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The Life Scientific – Julia Simner on tasty words and hearing colours – BBC Sounds

Professor Julia Simner tests Jim for synaesthesia with surprising results. Imagine if you were listening to an opera or a Taylor Swift concert, and as the lights in the auditorium dimmed, the music was accompanied by a rainbow of colours … Continue reading

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Scientists Urge Everyone to Stop Research on THIS Immediately

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Scientists Just Created FIRST Treatment for Huntington’s Disease

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Simulating The Strange Way Life (Likely) Started

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Germany’s Stonehenge 🪵

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The Evolution of Males and Females – with Judith Mank

Judith Mank leads a tour of how sex is genetically programmed and how sex differences evolve. Watch the Q&A here: • Q&A – The Evolution of Males and Females -… Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Males and females in … Continue reading

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The Terrifying Physics of Shaking Hands With an Alien

[…] This riddle posed by Richard Feynman sounds silly, but the answer contains one of the most important discoveries in physics. Hosted by: Madelyn Leembruggen (she/her) […]

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We can’t save the West Antarctic. So what now?

8 Nov 2023 #Antarctica #ClimateChange It’s not often that I make a video with a title this bleak, but unfortunately, needs must. Several pieces of new research point to the inevitability of West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse, which is pretty … Continue reading

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Scientist Solved the Mystery of Morning Sickness, but NIH Refuses to Fund It

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Is there a new plague lurking in the permafrost?

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