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Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Anteaters?

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If you spend enough time on the internet, you'll hear about carcinization. Nature keeps evolving things into crabs. Well hold onto your pincers, people, because there's another kind of animal that evolution's created even more versions of: anteaters.
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Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets?

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Some people just seem to be mosquito magnets; in one scientific study, 20 percent of the people ended up with 95 percent of the mosquito bites!
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This hidden wisdom will change how you treat your body forever

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Physician Giulia Enders spent years studying the gut before realizing no organ works alone. Here, she walks through 5 body parts — the lung, the immune system, the skin, the muscles, and the brain — and what each one reveals about how we work, heal, and recover.
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If nuclear blasts, asteroids, or alien lasers killed off almost all humans on Earth, how many people would be needed to rebuild a genetically sustainable human population?
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How Are Memories Stored Inside Your Brain?

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Memory is one of the strangest abilities you possess. Your brain uses an incredibly complex biological system to preserve moments from your past that no longer exist, allowing you to revisit experiences from years ago.
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The Weird Reason Rabies Is So Deadly

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Rabies is the one of the deadliest diseases we know of; if you don’t get treatment soon after getting exposed, you’re almost certain to die. But rabies’ intent isn’t actually to kill – it's to control.
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The Uncomfortable Truth About Ozempic (Updated Version)

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Losing weight is hard, and obesity is one of the unhealthiest things that can happen to your body.
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Tattoo Removal Is Insane

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Getting a tattoo itself might be a dramatic event for your immune system, but things get even crazier when you try to remove them!
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Trees Are So Weird

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Trees are among the most extreme and successful forms of life on Earth. They build their bodies from thin air, move water with pressures that would crush a human, and grow using a fascinating system of living cables wrapped in layers of corpses.
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aging, according to science | Morgan Levine: Full Interview

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Dr. Morgan Levine explores the hidden clock inside our cells, unraveling how the biological age that reveals how fast our bodies are really aging is calculated.
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What causes herpes, and how can you treat it? - Christine Johnston

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Explore the viruses which can cause herpes, how the infection affects your body, and what makes it so hard to prevent and cure.
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Why Hives Turn Against Their Queens

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A honeybee hive might seem like a peaceful utopia, but in reality, it’s buzzing with internal conflict between warring factions. And the biggest conflict is between the queen and the worker bees.
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We Didn’t Evolve Color Vision to See Color

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From birds of paradise (the bird) to birds of paradise (the flower), nature is full of colorful life. And these colors can communicate a bunch of different messages.
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Do Mushrooms Benefit from Being Hallucinogenic?

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Nobody knows why some mushrooms are psychedelic. I mean, we know that they contain a compound called psilocybin, which messes with the brain chemistry of lots of animals, including humans.
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Pregnancy is Insane

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Pregnancy is not gentle. Babies begin as invaders, growing a brand-new organ inside another human.
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How your body could outlive the genome you were born with | Eric Kelsic

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“Until very recently, I thought I would die with the same genome that I was born with.”
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How to Use Your Muscles — or Risk Losing Them (W/ Bonnie Tsui) | How to Be a Better Human | TED

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Did you know that you start losing muscle mass as soon as the age of 30?
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Mirror Life - Biggest Threat You’ve Never Heard Of

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In December 2024, top scientists warned that ‘Mirror Life’, the hypothetical opposite of life itself with reversed chirality could pose a new existential threat that could eventually end in the extinction of all life on Earth.
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How Much Information Can A Human Head Hold?

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SciShow explores the human brain's information storage capacity, comparing it to various technologies.
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What are truffles, and why are they so expensive? - Carolyn Beans

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Dig into the truffle’s unique and mysterious biology to find out what makes them so rare and the limitations of farming them.
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The Drug To Master Reality

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From study sessions to dance floors, amphetamines can feel like a shortcut to superhuman focus and energy. Why do they work so well? What happens to your body once you take them? And what toll does it take on your health?