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Gilad Bino
A year in the life of one of Earth's weirdest animals
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Jul 2021
12:51
Sarah Brosnan
Why monkeys (and humans) are wired for fairness
Posted
Dec 2020
20:59
Nicholas Christakis
The hidden influence of social networks
Posted
May 2010
4:28
Gillian Gibb
Why can't some birds fly?
Posted
Oct 2018
4:46
Noah R. Bressman and Douglas Fudge
The world's slimiest animal
Posted
Jul 2022
3:49
Maria R. D’Orsogna
Why do animals form swarms?
Posted
Sep 2018
9:30
Tara Djokic
This ancient rock is changing our theory on the origin of life
Posted
Oct 2019
9:16
David M. Howard
Can we recreate the voice of a 3,000-year-old mummy?
Posted
Jun 2023
4:26
Valentin Hammoudi
How tall can a tree grow?
Posted
Mar 2019
3:55
Thomas Boothby
Meet the tardigrade, the toughest animal on Earth
Posted
Mar 2017
17:25
Susan Savage-Rumbaugh
The gentle genius of bonobos
Posted
Apr 2007
4:46
Devin Shuman
The genes you don't get from your parents (but can't live without)
Posted
Oct 2021
5:04
Jack Cooper and Catalina Pimiento
Why did Megalodon go extinct?
Posted
Jul 2023
2:25
Rose Eveleth
The loathsome lethal mosquito
Posted
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15:10
David Deutsch
After billions of years of monotony, the universe is waking up
Posted
Oct 2019
7:43
Vilayanur Ramachandran
The neurons that shaped civilization
Posted
Jan 2010
4:53
Angela Koine Flynn
The science of skin color
Posted
Feb 2016
13:33
Marvin Minsky
Health and the human mind
Posted
Sep 2008
5:30
Joshua Paul Dale
Why do you want to squeeze cute things?
Posted
Jan 2023
20:22
Robert Full
Robots inspired by cockroach ingenuity
Posted
Jun 2008
4:01
Cláudio Guerra
Why the octopus brain is so extraordinary
Posted
Dec 2015
15:51
Zeresenay Alemseged
The search for humanity's roots
Posted
Sep 2007
21:56
Richard Dawkins
Why the universe seems so strange
Posted
Sep 2006
19:45
Nancy Etcoff
Happiness and its surprises
Posted
Jun 2009
4:29
Emma Bryce
Why do we itch?
Posted
Apr 2017
5:00
Darien Satterfield
Real-life "Alien" jaws
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Jun 2021
6:18
Hod Lipson
Building "self-aware" robots
Posted
Oct 2007
18:14
Bonnie Bassler
How bacteria "talk"
Posted
Apr 2009
21:46
Paul Sereno
Digging up dinosaurs
Posted
Jan 2009
18:42
Jonathan Haidt
The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
Posted
Sep 2008
4:40
Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira
The movement that inspired the Holocaust
Posted
Mar 2022
5:50
Sarah Parcak
Armchair archaeologist
Posted
Apr 2018
4:52
Luka Seamus Wright
These animals are also plants ... wait, what?
Posted
Jun 2022
16:17
Frans Lanting
The story of life in photographs
Posted
Apr 2007
10:12
Stephen Hawking
Questioning the universe
Posted
Apr 2008
5:43
Susan Freitas and Darren Parker
How does this all-female species reproduce?
Posted
Apr 2023
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