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How do astronomers photograph a black hole? How often do planes get hit by lightning? What does the EPA actually do? Science is all around us and transforming our world at a rapid pace. Extragalactic astrophysicist Sabrina Stierwalt is here to guide you through it. She'll help you make sense of the everyday and the once-in-a-lifetime. Rights of Albert Einstein are used with permission of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Represented exclusively by Greenlight.

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The Age Of Resilience

Published: Nov. 1, 2022, 4 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 13 seconds

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The History of Transplant Surgery

Published: June 10, 2022, 4 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 53 seconds

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Could we have domesticated a T-Rex?

Published: April 8, 2022, 4 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 17 seconds

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Life's Last Bow

Published: Nov. 9, 2021, 3:03 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 13 seconds

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Standing Up for Sex

Published: Nov. 2, 2021, 4:34 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 14 seconds

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Dinosaurs in Flight

Published: Oct. 26, 2021, 8:39 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 8 seconds

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The Great Permian Catastrophe

Published: Oct. 19, 2021, 1:16 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 54 seconds

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A Song of Fire and Ice

Published: Oct. 12, 2021, 6:38 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 40 seconds

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Bonus: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut

Published: May 11, 2021, 4 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 39 seconds

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397 - The Devastating Collapse of the Arecibo Telescope

Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 3 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 20 seconds

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305 - Does CBD Oil Work?

Published: Nov. 30, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 57 seconds

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396 - Wait a Minute! How Am I Still Getting Sick on Lockdown?

Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 3:27 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 4 seconds

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395 - How to Conceive a Boy or a Girl (According to Science)

Published: Nov. 17, 2020, 3:49 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 35 seconds

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394 - Can we ever go faster than the speed of light?

Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 4:13 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds

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394 - Can Anything Go Faster Than the Speed of Light?

Published: Nov. 9, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds

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393 - Is Melatonin Safe? Should You Stop Taking It?

Published: Nov. 3, 2020, 3:27 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 58 seconds

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392 - How We Know a Supermassive Black Hole Lurks in the Center of Our Galaxy

Published: Oct. 27, 2020, 3:28 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 42 seconds

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391 - Phobias and FearsCan You Literally Be Scared to Death?

Published: Oct. 20, 2020, 2:58 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 42 seconds

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390 - What Happens to Saltwater Fish in Fresh Water?

Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 2:35 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 53 seconds

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389 - What Are the Coldest and Hottest Temperatures Possible?

Published: Sept. 29, 2020, 3:05 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 53 seconds

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388 - Astronomers Found a Sign of Life on VenusWhat Does It Mean?

Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 3:09 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 51 seconds

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387 - How Do We Control Wildfires? The Surprising Facts

Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 5 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 43 seconds

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386 - What Is a Derecho? A Meteorologist Explains

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 4:36 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 28 seconds

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385 - Why Do We Need to Save the Bees?

Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 2:53 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds

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384 - Did Scientists Just Unravel One Mystery of Stonehenge?

Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 3:02 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 8 seconds

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383 - What Does Your Blood Type Mean? How Rare Is Yours?

Published: Aug. 4, 2020, 4:41 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 2 seconds

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382 - Emotional, Irritated, Faking ItWhy Do Humans Cry?

Published: July 21, 2020, 3:37 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 7 seconds

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381 - Wearing a Mask During CoronavirusSeparating Myths from Facts

Published: July 14, 2020, 3:22 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 54 seconds

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380 - Can Nukes Actually Stop a Devastating Hurricane?

Published: July 7, 2020, 4:41 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 13 seconds

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379 - Is It Aliens? A Science Writer On UFOs and Her Visit to Area 51

Published: June 30, 2020, 4:15 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 34 seconds

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243 - 8 Rules for Picking the Right Sunscreen According to Science

Published: June 23, 2020, 4:01 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 53 seconds

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378 - Without Plate Tectonics, Earth Might Not Support Life

Published: June 16, 2020, 4:39 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 5 seconds

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377 - Did a Virus Make Us Mammals?

Published: June 9, 2020, 3:10 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 19 seconds

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376 - Has NASA Found a Parallel Universe?

Published: June 2, 2020, 4:06 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 51 seconds

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375 - "Is Takeout Safe?" and Other Food Safety Questions

Published: May 26, 2020, 4:20 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 30 seconds

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374 - Subterranean RiversWater Flowing Underground

Published: May 12, 2020, 3:02 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 55 seconds

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373 - Why Is a NASA Spacecraft Currently Orbiting an Asteroid?

Published: May 5, 2020, 3:53 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 47 seconds

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372 - Can I visit just one other family while social distancing?

Published: April 28, 2020, 5:40 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 4 seconds

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372 - Can I Visit Just One Family During the Pandemic?

Published: April 27, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 4 seconds

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371 - What Is the Air Quality Like Near You?

Published: April 21, 2020, 4:26 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 46 seconds

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370 - What's the Difference Between Germs, Bacteria, and Viruses?

Published: April 14, 2020, 3:10 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 45 seconds

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369 - Is Pollution Clearing While We're Staying Home?

Published: April 7, 2020, 4:14 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 32 seconds

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368 - Coronavirus Myths and Facts with Epidemics Expert Dr. Jonathan Quick

Published: March 31, 2020, 3:27 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 13 seconds

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174 - How Are Seasonal Flu Vaccines Made?

Published: March 24, 2020, 4:38 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 27 seconds

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367 - How Can I Sanitize My Smartphone and My House?

Published: March 17, 2020, 6:39 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 32 seconds

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366 - What Is a Chimera? Could You Be One?

