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Why Do Leaves Change Color?

Season 1 Episode 27
2:09
Why Does Beer Get Skunked?

Why Does Beer Get Skunked?

Season 1 Episode 28
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Why is Pizza So Good?

Why is Pizza So Good?

Season 1 Episode 30
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Why Do Things Taste Sweet?

Why Do Things Taste Sweet?

Season 1 Episode 31
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We Are Made of "Star Stuff"

We Are Made of "Star Stuff"

Season 1 Episode 33
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The Chemistry of Cats

The Chemistry of Cats

Season 1 Episode 34
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What Happens When You Eat Too Much?

What Happens When You Eat Too Much?

Season 1 Episode 35
2:32
How Much Water Can Kill You?

How Much Water Can Kill You?

Season 1 Episode 36
4:34
Baking Soda Life Hacks (CLH Vol. 4)

Baking Soda Life Hacks (CLH Vol. 4)

Season 1 Episode 37
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Do Carrots Help You See Better?

Do Carrots Help You See Better?

Season 1 Episode 38
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What's in your Smartphone?

Season 1 Episode 26

The iPhone 6 is almost here and the preorders are piling up. But what do you really know about the insides of the iPhone 6, or any smartphone for that matter? We've found the chemical elements lurking inside a smartphone with help from our friends at the Compound Interest blog.

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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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