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How Sharks Use Electricity To Sense Prey
Sharks are some of the animal kingdom’s most feared hunters, thanks to a special sixth sense. » Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker » Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.com There are two ways that animals use electroreception. They either use their own … Continue reading
Hair ice: The strange phenomenon of ‘candy floss’ on trees | BBC News
The unusual phenomenon looks like candy floss on the trees – but touch it and it melts away. If you go down to the woods today for a winter walk, you could be in for a big surprise. People taking … Continue reading
The family with no fingerprints
By Mir Sabbir BBC Bengalí, Dhaka A family in Bangladesh struggles with an extremely rare genetic condition, “immigration delay disease”. Apu Sarker was showing his open palm to me on a video call from his home in Bangladesh. Nothing seemed … Continue reading
Dry Out
Life needs water. But this fluid tends to evaporate over time into a gaseous state. Drying out is a chemical process that takes hours, days or even weeks. Without enough water the organisms metabolism is stopping. Using high resolution cameras … Continue reading
We are starting to crack the mystery of how lightning and thunderstorms work
Lightning strikes are not continuous but proceed in steps – but we don’t yet know why this is. Image credit – Bernardo de Menezes Petrucci/Wikimedia, licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0 Imagine lying on a green hill watching the clouds … Continue reading
Alzheimer’s and the Brain
Vsauce is proud to announce our support for Alzheimer’s Association’s #TheLongestDay now and throughout June during Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness month. Visit http://www.alz.org/Vsauce to join us! More good links: http://www.alz.org/facts/ Alzheimer’s disease facts and figures [PDF]: http://www.alz.org/documents_custom/2… Basics of Alzheimer’s … Continue reading
Seven Million Years of Human Evolution
Scientists use fossils to reconstruct the evolutionary history of hominins—the group that includes modern humans, our immediate ancestors, and other extinct relatives. Today, our closest living relatives are chimpanzees, but extinct hominins are even closer. Where and when did they … Continue reading
The Shearwaters
THIS. HAPPENED. Alfred Hitchcock’s classic THE BIRDS is, in part, inspired by a very real phenomenon that occurred in Santa Cruz, California in 1961. One night, inexplicably, thousands of sooty shearwater birds lost their minds, dive-bombing into homes and even … Continue reading
The Secrets of the Wood Wide Web
Recent scientific revelations raise big questions about what trading, sharing, or even friendship might mean among plants. Epping Forest is a heavily regulated place. First designated as a royal hunting ground by Henry II in the twelfth century, with severe … Continue reading
Seed To Sunflower In 83 Days, a time-lapse | The Kid Should See This
How does a sunflower grow from seed to flower? Set to a jazzy soundtrack, Field by Hara Noda, this impressive Boxlapse video captures the iconic flower’s stunning 83 days of growth, bloom, and signs of first wilt.[…] TKSST is an … Continue reading
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