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There's No Such Thing As Cold

There's No Such Thing As Cold

Season 3 Episode 13
4:58
How Many Heartbeats Do We Get?

How Many Heartbeats Do We Get?

Season 3 Episode 16
4:27
Why Vaccines Work

Why Vaccines Work

Season 3 Episode 17
6:38
Why Does February only have 28 days?

Why Does February only have 28 days?

Season 3 Episode 18
4:28
Your #ScienceWoman Heroes

Your #ScienceWoman Heroes

Season 3 Episode 20
4:46
What Color is the Universe?

What Color is the Universe?

Season 3 Episode 21
2:51
What's The Loudest Possible Sound?

What's The Loudest Possible Sound?

Season 3 Episode 27
3:49
Does The Moon Really Orbit The Earth?

Does The Moon Really Orbit The Earth?

Season 3 Episode 28
2:44
When Will We Stop Using Oil?

When Will We Stop Using Oil?

Season 3 Episode 29
5:10
The Surprising Places We Waste Energy

The Surprising Places We Waste Energy

Season 3 Episode 30
3:26
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How Many Smells Can You Smell?

Season 3 Episode 12

We walk through life led by our noses. Literally. Because they’re on the front of our faces. How does the sense of smell work, and how sensitive are our noses? Why are smell-related memories so vivid? How many different smells could we possibly smell?

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How We Solved the Greatest Riddle In Navigation
13:41
The secret is In order to know WHERE you are, you need to first know WHEN you are.
Why 8 Eyes Are Better Than 2 (…If You're a Spider)
15:07
We learn how spider vision works.
The Unbelievable Story of Earth’s Most Epic Flood
12:44
Let's learn the story of one of the worst natural disasters that’s ever happened!
The Biggest Myth About Climate Change
27:56
We learn about all the reasons that Earth’s climate changes, natural and otherwise.
The Crime Wave We Can Blame on… Neutron Stars?
12:31
Turns out, we can blame it all on neutron stars and some oddities of the periodic table.
Why is Puberty so Weird?
10:00
Join Joe in this whirlwind tour of the endocrine system to find the answers.
Why No One Can Agree What’s Really the Tallest Mountain
8:29
Is Everest the tallest mountain on Earth? The answer is not as simple as you might think.
Trying to Land a Plane (to Prove a Point)
17:59
Turns out we’re all at risk of being overconfident about something.
Why You Can’t Smell Yourself?
19:10
There's an absolutely weird, but surprisingly common phenomenon called sensory adaptation.
Making a Hurricane Indoors (For Science)
11:50
Scientists in Florida can recreate a Category 5 hurricane in a box the size of a bedroom.
Are Humans Still Evolving?
10:41
Are humans still evolving? And how have our technological advances affected the process?
How Illusions Can Explain Reality
19:07
Illusions teach us how our brain constructs a three-dimensional reality using 2-D images.
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