Published: March 10, 2020, 4:26 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 39 seconds

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365 - The Science of Composting

Published: March 3, 2020, 5:40 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 41 seconds

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364 - How Long Would It Take to Fall Through the Earth?

Published: Feb. 25, 2020, 5:06 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 54 seconds

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363 - Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse

Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 37 seconds

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362 - The Science of Soulmates

Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 3:42 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 29 seconds

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361 - What You Need to Know About the Coronavirus

Published: Feb. 3, 2020, 9 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 10 seconds

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360 - Stars Are Suns, Suns Are BrightSo, Why Is the Night Sky Dark?

Published: Jan. 27, 2020, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 31 seconds

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359 - Why Do Skunks Smell so Bad and What Can You Do About It?

Published: Jan. 20, 2020, 10:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 5 seconds

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273 - The Fascinating Physics of Figure Skating

Published: Jan. 13, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 42 seconds

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358 - Science Says It Takes This Long to Form a Habit

Published: Jan. 6, 2020, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 56 seconds

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206 - Why and How Do Smells Trigger Memories?

Published: Dec. 30, 2019, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 31 seconds

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357 - Fun Snowy Science Experiments

Published: Dec. 23, 2019, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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356 - Is Astrology Real? Here's What Science Says

Published: Dec. 16, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 29 seconds

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355 - Do You Have What It Takes to Be an Astronaut?

Published: Dec. 9, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds

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354 - Have Scientists Discovered a Fifth Force?

Published: Dec. 2, 2019, 11:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 22 seconds

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353 - Can You Still Get the Plague?

Published: Nov. 25, 2019, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 14 seconds

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352 - Can Science Explain Our Obsession With Pumpkin Spice?

Published: Nov. 18, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 54 seconds

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351 - What's in the Mariana Trench?

Published: Nov. 11, 2019, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 7 seconds

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350 - What's the Science Behind Why We Hiccup?

Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 59 seconds

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349 - 5 Real-Life Monsters to Fuel Your Nightmares

Published: Oct. 28, 2019, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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348 - How Can You Tell If You Have Perfect Pitch?

Published: Oct. 21, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 29 seconds

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347- Can Science Explain Deja Vu?

Published: Oct. 14, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 36 seconds

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346 - Is Vaping Dangerous? Here's What Science Says So Far

Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 12:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 18 seconds

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264 - Do Essential Oils Work?

Published: Sept. 30, 2019, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 12 seconds

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345 - Is it too late to stop climate change?

Published: Sept. 23, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 54 seconds

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344 - How Deep is the Deepest Hole in the World?

Published: Sept. 14, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds

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343 - Why do we laugh?

Published: Sept. 9, 2019, 8:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 12 seconds

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342 - Why Does Sugar Taste So Good?

Published: Sept. 2, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 57 seconds

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341 - The Amazon is on fire. What can we do?

Published: Aug. 26, 2019, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds

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340 - What Do Cashews, Mangos, and Poison Ivy Have in Common?

Published: Aug. 19, 2019, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 58 seconds

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339 - What is Chernobyl Like Today?

Published: Aug. 12, 2019, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 48 seconds

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338 - Microplastics Are Everywhere. Are They Harmful?

Published: Aug. 5, 2019, 1 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 17 seconds

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280 - Can We Predict Earthquakes At All?

Published: July 29, 2019, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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337 - How an Idea Becomes a Published Scientific Paper

Published: July 22, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 49 seconds

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336 - Fascinating Facts About the International Space Station

Published: July 15, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 43 seconds

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335 - Should You Worry About Flesh-Eating Bacteria?

Published: July 5, 2019, 1:30 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 50 seconds

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334 - How Did the Earth Get Its Water?

Published: July 1, 2019, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 35 seconds

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333 - The Power of Nuclear Weapons with Alex Wellerstein

Published: June 23, 2019, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 34 seconds

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286 - 5 Important Facts You Should Know About Ticks

Published: June 17, 2019, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 6 seconds

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332 - Is Screen Time Bad for Kids?

Published: June 10, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 15 seconds

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331- The Scientific Evidence for the Health Benefits of Cordyceps

Published: May 31, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 36 seconds

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237 - 20 Small Acts to Fight Climate Change

Published: May 27, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 18 seconds

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330 - What Else Can Breast Milk Do?

Published: May 20, 2019, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds

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BONUS: Introducing Science Rules! with Bill Nye

Published: May 17, 2019, midnight
Duration: 3 minutes 8 seconds

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329 - Real-Life Zombies

Published: May 13, 2019, 6:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 45 seconds

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328 - Making a Career of Combining Art & Science

Published: May 6, 2019, 1:15 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 25 seconds

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195 - The Health Benefits of Coffee

Published: April 29, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 5 seconds

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327 - How Does Wind Energy Work?

Published: April 19, 2019, 2 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 50 seconds

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326 - 5 Facts About the First Image of a Black Hole

Published: April 15, 2019, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 11 seconds

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325 - What Killed the Dinosaurs?

Published: April 8, 2019, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 42 seconds

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324 - Is Pluto a Planet?

Published: April 1, 2019, 2:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 40 seconds

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323 - Can We Cure HIV?

Published: March 25, 2019, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes

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272 - How Does Insulin Work in Our Bodies?

Published: March 18, 2019, 2:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 15 seconds

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322 - Are Wormholes Real?

Published: March 8, 2019, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 51 seconds

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321 - How long can a person hold their breath?

Published: March 4, 2019, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 42 seconds

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256 - How Much Does My Dog Understand?

Published: Feb. 25, 2019, 6:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 43 seconds

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320 - Could Humans Live on Mars?

