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What China's Stone Forest Teaches Us About Cities

No, You Can’t Make Your Own Sunscreen

Something Strange Is Happening Under the Doomsday Glacier

How Onions ACTUALLY Make You Cry (And How to Stop Them)

Can We Describe The Whole Universe With A Single Number?

The Most Famous Science Paper Isn’t Famous

How Volcanoes Caused The Black Death

4 Ways Fractals Changed Tech Forever

Something Strange Is Happening to Raccoons

The Plague Will Probably Return

Everyone On Earth Has The Same Commute.

Humans Didn't Make Dogs Weird

Why 90-Year-Olds Get Less Cancer

These Rocks Are Petrified Lightning

The ONE Disease That Smoking Can Help Treat

Geology Created Madagascar's Weird Animals

Researchers Who Had No Choice But To Study Themselves

We Have Spent Millions of Dollars on Blue Roses

The Day the Dinosaurs Died

The Physics of a Perfect Wave

7 Times Invasive Species Actually Helped

What's In Those Gas Station Drugs?

Behind The Scenes Podcast: 2025 Year in Review w/ Producer Mackenna

It's Amazing Anyone Survived the 1925 Nome Serum Run

6 Things Ancient Coins Taught Us

The BONKERS Physics of Animal Swarms (Not Clickbait)

These Petroglyphs Helped Humans Survive the Desert

Why Geologists Lick Petrified Poop

The Earth Keeps Making Mountains in Colorado and Scientists Don’t Know Why

Your Extinct Cousin LOVED Eating Grass

50 Years Later & Scientists Still Don't Know Why These Exist

The World's Deadliest Mushroom is Getting Deadlier

Here's Why Personality Tests ALWAYS Work*

Antarctica Has An Accent and It's Weirder Than You Think

Chimps Love "People Watching" Too

What Red and Black Tattoos Do to Your Immune System

A Scientist’s Guide to Wrinkle-Free Clothes

The 3 Strongest Lasers in the World (For Now)

Trash Batteries & 4 Other Weird Ways to Store Energy

How to Live in the Harshest Place on Earth

The Most Important Picture in the History of Science

Plants Have Proprioception and That’s Weird

There Are Two Types of Boredom

7 Deadly Epidemics You Didn’t Know Existed

There’s Fresh Water Under the Ocean. Can You Drink It?

The Evolutionary Basis of Autism

We Were Totally Wrong About How This Mineral Formed

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Do Reishi Mushrooms Really Treat Cancer?

Why Is This Persian Silver Hoard Buried in Yorkshire?

The Disappearing Star and The Oldest Story Ever Told

Why We Still Don't Have Hypersonic Flights

6 Times Scientists Were Wrong About the Periodic Table

Why Humans Only Need To Vaccinate A Few Bats

Birds Get Divorced Too

Organs Have Blood Types and It's a Problem

How Soviet Smugglers Fought Censorship With X-Rays

The Top 5 Problems of the Standard Model

How Worried Do You Need To Be About Brain Eating Amoebas

How Instagram Hacks Your Brain

The Importance of Thumbnails

Why Can't Everyone Be Tall?

How the Fall of the Roman Empire Made Animals Smaller

Orangutan Communication is Eerily Similar to Ours

Tylenol Is Made From Crude Oil. Can We Change That?

7 First Aid Myths (And What To Do Instead)

Why Hold Music Still Sucks

Spice Relief According to Science

This Gray Rock May Explain the Beginning of Life

The Nazi Textbook That Doctors Still Use Today

How To Make A Baby With Three Parents

You Stopped Exercising. The Gains That Stuck Around Might Surprise You.

Has Proof of Dark Matter Been Hiding on Ganymede?

Glia Are Your Brain's Most Mysterious Cells

You Had A Cell That Was Larger Than A Bedsheet

The Successor to CRISPR May Be Even More World Changing

What The Media Got Wrong About Octopus Cities

Why Do Some Cancers Cure Themselves?

