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4:28

Helen Farr and Jon Adams

Why is this 2,500 year old shipwreck so well-preserved?

Posted Oct 2021

5:15

James Tanton

Can you solve the risky disk riddle?

Posted Oct 2021

5:06

Dan Kwartler

Why don't we cover the desert with solar panels?

Posted Oct 2021

4:32

Tanya Boucicaut

Can love and independence coexist?

Posted Oct 2021

4:47

Carol Farbotko and Ingrid Boas

Where will you be able to live in 20 years?

Posted Oct 2021

4:19

Geoff Emberling

What happened to the lost Kingdom of Kush?

Posted Oct 2021

4:46

Devin Shuman

The genes you don't get from your parents (but can't live without)

Posted Oct 2021

5:06

Diane J. Rayor

Ancient Greece's greatest popstar

Posted Sep 2021

4:13

Abdallah Ewis

The forgotten queen of Egypt

Posted Sep 2021

5:58

Alex Rosenthal

Can you solve the rogue submarine riddle? Difficulty level: Master

Posted Sep 2021

4:58

Hanako Sawada

The secrets of the world's most famous symphony

Posted Sep 2021

4:04

Kayla Mandel Sheets

You could have a secret twin (but not the way you think)

Posted Sep 2021

4:01

Zoe Pierrat

Earth's mysterious red glow, explained

Posted Sep 2021

4:48

Martin Hilpert

What makes a language... a language?

Posted Sep 2021

5:39

Pekka Hämäläinen

The rise and fall of the Lakota Empire

Posted Sep 2021

5:11

Sarah E. Tracy

What is MSG, and is it actually bad for you?

Posted Sep 2021

4:34

Soraya Field Fiorio

The infamous overpopulation bet: Simon vs. Ehrlich

Posted Aug 2021

5:08

Nigel Hughes

Is this the most successful animal ever?

Posted Aug 2021

5:40

Hélène Morlon and Anna Papadopoulou

How we can detect pretty much anything

Posted Aug 2021

7:43

Elizabeth Cox

Can you outsmart the slippery slope fallacy?

Posted Aug 2021

4:48

Kaitlyn Sadtler and Elizabeth Wayne

How the COVID-19 vaccines were created so quickly

Posted Aug 2021

5:08

Dan Sayers

The secret society of the Great Dismal Swamp

Posted Aug 2021

4:23

Dan Finkel

Can you solve the giant spider riddle?

Posted Aug 2021

4:52

James A. Smith

The method that can "prove" almost anything

Posted Aug 2021

4:58

Christopher E. Gaw

What causes seizures, and how can we treat them?

Posted Aug 2021

5:02

Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl

Iceland's superpowered underground volcanoes

Posted Jul 2021

4:37

Gilad Bino

A year in the life of one of Earth's weirdest animals

Posted Jul 2021

3:04

Armand D'Angour

The ancient origins of the Olympics

Posted Jul 2021

4:54

Andrew McDonald

The rise and fall of the Kingdom of Man

Posted Jul 2021

14:03

Emma Marris

Are wild animals really "wild"?

Posted Jul 2021

5:00

Marcus du Sautoy

The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem

Posted Jul 2021

4:38

Jonathan Smith

How do governments create money out of thin air?

Posted Jul 2021

5:13

Lukas Rieppel

The most notorious scientific feud in history

Posted Jul 2021

5:38

Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

History's deadliest king

Posted Jul 2021

4:37

Stefan Al

Could we build a wooden skyscraper?

Posted Jul 2021

5:39

Robert Chang

The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act

Posted Jul 2021