Published: Feb. 15, 2019, 10:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 28 seconds

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319 - The Neuroscience of Romance: Your Brain on Love

Published: Feb. 11, 2019, 4:15 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 48 seconds

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318 - How Do Meteorologists Calculate "Feels Like" Temperature?

Published: Feb. 4, 2019, 4 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 22 seconds

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298 - Are Extreme Weather Events Linked to Climate Change?

Published: Jan. 28, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes

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317 - How the Government Shutdown Affects Science

Published: Jan. 21, 2019, 4 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 39 seconds

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316 - Can Knowing Your Genetic Risk Change Your Physiology?

Published: Jan. 14, 2019, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 27 seconds

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315 - 4 Things to Know About the Measles and Vaccination

Published: Jan. 7, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 45 seconds

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314 - The Science (or Lack Thereof) Behind Inducing Labor Naturally

Published: Dec. 31, 2018, 1:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 37 seconds

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230 EE How Do I Know If My Tap Water Is Safe?

Published: Dec. 25, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 2 seconds

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313 - Why Do We Draw Stars with Five Points?

Published: Dec. 17, 2018, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 54 seconds

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312 - The Science of Double-Dipping: A Health Risk or Just Gross?

Published: Dec. 10, 2018, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 7 seconds

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311 - The Science of Snowfall

Published: Dec. 3, 2018, 2:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 1 second

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310 - 4 Tips to Understand the Importance of NASA's InSight Landing

Published: Nov. 26, 2018, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds

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309 - Do Women and Left-Handed People Have Better Memories?

Published: Nov. 18, 2018, 11 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 20 seconds

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308 - Rock or Alien Probe? The Science Behind Oumuamua

Published: Nov. 12, 2018, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 16 seconds

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307 - The Science of Tipping Points: How 25% Can Create a Majority

Published: Nov. 5, 2018, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 52 seconds

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306 - 6 Possible Scientific Reasons for Ghosts

Published: Oct. 29, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds

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185 - Do Tattoos Boost Your Immune System?

Published: Oct. 22, 2018, 1 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 37 seconds

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305 - Does CBD Oil Work? The Science Behind Cannabidiol

Published: Oct. 15, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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304 - A Nobel Prize-Worthy Idea: What Is Chirped Pulse Amplification?

Published: Oct. 8, 2018, 10:45 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 31 seconds

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303 - Do Mosquitoes Bite Some People More Than Others?

Published: Oct. 1, 2018, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds

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238 - When Does Your Intelligence Peak?

Published: Sept. 24, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 47 seconds

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302 - How Can Science Help Reverse Blindness?

Published: Sept. 17, 2018, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 26 seconds

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301 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell and the Discovery of Pulsars

Published: Sept. 10, 2018, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 54 seconds

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300 - Mindfulness: The Science Behind the Practice

Published: Aug. 31, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 5 seconds

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299 - Why Do We Put Telescopes in Space?

Published: Aug. 26, 2018, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 32 seconds

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297 - Do Hair Loss Treatments Actually Work?

Published: Aug. 13, 2018, 11:15 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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296 - What Is Hypothyroidism and How Do We Treat It?

Published: Aug. 6, 2018, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 28 seconds

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295 - What Is a Fecal Transplant? (Gross, Yes, But Also Life-Saving)

Published: July 30, 2018, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 23 seconds

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294 - What Are Chemtrails Made Of?

Published: July 23, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 47 seconds

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141 EE How Do Lasers Work?

Published: July 16, 2018, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds

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293 - The 5+ Effects of Oppressive Heat Waves

Published: July 9, 2018, 10:15 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 49 seconds

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292 - How Fireworks Get Their Colors, Sounds, and Shapes

Published: July 2, 2018, 5:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 43 seconds

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291 - The Mysterious Return of Ozone-Depleting CFCs

Published: June 25, 2018, 7:30 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 18 seconds

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290 - How Much Time Should We Be Spending Outdoors?

Published: June 18, 2018, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds

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289 - Could Zombies (or a Zombie Virus) Become a Reality?

Published: June 11, 2018, 3:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 11 seconds

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288 - What Is Antimatter?

Published: June 4, 2018, 6 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes

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287 - Who Was Henrietta Lacks and What Are HeLa Cells?

Published: May 28, 2018, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 54 seconds

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285 - Why Is Hawaii Banning Sunscreen?

Published: May 14, 2018, 11:15 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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284 - What Is the Speed of Sound?

Published: May 7, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds

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283 - What's It Take to Get to Pluto? A Q&A with David Grinspoon

Published: April 29, 2018, 11:45 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 9 seconds

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282 - Can Our Sense of Smell Predict Alzheimers or Parkinsons?

Published: April 23, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds

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281 - Do Microwaves Cause Cancer? (And 3 Other Microwave Myths)

Published: April 16, 2018, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 45 seconds

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279 - How and When Did the Grand Canyon Form?

Published: April 2, 2018, 1:30 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes

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278 - Asteroid, Meteor, Meteorite, and Comet: What's the Difference?

Published: March 26, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 32 seconds

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277 - 5 Simple Ways to Boost Our Intelligence

Published: March 20, 2018, midnight
Duration: 7 minutes 27 seconds

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206 EE Why and How Do Smells Trigger Memories?

Published: March 12, 2018, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 31 seconds

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276 - How Do We Find Exoplanets?

Published: March 5, 2018, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 39 seconds

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275 - How Close is Too Close to Live by the Highway?

Published: Feb. 26, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 1 second

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274 - Lessons on Early Aviation with Bessie Coleman

Published: Feb. 19, 2018, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 6 seconds

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273 - The Physics of Figure Skating

Published: Feb. 12, 2018, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 58 seconds

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271 - How Does Sand Get Its Color?