No, Fungus Didn’t Cause The Salem Witch Trials

5 Things That Shouldn't Be Able to Solve a Maze

Why Doesn’t the Yucatán Have Rivers?

Don't Drink The Ancient Forbidden Mineral Water

The Coolest Fossils of 2025

Bugs Use Tools

All Penguins Are From Australia

We Were Totally Wrong About Zebra Stripes

Why Your Gluten Intolerance Gets Better on Vacation

The Discovery of Bacteria Should Have Been Impossible

What Made The Bahamas’ "Atlantis" Rocks?

Could We Hibernate All the Way to Mars?

Wooden Cutting Boards Are the Best

Do Glass Bottles Shed More Microplastics Than Plastic?

Is This The Biggest Mistake Science Ever Made?

What’s the Truth about Acetaminophen and Autism?

The Weird Physics of Turning a Bubble Into a Laser

You’re Steeping Your Tea Too Long

We Didn’t Evolve Color Vision to See Color

The Genius Spiders Changing How We Think About Brains

The Single Bolt of Lightning that Killed 835 Sheep

CRISPR Just Saved a Baby’s Life… Millions Could Follow

This Island Might Help Us Understand The Origins of Life

Many Crystals Take Millions of Years to Form, Not These

The Weirdest Adoptions in the Animal Kingdom

How Rare Are Extra Organs?

The Priest Who Stole China's Biggest Secret

Could You Kiss a T. rex?

Mirror Bacteria Could Destroy All Life As We Know It

Alexander The Great Was Killed By A Mosquito

Your Coffee Mug is a Physics Disaster

We Forgot How to Cure Scurvy 7ish Times

The Best Birthstone (According to Science)

6 Places with Weird Human Mutations

The 500-Year-Long Experiment

How The Demon Core Killed a Man in 9 Days

Ozempic Is Both Better And Worse Than You Think

Will Humanity Ever Reach 1 on the Kardashev Scale?

We’ve Lost Control of AI

Bagged Salad Shouldn’t Exist

5 Scary Science Headlines You Don't Need To Worry About

The Terrifying Physics of Shaking Hands With an Alien

A Researcher Hid This Fossil For Decades. Here’s Why

5 Animals That Are Thriving in the Human Hellscape

We Still Don’t Know Why We Walk on Two Legs

Nuclear Bombs Made Art Forgery Way Harder

The Weird Connection Between Antidepressants and Cancer

How Much Information Can A Human Head Hold?

Joseph Stalin Was Very Wrong About Agriculture

The Most Important Invention Ever Is... Glue

The Ancient Stick Maps That Tackle Unsolvable Physics

4 Fungi We've Finally Figured Out How To Farm

You Don’t Need A Uterus to Get A Uterine Disease

These Birds Aren’t Real

What Will Humanity Leave Behind?

Quantum Computers Look Like Chandeliers. This is Why.

There Are Too Many Ways to Make a Mummy

Scientists Don’t Know Where Gold Comes From

6 Ways Aliens Could Find Us

The Pandemic Made People Worse Drivers

Why Don't We Have More Fossils?

Scientists Have Found the Perfect Urinal Shape

How Does Lava Make Perfect Hexagons?

Physicists Don’t Understand Why Knitting Works

Amethyst Used to be Really Valuable

The Sahara Used To Be Green.

Why More Young People Are Getting Colon Cancer

Using Microbes to Mine the Moon

How Crocodilians Just Keep on Surviving

5 Weird Ways People Tried to Live Forever

How Old IS Language?

How Bad Are Processed Foods, Really?

The Bizarre Museum Heist to Steal ... Birds

The Oldest Rock on Earth Is Older Than Earth Itself

Ivermectin Actually IS a Miracle Drug

One of the World’s Oldest Experiments is This Patch of Grass

The Mysterious Disease That Wiped Out The Tudors

The Potato Famine Could Happen Again

The Mushroom That Caused a Terrifying ALS Outbreak

How Do The World's Most Powerful Computers Work?

