world for humans, but these 9 animals just might make it.
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The most scent-ual of our five senses :D
What is that smell? It smells like an old factory. Oh wait, nope, it’s just your olfactory system. We can’t neglect one of our more scent-sitive senses. Our sense of smell not only gives us the ability to distinguish different odors, it also aids our memory and keeps us healthy. Alie Astrocyte sniffs out the neuroscience of the olfactory system and its pathway to the brain. Get your nose in this business!
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Awesome Animal Dads
Let's talk about some of the awesome single dads out there in the animal kingdom!
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Meet the Dust Mites, Tiny Roommates that Feast on Your Skin
You may think that you've got the house to yourself, but chances are you have about 100 different types of animals living with you. Many of them are harmless, but a few can be dangerous in ways you wouldn't expect. New research explores exactly whom you share your home with and how they got there.
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Why every picture of a black hole is an illustration
Scientists are pretty sure black holes are real. Soon they'll know for sure.
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What are Scars?
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How Do Bees Make Honey?
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360° Red Kite Bird Feeding Frenzy
You are being surrounded by 250, of the once endangered, red kite birds in full 360°.
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360° Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
David Attenborough meets the biggest animal ever to walk the Earth, in 360 - a Titanosaur.
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How do Mosquitoes Hunt You?
Ever wondered what's going on when you feel that stinging bite of a mosquito?
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The Discovery of Fire
Its discovery was the most important moment in our species' history. Together, we would spread to every corner of the planet. Fire carried mankind through every desert, ice age, and mountain range, and man spread fire throughout the world to places it had never seen. Fire was the gateway drug that spurred a technological revolution. From stone tools to satellites - fire started it all.
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Dangerously Close: Explosion in West, Texas
The US Chemical Safety Board, using video footage and CGI, has created an in-depth video about the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion, how it occurred, and the safety issues that the tragedy brought to light.
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A Cathedral of Ice
A scientist dives beneath the surface of the frigid Antarctic ice sheet and finds a landscape full of colors, light, and
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