Published: Jan. 29, 2018, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 24 seconds

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270 - How Can Science Combat the Opioid Crisis?

Published: Jan. 22, 2018, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 19 seconds

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269 - How Do We Measure Time? 5+ Innovative Ways

Published: Jan. 15, 2018, 1 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 40 seconds

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268 - Is Chocolate Really Going Extinct?

Published: Jan. 8, 2018, 5 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 4 seconds

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146 - How Old is the Universe?

Published: Jan. 1, 2018, 1:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 34 seconds

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267 - Could Artificial Wombs Be a Reality?

Published: Dec. 25, 2017, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 8 seconds

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266 - How Do Candles Burn?

Published: Dec. 18, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 45 seconds

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265 - Should I Get a Real or Fake Christmas Tree?

Published: Dec. 11, 2017, 10 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 37 seconds

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263 - The End of Net Neutrality: What It Means For Science (and You)

Published: Nov. 27, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 59 seconds

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262 - How Well Do Ancestry DNA Tests Actually Work?

Published: Nov. 20, 2017, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 9 seconds

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261 - How Do Water Purifiers Work?

Published: Nov. 13, 2017, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 42 seconds

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260 - Why Are Coral Reefs Worth Protecting?

Published: Nov. 6, 2017, 1:15 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 52 seconds

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259 - How Fast Can a Marathon Be Run?

Published: Oct. 30, 2017, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 16 seconds

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258 - Can You Smell Fear?

Published: Oct. 23, 2017, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 25 seconds

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257 - 6 Reasons Why LIGO's Gravitational Wave Discovery is Important

Published: Oct. 16, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 15 seconds

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201 - How Memory Works and 6 Tips to Improve It

Published: Oct. 9, 2017, 10:45 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds

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255 - Citizen Science with NASA GLOBE

Published: Sept. 25, 2017, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 49 seconds

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254 - What are Extremophiles?

Published: Sept. 18, 2017, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 3 seconds

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253 EE Why NASA Is Crashing Its Cassini Spacecraft into Saturn

Published: Sept. 11, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 20 seconds

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180 EE The Surprising Scientific Reason Behind Physical Attraction

Published: Sept. 4, 2017, 2 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 18 seconds

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252 EE What Makes Storms Like Hurricane Harvey So Strong?

Published: Aug. 28, 2017, 1 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 43 seconds

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251 EE How Do We Know the Earth Isn't Flat?

Published: Aug. 21, 2017, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 35 seconds

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250 EE How Can You Prepare for the August Solar Eclipse?

Published: Aug. 14, 2017, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 2 seconds

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249 EE Editing the Genes of Human Embryos

Published: Aug. 7, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 57 seconds

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248 EE 2 Surpising Ways Scientists Hope to Limit Human Environmental Impact

Published: July 31, 2017, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 6 seconds

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247 EE How Do We Encourage More Women in STEM?

Published: July 24, 2017, 5:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 13 seconds

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246 EE Will the Thawing of Arctic Ice Release Diseases?

Published: July 17, 2017, 10:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 35 seconds

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245 EE Women in Science: Jill Tarter, SETI, and Our Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Published: July 10, 2017, 3:15 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 47 seconds

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244 EE How Old Is the Oldest Human Skeleton?

Published: June 26, 2017, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 1 second

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243 EE The Science of Picking the Right Sunscreen

Published: June 19, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 51 seconds

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242 EE Pride in Science: Ben Barres, Astrocytes, and Activism

Published: June 12, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 51 seconds

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241 EE How Important Is the Paris Climate Agreement?

Published: June 5, 2017, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 17 seconds

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240 EE How Much Solar Power Will We Lose During the August Solar Eclipse?

Published: May 29, 2017, 11:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 1 second

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239 EE 3 Ways Science Is Vital to the United States Department of Agriculture

Published: May 22, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 52 seconds

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186 EE Can Eating Chocolate Make You Smarter?

Published: May 8, 2017, 1:45 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 22 seconds

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236 EE How Dangerous Is Asbestos?

Published: April 24, 2017, 2:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 6 seconds

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235 EE 8 ways climate change puts your safety at risk

Published: April 17, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 35 seconds

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234 EE How Often Do Planes Get Struck by Lightning?

Published: April 10, 2017, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 44 seconds

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233 EE The First Ever Image of a Black Hole

Published: April 3, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 58 seconds

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232 EE How Bad Is the Air Pollution Where You Live?

Published: March 27, 2017, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 5 seconds

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231 EE The Best Science Programming on PBS

Published: March 20, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 17 seconds

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229 EE Women in Science: Hidden Figure Katherine Johnson, NASA's Human Computer

Published: March 6, 2017, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds

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228 EE 6 Things You Should Know About the New Planet Discovery

Published: Feb. 27, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 38 seconds

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227 EE Citizen Science: Astronomy Edition

Published: Feb. 20, 2017, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 9 seconds

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226 EE What Does the Food and Drug Administration Do?

Published: Feb. 13, 2017, 1 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 28 seconds

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225 EE What Does the Environmental Protection Agency Do?

Published: Feb. 6, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 8 seconds

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224 EE 5 Immigrants and Refugees Who Changed U.S. Science

Published: Jan. 30, 2017, 4:45 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 53 seconds

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223 EE How Do You Estimate Crowd Size?

Published: Jan. 23, 2017, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 56 seconds

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222 EE How to Support Renewable Energy (And Why You Really Should)

Published: Jan. 16, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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221 EE What Are Fast Radio Bursts?

Published: Jan. 9, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 18 seconds

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220 EE Why Is the Ozone Hole Shrinking?