Is This Drug the Cure to Opioid Addiction

How Space Awakens Sleeping Viruses

The Largest Object in the Universe Breaks the Laws of Physics

Do These 7 Supplements ACTUALLY Work?

A Lost Human Ancestor Is Probably Under This Parking Lot

This Board Game Is Older Than Stonehenge

The Man Who Stole The Moon and the One Who Saved It

The Wild Science Behind Extended Release Medications

What You Don’t Know About King Tut’s Space Dagger

Why Scientists Launch Fish With Cannons

Some Women Are Ending Their Periods. Is That Safe?

Scientists Are Arguing About Why This Rock Shimmers

The Clock that Reinvented Time

Why Elephants Rarely Get Cancer

Why Is Lung Cancer in Non-smokers on the Rise?

Why You Should STOMP Every Spotted Lanternfly

The Ancient Crops We've Forgotten How to Grow

Bird Flu Should Have Killed One Billion People

Exercise Actually Makes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Worse

The Wildest Ways We Remove Lice from Salmon

The Oldest Living Thing was Trapped for 2 Billion Years

The Octopuses Are Making Fish Armies

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AI Doesn't Need To Be Self-Aware To Be Dangerous

This Anti-Aging Supplement Might Actually Work

That Time A Tsunami Lasted 9 Days

Could a Time Traveler Survive History’s Worst Diseases?

The Hunt for the Blackest Black

Why We've Only Cured HIV Seven Times

3 Weird Ways Science Is Saving Coral Reefs

Which Essential Oils Actually Work?

Mad Cow Disease Mostly Infects Teenagers

The Birds That Eat Fire

The Most Poisonous Paints Ever

What The Ig Nobel Prize Says About Us

Butterflies Shouldn't Remember Being Caterpillars (But They Do)

This Giant Space Flower Could Help Us Find A New Earth

Should the Earth Even Have Water?

The Chimp War that Shocked The World

We Could Put The World's Rarest Tree In Your Back Yard

How Not Sleeping Actually Kills You

How Safe Are Food Preservatives, Really?

Why Can't We Use Lightning for Electricity?

The First (And Only) Time We Sent a Cat to Space

Is the President’s Name Enough to Get Your Vote?

Can We Use Laughing Gas As An Antidepressant?

The 5 Largest Living Things

Why They Can't Make an HIV Vaccine (They're Trying!)

You've Never Heard of the World's Most Common Mineral

We've Been Collecting This Fossil for 15,000 Years

How to Dispose of a Body

That Time Scientists Tried Stopping Hailstorms With Rockets

We Threw Away $15 Billion in Gold Last Year

How Snakes Hijacked Our Brains

We're About to Visit the Second Best Place for Life

The Most Popular Blue in History (Was Ignored By Egypt)

Sometimes…Jellyfish Live on Land

For mRNA Vaccines, COVID Was Just the Beginning

The 6 Deadliest Mushrooms

Six-Foot Long Millipedes?! And Other Fossil Giants

An Ancient Roman Shipwreck May Explain the Universe

How Baboons Led Us to a Lost Civilization

How Cheap Cigars Legitimized Quantum Mechanics

This Blood Test Predicts Your Future

Do CPAPs Even Work for Sleep Apnea?

How to Get the Most Out of Magnesium

Why Do Antidepressants Cause Brain Zaps?

8 Terrible Science Takes

Does COVID Cause Cancer?

How These Animals Lost Their Heads (And Bodies, and Butts)

Fool’s Gold Might Be Better Than the Real Thing

What Is the Autism Spectrum?

What's Your Cat Dreaming About?

What Does My Cancer Diagnosis ACTUALLY Mean?

These Rocks Are ALIVE

The First CRISPR Gene Therapy Is Here

We're Probably Going to Cure MS

Why Does Everything Decay Into Lead

Can Cats Live Twice As Long?

Should You Get Multiple Shots in the Same Arm?

Octopuses Have a Favorite Arm

The Parasite That Makes You King

Does Tylenol Actually Do Anything?

