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The Coronavirus Unveiled

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Centralia: The Real-Life Silent Hill | Answers With Joe

The first 1000 people to sign up at https://skl.sh/joescott10201will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium! Centralia is a town at the heart of coal country that now sits abandoned and forgotten. The story behind what happened there is far … Continue reading

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Fundamental Physics: Scientists Discover the Fastest Possible Speed of Sound

A research collaboration between Queen Mary University of London, the University of Cambridge and the Institute for High Pressure Physics in Troitsk has discovered the fastest possible speed of sound. The result — about 36 km per second — is … Continue reading

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How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work

MinutePhysics on permanent magnets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFAOXd… Subscribe to Veritasium: http://bit.ly/SuBVe Support Veritasium- get a t-shirt: http://dft.ba/-vetshirt Subscribe to MinutePhysics: http://bit.ly/1eVPynh Magnetism seems like a pretty magical phenomenon. Rocks that attract or repel each other at a distance – that’s really cool … Continue reading

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Paintings by Fire Ants | Kottke

Ants use pheromone trails to signal to other ants to follow them to food or other desirable destinations. Inspired by this, entomology graduate student Horace Zeng dropped some of the fire ants he uses in his research into some paint … Continue reading

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‘Rapid evolution’ means humans now being born without wisdom teeth

Scientists in Australia have discovered several changes in humans which are appearing over a short period of time. Dr Teghan Lucas, of Flinders University in Adelaide, said faces are also becoming shorter, due to changes in our diet, and our … Continue reading

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Gravity is NOT a Force

The General Theory of Relativity tells us gravity is not a force, gravitational fields don’t exist. Objects tend to move on straight paths through curved spacetime. Thanks to Caséta by Lutron for sponsoring this video. Find out more at: https://www.lutron.com/veritasiumContinue reading

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WHERE I WORK : Flying through an undersea ‘stained-glass window’ | Nature

                     Kendall Powell                  Cayne Layton is a marine ecologist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart, Australia. Credit: Craig Johnson … Continue reading

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A Thousand Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection | Vice

Professors are starting to orient Charles Darwin within a rich history of people from all cultures who have grappled with the mechanisms of life. By Shayla Love In the summer of 1837, Charles Darwin drew a rudimentary sketch in his … Continue reading

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‘Lost’ Brazilian frogs rediscovered with environmental DNA — The Freshwater Blog

Scientists have used cutting-edge DNA techniques to identify the presence of a Brazilian frog species not seen since 1968, and thought to be extinct. Organisms leave DNA traces in soil, water and air in their habitats, and this ‘environmental DNA’ … Continue reading

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