Published: Jan. 2, 2017, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 20 seconds

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177 EE Why Does the Melting of Arctic Sea Ice Matter?

Published: Dec. 26, 2016, 11 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 18 seconds

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219 EE What Does 'Mercury in Retrograde' Mean?

Published: Dec. 19, 2016, 3 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 22 seconds

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218 EE Lithium-Ion Batteries: What They Are and Why They Explode

Published: Dec. 12, 2016, 7:30 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 45 seconds

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217 - 6 Tips for Identifying Fake News

Published: Dec. 5, 2016, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 32 seconds

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217 EE 6 Tips for Identifying Fake News

Published: Dec. 5, 2016, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 32 seconds

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174 EE How Are Seasonal Flu Vaccines Made?

Published: Nov. 28, 2016, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 49 seconds

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216 EE What to Say to a Climate Change Skeptic

Published: Nov. 21, 2016, 9:45 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 8 seconds

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215 EE The Science Behind Climate Change

Published: Nov. 14, 2016, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 14 seconds

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214 EE The Science Behind How Your Vote Is Counted

Published: Nov. 7, 2016, 8:45 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 4 seconds

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213 EE Is the Five Second Rule Real?

Published: Oct. 31, 2016, 12:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes

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212 EE The Neuroscience of Fear: What Happens in Your Brain When You're Afraid

Published: Oct. 24, 2016, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 45 seconds

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156 EE Do Aliens Exist?

Published: Oct. 17, 2016, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes

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211 EE Can You Really Trust Election Polls?

Published: Oct. 10, 2016, 3 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 30 seconds

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210 EE Should I Get a Flu Shot?

Published: Oct. 3, 2016, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 49 seconds

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209 EE How Antibiotics Work: Past, Present, and Future

Published: Sept. 26, 2016, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 8 seconds

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208 EE How Many Stars Are in the Sky?

Published: Sept. 19, 2016, 12:45 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 26 seconds

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207 EE New Research Reveals There Are 4 Separate Species of Giraffes

Published: Sept. 12, 2016, 10:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 16 seconds

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205 EE Proxima B: 5 Things You Need to Know About the New Earth-Like Planet

Published: Aug. 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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135 EE Why We Dump Plastic into the Ocean

Published: Aug. 22, 2016, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 14 seconds

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204 EE Can Animals Feel Empathy?

Published: Aug. 15, 2016, 2:15 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 18 seconds

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203 EE How Do the Strongest, Fastest Animals Compare to Olympians?

Published: Aug. 8, 2016, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 8 seconds

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202 EE Why Do Some Olympic Records Get Broken?

Published: Aug. 1, 2016, 12:30 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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200 EE What Does Pokemon Go Mean for Augmented Reality?

Published: July 18, 2016, 1:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 34 seconds

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139 EE Will the Sun Explode?

Published: July 11, 2016, 11:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 55 seconds

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199 EE 5 Quick Facts About NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter

Published: July 4, 2016, 2 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 39 seconds

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198 EE 9 Tips to Win a Competitive Eating Contest

Published: June 27, 2016, 1 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 39 seconds

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197 EE What Are the Summer Solstice and the Strawberry Moon?

Published: June 20, 2016, 12:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 6 seconds

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196 EE Does Soap Really Kill 99.9% of Germs?

Published: June 13, 2016, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 20 seconds

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194 EE Science Experiments at Home: The Edible Solar System

Published: May 30, 2016, noon
Duration: 11 minutes 23 seconds

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193 EE What Causes Wildfires?

Published: May 23, 2016, 8:15 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 31 seconds

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192 EE What Does It Mean for Mars to Be in 'Full Opposition'?

Published: May 16, 2016, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 4 seconds

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191 EE Is Interstellar Travel Really Possible?

Published: May 9, 2016, 3 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 41 seconds

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190 EE 5 Incredible Facts About Octopuses

Published: April 25, 2016, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 18 seconds

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189 EE Will Salt Water Quench the Worlds Thirst?

Published: April 18, 2016, 4 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 12 seconds

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002 UH Unknown History, as Explained Through Science

Published: April 13, 2016, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 17 seconds

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188 EE Can Music Make Us Smarter and Help Us Heal Faster?

Published: April 11, 2016, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 55 seconds

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187 EE CRISPR-Cas9 Technology Allows Us to Edit Our Own DNA

Published: April 4, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 27 seconds

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184 EE 7 Surprisingly Revolutionary Ways to Use 3D Printers

Published: March 14, 2016, 2:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 14 seconds

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183 EE Women in Science: Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of DNA

Published: March 7, 2016, 3:30 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds

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182 EE What Will Astronaut Scott Kelly's Year in Space Teach Us?

Published: Feb. 29, 2016, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 3 seconds

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181 EE 5 Reasons You Should Care About the Discovery of Gravitational Waves

Published: Feb. 15, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 55 seconds

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EE 179 The Search for Planet X

Published: Feb. 1, 2016, 1 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds

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178 EE 6 Fun Science Experiments to Do with Snow

Published: Jan. 25, 2016, 2:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 43 seconds

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176 EE The Man Who Fell to Earth and the Importance of Space Travel

Published: Jan. 11, 2016, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 37 seconds

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175 EE What causes allergies?

Published: Jan. 4, 2016, 7:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 29 seconds

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130 EE Satellites and Space Junk

Published: Dec. 28, 2015, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 22 seconds

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173 EE Will Commercial Companies Be the Next to Take on Space Travel?

Published: Dec. 14, 2015, 3 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 2 seconds

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172 EE When Is It Safe to Eat Moldy Food?

Published: Dec. 7, 2015, 1 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 14 seconds

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133 EE How Do We Predict the Weather?

