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What Do Raindrops Really Look Like?

What Do Raindrops Really Look Like?

Season 6 Episode 27
5:24
Where Do Teeth Come From?

Where Do Teeth Come From?

Season 6 Episode 28
6:40
What is Farthest Away?

What is Farthest Away?

Season 6 Episode 31
6:08
Can We Get Older Without Aging?

Can We Get Older Without Aging?

Season 6 Episode 33
8:53
The Raisin Bran Effect

The Raisin Bran Effect

Season 6 Episode 34
5:19
Does Someone Else Have Your Face?

Does Someone Else Have Your Face?

Season 6 Episode 35
12:42
Do Fish Pee?

Do Fish Pee?

Season 6 Episode 36
4:53
Why Do We Itch (ASL)

Why Do We Itch (ASL)

Season 6 Episode 37
4:59
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It's Okay to Be Smart

Is Height Genetic?

Season 6 Episode 26

I’m tall. Most of the people in my family are tall. Does that mean my son will be tall? Turns out the inheritance of height is a lot more complicated than we thought. Scientists know that nature (genes) and nurture (environment) both play a role, but after more than a century of questions, we’re only just now starting to get some answers

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People see faces everywhere thanks to a quirk of the brain called visual pareidolia.
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Our animal brains deal with quantities in very specific, and fascinating, ways.
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12:54
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10:40
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Why the 2024 Solar Eclipse is Such a Big Deal
15:17
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12:09
Learn about the space junk problem and the giant space claw named ClearSpace-1 that might
Why NASA Punched an Asteroid
14:28
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Maybe We've Already Made First Contact…
10:28
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9:40
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A cosmic soup hadn’t existed in 13.8 billion years. Now, scientists cook it up in a lab.
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