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Why Your Brain Blinds You For 2 Hours Every Day

Adults Biology Health Neuroscience

Reality is not real. Your world is a prediction. Every sight, sound, and touch you experience is the result of calculations your brain makes before reality even reaches you.

Pollen Is Not Plant Sperm

Adults Biology Nature

Plant pollen is everywhere in springtime, but because it is so small, you probably don't know that what is making you sneeze is a living, breathing, mobile version of the plant that forms half of the it's entire bizarre life cycle.

The Real Reason Why You Have Allergies

Adults Biology Health Human

Allergies are more than just overreactions – they might be an evolutionary relic from a time when worms invaded our bodies daily.

The Radium Worked Until His Jaw Fell Off

Adults Biology History Science

We'd like to thank Luciteria for the loan of the element samples and the display in today’s episode.

Are you an ear rumbler?

Adults Biology Health Human

Your body is a lot louder than you might think.

What Happens When Predators Disappear?

Adults Biology Ecology Science

A world without predators. It sounds like a safer, happier world, but come on, this is SCIENCE…

The real reason polio is so dangerous

Adults Health History Human...

Explore what makes polio so dangerous, what is causing the 21st century resurgence of cases, and how we can eradicate the disease.

Why Do Butterflies Bother Being Caterpillars?

Adults Animals Life Nature...

It seems wild that some animals basically trade in their bodies for new ones during their lifetime, but it's actually really common – and it makes a lot of sense.

We Only Discovered This 10 Years Ago

Adults Education History Biology...

Most living things on Earth need oxygen to survive, but scientists discovered a species of bacteria that uses oxygen totally differently from every other organism on Earth.

You've Never Heard of the World's Most Common Mineral

Adults Education Science Work...

The most common substance in the world is literally IN the world. It's a mineral called bridgmanite, and it belongs to a class of minerals (called perovskites) that scientists are trying to use in the next generation of solar panels.

Are there any places on Earth with no bugs? - Charles Wallace

Adults Life Nature World...

Travel to some of the most extreme environments on Earth and see how insects are able to employ their skills to survive.

What Happens When Predators Disappear?

Adults Animals Life Science...

A world without predators. It sounds like a safer, happier world, but come on, this is SCIENCE…

There Is Something Hiding Inside Earth

Adults Education Science Biology...

We’ve found a new planet, home to octillions of the most extreme beings living in the most absurd and deadly hellscape. In absolute darkness, crushed by the weight of mountains, starved of oxygen, cooked alive, bathed in acid, salt or radiation.

Groundbreaking chemist defines all of life in 2 words | Lee Cronin

Adults Life Philosophy Science...

What is life, really? Despite our scientific advancements, we still don’t really know.

The Species That Broke Evolution?

Adults Health History Science...

The ancestors of gars, horseshoe crabs and coelacanths looked almost the same as their modern relatives. Darwin called species like these “living fossils'' because they seem like they are evolutionarily frozen in time. But Darwin was wrong.

5 Ways CRISPR Is About to Change Everything

Adults Biology Biotechnology Human...

CRISPR-based gene therapies are already changing healthcare for things like sickle cell disease. But CRISPR is bigger than just medicine, and it could revolutionize everything from food and agriculture to green energy fuels to plastics.

Why is it so dangerous to step on a rusty nail? - Louise Thwaites

Adults Biology Health Human...

Explore how a toxin-producing bacterium causes tetanus, and how to identify its common symptoms and best prevention practices.

Why There Are No King Bees

Adults Animals Life Nature...

Beehives always have a queen, who is the mother of the entire hive. But have you ever wondered, what happened to the king, if there was ever any? Can a male bee become a king?

ALL Plants Have Color Vision?!

Adults Animals Life Nature...

Plants can tell when competitors are nearby because they can see them.

This Disease is Deadlier Than The Plague

Adults Biology History Human...

The white death has haunted humanity like no other disease following us for thousands, maybe millions of years.

This Animal Lays Eggs AND Has Live Young

Adults Animals Life Nature...

You might think that an animal either lays eggs or has live young. But these species prove it's a lot more complicated than that.