Published: Nov. 30, 2015, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 21 seconds

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171 EE The Computer Science Behind the First Down Line

Published: Nov. 23, 2015, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 12 seconds

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170 EE What About the Climate Is Changing?

Published: Nov. 16, 2015, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 47 seconds

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169 EE Bill Nye's Advice to Tackle Climate Change

Published: Nov. 8, 2015, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 10 seconds

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168 EE 4 Science Experiments for Leftover Halloween Candy

Published: Nov. 2, 2015, 2 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 25 seconds

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167 EE Can We Predict the Next Hurricane Patricia?

Published: Oct. 26, 2015, 4 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 55 seconds

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138 EE Is Anxiety Genetic?

Published: Oct. 19, 2015, 11:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 9 seconds

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166 EE 6 Buzzworthy Facts About Bees

Published: Oct. 12, 2015, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 55 seconds

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165 EE Women in Science: Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer

Published: Oct. 5, 2015, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 25 seconds

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164 EE Is there water or life on Mars?

Published: Sept. 28, 2015, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 5 seconds

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163 EE Understanding Parkinson's Disease: An Interview with Jon Palfreman

Published: Sept. 21, 2015, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds

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162 EE What Causes the Tides?

Published: Sept. 14, 2015, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds

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161 EE 4 Science Headlines to Jumpstart Your Next Conversation

Published: Sept. 7, 2015, 3 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 45 seconds

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160 EE What Happens If You Fall Into a Black Hole?

Published: Aug. 31, 2015, 4 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes

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159 EE 6 Back-to-School Activities to Get Students Excited About Science

Published: Aug. 24, 2015, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 25 seconds

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158 EE Einstein's Legacy: The Photoelectric Effect

Published: Aug. 16, 2015, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 50 seconds

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157 EE 4 Animal Similes We Use Incorrectly

Published: Aug. 10, 2015, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds

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132 EE Science in the Kitchen

Published: Aug. 3, 2015, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 45 seconds

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155 EE Do Stars Really Twinkle? And Other Common Scientific Misconceptions

Published: July 20, 2015, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes

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154 EE What Makes the New Horizons' Encounter With Pluto So Extraordinary?

Published: July 13, 2015, 1:15 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 35 seconds

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153 EE 10 Facts You Didn't Know About Sharks

Published: July 6, 2015, 4:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 25 seconds

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152 EE Science Experiments at Home: Liquids

Published: June 29, 2015, 3:45 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 25 seconds

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129 EE Can We Feel the Earth Moving?

Published: June 22, 2015, 6:15 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 55 seconds

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151 EE Making Jurassic Park a Reality

Published: June 15, 2015, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds

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150 EE The Return of the Large Hadron Collider

Published: June 8, 2015, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds

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149 EE Is the Radiation From My Cell Phone Dangerous?

Published: June 1, 2015, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 15 seconds

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148 EE Science Experiments at Home: Model Rockets

Published: May 25, 2015, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 25 seconds

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147 EE How Do Chameleons Change Color?

Published: May 18, 2015, 11:45 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 40 seconds

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145 EE What Is a Volcano?

Published: May 4, 2015, 1 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 15 seconds

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144 EE How to Survive an Astreroid Attack

Published: April 21, 2015, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 45 seconds

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143 EE Go Green: Reusable vs. Disposable Cups

Published: April 17, 2015, 1:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 40 seconds

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142 EE The Best Way to Nap

Published: April 10, 2015, 2:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 40 seconds

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140 EE Can You Prevent Myopia?

Published: March 27, 2015, 1 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 45 seconds

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137 EE Women in Science: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Published: March 6, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 20 seconds

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136 EE Mollusks Set a New Strength Record

Published: Feb. 27, 2015, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 35 seconds

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134 EE What Is Dark Matter?

Published: Feb. 13, 2015, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds

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131 EE Early Birds vs. Night Owls

Published: Jan. 23, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 5 seconds

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026 EDE What's on the Dark Side of the Moon?

Published: Jan. 2, 2015, 8:45 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 48 seconds

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128 EE Meet the New Everyday Einstein

Published: Dec. 27, 2014, 1:45 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds

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127 EE Personal Genetics: Testing for Susceptibility

Published: Dec. 19, 2014, 6 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 5 seconds

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126 EE Personal Genetic Testing: Part 1

Published: Dec. 12, 2014, 12:45 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes

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125 EE What Was the Christmas Star?

Published: Dec. 5, 2014, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 10 seconds

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124 EE Science Q&A: Smoothies and Airplane Wings

Published: Nov. 25, 2014, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 25 seconds

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123 EE The Science of Snow

Published: Nov. 21, 2014, 10:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 20 seconds

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031 EDE The Truth About Turkey

Published: Nov. 14, 2014, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds

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122 EE Evolution vs. Creationism: Bill Nye Joins the Debate

Published: Nov. 7, 2014, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds

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121 EE Mysteries of the Microwave

Published: Oct. 31, 2014, 10 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 40 seconds

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074 EE Halloween Science: How Do Broomsticks Fly?

Published: Oct. 24, 2014, 10:15 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 24 seconds

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120 EE How Are Calories in Food Measured?

Published: Oct. 17, 2014, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 20 seconds

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119 EE What's the Difference Between a Solar Eclipse, a Lunar Eclipse, and a New Moon?

Published: Oct. 10, 2014, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes

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118 EE Kid Questions: What's With Fall Leaves and Glow-in-the-Dark Toys?

Published: Oct. 3, 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 45 seconds

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117 EE Can Turmeric Prevent or Cure Disease?

