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Why are Tattoos Permanent?

Why are Tattoos Permanent?

Season 2 Episode 37
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Can Radiation Give You Superpowers?

Can Radiation Give You Superpowers?

Season 2 Episode 38
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Why Does Coffee Make You Poop?

Why Does Coffee Make You Poop?

Season 2 Episode 39
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Does Febreze Really Work?

Does Febreze Really Work?

Season 2 Episode 40
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How to Stay Awake Without Caffeine

How to Stay Awake Without Caffeine

Season 2 Episode 41
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What is a Complete Breakfast?

What is a Complete Breakfast?

Season 2 Episode 42
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What is Addiction?

What is Addiction?

Season 2 Episode 44
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How to Cookie with Science

How to Cookie with Science

Season 2 Episode 46
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How Pee Brought You The Modern World

How Pee Brought You The Modern World

Season 2 Episode 47
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Are Invisibility Cloaks Possible?

Season 2 Episode 36

Reactions is taking a look to see if science and chemistry could make invisibility cloaks possible. Have you ever wished you could hide under an invisibility cloak like Harry Potter or conceal your car with a Klingon cloaking device like in Star Trek? we celebrate the International Year of Light by exploring the science behind light, sight and invisibility. Though we can’t make ourselves invisible

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How Oxygen Masks Brought Down a Plane
6:31
How did something meant to keep you safe end up killing over 100 people?
Extracting Gold from Seawater
5:39
We try to find some of the 700 trillion dollars worth of gold in the ocean.
I Created an Oil Spill in My House
7:36
Bacteria could be what save us from ourselves.
Death and Decomposition
7:04
Are humans destroying the circle of life?
Better Pizza Through Chemistry
6:20
We show you how two simple changes can turn cardboard-y pizza into award winning pie.
Science of Concrete & the Surfside Condo Collapse
7:19
We discover how the Surfside Condominium—a modern building built in 1981—fail.
Are We Standing on a Quadrillion Tons of Diamonds?
7:38
But the furthest we’ve traveled is 7 miles down, so how could we know that?
Why is There Plastic in Our Rain?
6:43
Every year more than 1,000 tons of plastic rains down onto national parks and wilderness.
We Tried to Preserve a Strawberry Forever. Things Got…Ugly
8:05
See what happens when we try to make a strawberry last forever.
How Does Sunscreen Work?
7:38
Can it actually stop us from getting wrinkles or skin cancer? We find out!
How Carbon Capture Works
7:39
Removing CO2 from our atmosphere can mean big business.
How Lead (Maybe?) Caused the Downfall of the Roman Empire
5:55
We unwrap the possibility that lead caused the Roman Empire’s collapse.
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