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What If You Keep Slowing Down?

What happens if you keep slowing down time? Sponsored by Hostinger – Make today your Day One and visit https://ve42.co/VE10. Use code VERITASIUM for an additional discount. ▀▀▀ 0:00 How does a strobe work? 3:28 The Man Who Stopped Time … Continue reading

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Smells Humans Are Ridiculously Good At Detecting

Right now, you’re breathing in. As you inhale, air rushes past millions of sensory receptors, activating the part of your brain responsible for smell. And yet, there’s one scent you’ll never notice: the very nose you’re breathing through, because humans … Continue reading

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The Successor to CRISPR May Be Even More World Changing

[…] When Feng Zhang was in his early 30s, he used a set of genes found in bacteria called CRISPR to pioneer a new kind of gene editing tool in human cells. Today, the MIT biochemist is studying a different … Continue reading

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Scientists Discover Memories Exist in Every Cell of the Body

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No these are not petrified tree stumps

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Geology favors Venezuela #stem #science #energy

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This Simple Glow Trick Breaks Classical Physics

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Electrons Don’t Actually Orbit Like This

Probability densities and spherical harmonics. Today I hope you’ll walk away understanding where these specific orbital shapes come from. […]

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Everything We Know About Time

What is time may seem like a simple question, but its true nature is much more elusive and mysterious. At its core, time underpins reality itself. Today, our best timekeeping devices are so precise that we can use them to … Continue reading

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