How To Make The Best Coffee, According To Science

The New Addiction Treatment We Found By Mistake

Half of All Plants Are Invisible

Chemo Sucks. Science Is Changing That

Can Gray Hair Be Reversed?

The WHO Says Diet Soda Causes Cancer. Does It?

What Are We REALLY Using Space Lasers For?

Is Mifepristone Safer Than Viagra? Yes*

Why HPV Is Cancer In One Convenient Package

Parasites Are Good, Actually

Does COVID Mess With Your DNA?

The Crabs That Revolutionized Neuroscience

Don't put water in the microwave. #shorts #science #SciShow

Corn Shouldn't Be Food, But It Is

How One Disease Changed What We Know About Medicine - Twice

There Shouldn't Be Monkeys In South America

The Sharpest Object In The World Can't Cut Anything

This New Element is Lighter than Hydrogen. What?!?!

We finally know what turtles are. #shorts #throwbackthursday #science #SciShow

You're wrong about Charles Darwin's favorite animal. #shorts #science #SciShow

Bumblebees Play ... And it's Adorable

Murderous Plants? Save Your Garden From Sabotage

The Truth Behind Monkeypox

How Dogs Can Smell When You're Stressed

You (probably) don't have 206 bones. #shorts #throwbackthursday #science #SciShow

Eating Your Immunizations

How a Carnivorous Snail Is Advancing Medicine

The Truth About the Single-Celled Dog

The Rarest Cancer on Earth: Only One Known Case

Does Smoke Truly Follow Beauty? Science Explains

Lower Your Risk of Cancer Now with These 3 Strategies

All About Vaccines | SciShow Compilation

Targeting Iron to Fight Cancer | SciShow News

Mr. Frosty, the Cancer-fighting Gecko

Personalized Cancer Treatment Just Got Harder

Why Does the US Have So Many Power Outages?

The Truth About Invasive Species | SciShow Compilation

Why Y Chromosomes Might Disappear

Why Can’t We Make New Stradivari Violins?

Seeing Like Mantis Shrimp to Spot Cancer

How an Ancient Remedy Became a Modern Cure for Malaria

These Plants Are the Same Species

Why Only Some Vaccines Need Booster Shots

Why mRNA Vaccines Were Insanely Difficult to Make (it took 50 years!)

3 Huge Discoveries Made During the Covid Pandemic

Could we Have Universal Flu Vaccine?

What's the Deal with Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine? | SciShow News

The 6 Largest Single Cell Organisms

How The Islamic Golden Age of Science Changed History As We Know It

Why The Octopus is So Incredibly Intelligent

Why Are These Bees STABBING Plants?

Why Some People Don't Have an Inner Monologue

We May Have a COVID Vaccine in 2021, But Not Without Taking Risks

Why Old School Gardening May Hold the Key to Our Future Survival

The Little Apple of Death

The Most Incredible Octopus You’ve Never Heard of: The Blanket Octopus

The Delightful Mutation Behind Siamese Cats

5 Lies You Were Told in School

Why Animals Take Care of Other Animals' Young

Have We Discovered a Cure for Cancer... on Accident?

Why Noise Pollution is More Serious Than You Thought

7 Times Humans Changed Animal Evolution

When You Have Cancer, But You're Fine: Cancer Overdiagnosis

Why Do Humans Like to Get High?

Are Antioxidants Actually Good for Anything?

Why Are These Foods Unfarmable?

Why Scurvy Doesn't Make Sense to Science

The 4 Creepiest Parasites on Earth (This Will Keep You Up at Night!)

How Can Orange Juice Make Your Kale Better?

There's a Big Problem With Silicon. What's Next?

How The Six Degrees Phenomenon Has Changed Science

Does Medicine Actually Expire?

We're One Step Closer to Understanding Aging

Your Brain Probably has a "Pokemon Region" | SciShow News

6 Natural Medicines (Maybe) Used by Animals | Zoopharmacognosy

How Aspirin Changed Medicine Forever

What Happens When Animals Consume Recreational Drugs?