Published: Sept. 26, 2014, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds

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116 EE Everyday Einstein Answers Your Emails

Published: Sept. 19, 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 25 seconds

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115 EE Everyday Einstein's iTunes Answers - Part 1

Published: Sept. 12, 2014, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 10 seconds

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114 EE The Science of Gardening Part 2: Germination

Published: Sept. 3, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 25 seconds

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113 EE The Science of Gardening Part 1: Monocots vs Dicots

Published: Aug. 29, 2014, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds

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112 EE Choosing the Right Homeschool Science Resources

Published: Aug. 22, 2014, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 40 seconds

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014 EDE What is a neural network?

Published: Aug. 15, 2014, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 15 seconds

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111 EE Should You Worry About the Ebola Outbreak?

Published: Aug. 8, 2014, 3:45 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds

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110 EE 3 Science Myths Debunked

Published: Aug. 1, 2014, 6 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 10 seconds

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109 EE The Big and Small of Scientific Numbers

Published: July 25, 2014, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds

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108 EE Buffalo or Bison?

Published: July 18, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes

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107 EE Why Do I Have to Know This Science Stuff Anyway?

Published: July 11, 2014, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes

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057 EDE How to Be a Birdwatcher?

Published: July 4, 2014, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 18 seconds

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106 EE How to Spot a Good Medical Study

Published: June 27, 2014, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds

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105 EE Protein Power: Translation

Published: June 20, 2014, 4:15 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 25 seconds

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104 EE Protein Power: Transcription

Published: June 12, 2014, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 20 seconds

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103 EE Protein Power 1: DNA vs. RNA

Published: June 6, 2014, 3 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 20 seconds

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102 EE Science Q&A: Fizzling Photons, Magnesium Panic Attacks, and Raising Normal Kids

Published: May 30, 2014, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 40 seconds

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101 EE The Secret Life of Genes

Published: May 22, 2014, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 40 seconds

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034 EDE Why Do We Yawn?

Published: May 16, 2014, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 18 seconds

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100 EE The Science of Agoraphobia

Published: May 9, 2014, 10:30 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 40 seconds

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099 EE Geology: The Science of Rocks and Minerals

Published: May 1, 2014, 11:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 50 seconds

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098 EE The Science of Shakespeare

Published: April 25, 2014, 4 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 25 seconds

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097 EE Which Homeschool Science Curriculum Should You Use?

Published: April 18, 2014, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 45 seconds

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096 EE Newton, Einstein, and Gravitational Waves

Published: April 11, 2014, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 40 seconds

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095 EE What Is Resonance?

Published: April 3, 2014, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 50 seconds

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094 EE Why Metal Rusts

Published: March 28, 2014, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 45 seconds

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093 EE The Science of Sound

Published: March 21, 2014, 5:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 25 seconds

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092 EE How Does Electricity Work?

Published: March 14, 2014, 5 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds

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091 EE Momentous Momentum in "The Music Man"

Published: March 7, 2014, 9:15 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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090 EE Virus, Germ, or Bacteria?

Published: Feb. 28, 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 35 seconds

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089 EE How Fast Does Your Broomstick Accelerate?

Published: Feb. 21, 2014, 11 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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088 EE What's the Difference Between Speed and Velocity?

Published: Feb. 14, 2014, 9:15 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 40 seconds

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087 EE More Science Q&A

Published: Feb. 7, 2014, 9:30 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 55 seconds

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086 EE All About Air Pressure

Published: Jan. 31, 2014, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 55 seconds

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085 EE How Not to Be Scammed by Internet Claims

Published: Jan. 24, 2014, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 20 seconds

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084 EE The Best Diet Ever Is...

Published: Jan. 17, 2014, 1:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 35 seconds

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083 EE Retractions in Science

Published: Jan. 10, 2014, 8:45 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds

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038 EDE Should You Store Batteries in the Freezer?

Published: Jan. 3, 2014, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 2 seconds

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082 EE Science Q&A

Published: Dec. 23, 2013, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 40 seconds

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081 EE What Is the Space-Time Continuum?

Published: Dec. 20, 2013, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 20 seconds

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080 EE What Is Bardet-Biedl Syndrome?

Published: Dec. 13, 2013, 7 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 50 seconds

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079 EE What Is Quantum Computing?

Published: Dec. 5, 2013, 7:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds

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078 EE Super Powered Water: Solubility

Published: Nov. 29, 2013, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 20 seconds

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077 EE Super Powered Water: Specific Heat and Heat of Vaporization

Published: Nov. 22, 2013, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 50 seconds

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076 EE Super Powered Water: Cohesion and Adhesion

Published: Nov. 15, 2013, 3:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 35 seconds

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020 EDE Death by Asteroids!

Published: Nov. 8, 2013, 8:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 31 seconds

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075 EE What's the Difference Between Baking Soda and Baking Powder?

Published: Nov. 4, 2013, 6:30 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 45 seconds

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073 EDE The Science of Minecraft (Part 2): Metal and Minerals

Published: Oct. 18, 2013, 6:15 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 45 seconds

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072 EDE The Magic of Magic Shell

Published: Oct. 11, 2013, 1:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 55 seconds

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071 EDE Why Blowing on a Hot Drink Cools it Off

Published: Oct. 4, 2013, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds

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070 EDE How Natural Is "All Natural" Food Coloring?

Published: Sept. 27, 2013, 8:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds

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069 EDE The Science of Minecraft (Part 1): Smelting Ore

Published: Sept. 19, 2013, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 35 seconds

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018 EDE The Human Genome

Published: Sept. 13, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds

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068 EDE My Life as a Meteor

Published: Sept. 7, 2013, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 55 seconds

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067 EDE That's No Moon...It's a Space Station

Published: Aug. 31, 2013, 11:45 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 40 seconds

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066 EDE Star Light, Star Bright...or is that a planet?

