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BBC Radio 4 – Curious Cases, Series 1, 10. Night Walkers

Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain investigate sleepwalking Wake up! It’s time for a dreamy new episode of Curious Cases all about the science of sleepwalking. Listener Abigail has done some strange things in her sleep, from taking all the … Continue reading

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A Soap Bubble

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An Ultra High-Resolution ‘Snowflake Camera’ Captures the Extraordinary Details of Snow Crystals | Colossal

November 19, 2020 Photography Grace Ebert All images © Nathan Myhrvold It’s easy to forget that the mounds of snow lining sidewalks each winter actually are comprised of billions of tiny crystals with individual grooves and feathered offshoots. A trio … Continue reading

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Why Pandas Are Impressively Bad at Existing

[…] Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/realscience-… Patreon: ( / realscience ) Instagram: ( / stephaniesammann ) Images Courtesy of Getty Images Thanks to our Patreon Supporters: Eric Ypsilantis Robert Thompson Keith Skipper References: [1]https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/…. [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159… [3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science… … Continue reading

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Ancient Amazonian Cities [3 examples…kind of]

  […] What’s going on with these ancient Amazon cities! Sources: Prümers, Heiko, et al. “Lidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian amazon.” Nature, vol. 606, no. 7913, 25 May 2022, pp. 325–328, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04…. Rostain, Stéphen, et al. “Two … Continue reading

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You’re Probably Wrong About Rainbows

[…] Special thanks to Mats Vermeeren. 00:00 Most people don’t understand rainbows 01:08 Light refraction explained 08:20 How does a rainbow form? 13:10 Circular rainbows 15:14 Why are rainbows curved? 17:30 Why can’t you see a rainbow with sunglasses? 18:43 … Continue reading

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Cattle eat bacteria steaks. Watch the full video to make sense of it.

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The ‘Green Ark’

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Van Gogh’s “Irises” Were Never Supposed to Be Blue #chemistry #art #painting

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American Reacts to What Did the British Ever Do For Us?

25 Nov 2024 Video Credit: • What did the British ever do for us? Submit a video suggestion here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA… Here in America we really don’t learn about British inventions. Today I am very interested in learning about some of … Continue reading

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