The Oversized Invasive Carrot That Can Give You Third Degree Burns

8 Crafty Plants That Have Mastered Deceit

Does Microwaving Food Destroy Its Vitamins?

Does Aloe Really Treat a Sunburn?

9 Poisonous Plants You Might Own

The 7 Scariest Creatures in Australia That You Probably Don't Know About

Why Do Coffee Naps Recharge You So Well?

7 Life-Saving Medicines That Come From Deadly Animals

8 Common Survival Myths That Will Make Things Worse (Do NOT Pee on a Jellyfish Sting!)

Do Essential Oils Really Work? And Why?

Do Spicy Food Lovers Live Longer?

8 Medications With Surprising Bonus Benefits

6 Supplements That Science Proved Will Actually Help You

6 Deadly 'Undetectable' Poisons (and How to Detect Them!)

The Surprisingly Useful Medicines Hiding in Pee

Why Don’t Humans Have Penis Bones?

Animals We Thought Were Gone Forever | 7 Species That Almost Went Extinct

Can Vitamin C and Zinc Help Cure Colds?

Why Can't You Donate Platelets After Taking Aspirin?

How HIV First Started in Humans

Why It's So Difficult to Build a Ballistic Missile

Why Do Cat Eyes Glow in the Dark?

Does Anti-Aging Cream Work?

Why Are There So Many Species Near the Equator?

How to Get Rid of Canker Sores, According to Science

What Actually Happens If You Don't Take Out a Splinter?

What Are Tonsil Stones & How Do I Get Rid of Them?

The Highest PH on Earth: Meet the Superbase

How Cryptocurrencies Actually Work: Bitcoin Explained

5 Mysteries About The Universe We Haven't Solved

The Truth About Bed Bugs: It's Worse Than You Thought

What We Don't Know about E-Cigs

Five Horrible Computer Viruses That Will Ruin You

What Are Those Lines on My Nails?

8 Scary Animals That Are Totally Harmless

The 5 Worst Computer Viruses in History

8 Spooky Deep-Sea Creatures We Just Discovered

Are Multivitamins Really Good For You?

How Honey Can Fight Deadly Bacteria

Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

4 Medicinal Plants that Are Incredibly Good for You

Why Do We Have Butt Hair?

The Top 10 Deadliest Plants (They Can Kill You!)

Why Shouldn't You Take Medicine with Grapefruit Juice?

What's Causing That Stitch in Your Side?

Why Heart Cancer is Incredibly Rare

How Plants Attract Bodyguards

5 Health Truths Hidden in Your Fingernails

Can You Catch Cancer?

Are You a Supertaster?

'Female Viagra' & New Insights Into Narcolepsy

Are GMOs Actually Bad For You?

How Bees Choose Their Queen

Why Does Cilantro Taste Like Soap?

Why You Can't Breathe Out of Your Nose When You're Sick

What Makes Cancer So Hard to Cure

Do Plants Get Cancer?

The Worst Nobel Prize in History

Earth's Two-Billion-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor

The 5 Most Dangerous Chemicals on Earth

Why Sharks Don't Have Bones

Bigfoot, Yeti: Meet Science

Horseshoe Crabs Saved My Life

The Deepest Hole in the World, And What We've Learned From It

5 Famous Dinosaurs That Aren't Actually Dinosaurs

CSI Special Insects Unit: Forensic Entomology

How Is That Not Killing You?

Why Salvia is One of the Strongest Psychedelics on Earth

The Most Poisonous Animals on Earth

Why Aren't Mammals as Big as Dinosaurs?

The Deadliest Toxins on Earth

The Top 5 Deadliest Diseases Ever Known

Why Sexy Is Sexy

A Brief History of Birth Control

IDTIMWYTIM: Centrifugal Force

Your Brain on Porn

How Weed Works: THC

The Addictive Truth About Caffeine

The Sex Lives of Early Humans

The Risks of Overpopulation

The Mysterious Leap Second

The Mayan Calendar & 2012