Published: Aug. 24, 2013, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 5 seconds

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030 EDE Why Is the Sky Blue?

Published: Aug. 16, 2013, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 58 seconds

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065 EDE Despicable Science Part 2: Glow-in-the-Dark Minions

Published: Aug. 3, 2013, 4 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 45 seconds

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064 EDE Despicable Science Part 1: Freeze Ray

Published: Aug. 2, 2013, 3 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 5 seconds

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063 EDE The Science of Celiac

Published: July 26, 2013, 3 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 10 seconds

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062 EDE What Is Gluten?

Published: July 18, 2013, 2 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 5 seconds

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013 EDE Why do Apples Turn Brown?

Published: July 12, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 42 seconds

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061 EDE What Causes Lightning Bolts?

Published: July 6, 2013, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 50 seconds

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060 EDE Three Lies You Probably Learned In School

Published: June 28, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 40 seconds

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059 EDE Correlation versus Causation

Published: June 21, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds

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058 EDE Why Dead Honeybees Means the Beginning of the Apocalypse

Published: June 14, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds

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056 EDE Spinning with Screws

Published: May 31, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 55 seconds

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055 EDE Wrenches and Wheels

Published: May 24, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 50 seconds

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054 EDE Running Up Ramps

Published: May 17, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 55 seconds

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053 EDE Kids and Developmental Milestones: What's the Connection?

Published: May 10, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 35 seconds

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008 EDE The Science of Fire

Published: May 3, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 32 seconds

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052 EDE Lifting with Levers

Published: April 26, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 35 seconds

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051 EDE Pulling with Pulleys

Published: April 19, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds

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050 EDE The Bizarre Love Triangle of Work, Energy, and Power

Published: April 12, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 15 seconds

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049 EDE All Work and No Play

Published: April 5, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds

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048 EDE Why Do Glasses Get Foggy in Cold Weather?

Published: March 29, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes

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001 EDE What is Radiation?

Published: March 22, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 28 seconds

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047 EDE What's the Matter?

Published: March 15, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 52 seconds

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046 EDE Everyday Einstein on why static electricity doesn't kill

Published: March 8, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 36 seconds

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045 EDE Hydroelectric Power and the City of Ember

Published: March 1, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds

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044 EDE The Potential and Kinetic Energy of Kung Fu Panda

Published: Feb. 22, 2013, 8:44 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 56 seconds

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043 EDE Jumping with John Carter of Mars

Published: Feb. 15, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 42 seconds

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042 EDE What Is Density?

Published: Feb. 8, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds

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041 EDE Bowling and the Conservation of Momentum

Published: Feb. 1, 2013, 8:44 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 35 seconds

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040 EDE Newton's 3 Laws of Motion

Published: Jan. 25, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 15 seconds

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039 EDE Could Jurassic Park Really Happen?

Published: Jan. 18, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 32 seconds

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037 EDE What's a Capacitor?

Published: Jan. 4, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 21 seconds

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036 EDE The Science of Violence

Published: Dec. 28, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 17 seconds

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035 EDE The Science of Christmas

Published: Dec. 21, 2012, 8:44 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 4 seconds

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033 EDE A Tour of the Periodic Table (Part 3)

Published: Dec. 7, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 59 seconds

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032 EDE What Is Static Electricity?

Published: Nov. 30, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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029 EDE A Tour of the Periodic Table (Part 2)

Published: Nov. 9, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 58 seconds

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028 EDE A Tour of the Periodic Table (Part 1)

Published: Nov. 2, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 48 seconds

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027 EDE What is "Supersonic"?

Published: Oct. 26, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 10 seconds

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025 EDE Can DNA Evidence Lie?

Published: Oct. 12, 2012, 7:44 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds

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024 EDE Seasonal Flu Vaccination 101

Published: Oct. 5, 2012, 7:44 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 23 seconds

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023 EDE Stem Cell Research

Published: Sept. 28, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 9 seconds

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022 EDE Does the MMR Vaccine Cause Autism?

Published: Sept. 21, 2012, 7:44 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 3 seconds

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021 EDE What is ENCODE?

Published: Sept. 14, 2012, 7:44 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 44 seconds

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019 EDE Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe?

Published: Aug. 31, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 48 seconds

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017 EDE Evolution and Super Goblins

Published: Aug. 17, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 41 seconds

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016 EDE How to Tips for Teaching Science to Children

Published: Aug. 10, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes

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015 EDE Why Are Weather Forecasts Often Wrong?

Published: Aug. 3, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds

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012 EDE The Higgs Boson

Published: July 13, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 15 seconds

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011 EDE What is Gut Microbiota?

Published: July 6, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 38 seconds

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010 EDE Atomic Bonds - The Ties That Bind

Published: June 29, 2012, 7:43 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 29 seconds

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009 EDE The Atom

Published: June 22, 2012, 7:43 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds

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007 EDE Does Herbal Medicine Work?

Published: June 8, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 38 seconds

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006 EDE How the Media Sensationalizes Science

Published: June 1, 2012, 7:43 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 25 seconds

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005 EDE The Basics of pH

Published: May 25, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 23 seconds

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004 EDE Vinegar + Baking Soda = The Ultimate Cleanser?

Published: May 18, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 51 seconds

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003 EDE What is Interspecies Breeding?

Published: April 13, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 7 seconds

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002 EDE The Mighty Onion

Published: April 13, 2012, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 53 seconds

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